I haven’t shot any­thing in weeks, months even… which makes me rather sad. I have a feel­ing the dry spell will soon end.

A few shots from yes­ter­day:

This week­end the Bal­ti­more Museum of Art (BMA) will play host to the Con­tem­po­rary Print Fair. Vis­i­tors to the event can enjoy and pur­chase prints from four­teen major con­tem­po­rary art deal­ers, gal­leries and presses. The two day event will also fea­ture guided tours, artist lec­tures and a panel discussion.

Con­sult the event Web site for a full list of sched­uled events and participants

The Bal­ti­more Fair for Con­tem­po­rary Prints & New Edi­tions
Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, 27–28 March 2010 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.
at The Bal­ti­more Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive Bal­ti­more, MD 21218

Look­ing for some­thing to do this sunny week­end, Charm City and D.C. metro read­ers? Then why not check out the High­land­town Spring Art­fest this Sat­ur­day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Held at Mag­no­lia Designs Gallery in the Skylofts, the Art­fest promises to be a fun way to wel­come the new sea­son and sup­port local artists and craftspeople.

Artists at Saturday’s event will include: Adorn­ments by Ate­lier Beads, Elisa Shere Jew­elry, Joe Den­ni­son, Lana Bella, Robert Funk, Tigerlilyshop and many others.

Sat­ur­day 20 March 2010, 10 a.m. — 3 p.m. at Skylofts 3701 Bank Street, Bal­ti­more, MD 21224, check it out

The videos of last week’s Ignite Bal­ti­more 5 are all avail­able on YouTube; life is good.

The event itself was great; big­ger and even bet­ter than IB4.

Here are a few of the more mem­o­rable pre­sen­ta­tions:

tran­script of Brian Sacawa’s talk
Part of what I liked about this talk was the belief in Bal­ti­more he expressed– that we are not sim­ply, “Brooklyn’s farm team.” His tongue-in-cheek humor didn’t hurt either.

Wolver­ine AND Teddy Roo­sevelt in the same pre­sen­ta­tion?! Yes, please. Why do I have a feel­ing Tom has a master’s the­sis worth of notes on this topic lurk­ing in his sketchbooks.

A great, smart young woman who is work­ing hard to change the world around her.

To me, this was the most impor­tant talk of the night–a brand strate­gist talk­ing about the power of sto­ry­telling and the val­ues of the­atre being applied in business.

How about you dear read­ers? What do you depend on dur­ing harsh winters?

Images:
mine, 2, 3, 4, 5,6

With Snow­poca­lypse 3 (THREE?!) rag­ing out­side my win­dow, I sup­pose now is as a good a time as any to share a few more pic­tures from Snow­poca­lypse 2:

Unless you live under a rock or more likely, are one of my read­ers from abroad you might not know that this week­end brought Bal­ti­more an his­toric blizzard.

So this after­noon once the snow had stopped, I helped my fam­ily dig out. My mum was kind enough to sup­ply the fol­low­ing video of my father and I shov­el­ing their mas­sive drive:

Ok, so my sense of humor is espe­cially punchy today– we’re all a lit­tle batty from the miles of sparkling white everywhere…

Today finds Charm City buried once again, in a blan­ket of sparkling white. The effect is beau­ti­ful, bewil­der­ing and even a lit­tle inspir­ing though at some point after hours of shov­el­ing, the snow will become less than charm­ing. In the mean­time, here is a piece of visu­ally stun­ning eye/brain candy straight from Japan for you, dear read­ers, snow­bound or otherwise:

Doesn’t this just make your eyes smile and the snow a lit­tle more fun?

July

Sun­set on the estuary

August

Sep­tem­ber

Octo­ber

Novem­ber

Decem­ber

This morn­ing, I was not feel­ing ter­ri­bly moti­vated– it has been a bit­terly cold, WINDY win­ter day in Charm City and my inner bear just wants to hiber­nate this time of year. But I’ve kept my favorite mug full of fresh cof­fee and even went so far as to pull together a playlist to keep myself moti­vated. If your moti­va­tion is wan­ing or you just need some new music, you can find most of my playlist avail­able through iTunes as an iMix here.

How do you stay moti­vated and pro­duc­tive at work, dear readers?

Last night brought a snow­storm the likes of which the City has not seen in years… in ’96 I spent a week snowed in dur­ing the big storm… today does not look much dif­fer­ent, except the snow keeps com­ing so much faster

I live close to a state high­way, here it is this after­noon– so empty you could sit down and have a pic­nic

The USPS lived up to their promise of “nei­ther rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night” today, yay mail!

Liv­ing in the Balto/D.C. metro area and look­ing for some­thing to do this week­end? Well then head down to D.C. this Sat­ur­day (19 Dec) for the fourth annual Hol­i­day Booty Mar­ket! Fea­tur­ing the work of twenty regional artists and crafters, the mar­ket is a great chance to find last-minute hol­i­day trea­sures for your loved ones all while brows­ing among the beau­ti­ful fur­ni­ture avail­able at Design Within Reach. A few of the ven­dors fea­tured Sat­ur­day include:

60 bugs

de*nada

Mary Ellen Doran

Gosh­darnknit

Red Prairie

Jaime Zol­lars

The event will be held in Wash­ing­ton D.C. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Adams Mor­gan Design Within Reach show­room. Check­out the event Web site for more details.

Images: 60 bugs, De*Nada Design, Mary Ellen Doran, Gosh­darnknit, Red Prairie Press, Jaime Zol­lars

Lately, I’ve been going through my hard drive and sort­ing files and have found hun­dreds if not thou­sands of old pho­tos. Some of which have been fun to redis­cover, oth­ers con­tain­ing idea seeds for future work yet to be explored, and still oth­ers that have a sort of arche­o­log­i­cal qual­ity to them in hav­ing doc­u­mented my past homes or work spaces. Since I have been reflect­ing a lot lately on the ideal work­space yet to be cre­ated, I thought I’d share a few of my desks from the last few years:

First year grad school desk

First home office in Gothen­burg

Close-up–Home office in Gothen­burg

Last home office in Gothen­burg

Short-lived ‘home’ desk in the U.S.

Home office, August 2006

Work desk 2006–2008

Work desk 2009

Home office, Novem­ber 2009

How has your work­space changed over the years, readers?

I’ve been inside for most of the day edit­ing, iron­i­cally, images of the beau­ti­ful autumn col­ors out­side. Here are just a few:

Couldn’t resist the abrupt­ness of the last image in con­trast to the other four.

Octo­ber was such a busy month that it’s hard to believe that we’re already four days into Novem­ber; but here we are, the day before Guy Fawkes Day the TEDxMi­dAt­lantic con­fer­ence.

I’m excited to see what tomorrow’s con­fer­ence holds and hope to have plenty to share in the days fol­low­ing the event. In the mean­time, if you haven’t already read it, there is a thought­ful arti­cle about the con­fer­ence in today’s Bal­ti­more Sun.

And if you were not lucky enough to obtain reg­istry for tomorrow’s event, begin­ning tomor­row (5 Nov 09) there shall be a live feed of the event avail­able here.

Image: Me