Someone we know as MomSense… raised two sons… who are in a band… that released an album today! The first song on the album: I loved this song, and I can’t wait to hear the rest. The video is stunning, here’s a screen capture of one of my favorite scenes. Silver Heels playlist on Spotify: …
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Steve from Mendocino – A Brief Photo History
The rudiments of my interest in photography began during my junior year at a boarding school in Michigan. As always, my best friend was a socially unsuccessful geek, in this case the school photographer. The position wasn’t actually functional, but it gave him sole access to the darkroom, where I would work with him while …
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Quiltingfool – Making Quilts!
Don’t let the blurb about On the Road confuse you – this isn’t an On the Road post, it’s the first of several posts that will feature some of our many Balloon Juice “creatives”. We’re just using the OTR form for ease of submission, and we are tagging these as Artists in Our Midst. We …
Open Thread: So Much Talent on Balloon Juice
It’s not often that a day goes by where I am not struck by the incredible smarts and amazing talents of our Balloon Juice commenters. John and I talked, probably a year ago. about featuring some of that talent in a way that goes beyond the Balloon Juice Artists list that’s in the site footer. …
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May FSM Have Mercy On His Soul…
…Because I sure won’t. Sheldon Adelson is dead. My reaction to the news: No f**king nil nisi here. His major competition for most destructive asshole (not holding political office) of our time is Rupert Murdoch, with whom he kept common cause. When (apocryphally) the eulogist at Louis B. Meyer’s funeral asked “does anyone have anything …
Artists In Our Midst
GREETINGS EARTHLINGS. According to Watergirl, we have already sold 200 calendars, which is spectacular and really going to help out a ton of animals, so thanks to all you magnificent bastards for that. I’d like to do one of my favorite things on the website now, which is an Artists in Our Midst open thread …
The Play’s the Online Thing
Hello, welcome to day 4956 in the hellscape called 2020. I jest, sort of. One of the biggest issues for those of us in the arts, is how to ply our craft under this absolutely ridiculous set of conditions. One of the ways that writing twitter has come up with is Zoom scene studies. What’s …