The Swainsboro Challenge

Me and H made it another month a few days ago. Which is always something to celebrate.

I have to give an internet shout out to an amazing Girl. Hollah Heather

The dubbed Swainsboro Challenge started yesterday. Meaning the most insane Croquet seen in a while. But I would have to say that the welcoming aspect of that town is amazing. Constantly I was amazed from the way the community has welcomed the roots and friends of the roots. It was an amazing gathering, topped off by a nighttime porchlit sing along. Yo ho ho.

So if your looking for something to do check out a swainsboro activity because it seems to be an amazing town full of super nice people.

So thanks to all for your welcoming. Hope to see you soon

JM

Things I need to do

Man there is a lot going on. My City of my Birth is now a bathtub, even though the family only let me live there for a few months before they moved to Georgia. New-Orleans will always be where I 1st entered this world.

There seems to be a bit of Gas panic also. Especially yesterday i heard multiple rumors about there being no more gas so It actually wen't up about 50 cents in a few hours. Which in economic terms is about impossible. But when people panic and freak out bad things happen. So people think rationally about running to the gas station. I"m going to try and walk or ride a bike more. The only way prices will come down is if people drive less.


I feel like I have tons of stuff to do. But rarely get anything done. So I made a list. lol.


Things I need to do

Go to the dentist ( i'm going today)
Write a Song
Play my Guitar
Finish the rolls of film which are sitting in my various cameras
Develop the Existing Ones
Order Printer Ink
Find a Job
Pray
Read
Meditate
Have a Quiet Moment
Travel
Take a Walk with Heather
Be Creative
Be more Productive
Convince the World to stop driving so much so Gas prices do down
Show more Love

horray

Well I finally got my internet going in my room and what did I discover, a worm waiting for me. But i seemed to have gotten taken care of it

The art is up and ready. Or at least it should be soon.

The left is a scan of the main piece for the lomo show at dk.

It makes me glad to have my art where many can see. The 1st Friday (gallery crawl) is friday the 2nd. So hopefully many will get to see what's going on

The picture is my family's house in Genmora, Louisana. Its the one that my dad was raised in and will always hold a place in whom I am.

Its been a bit of a bummy day. But its nice because the weather has not been so hot.

Seems harder and harder to post these days

it will be better whenever my roomate gets his router so I can hook up my comp to the network

anyhow. holla

a saturday

There is something about a saturday in SB. It's quite amazing

some might think its booring but I do love saturday in this place. I also got to play sorry with drew. That was awesome.

The countdown has begun

I have 5 days
to finish my work (3 framed lomo images) for the lomonaught exhibition

I have 1 work ready to print, with no ink...its on its way. and a put-together frame with no mat, glass, and backing board

and at least 4 un-fimished rolls. That said I need to be kicked in the butt but by the photo head hauncho and get some work done

I also need to find my smena 35. It's lurking nearby

I'm going to go shoot before the sun drops too low

carry on

tuesday

Yesterday I had a cup of coffee that tasted like sand. It did seem to be quite grainy

Come on people show some gourmet coffee love

Things are in full swing in sb. It's quite crazy out there. Way to many people !!!

Sometimes I think we as a people tend to ignore things that harm us as long as we don't want to look at it face to face. It's as the ideal of not in my backyeard. We have come accustomed to having certain things as long as its not in our backyard. But it is always in somebodies backyard The block below represents the blinders that we put on. Also how we ignore the harm for the common good. But that place as with other places is stuck with me. I have driven past it many days of my life.

I have never thoguht about it in this way before. I think that is part of what life is. Seeking and finding things around you and thinking about them in ways you have never thought of before

thats enough for now



JM

the week or so in just:

travel travel travel. Broken Cable internet (via joey). Smelly house due to removing carpet padding which was stuck to the hardwood floor. Birthday party which was great. Job Searches Its rainy in Ga. Bla bla bla. And a my Holga got modded so I hope to get some images on it soon.

tis it for now

I should be in my new room soon and have my comp hooked up

Monday I think

Monday: SB in the new place

Me and H went for a walk today. Its nice to have a place to walk. It always felt way to dangerous to walk at the old place

Tuesday: B-town and working a day job at a store
and the day that I arrived i.e. my birthday:
....Friday (or sooner) back in SB
Saturday: {Party at the Hosta De La Oz}
Sunday B-town for dad's birthday

still not comp hooked up, my housemate J has not been here so I'm not sure how to get hooked into the cable modem


If you want to open a deli in downtown statesboro or a coffee shop in swainsboro I'm your Guy...ya herd!

Movin some rain

been moving and its raining

what a beautiful day in statesboro. I love it when its a quiet rainy afternoon / evening

its as if the land is gulping up the rain and saying thank you. Everything seems greener. Its been a hot week and the showers today sure are inviting. Its also nice to wear a pair of jeans which usually can't be done when its a hundred degrees. My stuff is boxed up and in my new room, and I'm on a friends comp. It will be a few days till I'm settled. But this rain has me itchin to take some pics so I hope to do so soon. I remember something that shown about Ansel Adams that he said that weather gave nature character.

Peace
have character

my blue eyed son

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong. While ever careful to refrain from wrongdoing others, we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid. No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever have cause to fear us, and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression.

from the Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt
Saturday March, 1905

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard,
it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Bob Dylan 1963

105 degrees

A day on the concrete and in the sun will make you hot. I spent the day at the auto processing (AVP) for a labor position. One of the thermostats in the car read 104 for outside There is a picture in the office of a thermometer reading 120 inside of a car. So it was warm. But at the end of the day there were some seagulls flying around. Its as if the creator was saying Hey I know its hot down there but I'm going to let these birds fly around you to remind you your not alone.

Usually my spiritual side lets me see the deepness of our surrounding. I try to take nothing for granted. May it be a bug on a porch or a space shuttle lifting off as it did today. We were created to be good stewards And I hope people remember that.

So I'm a bit tired. But something totally unique happened. A guy in a large car rode by and asked where to find water, meaning a river. He sounded as if he was from Germany. There is a river about 10 mins from my house So I told him how to get there and he was on his way. That was odd

location: Brunswick
Job Status: temp labor, still looking for full time

NEW WORDS

New Words of my day

Swanky: Wow ain't that swanky
Booughe: from the word bourgeoisie man that is so booughe, meaning overly rich looking but in a silly way. as of things you might find in an import store.

I laugh so hard today it hurt. I love it when that happens.

Another week, another interview, another Hot summer day.

"you have to deal with the hand your dealt with."
Well no duhh. If you Weren't given that hand you would not have to deal with it

and one more classic from the olden golden days of Gallagher

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?


JM aka: Oscar

fair trade

If you made minimum wage could you afford a 2 dollar cup of coffee?

Can a person who farms on a coffee plantation walk into a gourmet coffee shop and buy a cup of the product from which he farmed

With so many issues in the world it may seem that there isn't much that we can do. But there are a few things that I am trying to do something about. This is one of them. The Fair Trade of the import of coffee is very important to me. You might say well why is that important. Huge corporations are usually involved in the importing of coffee. So they generally buy beans from very cheap sources and make their blends. This brings the demand for single origin coffee growers lover and drives the price down. The smaller farmers can not compete with the bargain buyers. A fair trade initiative sets a fair price for the farmer and helps them receive what is due to them. Usually the bargain buyers pay around 80 cents where fair trade is closer to $1.20 a for a pound of coffee beans

So what can we do?

1. Be informed

2. If you love Coffee love those who grow the coffee and encourage your cafe/coffee stop to do the same

Change can occur. It already is happening it just needs to happen more.

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/

http://www.transfairusa.org/

TGIF

There is an island

There is an island behind my house. Or the house that I'm at now, that being in Brunswick...We live up against the marsh and there is a trail back to it. It has been used many times for camping and other quiet moments. So I walked back there this afternoon before the sunset and took a few pics. Something about the smell of the marsh. The sand below my feet. How the grass priceless at your arms. Its very close to me and whom I am

I did take a few pics with my slr. I need to finish that roll of film. Its been in there a while.

I enjoy taking journeys. Although it seems that I take less than ever now. But I still try to have a small one as the trip to the island today. I'll post a pic if I ever get it done.

The pic is one of my 1sts. Kinda the opening journey to lomography. It was taken with a smena 8m that is no longer with me due to the broken shutter. It also represents my favorite corner in SB. The corner of South Main and West Vine. On that corner is DK. But you probably already knew that.

The job status seems to be come and go. I get something new almost every day or so. I know the right one will come about.

Holgaeyed Easyshare

So I installed photoshop 7.0 on my comp, and added a holga feature add on. There are way to many things in photoshop.

I think I am going to get a book so I can learn how to use it.
Above are example of what I've done so far. Any artist who goes into the digital realm must ask themselves what is to much. So far everything I've twiddled with has been digital photos. Or mainly. I'm not sure how I feel about messing with a film print. I guess we will see after I get some developed and printed

A question. When does a picture no longer become a photograph?

There is something very soothing though about a manual camera. I don't think I'll ever be able to leave that behind. But the the instancy of digital sure is alluring. But similar to stove top perk. A rarity these days. I can get an instant cup of coffee and it gets the job done. But if I use the stove top percolator, which usually takes about 10-20 mins its much more satisfying. A great shot with a manual camera is more satisfying

and if you want to confuse the heck out of you local coffee shop, ask for some organic fair trade coffee made freshly in a french press. Which if I may say is the best way in the world to have a cup of coffee. So if you find a place which will tow your line...hold on to that place because its golden

Celebrity once a name

2 insane vh1 shows

Celebrity Fit Club 2:
and
Surreal Life 5.

what crazes me is that they have other reality show ppl as the stars on these reality shows. As if these people from other shows are worth their time on TV.

Late Night Movies

There is a list. Well its not a written one but it is a mental one. A list of whenever a certain actor or director comes out with a film I see it. Johnny Depp is one of those actors. Add a little Golden Ticket a wonka bar and your libel to have a facinating film. But The problem is 1 thing. in 2 grade I believe our teacher read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for us. Or at least that is what I remember. I always thought it facinating how Granpa Joe and the other elders layed all in the same bed. Or how I did try to put gum behind my ear as Violet did. So to say the least this is one of the movies that I grew up around

on other notes. The Dukes of Hazzard is apt to be a horrible film. But CMT has started playing the Dukes re-runs again.

once again on Depp. I really do think he is loosing his mind. But maybe its that my perception of him has changed since secret window, b/c that was such a convincing role. He's just an eccentric man I figure

Adam West: (family guy mayor) I love this job more than I love taffy ... and I'm a man who enjoys his taffy.

and for those last night. TV's Craig Ferguson Late Late Show is amazing. I would suggest taping it if you can't stay up for it.

Thoughts lead to Ideas and Ideas lead to Knowledge

And again I decided to re-vamp the blog

Friend of Mine 7-05

I would like to say Hey
But where have you Gone o Friend of mine
I look for you in the dirt of the island tide
upon the old oak tree in my yardback in the back is a board that I once nailled to a tree
It was my castle and I was its king
O friend of mind running up the stairs in this house
o friend of mine and Juping from the top as the door rang
Sometimes a home seems far away even when your stitting in the kitchen that you once wanted to never leave
But wherever you run o friend of mind
Once again I have returned to this place of my youth
The Sand has once rolled blown me back
So to this town I say hello my friendits nice to be near you again

So its been a while

So Its been a while, I know. I have to keep on saying to myself. If you write it, they will read it.

I'm in brunswick, Ga. For the time being i'm looking for temp work. And I haven't had a good cup of joe in about 4 days. I was going to go to a shop here Daddy's Cate Coffee but when I wen't dowtown I didn't have a dollar to my name

oh Awaken how do I miss the.

I should be in the Boro again soon.


Deeper Meanings
Is Peace a 4 letter word