Cafe Bucky

“Dark To Light”

– dedicated with much love to my wonderful wife, Kim

It was an echo back
and far away
along the shore
a distant day
cloud night and rain and slush
moved in
kicking hope out to the curb

It was a rock and stone
and wall
that formed
surrounded me, and did
adorn
gargoyled expression
confused disposition
a soul of joy
turned apparition

It was horizon and sun
off in the distance
with light and a warmth
on in this instance
a glow and a hope
and peek of
a future
that would dawn
with some patience
and some care
and some sense

So as I wondered
and worried and sat
was given to ponder
I asked hope to come back
to cease with its wander

For I knew that
a light in my face
and my walk
would press back
on that wall, and that stone
and that rock

It was a room and a lady
then another, now two
That second turned only
her glowing imbued
her stance and her charm
and her heart made me see
her mind and her wit
such gear of precision
my wandered apparition
would have to depart
replaced in hearts space
with hope and a start

It was light and trees
and grassy warm fields
waters and rainbows
sweet bountiful yields
lips of such heat
and exchanged emotion
my wander supplanted
with heartfelt devotion

For I knew that
her light in my face
became joy in my walk
the charm of her key
is happiness unlocked

It was us and our path
that went forth
and explored
we built and we kissed
and a time or two
did not see eye
to eye
and we cried
but rejoined for more
caroused and grew bonds
hand in hand in days shine
caress in nights long

It is this time and hour
and all the rest to follow
where walls turn to flower
I vanquished the wallow
her hand and mine
encircled fingers
we stride happy pace
and look at our photos
our memories to make
wrapped in albums
bowed with lace

I was recently asked to show some of my RL zoom blurs at a gallery in Second Life.  I am happy to say that they are up!

Go to : Creative Showcase @ The Learning Experience

The photos are culled from my 2006 “Blurred Realities” show.   A big thank you to Pammy Preez of SL, who encouraged me to show!

(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kimokeo%20Cove/193/27/22)

I just noticed that Thomas Dolby is a bloggin’. Science! It’s good to get the look into the creative process. Check out his video clip from the TED Conference.

Over on the video and digital media side, check out What Alex Lindsay is doing. He’s leading up to a 1080p videocast called MacBreak. The first few episodes are wonderfully video geeked out, and I can’t claim to understand it all. It’s a subject that I wish I could take a year off and dive into. Alex is also doing a podcast called “This Week In Media”.

Two Pioneers!

Yes, it’s a real place. Not something out of a Charlton Heston movie. Actually, it’s what you see on New Year’s morning after drinking too much at the Hyatt Regency party.

So, quick story. Walking through downtown. Argentinian looks at me and says “it’s about the people man! Not the architecture!”. I know he’s Argentinian because he says “wait a sec”, dips into his car, and whips out an Argentinian hat. Damn insists that I snap his photo. So I do. It’s not worth posting, so you’ll have to just nod along. So, anyfrikkenway, I generally don’t do the urban stroller photography thing – I give them the privacy. Oh, wait.. wait. No, I lied there. Here’s one of a Harmonica Guy:

One of the more extreme examples from yesterday … Name that place in SF.

“At The Center Of It All” – Union Square, March 2006

I coerced myself into getting to the City today to do some photos, as in the Urban Zoom Blur thing. It’s been a while. This one lept out at me. The zoom leads to what’s really important in life (no, not tequila), so that hit me the right way. I’ll have others on Flickr or FlexiPhoto as soon as I go through them.

The NetToberFest Wiki is up. You can IM me for the password to update. It’s a word that likes to party.

The Wiki is sort of overkill for a 12 hour party. The party is a warm-up event that I can see expanding (rent a hall, more space & people) in the future. I’ll need a fair bit of help just to pull off this small scale adventure; hence the Wiki!

I looked at my camera this afternoon and realized it was talking to me.

“Take me to the track”

What?!

“Take me to the track! I want to take pictures again. I want to get dusty. I want to get into the paddock and see insanely fast cars”

What?!

“Oh man … c’mon. Let’s hit some races at Sears Point and Laguna Seca. It’s been frikken years man! I’m a camera, and you’ve got this zoom blur thing going. Let’s go man!”

(… looking at beer bottle suspiciously)

Ok, cool. That’s what we’ll do. It has been a while, I miss it, and I will be in California for most of the summer. Yeah. Yeah! Let’s get some groovy shots!

“What’s on, then? Where are we going?”

Well, let’s see …

• (Laguna Seca) – Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix (MotoGP / AMA) – July 8-10
• (Sears Point) – Grand Prix of Sonoma (ALMS) – July 15-17
• (Laguna Seca) – Monterey Historic Automobile Races – August 19-21
• (Sears Point) – Indy Grand Prix (IRL) – Aug 26-28
• (Laguna Seca) – Montery Sports Car Championships (ALMS) – Oct 14-16

“Oh boy! 5 races?! Gimme plenty of batteries and CF cards! And can we bring Susan’s Nikon D1x too?”

Hold your f-stops man. We’ll see. At least a couple of races, ok?

“snap snap!”