— unpredictable thoughts

A quick cap­ture to send to Joel and the fam­ily in Rome. We are com­par­ing trees. This is a shot using my beta copy of Skitch. Great photo util­ity and scrib­bling device. Drove the truck out to Tom’s trees again this year. We have a very dense white spruce. It was the only tree quite tall enough that was left so late in the sea­son. It took 1000 lights to get to a stage where you could see some of the tex­ture of the tree in the dark. We used some LED’s this year you can see the blue­ness in the shot. I couldn’t find any­thing that had a warm glow.

Finally the stellagassaway.com art site is tied together. A lit­tle loosely but tied together none the less. I stayed home from my art stu­dio feel­ing under the weather a bit and decided it was a good oppor­tu­nity to try to get all my art related com­po­nents in a row.
I would take my port­fo­lio site and my art­log [blog] and at least make it pos­si­ble to get from one to the other. Orig­i­nally I talked about my art here at unpre­dictable thoughts but it didn’t seem right. My art isn’t unpre­dictable thoughts. My art­log is an artists jour­nal. Not the deep­est of my thoughts; but a dia­logue about the art I make and how I do it. It has a mean­ing to me out­side of this blog.
My gate­way www.stellagassaway.com tells you a bit more about me and my approach to my work with links to my port­fo­lio and to blog. It’s eas­ier to give some­one my name domain with­out any sub­do­main for the blog and port­fo­lio.
More to do but it is a start.

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image prop­erty of Dale Chihuly

This is an amaz­ing moment for me. It takes my breath away. The totally unex­pected moment of glass tak­ing a place and seem­ingly not in con­trast to but in har­mony with the bios­phere. (Found a lit­tle chat about the show at my pal Matthew’s blog — worksofman.com .)  That it feels nat­ural, wel­come, and in need of maybe a lit­tle water­ing is inspirational.

I would love to have this piece in my down­town office.

This work is cur­rently being shown in Pittsurgh at the Phipps Con­ser­va­tory.

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Just remem­bered how ter­rific this whole moment was. Gotta love “LIVE” tv. Here’s where he pulls the plug and dives into Radio Radio. (The big story of course is that they were asked NOT to do this song.) Gee won­der why eh? Elvis Costello kicked it. I think Lorne Michaels must have pissed him­self. Always have loved Elvis.

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BUY HANDMADE for the hol­i­days.
Sup­port artists and arti­sans by pur­chas­ing hand­made and unique works. Skip the malls and sup­port local artists.
I’m going to be in my stu­dio this week­end offer­ing some small works at spe­cial prices. You can visit a num­ber of my b32 bud­dies and some of the other sher­man mills artists. Hope to see you.

Pam Pawl
Sandy Chierici
Damin Cele­bre
Carol Wisker
Stella Gas­saway
and our friends
Michael Zerbe
East Falls Glassworks

For more infor­ma­tion stop by the b32 web­site: http://b32.shermanmills.com

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I couldn’t help it. I had to cap­ture the image of my weather wid­get. The illus­tra­tions that have been ren­dered for the weather con­di­tions always seem so accu­rate to the expe­ri­ence. I cap­tured this from my desk­top late morn­ing. Can you imag­ine the sound from the ice and rain hit­ting our sky­light? This is what it has been like all day and night. I expect that if the East River Drive isn’t closed now it cer­tainly will be in the morn­ing. It has to be flooded out there.

Really, I just had to pay atten­tion to the beauty of this inter­face. Thank you to the bril­liant design­ers that do this work.

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