Do you remember? The very first night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders, while chasing the clouds away…

Above: Stack o’ promos to go out. Don’t accuse me of being cynical about this photo business…

TFK UPDATE:

Thanks to some recent donations from the  Mr and Mrs. Jackanory, Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. and Mrs. Wright, we are sitting over $600 of $2500, that is more than 25% of the way there!

Update to Team for Kids fundraising and my marathon training. We sit at $470 of $2500 dollars currently. The deadline for the the 50% was extended to August 29.

The heat has put a serious dent in my training schedule, last night was a track workout of 3×1 mile at 7:08/mile, with .5 mile rest in between and for the first time I visited the Redhook park oval to do it. Tough sledding, I kept forgetting what lap I was on-and Mr. Garmin was making it difficult to keep track-a plain old watch would have been better. Didn’t matter, my heart rate was pegged up against the wall anyway…memories of high school practices with the gym teacher exhorting us through wind sprints. In fact there was what looked to be a track club or high school group doing 400m repeats, a group of about twenty teens, the expected mix of diffidence, lollygagging and avoidance. Some seriously fast folks too. They would all start out as a group and quickly the bell curve would appear, the lone runner way out in front, the middle of the pack, and a back of the pack bunny or two. I think everyone was feeling mr. pukey nearby. These last few days have been difficult to keep to the plan-targets have not been met! It is all going awry! Chaos! I am hoping that it is the heat that is responsible and not my choice of the pursuit of Ludicrous Speed in my training goals. Trying to make a 3:30 marathon may not be realistic for me…?

Slideluck potshow came and went and I received a lot of great feedback on the presentation-thank you all. I will keep working on the project when the light returns in late September. Here is the piece:

Image left of James Worrell circa 1985, Iowa proving that the kids are alright. I am certain of meeting James before circa New York Magazine 1990’s but that feels like a world away. Anyway in the spirit of childhood athleticism he responded to the TFK challenge and made a big contribution to my fundraising. 

Both of us had slideshows in last Thursday’s Slideluck Potshow, you can see his here. 

Week 5 begins today and features an 18 miler sunday.

With apologies to Sugimoto

with apologies to butterflies courting:)

Big post monday coming with shout outs to new TFK contributors. Going to try to deliver some real tasty treats from Ajax to get all the big whales ponying up for TFK. August 15 is the due date for the first half of the $2500 fundraising goal.

…Angela Voulangas has contributed to my Team for Kids charity goal of $2500-and will be receiving the 8×10 of her choice. See here her book “The Handy Book of Artistic Printing” with co-writer Doug Clouse. I photographed some of the samples for same. If you are into the soulfully intense ornament, this book is for you! Buy it here!

HEHE-trust me folks, no photoshop here! Well, a little burning on the clouds…

In other news, a big $100 donation for Team for Kids has come in and someone will be the lucky recipient of a whopping 16×16 or whatever they want of this:

Film baby yeah!

Only $2325 to go. Donate here remembering my name “Wright” and number 361112! Instructions here.

Difficult to tell at this size, but

getting pretty close to perfect. Yesterday I had most of the factors working in my favour, a steady stream of jets overhead, some puffy clouds, the right vector, victor.

Still not there though. He’s not centered on the pin, the cloud is a little too big in the frame, it feels heavy on the left. But he is “on” the pin, there is no overlap, no space. At least in the pixel realm of 400% enlargement, you cannot tell.

And a reminder that for a small tax deductible donation to Team For Kids, you can have a print from me. $50 gets you whatever you want from me. Smaller donations are also welcome. 18 weeks to the New York City Marathon…

Various from Flyover States.

I am not opposed to providing prints from other work. Yeah the demand is that great…

UPDATE!:

Let the love flow! I wonderful generous First Donation from my friend Emmet Malmstrom…thank you!

Emmet Malmstrom