Self-Portrait; A Window

I tried to take a self-portrait in a window that was too busy. At night I created a looping Flash self-portrait with audio I captured at a past art opening.

Oil, Infrastructure, Art

Fuel Oil


Land lines; land masts.

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My Old Fort Western video was viewed in the name of education, and possibly entertainment, in a class called Poetics Off the Page at the Corcoran.
I am making a series of Flash self-portraits with continuously looping audio. The audio loops over itself turning to noise, but eventually it gains some kind of rhythm. Bad rhythm; but rhythm.

2:30 p.m. is My Morning

1. I had a 6-month end of probation review at work recently.


2. The cemetery on Green Street in Augusta Maine is haunted.

Architectura Show

Some of my work will be shown at Aarhus Gallery in Belfast Maine in March. The opening is March 7th.

Late in the Day in Augusta Maine

The Greyhound in Augusta Maine.


A blueberry cake in Maine in the middle of the night.


Someone keeps eating all the corn doughnuts before I get there.

Old Fort Western History

Old Fort Western's flag
Jenn DePalma and Brian O'Donoghue wrote Old Fort Western poems. It's like virtual cowboys and Indians, only the fort is real.
Or is it?

Old Fort Western Threat

Old Fort Western sent me a threatening email over a video I posted on YouTube. They want me to take down a video that I made that is obviously ridiculous; and keep in mind that all of the words and images are my own.
Am I still in America?!
This is absurd.
Here is the email:


Dear Mr. Corcoran:

Recently, browsing YouTube, we came across a very poor video of Old Fort Western. We did not give our permission for this to be posted to YouTube. Your information concerning the haunting of Old Fort Western by Benedict Arnold is completely untrue and we would appreciate the removal of this video. This video violates our policy of photography and videography for commercial/amusement purposes and you did not seek permissions from us to post this video. We would like this video removed from your personal website as well. I quote from the YouTube Terms of Use, "E. You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions of third parties obtained through the Website for any commercial purposes." YouTube has been notified about the inappropriate use of this video and we have requested that they pull this video immediately. We hope that you will remove this material from your website at once.

Thank you.

Regards,

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Old Fort Western
16 Cony Street
Augusta, ME 04330
(207) ...-....

Tall Green Landmark (that's not a pine tree)

I took some pictures of the Maine Capitol on my way back from the Maine State Library.

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I thought this picture was humorous. I'm not really sure why.

Our Planet Aligns


At my neighbor's apartment people watched the eclipse.
I learned the definition of a "townie."

Atlantis Landing

I watched the shuttle land live, on the Internet.
Let me be the first to say, "Sweet Frickin' landing dudes."
Like the Atlantis crew, under Commander Frick, I was once under the command of a Frick, a Col. Frick, commander of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He didn't speak much but he seemed like a pretty good guy. Like Frick, Frick was also a Naval Aviator. NASA's Frick flew Navy jets. Col. Frick, the one I knew, flew Marine helicopters.
The two Fricks look similar, strong and short with small eyes.

Day Off Events

I found a great channel on the Internet, NASA TV. Really cool when they're on space missions, like now.


The Maine Capitol from the back of a cab.


Tuesday nights are trivia nights at the Liberal Cup.
It felt good to yell a little bit (although I don't think we were supposed to).
Yelling helps to break up the space between empty thoughts.

Internet TV

My pursuit of happiness has come down to having an internet connection. I found a cool streaming television website called Beeline TV.
I've been watching France24. Half of France24's programming is in English, half in Arabic, none in French(?).
Another good site portal for world television is wwiTV.