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Pictures And Sound is out! Not to tell you what to do or anything ... but buying this album will probably make you a better person. And rocking out to it super loud in the car will definitely help out any situation. Like, for instance, my situation: driving across this grand continent in a fine rental car that has SPEAKERS, and A/C, and WINDOWS THAT CLOSE, and CRUISE CONTROL, and COMFY SEATS ... all luxuries that I have not enjoyed in a vehicle since my 1992 subaru I sold in 2003. I forgot that driving a car doesn't have to be terrifying at speeds over 60 mph.
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It's been 100 degrees in PDX all weekend. Best idea we ever had was to spend it hiking around the Mt. Hood wilderness and swimming in every lake we found. I'm so psyched that I got to spend the summer out here and check out places like this!
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Last weekend I drove to Salt Lake City with Ben & Sarah& Luke (adventures in carpooling). (Lucy had her own adventureswith Jenny at the Nau office) We cleaned out our storage unit there, did some business at the OR trade show, and most importantly we all got to catch up with wonderful friends. The trade show can be kind of crazy, but this time I came away from it with a feeling of deep appreciation for the friends I have made over the years. Everyone is doing such cool things these days and I'm so proud of y'all for going after your dreams! I got to hear stories of climbing trips on every continent, inspiring non-profit work, adventures in photography, film-making, and music, and companies taking new directions in sustainability and activism.
The best part of the whole weekend was definitely the Conservation Alliance breakfast with a totally inspiring talk by Bill McKibben. Bill wrote the first book on global warming 20 years ago (The End of Nature) and since then many of his predictions have already come to pass. His speech the other day addressed global warming again, but he did an amazing job of boiling it down to the bottom line, presenting the facts of what we are facing, and ending on a positive note of how we can get ourselves out of this situation. The bottom line is that we must reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, or we will all die. soon. Right now we are at 387 ppm and that number is rising each year.
This is not an impossible goal to attain. I left the talk feeling like this is something we CAN DO together and I want to be part of the solution. I'm selling my car this week, as I won't need it in New York anyway ... but the best thing any of us can do is stop putting CO2 into the air.
Please check out this website www.350.org to learn more
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 Download "It's You" for free!
Check out this website WWW.RCRDLBL.COM where Pictures And Sound is featured on the homepage today.
(RCRD LBL is a network of ad supported online record labels and blogs
offering completely free music and multimedia content from emerging and
established artists.)
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I'm moving to New York City! I just found out that I got accepted to the core program at The Grand Central Academy of Art, which is a really amazing and kind of unbelievable opportunity. GCA was started by Jacob Collins, founder of The Water Street Atelier and extremely influential painter and teacher in the contemporary art world. GCA only accepts 15 students a year so I feel really grateful that I got in! I am so totally excited to be part of a community of artists who are working to learn the same skills that I want to learn, and who are super motivated and psyched to be in the studio all day.
study for red head by Jacob Collins
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Luke's album is now available for pre-order! Click the button above to open the order form. All orders will be mailed on the release date: August 19, but one free track is sent to the buyer at the time of pre-order.
This album is incredible, I've been listening to it every day since March and it just gets better! The single "It's You" has been added to radio playlists across the country so keep your ears tuned in!
Luke and I also finished a 3 part video series about the making of this album (I did the animations) You can watch the first one on YouTube at this link
Our friend Todd Quackenbush did all the album artwork.
Stay tuned for more Pictures And Sound updates at Luke's blog: picturesandsound.blogspot.com As the release date gets closer there will be more goodies available for watching and listening: videos, podcasts, interviews, etc.
Thank you for supporting music!
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Portland is awesome, I love cruising all over the city, across the huge bridges and along the bike boulevards with crowds of other cyclists. Everybody bikes here and I get really excited just seeing people silently cruising along, going to parties, to work, to run errands, go grocery shopping ...
lately I've been working on animations for more video projects ... which I will post when they are all finished.
here are a few things I'm super psyched about:
I got to visit our friends up in Liliwaup, WA who run an oyster farm and live on this amazing land.
the new My Morning Jacket album: Evil Urges is freakin INCREDIBLE!!!! It's so awesome I can't stop listening to it.
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1. this print from my Dumpster Diaries show will be among the raffle items at the Girls Education International fundraiser party TONIGHT in Estes Park, CO. Thats Thursday 6/26 click here for full details if you want to attend.
"Vertical Addictions" value of $250. Framed dimensions: 20 x 24 inches
The mission of Girls Education International is to
work closely with communities in mountainous regions of the world to
expand and support educational opportunities for women and girls. We
promote local ownership to ensure that programs respect local culture
and values and are sustained over the long-term.
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