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Tag Archives: Tampa Bay Area

Greetings From Roser Park, Florida

At least 2 of the 101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg have been used as references for paintings so far. As I have previously stated, by midsummer my use of color becomes deranged from the heat and I will not return to a reasonable palette until January. This is not really a choice. It [...]

101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg, Florida

I wanted to do a painting of a Roser Park cityscape, so I biked down into the gulch Saturday morning. It wasn’t early, but there was no one in the park or on the street, not even a dog walker. Probably something to do with the gaspingly high humidity. Anyway, I managed to get some [...]

The St Petersburg Police: A Subtropical Noir View

The right time of day and atmospheric conditions can make anything look cool. The stretch of Central just north of Tropicana Field is kind of sparse and in need of infill to connect the Grand Central district with downtown St Pete, but at least it has a place to get drunk and a place to [...]

Recycling Old Computers To Fight Isolation, Ignorance and Poverty

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When I was back in PDX 2000-2002, I used the wonderful FreeGeek outlet for bits of hardware I lacked. Naively, I assumed that every town had a program that recycled old computers, installed a free operating system (Linux) and put them back into the hands of people who couldn’t afford hardware and proprietary [...]

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