Chalk is Cheap

Omar

2007-02-25T23:38:00.001-05:00

,
originally uploaded by smaved.

Omar has wanted this picture for months! Here it is Omar. Hope you like it.

Jack Smith

2007-02-10T23:06:00.001-05:00

man, that dude was cool. let me scan some shit.

Merry Xmas 2006

2007-01-17T21:53:00.001-05:00

Merry Xmas 2006,
originally uploaded by smaved.

What a great Xmas! Thanks to mom and John for a wonderful Christmas meal and great presents!

Cigarettes and Rock-n-Roll

2006-11-28T22:48:00.000-05:00

Last Fall, at the Freakwater show in Cleveland. Beachland, the bar side.

Never heard Freakwater? You are missing something amazing:

Lyrics to the song "Great Potential" by Freakwater:

Your breathes not exactly like a breath of Spring/
And your eyes aren't shining bright as any diamond ring/
Your hair's not flowing down like a great black waterfall/
And things that used to turn me on don't move me at all/

Every word you speak's not the smartest thing I've ever heard/
When you talk about yourself/
I'm not hanging on your every word/
I know every line on your face could tell a story/
But I've heard them all before and now they bore me/

Even your great potential just leaves me cold/
When I look at you I'm thinkin'/
God, do I look that old?/
I've been told/
a city of gold/
waits at the bottom of a long dark hole/
but i can't wait around for that story to unfold/
it leaves me cold

Imagine that in the high lonesome, bluegrass twang. And then end the show with an amazing rendition of the classic bluegrass anthem, "Rank Strangers." Good stuff...

No Depression

2006-11-19T23:42:00.000-05:00

This is a photograph I took that was published by No Depression magazine in this month's issue!

Issue #66 Solomon Burke, Mindy Smith, Greg Brown, and more.

a portrait of a class

2006-09-08T12:24:00.000-04:00

a portrait of a class,
originally uploaded by smaved.

A water color portrait makes this shot of my high school ESL class look like a work of art, doesn't it?

90 students a day! Here's a portino of one class...

the empty room

2006-09-08T12:19:00.000-04:00

empty_room,
originally uploaded by smaved.

As if starting a new school year wasn't hard enough for school teachers, moving into a new room and a new building has been exhausting. Here's the before, what it looked like on the same day. Empty walls and all...

lazy blogger blues

2006-08-29T23:02:00.000-04:00

I know, I know. It's been so long. It's Tuesday and I've not blogged since Friday. What have I been doing? Working hard on my cousin's wedding DVD for the last four days or so and starting a new school year. I've got some before and after pictures from my classroom. Fist day of school is tomorrow and the kids are excited, I'm sure. So am I. It was a great summer, but I hope it will be a better year!

Lake Mohawk Nights

2006-08-25T15:38:00.000-04:00

Lake Mohawk pictures are posted here(and in the title).

The Raconteurs

2006-08-25T14:43:00.000-04:00

The Raconteurs,
originally uploaded by smaved.

The Raconteurs played the last show of their first tour in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues, August 6, 2006. Here's a shot from a cell phone, stage right. Jack White, white stripe, front and center.

We attended the show after spending a great weekend with our friends (thanks, Jen!) at Lake Mohawk, near Akron.

Pluto Not a Planet

2006-08-24T16:04:00.000-04:00

Apparently Pluto is NOT a planet.

To Mrs. Morgan, my 3rd grade teacher, I would like those 5 points back on my quiz.

That is all!

What's on a Dog's Mind?

2006-08-23T15:05:00.000-04:00

Watch the video

Yaz man thinks about taking a walk.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

TESOL 2006

2006-08-23T14:35:00.000-04:00

Watch the video

TESOL 2006, Convention for Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages. Random shots and images of the chaos and energy of this large convention.

Formats available: Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v)

Adobe Education Institute

2006-08-22T17:45:00.000-04:00

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Adobe invited a bunch of its Adobe Educational Leaders out to San Jose this summer. I was lucky enough to be there with my camera to catch some of the action.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Erin and Dame's Wedding Photos

2006-08-22T01:57:00.000-04:00

I thought you all might like to see the wedding photos of the newly wedded Mr. and Mrs. Erin Frankenfield.

erin and dameion slide show

2006-08-21T19:55:00.000-04:00

Watch the video

Erin and Dameion were married on August 11, 2006. I made this slide show for them. The music is different online, made from free loops, so as to not publicly violate copyright.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

my head floats in space

2006-08-21T19:49:00.000-04:00

me_jpeg_web,
originally uploaded by smaved.

Anne and Dan play ping pong

2006-08-21T19:37:00.000-04:00

Anne and Dan play ping pong,
originally uploaded by smaved.

Before flying off to New Zealand, Anne and Dan enjoy a little ping pong (or at least we hope they enjoyed it...)...

red and stella

2006-08-21T13:08:00.000-04:00

red and stella,
originally uploaded by smaved.

In Flagstaff, in a muddy pond. A black lab named Red and a boxer named Stella play fight for a stick.

az photographs

2006-08-21T11:36:00.000-04:00

You tell me this is not art
I tell you
ride your
donkey to
guadalupe
find a bottle
of their finest tequila
take 3 days
peyote vision
quest
and call me in the morning

is photography art?

2006-08-21T11:21:00.000-04:00

you just push a button
he said
just a
button

i reply,
can we say
the old master
just
spread color
on a piece
of
canvas?

there is so
much
to be said
for pushing a button
framing a shot
painting a
picture with
color
line
space

full posts are art

2006-08-21T10:57:00.000-04:00

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

mt. lemon hikes

2006-08-21T09:52:00.000-04:00

curtis and stacy,
originally uploaded by smaved.

Yeah! Just got back from Arizona. After leaving Flagstaff, blogging got a bit harder since access was scarces. None at the hotel congress. And only some slow dial up at the cabin.

This picture was taken on the trail, about a mile away from the cabin we stayed in on Mt. Lemon in Tucson, Arizona. We took a break from the hike to enjoy the view. Curtis is on the left. Stacy sits on the granite on the right.

R.I.P. my OSU homepage

2006-08-16T13:11:00.000-04:00

R.I.P. my OSU homepage,
originally uploaded by smaved.

For months I have been paying OSU-UNITS (Ohio State Service Providers) $1.95 a month, plus tax. Mailing it in with a $.39 stamp. I found out the other day as I tried to update the homepage that I no longer have access to the site though it is still posted on their servers. I imagine that this means that any day they will purge it and it will be lost to cyber dump someplace to be scavenged up as evidence veritas that I am a social degenerate. Or a genius. You be the judge. Click on the link and take a look at this cached archive of my life.

feet as self-portrait

2006-08-15T20:30:00.000-04:00

stacy_feet,
originally uploaded by smaved.

Maybe it was all the beer drank at Cooperstown (Alice Cooper's new pub chain) but Stacy was so bored at the D'backs game he photographed his own feet. He said I was lucky there were so many people around or he would have chosen a more personal subject.