The Baker Artist Awards public launch press conference is online at last!  I attended the online press conference, which marked the November 24 public launch of the Baker Awards, along with ten other Baltimore artists and representatives from the William G. Baker Fund, Fastspot, and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.  As resistant as I can be to showing/seeing/hearing myself on tape, here it is for your enjoyment:



Many thanks to GBCA Executive Director Nancy Harrigan for inviting me to participate in the press conference, and to the folks at Fastspot for making a great site (and providing an embed link!).

Today I participated in a press conference for the public launch of the Baker Artist Awards. Thanks to my copious blogging about the Baker Awards, the executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance invited me to say a few words on a live webcast. I had a great time despite going against my typically introverted character and putting a minor kink in the trainings I was doing for new VISTAs at the office.

Overall, I feel like I was given a great opportunity to be part of this process. Rather than writing about it at length, though, I will just make sure to post a link and a few more words when the recorded version of the press conference comes online.

In other news, I tried out a few new ideas over the weekend. I have often thought about but never tried to represent my exceedingly poor vision. Continuing with my current work, I took several images of the scene I see when I wake up in the morning.  Unfortunately, I don't think this one came out quite blurry enough...

[The upstairs railing, as seen through the bedroom door when I wake up in the morning.]

Combining my past work around lights at night with my current domesticity images, I finally got around to capturing an image that catches my eye every time I sit in our reading room at night. I may eventually go back and retake it from the couch with a longer zoom lens to represent my vantage point a little more authentically.

[Streetlight outside second floor window, looking into the back alley.]