Recent content by OliveOyl

Good luck to all you snow people…stay safe and warm in your part of the world. It makes me cold just to read about it and reminds me that I don’t miss my old New England winter weather…the snow, rain and humidity….at all. Here (New Mexico) we had a “dusting” of snow but it melted by noon...

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Hi. I have a Frank Gehry story that I will now bore you with…! So, I worked in the exhibits department at the Boston Children’s Museum at one point. They were expanding and decided to hire Gehry to add on a wing to the old red brick building by the waterfront. A lot of years were spent in...

Hi kids. Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Are you still slim and trim? I’m not, but once the avalanche of food left the system, it’s now back to my usual boring nuts and seeds diet. We drove 6 hours up to Colorado to my sister’s house. She’s a fantastic cook and gave us 4 days of amazing...

(Ugh. Here this one comes…writing from her bed while still in her jammies and as usual so long-winded but oh well what else is new?) THERE! I said it for you. So. I’d ask what constitutes “commercial success?” Do fame and fortune always go hand in hand or can you have one without the other...

Awww…perfection! Very “crisp” compositionally and so for me…it’s satisfying. The couple is really well done and of course I (still) love her hair. His face is soooo good too…especially with the color choices you made and in that sort of color block style. Her (almost hidden) hand was a surprise...

Thank you David and Ayin and the others for looking and liking. An albatross around the neck…yes! I always liked working somewhere around 40”. It feels comfortable. I have some early work in the 50-60” range but they stick too far out from the storage rack in the garage. Makes it hard to pull...

Yikes, Ayin….those black eye holes…!!! I’m scared of that “monster-person” as it stands but in any case, it will be interesting (as always) to see how this develops. The background is very “groovy” too and I wonder…why don’t people use that word anymore? It’s groovy, for god sakes. Okay. As to...

Looking forward to seeing this one too because I like the couple…so far. I don’t know if you’re done with the woman’s hair, but I love it as it is. Those little brown spots in the yellow curls is everything! Also, the purple areas in his face and the little trophy off to the side are nice places...

Brian Wilson never meant much to me but SLY did! This was the only one of their albums that I owned: This was way back in the olde high school days of yore while I was at my most moody and angsty teenage self. And despite the fact that this album was happy and poppy and funky, I listened (and...

Oh wow…I love this one and might be one of my favorites of your snapshot series. SO good. I like the simplicity of the whole composition but the complex wall pattern adds just the right amount of “noise.” I like what seems to be - at first glance - a loving portrait of a father and his son/sun...

I lived a block from the beach and never looked for sea glass. But yeah…sometimes being kind to small(er) animals isn’t in a child’s wheelhouse, right? I’d throw salt on snails to watch them shrivel up and die; captured Japanese beetles to put inside jars (where they’d also die); threw rocks...

I was once curious about them, specifically because they seemed to offer more “hand holding” to get you through the whole marketing/promotion process. Maybe that’s their “hook.” Somewhere on their site there must have been a link for a contact or something and before you knew it, they were...

It’s funny that last night, I was reading this book called, “What We Keep.” It’s a compilation of photographic essays from 150 people who talk about the one object that brings them “joy, magic and meaning.” And there…was Neil Leifer (!!) and HIS object…and it’s a pretty good one. It’s funny...

So okay...speaking of blabbing... The hub and I had a little family reunion with my sister (who successfully battled cancer last year and is finally able to get out and about) and my English brother-in-law (who is deathly afraid of heights), and my cousin and her husband (who have climbed...