For those of you who may not know it, I have the best wife ever!  She has kept me organized and on the straight and narrow for 13 years now.  She further proved how wonderful she is by opening up our home to help her sisters out making a grand total of 17 people living together.  So one day, we were walking through Michael’s Craft Store a few weeks back and she saw the photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets on the 69th floor during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

With her sisters and their children in the house, this dangerous scene titled “Lunch Atop a Girder” reminded my wife of meals at our house.  :D   So I did a little research and I found this Volkswagon ad promoting the Crafter in Europe.  They manipulated the famous photo and removed all of the people to add the line at the bottom, “Volkswagen Crafter only € 15.200.  Unfortunately the word has already spread.”

With this Blank girder to work with, I took the kids out in the scorching heat and had them line up for a photo.  I took about 9 pictures so that I could get a good pose from each one of them.

I put them all together and ordered a 30×20 print from CostCo for around $15.00!  Unfortunately the print has to be shipped to us, so I made some 8×10s to have on hand for Mother’s Day.  Now to head back to Michael’s and get a frame to hang it in the dinning room.  Here’s the finished photo.

So all of the images are done.  The book is coming together and it’s time to start promoting the work.  There are 15 artists contributing to this book.  Like I said earlier I’m trying to do something unique and interesting by combining a Beatles song and Shakespeare.  So, without further adieu,  I present to you the tragedy Romeo & Juliet inspired by the Beatles song, She Loves You.  (singing)”You think you’ve lost your love…”(end singing)  DON’T DRINK IT ROMEO!!!  SHE’S STILL ALIVE!!!!

Go to the bottom of TheWhiteAlbum.net and click to preview some of the other artwork.

*note* these kids are attracted to each other like magnets!

…I’m afraid that I’m going to fall in love with Star Trek.  So, I’m a pretty big Star WARS fan and there’s always been an odd sort of rivalry between the two franchises.  I never really spent much time watching Star Trek, so I don’t really get into the rivalry but it’s an interesting comparison.   I watched the Trailer for the new movie and it’s EXCITING.  I recognize the main characters, and I know their names, but it just seems Bigger, and Better and Newerer!  See for yourself.

I was so happy when I saw this video on Facebook last week.  I’ve written before about the art of Sampling music or sounds and re-organizing them into a new composition but this is different.  A street musician by the name of Roger Ridley was playing the song “Stand by me”.  Hearing his passion started the organization aptly known as “Playing for Change”.  Their goal is to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music.  They recorded Roger playing and then used that recording as a base track and had other musicians from around the world add to it.  The result is magical.  It’s not truly sampling, it’s a collaboration on a global scale. 

You can learn more about this project at their website. 

The alarm went off at 6AM.  I stumbled into the bathroom to put on my work clothes and head out to clean the pool.  I could hear my 2 year old open and close my bedroom door.  Then I heard him trip and fall and cry.  With my wife and baby still sleeping I rushed out and scooped him up to snuggle him back to sleep in my bed (besides, he was up too early).  Then I felt the blood.  I hollered to my wife, “HEAD WOUND!”  and rushed back to the bathroom.I grabbed a clean washcloth (heh a WHITE one) and started to apply direct pressure.  We got a little ice on it but it looked pretty bad.  We went downstairs to comfort him by watching the Spectacular Spider-Man while we found a butterfly bandaid to pull the wound back together.
Everything seemed to be going fine, but when I dropped off some of the kids for school I noticed the bandaid was slipping.We stopped off at a friend’s house (THANKS WENDY) and put on some sterile strip tape to seal things up.  We decided that it might be to large of a wound to just tape.  It turns out that our pediatrician doesn’t do stitches so we went to the ER.We got there and there was NO ONE WAITING!  I was thrilled.  So here we are getting ready to go see the doctor.  Note the Spider-Man Bandaid right in the middle of his head is just a comfort bandaid.  :D

We had our vitals checked and then watched Curious George.

We had to take off the sterile strips and then start to numb the area for the stitches.

I laid down and held him with the help of one of the attendees.

and now we’re all better!  Right now he’s sitting with me in my office watching the Clone Wars Cartoons on my iPod while I type.  I’ve got a feeling this boy is going to be spoiled a little bit for the next few days.

May the 4th be with you!

Also know as Cinco de Mayo Eve.  So sit around and watch Star Wars in Spanish and make a Death Star Pinata.

learn more about the pinata here. 

Here is the last sneak peak of my third song choice for the Beatles Themed artbook.  

The song is “Let it Be”.

In the TV show “Chuck” (which I LUV), Chuck Bartowski opens an email from an old college friend that downloads the entire CIA/NSA database into his brain.  The database is known as the intersect and from then on in the show, Chuck is referred to as the Intersect.  With this database in his brain he is able to help the CIA/NSA on missions.  So, I just watched the trailer for the new Transformers movie and it looks like Shia LaBeouf’s character in the movie finds and ancient Cybertronian object that puts all kinds of information in his brain.

To celebrate the launch of the new Doritos Flamin’ Cheeseball flavor, the Doritos Dodgeball challenge has been created.  They are looking for Britain and Ireland’s finest Dogeball players and taking them to Vegas to battle in the Dodgeball World Series final.    To create this super team, Doritos has created a pool of 31 teams that will travel to a secret location in London to prove their worth as champions.  You can help by loging in, taking aim, and firing Dodgeballs!

You can go to the site and watch the live stream or see highlights, get some game tactics and get involved at here.