Blog February
2008
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The
Life and Times
This would
be the random thoughts, often meandering and incomplete, of Dan
Abernathy. This
is "my space dot something." A place to keep everyone up on what's
going
on in my life and how my mind is working, or what state of chaos and
confusion that I am in. Here are my thoughts, rants, introductions, new
images and projects
I am working on and anything else that I want to place here. Here there
are
no rules! This will be like opening up the mind of Dan Abernathy and
looking
in, for some entertaining, and wonderment. For others fear and
bewilderment. I will also be sharing
excerpts
from Trolling For Coyotes, a book that
has
nothing to do with coyotes, just me.
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Be advised; I am a atrocious
speller
and for this I apologies, but I am also to old to really care, or try
to
learn how to be better. I rely on spell check and friends to proof my
spelling,
If you find something smile let me know, I'll be smiling when I hear
it.
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february 24, 2008
This Old Hat Has Seen Some Sights!
 february 22, 2008  I
had a few extra minutes to stop Sub-Urban
Tattoo & Piercing, which is housed at Mountunes in Jackson, Wyoming.
Suzi did my last two piercings, and I had to get one of the rings
replaced. I think this is a good place to go for piercing &
tattooing, we pass their cards out at the shop at highly recommend them
for anything that you need pierced. Suzi getting me right With Will & Suzi, another one arm portrait -->  On my weekly road trip I also found another road kill image to capture. This one is a black cat that won't be crossing in front of any one again.  Another image from the poker party, David, to know him is to love him! february 19, 2008 I Have You In My Eyes
I have you in my eyes. This image will not fade. I taste your lips I feel your skin, You cannot escape my thoughts. No time to long, no distance to great, No other person will obscure it. You are my bright. You will not dim. I still have you in my eyes. - dba Find Your Happy Place
 A couple of pages from one of my journals I was talking to a friend the other day, we conversed on many things, but the one I'm going to point out was the few moments we spoke of dealing with negative people and the stress that comes with them. It is so hard to stay on a positive note when you are surrounded by negativity. In the world today it seems we are bombarded from all sides. If you are an individual even more. We are a target for the nay-sayers that are freighted of who we are and what we stand for. We are free and they are not. My advice was to find that happy place in your mind and go there. She told me she was having a hard time finding the happy place without a pipe in her hand. I busted a gut in laughter, but it can help. No mater how we get there it is a good place to escape to when these negative factors start crowding in on us. Before they can take another little piece of your mind and soul run! Surround yourself with freedom and you will be free. For myself I have many happy places that I can visit. One of my happy places, that have been creeping into my mind a lot, is the feeling of living in a teepee deep in the woods. In 1999 I setup a lodge on Jack Creek at the foot of the Sawtooths. Throughout the summer and fall, while helping Green River Outfitters, this was my home. There is a calmness that comes from this type of living, a calm feeling that can't be forgotten or ignored. Even for short periods of time this living situation can be calming and complete. What I really want to do is to use my lodge as I fallow the snow line. Sitting up camp in a lodge is a wonderful way to be close to and part of nature. This is where I want to end up, to de-evolve and live this way, a simple way. Numerous people have heard me talk about driving off into the sunset in a bus, and this is a true plan, but tied on top of this bus will be a lodge and poles for the comfort of a camp when the right spot finds me. dba february 13, 2008 Giving Up the Blood
 Yesterday I had the great pleasure to drive
to Rock Springs, Wyoming where I had some blood drawn. I have an under active
thyroid and at one time was on some medication, after my daughter got
on me. The problem was she didn't keep on me and I stopped. Then the
symptoms came back and I started falling a sleep, hence the trip to
Rock Springs. After the traumatic experience I had to go to Bonsai and
have Japanese, some tea and some sweet and sour soup.  Then
I had some eel, which made everything good again. I have always
preached that it is the simple things that make it all worthwhile.   They tries to get blood from my arm, (Photo #1) but the veins run too deep. The next target was my hand, (Photo #2). As I said I was traumatized, but the soup helped, (Photo #3) and yes I ate it all. (Photo #4) The next course was the eel (Photo #5) and I was better. february 11, 2008 Documentation of snow shoveling!
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february 10, 2008  Pretty much shoveled and plowed out from the last snow. And ready for the next one that I hope is not coming. I'm not sure where I will be putting the snow if it happens again. This jackrabbit was sitting by the window for most of the day. It didn't move until the sun went down. I think it was oblivious to the snow and wind blowing in from the West. In fact it looked pretty comfortable. Another photomontage I have hanging in the shop. This is also an example of the framing. I personally frame each piece when the image is done, thus the framing becomes part of the image. They are all done with metal flashing and different objects from a hardware store.  Thanks to the nudge of a good friend I have stopped procrastinating and started posting the prices of my work. Some of the photomontages are priced and everything will be posted soon on the pricing page. Thanks Terry! february 9, 2008 Knuckle Gripper
  A new photomontage for the collection. february 6, 2008 I have been working on this article and collecting photographs, and at long last I now have it ready to post. I do not have enough photographs for this little project, so I will continue the quest to find more and will be adding them as I shoot them. Besides it is a good thing to be collecting.  february 4, 2008 OK! It is now official. I am sick of winter, snow, white and everything else that goes with it. I know that we are going to have a great summer now so the snow can stop. Here are a few photographs I have made over the weekend, while my mind was in the Keys! 
  february 3, 2008 Pokermontage
 click to see larger image An evening at the table, well more than an evening as it way way into the morning hours. january 29, 2008 Washing The Day Away
 I have been working on the story trying to explain the importance and the meaning behind my ritual Washing The Day Away. It is truly the most phenomenal thing that I do. Now, in these dormant winter days I am longing for the feeling I captured every night when I opened my mind wiping it clean from the negative forces that try so hard to change us january 28, 2008 Live Life Hard  Through all the unpleasantness of swimming in the waters of society, and lately player their nasty game, I have not been myself. I doubt I will ever know who I really am. I will leave that examination to the speculators examining me after I have left this world. What I have realized is that with all this whoring I'm doing with society, I have been consuming mass quantities of food in an attempt to fill an emotional emptiness. It is time to stop! It is time to stop poising my whole self with consumer products. I have slipped a bit, but thank the spirits that there is a knot on the end of the rope. With out it we might slip into oblivion. I have been letting what I am doing take precedence over who I am. I have to trust my feelings and indulge in who I am. I have to listen to and respond to my whole self, my spiritual needs as well as my bodily needs and desires. I can play the game, but I cannot loose focus, nor forget that it is just a game. I am an artist and I am comfortable in saying that. I also know that being an artist is a unique and dangerous choice to make. It is a choice I can live with as will as the choice I have made to live life. Life has to be more then to just life. Living is not enough. I want to live hard. - dba  Even in the misery of winter you can still find some pleasing things to shoot. Seldom does a day pass without me making an image of something. Now that I have passed, and you all have lived through, my mini obsession with animated gifs I'm just going to be posting my photographs, unless I change my mind. Which seems to be happening more often then not! Email Dan; say it & I'll post it! Check Out The Archives For Past Months
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