ste!!a gassaway: unpredictable thoughts

video tuesday : Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

ste!!a — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:21:18 +0000

On a Friday afternoon in February, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals spent time outside of San Diego recording stripped down versions of songs from their new album. “Paris” is the second in a series of them.

New GPN Album Available for pre-order here: http://amzn.to/gpnamazonpre)

Vocals, Guitar:Grace Potter
Guitar: Benny Yurco
Guitar: Scott Tournet
Knife: Catherine Popper
Ice Bucket and Hair Dryer: Matthew Burr

Directed by: Mason Poole.
Location: Rancho Bernardo, CA

The Voice Project, Peter Gabriel sings Tom Waits

ste!!a — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:24:58 +0000

Peter Gabriel » Tom Waits from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

happy birthday dear orchid

ste!!a — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:59:58 +0000

My birthday orchid seems very happy in it’s new home. It had bloomed twice in our old place in South Philadelphia where I was happy to keep it alive. It was hard work for some reason.

Now in Old City it is thriving.

I don’t think it is just the light and the water. I really think the energy here is so different. It seems to love Old City and the people that come and go in the gallery. It is joyful.

you don’t have to buy one or just bring it back

ste!!a — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:21:08 +0000

No need to say anything more.

ps Apple showed this at their press conference today.

Post-it notes an amazing invention

ste!!a — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:49:11 +0000

Post it notes continue to work their way into different parts of our lives. Their not so stickiness encourages us to use them in all kinds of unexpected ways. Their uniformity is another excellent attribute. Even the straight-lined challenged can line post-its up in a grid. Now that we aren’t confined to the Post-it yellow the possibilities are multiplied — by the number of new colors added.

So, what have you done with Post-it notes lately?

singing girls to girls

ste!!a — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:58:04 +0000

This is just a fabulous moment.

lipstick trees in Montréal

ste!!a — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:40:55 +0000

I was working on an ad for the segd conference + expo which will be in Montréal in 2011. It made me think of this wonderful public art. On our visit there a few years back we discovered the lipstick forest. Both Margaret and I wandered through the trees and played a bit of hide and seek. It is brilliant!

more about the lipstick forest >

Reprise: It’s too hot, too hot. Just too darn HOT.

ste!!a — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:51:13 +0000

It has become a science fiction dream to me. I cannot say I ever thought I would see and feel these temperatures. These temperatures are those of my visits to the desert and hiking the canyons of New Mexico. I imagine the scrub bushes and the dry runoff streams. I taste the red dust on my lips. Then I am jolted back to reality. My sense of place is askew. Our planet is so confused. It’s 104°.

poem today : Native Trees, W. S. Merwin

ste!!a — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:25:30 +0000

Neither my father nor my mother knew

the names of the trees

where I was born

what is that

I asked and my

father and mother did not

hear they did not look where I pointed

surfaces of furniture held

the attention of their fingers

and across the room they could watch

walls they had forgotten

where there were no questions

no voices and no shade

Were there trees

where they were children

where I had not been

I asked

were there trees in those places

where my father and my mother were born

and in that time did

my father and my mother see them

and when they said yes it meant

they did not remember

What were they I asked what were they

but both my father and my mother

said they never knew

Source: The Rain in the Trees (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)

patti smith on her book tour

ste!!a — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:20:06 +0000

Patti plays a tune on her book tour. Always good to see the famous in small moments like this. Enjoy.