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Went down to the river today.

I tried to photograph the color of the water.

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Cass and Zed at the Humboldt County Fair

September, 2024

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The Creamery District

Arcata, California

July, 2024

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Humboldt Hot Air is transitioning from online only radio to an LPFM station, wrote something for the application for all current djs who want to stay on, the question was "The purpose of Playhouse Arts is to build community through the arts. The purpose of Humboldt Hot Air is to promote this through the airwaves and uplift, unite, entertain and inform our region. How does your show push this vision forward? Who is your intended audience?"

In a world where algorithm generated playlists are becoming the default for many, music consciously picked by human beings feels precious. I don't want to hear what a computer thinks I want, or what it wants me to like. To me radio is at its best when I'm hearing songs from all different times and places, popular hits mixed with obscure one album bands, not just songs a robot thinks sound similar and must go together. 

I grew up in the era of mixtapes and playlists burned on cds, we exchanged them back and forth like a love language, full of favorite songs you thought the other person would like too. It's an art I'm afraid is being lost. Putting together my set every week is a way for me to explore the archives I've been building in my itunes library for almost twenty years, putting together songs I love and want to share with the people of the Hot Air world.

Through the radio I've gotten to know my favorite djs over the years to the point they feel like old friends, and I know I'll always hear something good when I tune into their shows. It's an honor to be a part of that community, and share the music I love with people on the other end of the air waves.

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here's a look back at 2024. we're now at 3,978 posts since june 2015. 1,022 to go. holy cow, almost 10 years! maybe i can get a couch cake? i'm estimating this project will likely conclude in spring or summer of 2026. i still insist this is conceptual art, not insanity as some of you might think. many many thanks to all my field reporters, y'all rock! xoMK

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The Arcata Bottoms

May, 2024

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My Blackberry Pearl Girl

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Fit grrrl 💜😎💜

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by: テイシン

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the 1970s Bigfoot movie craze

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Did it again, two more to go and I'll have drawn more in one month than in the past four years. Thanks Eggtober for being irresistible enough to get me out of the slump.

Eggtober 2024, Eggs As Medicine II

Take three daily with water, butter and salt.

Thanks to @quezify for the eggy inspiration.

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Frank Morley Fletcher California 2: Mt. Shasta 1932 woodcut on cream Japan paper 29 x 40.7 cm (image), 34 x 45.1 cm (sheet)

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Today my therapist told me it's ok to do nothing, and reminded me based on what I've told her I actually am doing like one or two small but real things every one or two days, and that that's enough, so just gonna add this to my mental health affirmation meme collection.

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Eggtober 2024, Eggs As Medicine

Take one to two daily with water, butter and salt.

I've been wanting to get back to drawing for a while, but I've had a block for some reason (mental illness). My desk is also not always accessible in that it's right where my fan blows and it's too hot not to have it on, and it's often covered in piles of things I don't want to deal with, though that's definitely a bad excuse because I could always just move stuff off and then put it back on without putting anything away, but I just don't. I also don't necessarily like the process of drawing/painting, I just like the results. And I also just haven't had an idea so compelling that I have to get it out like I used to get sometimes. So I think it's been at least three years I've been putting it off. Seeing the Eggtober illustrations by @quezify make me so happy, and I wanted to be a part of it. The first few days of the month I just didn't. But I thought maybe I'll just draw a ton of simple eggs, maybe one a day, it would technically count. That lead me to think of doing one of the drawings of my medication, which was the last thing I was drawn to draw as it were. So I traced my pill box, and loosely traced some eggs quezify has shared from other folks participating this month, and I got through the block. I'll try to do a few more, I'm pretty sure I won't be capable of going every day, but if I do one of these each week that's 28 eggs, and maybe along the way I'll think of three more, perhaps painting from life, or some of my dad's full dozen of double yolkers. Maybe I'll try playing around with color even though I don't feel like I have anywhere near the skills of some of my favorite colorful eggs I've seen posted, or ever where to start, but it's low stakes and I know I should just try. Thanks so much to quezify for the inspiration, maybe this will help me back at it in the months to come. Fried eggs 4ever.🥚🍳🥚

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Last month I found Pure Moods Vol. 3 at Miranda’s Thrift in Arcata, and played it during my radio show to celebrate. I kept thinking about how I wanna find Volume 1 to get all those truly classic tracks, and yesterday found it out front of Old Town Antiques when I quickly peaked in one of the cd bins walking by. To hear my selection tune in this Sunday 9am to humboldthotair.org or check out the archive for two weeks. Another very specific cd manifestation, on a wonderful roll. ✨📀✨

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Unknown, Hippopotamus (“William”). Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I-Senwosret II (ca. 1961-1878 B.C.). Faience. From Meir, tomb B3; Said Bey Khashaba excavations, 1910. Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 (17.9.1) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Vintage photographs of the Avenue of the Giants

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