@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:
@BigDub Several years ago Yahoo! lost a number of months of my important e-mail. It took me about a year to transition to gmail, but I'm glad I did. My wife still suffers with Yahoo!, but her account is enormous, and she's been reluctant to change. She started the move to gmail recently; it's going to take awhile.
(There's a hint in this message somewhere; I bet it won't take you long to discover what it is.)
Switch email?
@Kujo20 said in Artist on BOARD:
Bigdub,
I just returned from a 3 week vacation in Oregon and California. My wife and I visited four different National Parks (Redwoods, Shasta Trinity, Yosemite, and Sequoia). We took a little over 1000 photos...if you’re interested, I could email some to you that you could use as reference photos for your painting. We have a lot of landscapes, waterfalls/rivers, wild animals, ocean shots, giant trees...etc...
Sounds great. Yeah, that would be something I would appreciate getting. Just send one or two at a time as I have very slow internet WiFi..haha. My email is, waynemathisen@yahoo.com.
Also, if you use the cloud, there would be a way to share he ones you want to see. I am not exactly sure how that works, but I have done it for my Alaska photos. Has to be Apple, though.
Here's another one for your observation. This is the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine, done as a commission for a friend in my town to give to her son, who took the reference pictures. They were very good
@moshe said in A little humour:
@BigDub said in A little humour:
@moshe said in A little humour:
@BigDub said in A little humour:
@moshe said in A little humour:
@neal085 said in A little humour:
Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.
Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
And I thought that my puns were bad
I never saw it coming ...
Morris / moshe
In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.There are arenas of puns?
Pun gladiators?
Pun matadors?
Peanut vendors?
Morris / moshe
Well.......in a manner of speaking......yes.....
And I had already used, "world of puns" so I resisted the lazy approach and came up with another nomenclature (how'd you like that description?) .
And as far as gladiators, maybe more like couch pertaters.
Instead of Matadors, maybe Bull throwers?
Peanut venders? I don’t know, you can’t spell PUN without them letters right there.For those who are not multi-lingual like I am,
"matador" is French for "I love me"
and "gladitaters" is Arkansas for "happy mountain oysters".
I don't mean to brag,
but I am completely illiterate in 27 languages.Morris / moshe
Well, I’m 67 but I read at a 70 yr old’s level
@moshe said in A little humour:
@BigDub said in A little humour:
@moshe said in A little humour:
@neal085 said in A little humour:
Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.
Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
And I thought that my puns were bad
I never saw it coming ...
Morris / moshe
In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.There are arenas of puns?
Pun gladiators?
Pun matadors?
Peanut vendors?
Morris / moshe
Well.......in a manner of speaking......yes.....
And I had already used, "world of puns" so I resisted the lazy approach and came up with another nomenclature (how'd you like that description?) .
And as far as gladiators, maybe more like couch pertaters.
Instead of Matadors, maybe Bull throwers?
Peanut venders? I don’t know, you can’t spell PUN without them letters right there.
@moshe said in A little humour:
@neal085 said in A little humour:
Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.
Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
And I thought that my puns were bad
I never saw it coming ...
Morris / moshe
In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.
I said I would post no more than one a day, but I think that is even a bit much, so here we are two days later. I'll show some of my paintings from photos taken by my son in law on his various travels with his family.
Does a large bore make you sleepy?
What do sheep count?
What does Dracula count?
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Practice makes perfect. Nobody’s perfect. In that case, Nobody practices.
"Nothing rhymes with orange"...no it doesn’t.
@administrator said in TrumpetMaster.com:
So, I think it is safe to say this site is gone for good, no? Anybody have any information on who the owner was? I would like to purchase the domain and redirect traffic to TB. Please PM me with any info you might have. Thanks!
I wonder if you have to purchase anything to redirect from a defunct domain? I am not an expert, I am just thinking out loud.
@Dr-GO said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:
@Bob-Pixley said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:
I've never had a headache from playing with out of tune "musicians", but it is a pain in the butt.
In these situations, I just learned to turn the other cheek!
I'll bet that helps.
@neal085 said in Practicing with drones:
@BigDub Big Brother just making sure you were playing in tune, but also curious what MP you were using.
There were also TV cameras there, but this happens everywhere I go, it seems..
( the tv camera part was true, but the part about it happening everywhere I go, not so much )
We all have big brother following us. Our iPhones/smart phones, don’t you think?
I know it’s a different kind of drone, but last night at an outdoor concert for our community band, a drone was actually hovering slightly to our left and only about 75 ft in the air. It stayed for a good 15 minutes. That was rather bizarre, wouldn’t you say?
I have been doing more small pieces of late and find them to be both challenging and enjoyable. This one is about 11"x14", a farm near my home in Hillsborough, NJ. It may well not be in this condition any longer but that is a big part of why I do like painting subjects like this.
@Dr-Mark said in Do you see what I see??:
Hi BigDub,
I like what you said!
This is IMO why recording ones self and critically listening to the recording is so important. Recording and listening is the great leveler. There have been times I would say to myself, "That was pretty good!" but when I'd listen to the recording, it would suck. It takes a lot of ego strength to record and listen because usually the recording will not be as good as you wanted or thought it to be.
Absolutely. Positively. 100%. Agree. My biggest improvements have come after listening to myself and being quite disappointed....but only because, like you, I thought hmm, that was pretty good. Then I knew what needed a lot of improvement!
People may think it ego driven, but my recordings are a real harsh dose of reality and good medicine for me!
@Vulgano-Brother said in Do you see what I see??:
@BigDub said in Do you see what I see??:
I have had that happen many times, now that you mention it.
Great! Get those resultant tones sounding in tune, and memorize the sound and its visceral aspects. For best results, use the first and third slides to do the tuning work.
My problem is more with some others rather than myself and whether there is any hope whatsoever for their improvement.
The headache could be mental anguish rather than a physical thing. I am not a Dr. Though, Dr's GO and Mark
so I am owning that.
I do know this, if I have to sit in front of the drums I sometimes end up with a headache.
Ticket prices were higher this year for the balloon festival due to inflation
There’s a crew building a deck across the street. They seem to be doing an ok job, but man, are they slow.
How slow? I know you're asking.
They went off to another job about a week ago and I thought they were still making steady progress.
One of them had a girlfriend, it seems. Heavy set, big boned, pretty face, as they say. She would stop by and visit her Bo.
Well. At least they build a strong deck.
@Vulgano-Brother said in Do you see what I see??:
Intonation is learned, and the best way I've found is to play intervals with another trumpeter. One plays a "drone" and the other slides up or down until the resultant tones are in tune. You'll hear the resultant tones "buzzing" in your ear.
That is very helpful and encouraging to know. Thanks.
I have had that happen many times, now that you mention it.
@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:
@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:
@moshe said in Artist on BOARD:
I thought it was a stunningly beautiful photograph.
But another poster said that it is a painting?
Morris / moshe
Haha, nope, it’s a painting. I'll make sure to let you know when it’s a photo.
One thing that happens is people look at some of these paintings on a small screen like a phone and that makes it look much more like a photograph.It is a fine work of art on a big or a small screen.
The check's in the mail, George! Oops. Did I say that out loud?
