Walk to Work Gazette 111207

A Plane Lands over Western Avenue in Augusta Maine yesterday. Several planes have been reported landing recently. There are several eyewitnesses. It is unclear whether authorities have been notified.


To Communicate Put Things Up High: a Walk to Work Gazette photo essay
Satellite waves to TV
TV waves to TV


HAM radio waves to HAM radio
Cell phone waves to your head


Bell tower sound waves to your head
Wind to vision
Flood light to area to vision


Symbol to vision
Electric pulses to homes


Death to America


Chemical death to the world

Events of Sunday 111107 Augusta Maine

Didn't get outside much. Even though it was a beautiful day. It's ashame when that happens. Drank coffee.


Augusta Maine Airport: Went by the airport. Residents are flying back from weekends elsewhere.
St. Elsewhere, Maine.


The Future of Food: I watched 'The Future of Food.' It's basically 1) we modify foods genetically using viruses and bactirias, 2) We use chemicals harmful to humans, 3) we eat that food, 4) that is bad for us.
Power to the local farmers. Power to the people. Organic out (as in end communique).

Events of Saturday in Brunswick and Portland Maine

Brunswick Maine: One Church.


Brunswick Maine: Two Church.


Brunswick Maine: Three Church.


Brunswick Maine: Four Church.


Bowdoin College: Campus Chapel.


Bowdoin College: Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
One of everything
Rauschenberg, Warhol,
Kiki Smith, Frank Kline,
Picasso, Manet, Monet, Klee,
Homer, Mary Cassatt
& the almghty Albrecht
Durer ... Rubens,
Brugel the Elder, van
Rijn.
[Hong Lei]- Landscape Photo
Freidlander, Cindy Sherman,
Callahan, Winogrand,
Gertrude Kasebier


Bowdoin College: Studzinski Recital Hall


Bowdoin College: Boston Modern Orchestra Project played works commissioned by Bowdoin College in celebration of the opening of Studzinski Hall.
If more band kids were studzinskis, less of them would get picked on by the football team. (Haha, good one self.)


Congress Street Portland Maine: A very short clock tower at High & Free Streets near Longfellow Square.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Looking east down Congress Street Portland Maine.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Coffee by Design, I stopped in for 3 coffees in about an hour, it was about 30 degrees outside walking around.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Maine College of Art, MECA.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Strange Maine was having a performance art piece. No false advertising here.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Possibly the oldest ATM in the U.S.


Congress Street Portland Maine: Geno's.


Geno's Rock Club:
Geno's Portland Maine
Yes there is Brackish
water here
but no, it's after 9
and the band
hasn't started
yet
yes I'll have another
yes I have cash
yes yes yes yes yes yes
no I don't mind if
Geno stops the Jukebox
to start the band ...
but, someone else
has a quarter, so
that's not gonna happen
yet
Even in Portland Maine
My phone will not
send picture
messages
yes it's a T-Moblie
network
yes I have a full
signal
no i can't send
pictures
but yes I do like
the robot lobster
on the wall
'Butter, Will Robinson!
Butter!'
After I almost nearly
put $2 in the juke
the opening band
begins almost nearly
1 1/2 hours after
they are scheduled
opener, rock & roll
have to play quick
btw songs feedback
a drunk girl asks
'what is it you
like about the band?'
a drunk reply,
'their energy.'
obvious
oblivious


Geno's Rock Club: I went to see the Pubcrawlers at Geno's Rock Club.


Geno's Rock Club: The Pubcrawlers were a great punk show to see. They had more instruments than I've ever seen in a single band. (Except the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.)


Geno's Rock Club: Foosball.


Geno's Rock Club: Gino's. The end of a perfect day that seemingly began in Heaven with the churches and Boston Modern Orchestra Project around Bowdoin College, and ended w/ the Pubcrawlers at Geno's.

Maine!?

btw Greene and Augusta Maine

Ray from Poland Maine, land of Poland Springs, is putting new windows in my apartment in Augusta Maine. The improvement might lower the heating bill for my landlords.


Winthrop is a cool little town east on Route 202 out of Augusta. Maine is filled with cool little towns. Augusta Maine is well-located for gas-burners, day trips, road trips, short ventures, jaunts, romps, and 4x2-ing.


An Agricultural Building Many Maine buildings can be described as agricultural. Many Maine houses are connected directly to their sheds and barns. The worst condition of this I've seen, which it appears has long since been empty of its flock, was a farm house connected directly to a long chicken barn.
I wonder what living with that much nitrogen would do to a person?


In the Maine Country
In the Maineland
Cupolas & Silos &
Stonewalls are
characteristic
like the strange
steeples of
Russian Orthodoxy


Maine Churche: New England Camera fodder.


A Cross Section of Maineland soil.


Dale Johnson an independent film producer showed his film 'Venture to Alaska' at the Sawyer Foundation on Sawyer Road in Greene Maine.


Greene Roof: Greene Maine.


Maine Boats: on land in winter.

Churche: Winthrop Maine.


Maine Lobster Lobsta.


The Wicked Bean: I went to The Wicked Bean coffee hut in Winthrop Maine. I talked to the owner Dave and told him about some photo in my portfolio about the coffee huts in Eugene Oregon. Dave lived in Eugene for a number of years and moved back to Maine. He said Eugene is where he got the idea for his own coffee hut.
Wicked great coffee here. It must be made with brackish water! They don't have brackish water in Eugene Oregon.

What I learned in Maine, 110807

McNamara: Checked out 'Fog of War' from Lithgow Library. A saw it in the theater it was premiered at (days after the actual premier, in which McNamara himself presided, to give answers to the questions he wished he had been asked. And the director Errol Morris was there for questions too - but i missed all that) in Washington, D.C., while eating and drinking a beer with Jen, my girlfriend at the time, who is now the manager and a co-producer at an independent film production house in Manhattan.
But It's cool to drink a beer and eat something while you learn things (high schools could learn something from this), so I watched it again at home.


What was I thinking? K-Mart doesn't sell eggs! Only last year's candy eggs. But the K-Mart a couple blocks from my house does sell No-GMO Half & Half.

Maine!?

Everytime I turn my head around, and around, and around, another New England church pops up. (And every time I spew pea soup, A priest shows up and ties me to my levitating bed.)


Incredible Geary's: After only 3 of these extraordinary (Portland Maine made) pale ales, I discover the reason for my life. And jot it down for future reference.

110707 Maine Art & Architecture

Survey Says: Development.


Performance Art: I stopped to take a picture when, Chris, a gas station clerk is reloading the over-head cigarette dispenser.
'You got to love it for the art of it,' said Chris as I snapped the shutter.
'It is like art. Performance art,' I said thinking of smokers. The spending of unnecessary money on unnecessary crops (even the farmers are performers), and blowing smoke from their faces like Chinese dragons. 'Extreme performance art, people killing themselves over a number of years.'
'It's a tragedy,' said Chris, possibly alluding to Shakespeare.

I read in an AP article, that in their latest effort to help kick the mass habit, scientists have been testing a vaccine, NicVAX.
'There's merit in it,' said lead researcher, Dr. Stephen Rennard of the University of Nebraska.
One of Rennard's compatriots, Director of Medications Development at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Dr. Frank Vocci, represents an organization that has given $8 million for research so far.
Said Vocci, 'It clearly shows promise.'

A lost art.

Maineland Election Day

The rain in Maine
falls Maine-ly on my head
until I get in my truck
then I realize it is falling on my windshield
then I realize I should get new wipers
(then I realize everyone elected for new windshield wipers)
then I realize the compost pile in the bed of my truck is coming along nicely


The rain in Maine falls and falls and falls and falls
on state election day
it is a beautiful Maine day
even with a slightly sore throat
we voted down a library expansion
and a Native American casino


The rain in Maine is falling so hard
when I leave the Maine State Library Museum Archive
that I can't see straight
'Ahoy. Is the parking over here?! The whole lot?'
I followed a lobsterman, a clamdigger, a Mainer
out of the sea of rain and past the waves
the Subaru waves
by the time we got to the open lot
only me and the lobsterman remained


The rain in Maine
drops/keeps falling on my head
my eyes are flailing through the sea of cars
automos, automos, everywhere. None of them mine.
I can't get a reading on my truck.
Can't see the horizon or the sun.
the stars blotted out by ... parking lot lighting!

MAINE!?

(curse and bless you)

Maine Modes of Transit

KV CAP, or Kennebec Valley Community Action Program (a nonprofit organization) is the public transportation around Augusta Maine. A pretty active public transit system for such a small place.


Backhoes are another way to get around Maine's developing territory.


'Dodging Skunks' or nighttime walking is another way to get around in Maine.