molecule

Just messing around in photoshop, combining a few images i took via iphone to create this graphic.

city

starting to think of a photo show....

ascent

red square

FigTree October

Fall

Alki snapshot

View

islands

i thought it was

trio

viewfinder

downtownSeattle

abandoned piano

view from my window at work

in miniature

downtown Seattle

reflections in water

glass of water

my new iphone app also allows me to capture in square format. it's a fun toy. Also just discovered this mag Light Leaks - low fidelity photography.

retro lamp

glow

crosswalk

Again - another pic from my iphone

iphoneCamera

New iphone apps (toycamera and tiltshiftGen) rocking my world.

at the zoo

another day at the office

forms

clay whistle and sketch i made - post construction and then photographed and then altered in photoshop.

city

Sundried Kelp

Twirly Sea artifact

stack

cell shapes

under the microscope

Banksia cone

banksia bird

three

Australia

New

BuddingSpring

Girls on Film - in progress

photo montage

mix tape for your eyes

chambers

scratch assay

Illustrations i made for a colleagues upcoming talk

melanocyte

One of my work photos from today

horizon of barnacles

messing around with two photos i took this weekend. Kinda sci-fi filmy.

StringTheory

Some art this morning. Woven fabric and collagen fibril inspiration..

surreal

So crazy cool - we imaged the porch light bulb on the pavement at night with J's glasses. Light and Physics!

through the lens

october

a tech's life

Nostalgia - back to my old days as an EM tech at Duke. Transmission electron microscopes a dying breed. and EM techs soon to be forgotten. I think i should make a documentary or photo essay.

light

Retrospective. Scanning some old slides. This one from 1994. Light painting on the beach with pals, pentax SLR.

friends

card i made for my friend's birthday. :)

window into the clouds

fast

space

cityscenes

Playing with my new D40. photos to pshop with multiply/layers similar to experiments in Oaxaca.

yellowstone revisited

1957 image from my gramps and now in 2008

SeaCell

Lupin

Methow valley

"Renounce and enjoy" Ghandi

stellar cells

cityscenes

NY city scene. used the

2008 Album

VanCrankies in NY

ny hydrant

Barrel -old tinny -old timey

My Fav from this evening's darkroom foray. Looks so old timey.

Pothole Pinhole

Finally - got myself into the darkroom to finishout developing these remaining negs from our trip out east long ago. I like this one with the rushes and cliffs.

Naga

My sketch of the seven headed naga serpent protector of the buddhist tradition. Preps for a painting.

buddhist temple

pinhole montage

merged three pinhole photos from our trip to the potholes... seed pod waving in the wind, rocky basalt cliffs, clouds reflected in lake..

in BW

Took a photo of the painting i made today and then turned into BW. Just to see what it looks like.

Monday Painting

Todays Painting...

underground

Photo i took while on the underground tour a year or so ago.

trek

Scan of slide, photo i took back in 2000 when we were treking in Nepal.

pshopart

computer art piece i put together inspired by the work i do in the lab.

thailand

Back in the day, i used to take slides. this one i took in THailand years ago and here it is scanned.
I want to go back to bangkok!

ranier

Lovin where we live as always. Old photo of Ranier we took sometime ago while on a hike.

portrait of inez

legends

Drawing i made this evening. I think i'll make a print of it too. It's based on various mayan legends and yes, those are zapatistas. :)

new painting

still in progress...

dendritic cell

copepod

Copepod we encountered near the Goat Rocks years ago. I brought a few back with me and looked at them thru the microscope. These guys were in the lake we camped near. They are naturally this red.

Retro

Looking thru an old photo album my mom and dad put together for me. I've been so lucky in my life. Here i am chillin in the pool with my sunglasses on.

RBCs

Photo i took today of a dermal artery stained with Massons Trichrome.

day of dead

perception

vancouver

spidey

Images i took today. Garden spiders are out and about.

Stehekin

Just returned from a fabulous anniversary trip to Stehekin. Yip!

locked up

What shall i do with all my old photos from Oaxaca? I think i might need to do a show sometime within this next year.

pinhole

My first pinhole camera photo. This is from the potholes in Eastern Washington. Yes- it has taken me a year to develop the negatives! Many thanks to my good friend Roberto who loaned me his pinhole camera and has taught me a great many things about life and photography.

reflections

City buildings reflected back.

sketches

Whew! finally some art. Some sketches i made recently. Flippy Feet!

1953

Old stamps and history lessons..."All proletariat unite and strive for the industrialization of the country" from 1953

TheAdventuresofSuperTech

Contemplating superheros of late. reminded me of this comic i made back in 1996. The Adventures of SuperTech - as i envisioned myself at work fighting crime at the microscopic level.

science videos

I've discovered some very cool science animations of late. Our group is interested in wound healing and ultimately how to prevent hypertrophic scarring. This animation on wound healing can also give you an idea of the complexity of interactions that occur within the cells at a wound site and gives you a window into what i study.

Tshirts

I have some T-shirts like the one above left over from my GQ show if anyone is interested.

explorations

New planets and new cell signalling pathways. Orphan receptors and microdomains on the lipid bilayer. I have circles of confusion and amazement at the body's complexity and the starry skies that contain infinite possibilities.

filopodia

My 'cover' shot. Endothelial cells in culture. Cool!

10-20-30

classic keys. i took this photo last summer while i was on the seattle underground tour.

basq

My attempt at a portrait of Basquiat - based on a cool photo of him in an art book i picked up at the library.

revisitng

just revisiting some sketches i made in mexico, gotta get back to my pen and ink and portraits..

mon chat

photo i took of my cat many years ago. She's on my lap purring right now as i post this :)

farm photo

Perhaps this is my favorite of all times. That's my grandmother in the black dress with her family back in 1948.

family

Been looking through old photos. So nice to have. Here is one of my grandpa, moms dad on his basketball team back in 1935-36. He's the one in the backrow, just behind the fella with the ball.

Boots

I guess i have always liked cowboy boots.

tiki

Aloha Everyone! We are back from our vacation and here are the highlights from our trip: humpback whale sightings, snorkeling with sea turtles, tiki god poses, maitais, sharin' a plane with Lauryn Hill, hikin' across a volcanic crater, seein' lava pour into the sea at sunset. uh - why did we have to come back?

BigIsle

nutty! we just got back from the big island of Hawaii - a much needed vacation. I saw these on the 1871 trail at the Place of Refuge.

more paintings

More works in progress. My stencil work on hold for the winter. Nice to have my workspace downstairs.

Work in progress

Fun shapes I'm exploring with acrylic.

go-go boots

me in the early 70s, and yes- that's a lava lamp on the shelf.

strike a pose

how fantastic. i love these images!!!

oldmagazines

A friend gave me an old circa 1950s magazine from Japan, it is filled with these wonderful images.

Stellar

More immunofluorescence. This is one of my favorites. Endothelial cell stained with Vinculin.

Snowball event

We had a fabulous time at the SnowBall fundraiser last night. I met Jamison Green- the highlight of the evening for me. I had donated a few pieces for the event, including his stencil portrait, which he signed for the winning bidder.

stars

Drag king tribute painting i am working on right now. This is a photo of my painting, turned to B/W in pshop.

Vid-Eo

I've recently discovered googlevideo and youtube. And have been doing searches for drag king and genderqueer related clips and have run across some fun stuff i'd like to share.

Interview with KenLasVegas
Shes a Drag King (outta OZ)

enjoy!

Vinculin Staining

Took this photo last week. Endothelial Cells stained with Vinculin and Phalloidin. I do love my work!

all things spray worthy

First off, good news is that my show will be up at the Rose for the month of November!
Contemplations for today- I'd like to do more pieces and push myself even further with my stencil art; more layers/complexity, conceptual pieces, and larger works (lifesize). Now that it's wet outside where will i go to spray? Let's move to Hawaii!

pleistocene glacial floods

Ok - one more photo from our trip to the potholes. i love that place.

seeds and fluff

This is a digital cam shot from our trip to the Potholes. I'm really diggin on it..

pinhole

We went to Eastern Washington this weekend to the Potholes (one of our very favorite places). I took my friend Bobs pinhole camera with me that fits 4x5 negatives. Talk about delayed gratification in this day and age. Gotta develop the negs to see if i captured anything decent. But what a great trip, sagebrush and columnar basalt - could it get any better?

bluepanel

making progress on my project

dragonFlyt

This is a dragonfly that was sitting out on our backporch. My camera is soo good at taking these closeup macro shots.

sacred heart2

on wood support, acrylic

drip

I'm realizing that most of my abstract art has a cartoony feel. which is fine - and just reflects a style that i am comfortable with.

sacred heart

Reminder

on transformation

"The Buddhist teachings are fabulous at simply working with what’s happening as your path of awakening, rather than treating your life experiences as some kind of deviation from what is supposed to be happening. The more difficulties you have, in fact, the greater opportunity there is to let them transform you. The difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into the lousy habitual patterns you already have, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you, on the spot." Pema Chodron

Stencils

My stencil project is moving along. Here are some of my latests now on the wall in our kitchen.

spray

My obsession with Spray paint started in Oaxaca Mexico. Damn its fun!

cellular!

I thought i'd put up some images from my work life. This is one reason i love what i do. These are endothelial cells I stained with FITC Phalloidin which grabs the actin cytoskeleton. Pretty eh?

transitions

Ok - well, i'm ending my Oaxacamusings blog and starting this SeattleZap blog, so i can continue to post thoughts, photos and art. Feels strange after a year of living abroad to transition into life back here in the states. I really miss so much about Oaxaca. But it's a trade off from limes, salt, sunny weather, and ruins to longtime friends, snowcapped peaks and the sea. It's all good i tell ya. Always an adventure.