Thoughts

Bazaar After Dark

Made a trip to the Appleton Bazaar After Dark and it is quite the spectacle!

Green Bay K9 for a Day

What makes a great community? Good people doing great things.

My friend Joel is a member of the Green Bay Police Department and he makes this a great community by creating outreach initiatives like his latest ‘K9 for a Day’ idea.

Joel takes select dogs from the Bay Area Humane Society on patrol with him in an effort to help these dogs get adopted and to positively interact with the citizens of Green Bay.

Keep doing great things my friend!

Here is a video I made for my friend to help promote this program:

I found the ruby slippers, clicked my heels, and found myself back in northeastern Wisconsin once again. For better or worse Green Bay has always been the cultural hub of NE Wisco, and has always been home.

Downtown Green Bay has come a long way since I was a kid.

Downtown Green Bay waterfront sunset reflection — Admiring the downtown Green Bay sunset reflection on the Fox River.

Downtown Green Bay CityDeck at Sunset — Downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin CityDeck at Sunset

Downtown Green Bay Reflection — Some of the newer buildings reflected on the Fox River in downtown Green Bay.

Downtown Green Bay skyline sunset reflection — Beautiful reflection of the downtown Green Bay skyline at sunset on the Fox River.

Green Bay Sunset Skyline — Downtown Green Bay, Wisconisn Sunset Skyline with buildings reflecting on the Fox River.

Green Bay, Wisconsin Titletown Brewery at sunset. — Titletown Brewery at sunset.

360 Degree Camera

I recently purchased a Ricoh Theta S 360 degree camera, and I am loving it. You can use it to make VR or interactive photos or videos, but one of the things I enjoy doing with it is making 2D images, as you can dynamically change the perspective of the image. One of those perspectives are the little planet or tiny planet images, which are fun. See more images like these by following me on Instagram.

Science Museum of Virginia

I have been working for the Science Museum of Virginia for the past few months. I feel like a came right at the high point of this museums recent history, with the recent opening of the SPEED exhibit in which an SR-71 Blackbird was hung from the ceiling. One thing that has really stuck with me since day one is that the museum is housed in a 100 year old historic train station. It is huge and humbling and majestic, and I love to see it every day when I arrive.

A Day in D.C.

I saw a few items on social media about the Democracy Spring protests in D.C. and about the large number of arrests. I thought this might be worth hopping in the car and taking the 2 hour drive to D.C. This is a chronicling of that adventure.

My social channels began showing articles about massive peaceful arrests of groups demonstrating at the Capitol, more arrests than ever before. The Democracy Spring effort started in Philadelphia, where thousands began a 140-mile walk to the U.S. Capitol to “demand Congress take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in our politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.” Seemed like a great thing to try to capture with the camera

Instead of finding the Democracy Spring protests, I found one thousand Ethiopians protesting genocide in their country. Citizen journalism fail, but I did get to meet a real African Queen!

Since I was there, I decided to your the US Capitol building and marvel at it’s amazing architecture.

Followed up my tour of the US Capitol with a walk through the National Portrait Gallery.