Facebook's Got the Pictures Now.

Go view my photos on my Facebook Profile to see more images from my DC weekend extravaganza. There was time with friends, time with strangers, time in a tunnel, time listening to Obama's speech via a cell phone on speaker-phone, time in the freezing cold, time eating good Latin food, time at museums, time running into a friend-of-a-friend, time warming up, time at a Ball, time getting squished, and many more other good times to be had. More details coming soon...

WHOA!

Long time no write on my part...so sorry.
It has been a whirlwind of a Winter Break.
I went to big cities, visited with friends and saw a lot.

As soon as I catch my breath (this may never happen) I will post some pictures of my adventures outside of nowhere, although at times it felt as if I was nowhere due to standing in the "Purple Tunnel of Doom" for hours on end, only to come out the other end and NOT see the President take his oath and speak. What a run-around. But, I did get up close to him and others at the Staff Ball on January 21st. You know, me and thousands of other people up close and personal like.

More soon...hang tight...until then enjoy life from Jackson's point of view:

A Shoe in the Face...

Isn't it great!

Trying to finish up some things here in Alfred before I take a break and visit parts greater than this here small one. Here are a few recent photos to tide the masses over:

For Eva

Bacon in the Fridge

Bunny in the Bucket

Snow in the Town

Snow here, snow there, snow is now everywhere!

Cool Installation and Some Art of Mine.

Here's my dad and J-Boy, his first and only son, how obedient!

They are standing in front of gallery 221 and my dad's installation.
If you're in NYC, I suggest you check it out @ 221 East 88th Street.

Now, as for me, below are some of my recent works-in-progress.

The guy below is actually done and titled "The Rat in the Wood"

Will Wonders Never Cease???

My studio mate and her wild antics...
the one I warned you about in the beginning of my blog!

PS: I don' t know why it uploaded sideways, nor can I figure out how to correct that.

Tip of the day: Turn your computer 90 degrees to view video in proper alignment.

Who knows this word?

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

From Wikipedia: is the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation.

With 29 letters and 12 syllables, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which presents it as "enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar." The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money." In recent years, the word has been used in many scholarly articles in philosophy.

Though the OED gives no specifics on its derivation, the word is said to have been invented as an erudite joke by a student of Eton College, who, upon consulting a Latin textbook, found four ways of saying "don't care" and combined them:

• flocci facere (from floccus, -i a wisp or piece of wool)
• nauci facere (from naucum, -i a trifle)
• nihili facere (from nihil, -i nothing; something valueless (lit. "not even a thread" from ni+hilum)) Example being: "nihilism"
• pili facere (from pilus, -i a hair; a bit or a whit; something small and insignificant)

Try using it in Scrabble!