look closely.
these kitties are blowing soap bubbles.

most kitties enjoy windows

A Call to Action

If you saw a diamond ring laying on the sidewalk, you might wonder about it. You might wonder if the owner is a neighbor, and do they know it's missing? You might ask some local shops if anyone had lost a ring, or turn it in and wait for someone to claim it.
But you'd know one thing immediately; you'd know it isn't yours.

The Orphaned Works legislation (HR 5889 and S 2913) is designed to promote the "finders-keepers" mentality, and penalize artists whose works are good enough to steal. Not to mention creating a whole new level of government paper pushers who take money from artists, "just in case".

Under this new legislation if someone does a "reasonable search" for the original artist of a work, there's zero to minimal penalty for using the work. Kind of like looking both ways down the street before pocketing a lost diamond ring.

Under the new bill, every artist, amateur to pro, has to register--for a fee--every single sketch, mockup, model, variation and preliminary design or description of a work. Just In Case. Not even knowing if the work will ever sell or be shown.

Another unintended consequence of this bill would be to virtually wipe out Open Source and Creative Commons personal use art on the web; like for collages and school projects. Artists now provide these source works at little personal cost, for the good of the many. Registering all variations of a work would make the cost too prohibitive.

Publishing without paying the official registry, means plagiarists could simply decide it's "orphaned". And -THEY- could register the design! The original artist would have no claim to their own work.

You can stop this flagrant disregard for personal and artistic rights in less than 5 minutes;
the links below provide a form letter and zip code database, even if you don't know your rep.

email your Senator NOW:
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11389061

email your Congressman NOW
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11389081

If you want to know more, check out this site:
http://www.owoh.org/

It's June and...

I'm going to London soon
to see Diana's show
at Byam Shaw

Manchester United on the Rez

In one of those surreal juxtapositions of reality I was sitting in my favorite place to have lunch and an air conditioned smoke:
(Casino Arizona-Coyote Sports Bar on Indian Bend)


.when low and behold, Manchester United was going for the Euro Cup on a giant
screen right in front of me!
I was amazed!!
First off, that my daughter's favorite team:wasn't in it.
Second,
that both Manchester and Chelsea had some of the most gifted and amazing players,
http://www.goalcentre.com/manchester-united-vs-chelsea-uefa-champions-league-final-highlights-and-video-moscow/

since Pele! Even evil Nazi Max von Sydow gave him a standing ovation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJBAFXeQFC8&feature=related
(the Marsellaise here still makes me cry, and I havent a clue what they are singing)

Drinks and roast turkey for under $10, a euro cup championship, and air conditioned smoking.
bliss on the rez in 100+ degrees.

a new year, a new blog

and the show opening reception is tonight

Moonrise over Hart Prairie

It's been a long time since I've blogged. Here is a photo of our trip to the cabin last week. It was taken as the sun was setting on Harts Prairie, by KLM pilot student, Dennis Smaling.

This little blog is simply to get a photo onto the blogsite, and find it's html code. (!)