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My in-progress chamber for collecting and concentrating magnetic
radiation believed to be associated with reacquiring super powers.

After giving Maegan a bath tonight I laid her on the changing table to get her ready for bed. I did not know she would be placing a long distance phone call on her, wait for it, foot. She pulled her foot all the way back to her ear and proceeded to say "hello?, helloooooo." What a great life.

Still working on my superheroes project...many more images to come.

Cleveland State had a faculty and family picnic today at Bendabout
Farms; a 3800 acre managed hunting and fishing preserve. The weather,
the company and the food were all great.

My interest over the past few years has been the fallibility and exploitable nature of memory. Depending on the nature of the event, we can make bad memories seem good, good memories seem bad, or completely forget them altogether. This project is a set of 10 images of my "trip" to Disney World. Using Google image search and Flickr, I found other family trips and incorporated my young self into these images, forcing myself to have a new memory. They are intentionally left badly Photoshopped; I thought if the images were completely realistic the idea would not come across. They do have my sense of humor, and at least for me, I can't stop laughing.

Having a studio right at work has been incredibly productive. I get to
school at 7am and have 2 hours to work before class starts. On Tues/
Thurs and Friday I only have 1 or 2 classes which gives me plenty of
time in the studio. Currently working on the Superheroes project for
the show in March 09.

I have been wanting one of the new, inexpensive Bamboo drawing tablets for about 2 months now. They finally went on sale, so I headed down to the local Best Buy and got one. I am still getting used to it; it's rather difficult to draw on a tablet while looking at the screen. There is a different brand called Cintiq which allows you to draw directly on the screen, but prices start at a grand. I see a lot of potential here; being able to play with hundreds of different media, saving them as in a sketchbook without getting even the smallest bit of paint on the fingers. Maegan's is the red line drawing.

Hmmm...