There was finally some clear air today. I can't describe how sweet it tasted. On my way home from the library I started to smell some more smoke. I thought the wind had changed and brought more smoke into town. But It turned out to be this fire. I took a couple of pictures. These were probably the best of the bunch.
I have always been interested in Japan, especially since my brother introduced me to karate. But lately every thing has been coming up Japanese. My sister her family now live in Tokyo. A classmate of mine from high school is living in a small (200 000 population) research community about an hour north of Tokyo. My sister-in-law is playing competitive sudoku. And, finally the above is a picture of the building that faces the bus stop where I get off to go to school.
You can follow the progress of the fire here. This is the local English language paper. I wouldn't recommend it for any other purpose. The best resource for San Diego is Diario San Diego. A decent English language resource is the Voice of San Diego.
The major effect the fires have had on us so far is that has been that it looks as though we are going to have a few days off school, a bit like a snow day. Last time white ash fell from the sky very much like snow.
Above is the latest effort on the art front. It took much longer than I am willing to admit to complete. But I did learn a lot about Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.
This is at San Diego City College. I love this sign for English Center. The hanging letters spell out "English Center". There is a butterfly at the bottom and a dragonfly at the top of the tree. It looks amazingly uncheesy.
latimes.com published another blowback article by me. This was not as fun an article to write as the one about Charlie, but it contains some things that I felt had to be said.
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This is my attempt to do a stamp. I am really into the whole mixed media thing right now. I like how this turned out.
This is where we get Charlie's food. It is the kind of high density urban development I love. There were lots of places like this in London. I don't know if you can see. But it is an Albertson's with a huge apartment complex on top.
This is a picture of my good friend Daniel and two of his friends from his hippy days. The photo was damaged so I cut out the figures and put them in front of the fractal background. Unfortunately, Daniel came out the worst of the three. I still have the original scan. So, I will try as they say to fix it in post.
