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I really don’t know what’s going on here, but I’ve been moved by two NPR Morning Edition stories in two days.

The one I wrote about yesterday, and then this one on 98-year-old L.A. residential architecture photographer Julian Shulman. His client’s quote pretty much sums it up:

“He makes you see what you take for granted. And we do that in our houses. We do that in our marriages. We do that with our children. He has ability to stop time and let you see it and to remember why you fell in love with it.”

Just heard the news on NPR of the death of folklorist, labor activist and storyteller, Archie Green. Here’s a quote from Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture:

“The peasant fiddler is as worthy as the symphony violinist; the village cobbler more precious than a pair of boots.”

Thanks for reminding us Archie.

Okay, so my last post needs a little explanation. I started Twittering a week ago Sunday last Sunday night. Right smack-dab in the middle of what’s probably the biggest Twitter-lovefest ever known to man, SXSWi. Okay, I admit. I’m what they call a “lurker”. But I’m a recovering lurker after the chain of events that has happened to me since then. I lived vicariously through several people I was following, and through the #sxsw trend as people listened to keynotes, twittered each other, hit the Google and Facebook parties. (more…)

Until I started following the #sxsw & more, the #ias09 twitter trend this week I thought I was a graphic designer. New life!

I was going through some files and found this word cloud I created by running this blog post through Wordle.

Here are some explorations done for a friend of mine who’s starting her own local commercial recycling business. On the drawing board. Literally.