tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44246348720850212902024-02-19T00:19:23.340-08:00BeyondBourbonA city is much more than what we think we know about the people and the place. There is love, and beauty, everywhere.Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-56694153693331043722012-06-16T09:34:00.000-07:002012-06-16T09:34:51.354-07:00- Hats, Bow Ties, and Dapper Dandies - What a Great Way to Wind Down the Work Week<html>Goorin Brothers - Bold Hatmakers, based in San Francisco just opened their second New Orleans location on Magazine Street. These folks make beautiful hats for men, women, and children AND they know how to throw a party. Last night's opening featured the traditional jazz sounds of the Dapper Dandies.<br />
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(3rd photo below)Benjamin Azevedo is sporting one of his company's handcrafted New Orleans Bow Ties.
Check out NewOrleansBowTies.com and see them in-person down the street at
Vernon, 2049 Magazine Street.
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- a Funk 'n' Blues band
- a darn good funknblues band
- in a bowling alley
- on a Thursday night!
And the scene is at least this good all over town EVERY night." <br />
This was my introduction to Ernie Vincent and his band of musicians, "the Top Notes"
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I went on to say, "If you're planning a long weekend in New Orleans, be sure to arrive on a Thursday and make your way to Rock 'n' Bowl. Do whatever you have to do to get there. It will start your visit off right."
Now, two years later I learned one of my favorite local bands would be performing at The Ogden Museum for the regular Thursday evening Ogden After Hours. Ernie looks somewhat more trim and sounds great and his team of young musicians have matured and refined their styles significantly since I last heard them. Thank you guys (and Ogden's Libra Lagrone) for a great evening - Stephen<br />
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(video clip - 4 minutes of Funk n Blues loving - please pardon the shaky camera work - I was trying to capture everything from the front row with a not-so-wide angle lens :)<br />
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Check out NewOrleansArtDistrict.com & enjoy and feel free to share these photos. - Stephen<br />
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<a href="http://arthurrogergallery.com/exhibitions/current/" target="_blank">Arthur Roger Gallery</a> is featuring the work of Jesus Moroles and Ersy.<br />
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See the work of Jose-Maria Cundin at Callan Contemporary Gallery.<br />
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d.o.c.s. gallery is showing the group exhibit, "So Much Art, So Little Time."<br />
<a href="http://www.docsgallery.com/exhibitions.htm" target="_blank">Visit d.o.c.s. here</a><br />
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The Foundation Gallery is showcasing the paintings of Joan Berg Victor.<br />
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is currently exhibiting Thorton Dial's "Works on Paper" and Sandy Chism's "In the Trying"<br />
<a href="http://www.jonathanferraragallery.com/dynamic/exhibit.asp?Exhibit=Current" target="_blank">Visit Jonathan Ferrara here</a><br />
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LeMieux Galleries' group show, curated by Christy Wood, is "Man, Myth, Monster"<br />
<a href="http://www.lemieuxgalleries.com/web/" target="_blank">Visit LeMieux Galleries here</a><br />
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Myesha Francis would love to introduce you to her current featured artist, Sharika Mahdi.<br />
<a href="http://www.mfrancisgallery.com/" target="_blank">Visit MFrancis Gallery here</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sorengallery.com/exhibitions.html" target="_blank">Soren Christensen Gallery</a> is showing the work of artists Gretchen Weller Howard and Michael Marlowe (pictured below with his collection, "Traveling")<br />
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Patrons enjoyed art and libations at Steve Martin's eponymous fine art gallery.<br />
<a href="http://stevemartinfineart.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=92" http:="" index.php"="" stevemartinfineart.com="" target="_blank">Visit Steve Martin Fine Art here</a><br />
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Niala Howard and friends showcased their more personal art on the faces of gallery patrons.<br />
<a href="http://www.magnolia-makeup.com/" target="_blank">Visit Magnolia Makeup here</a><br />
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On Magazine Street, Leslie Guthrie is welcoming patrons of contemporary art to see the new work of multiple artists.<br />
<a href="http://guthriecontemporary.com/" target="_blank">Visit Guthrie Contemporary Gallery here</a><br />
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And, this is why I love living in New Orleans...
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But on Thursday, May 31 I was blown away by the captivating performance of "Kelcy Mae" and her band. Most After Hours I can be found enjoying a conversation with a new friend on the rooftop deck or checking out the exhibits while enjoying the live performance in the background. Not so this time. I found myself drawn to the front row within a few feet of this beautiful group of musicians.<br />
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Check out the video clips and look for me at The Ogden most Thursdays from 6-8pm. - Stephen<br />
More about <a href="http://www.kelcymae.com/" target="_blank">KelcyMae</a>.<br />
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Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-85560445000691161582012-05-04T10:32:00.000-07:002012-05-22T10:21:04.510-07:00Loving Life & Art on Lower Magazine StreetA few months ago I was referred to the owners of a cool new shop in the lower Garden District of New Orleans. John Grafe and Jason Horton needed interior photography of their new shop and Jason's paintings for the upcoming issue of <a href="http://www.artneworleansmag.com/" target="_blank">Art New Orleans Magazine</a>. When I walked in and took a look around I was astounded by the beauty of the store. I've since described it as "what I imagine Michael Bublé's apartment to look like. Or think of spending a full day exploring at a Paris flea market and coming away with that one amazing objet. Well, Appartique (Apparel, Art, & Antiques) at 2032 Magazine Street is one shop that's full of nothing but those rare finds. To say it is well-curated is an understatement. With John's eye for objects, furnishings, and gentlemen's clothing and Jason's bold paintings, browsing Appartique is like strolling the City of Light without leaving the Big Easy.
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Thursday, May 3 Appartique hosted with <a href="http://www.artneworleansmag.com/" target="_blank">Art New Orleans Magazine</a> the publication's spring 2012 issue release party featuring "Hide and Seek", the new collection of paintings by Jason Horton.<br />
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Painting by Jason Horton<br />
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MORE PHOTOS from the evening <a href="http://thinkstill.smugmug.com/BeyondBourbon/Art-Walks/050312-ART-NOLA-at-Appartique/22790632_d5vrvx#!i=1828377957&k=jJjkxS5" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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With the f and Google+ links below, please share with your friends this post about one of the coolest artists (in one of the hottest studios :) in the Big Easy.<br />
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One of this year's Jazz Fest creations honors the continuing legacy <br />
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(From my book, "Passionate New Orleans")<br />
"Here’s what can happen in a Passionate Place™ when we are open to serendipity. Algiers Point is an enclave just across the Mississippi River from downtown New Orleans. A 10-minute (free for pedestrians) ferry ride from the base of Canal Street will drop you off in the village-like community. I had heard about this special place and went over to check it out. Just before leaving I happened to turn around and saw what I thought was a mirage - in a residential neighborhood an art glassblowing studio and gallery! Well, this was too interesting to pass up so I walked over and within minutes made yet another likely friend for life.<br />
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Mark Rosenbaum welcomed me to the studio and, before long, we were planning the day I would hang out with him and his wife, Brenda. Mark wasted no time in making some phone calls and planning a full day of sharing “their” New Orleans with me."<br />
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Use your mouse to "Walk Around Inside" Rosetree Gallery.<br />
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Check out this video I shot recently and watch Mark transform a glob of molten glass into a work of art.<br />
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You can meet (and shop with) Kate while enjoying this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.<br />
With the f and Google+ links below, please share the invitation with your friends - both women and men - who enjoy looking great while wearing original art handcrafted in New Orleans.<br />
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Festival attendees participate in writing workshops, panel discussions, documentary screenings, stage and jazz performances and other special events and parties.<br />
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Dr. Kenneth Holditch, Tennessee Williams scholar addresses walking tour attendees on the playwrite's New Orleans legacy.<br />
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Tennessee Williams Heritage Walking Tour<br />
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The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry shared<br />
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Check them out at <a href="http://thebookdoctors.com/" target="_blank">The Book Doctors</a><br />
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While circling the block to find a parking space I noticed that Kajun's was more festive than usual - and that's saying a lot. Moments later I walked in and was welcomed by Blues music, birthday balloons and the aroma of perfectly charbroiled oysters.<br />
It didn't take me long to remember why I like this place so much. Joann and Lisa have (please pardon the cliché) created the neighborhood "Cheers" pub - a place where they truly know your name - and your favorite big boy drink - and who you went home with last night (even if his or her name alludes you at the moment)<br />
And, if things get rowdy, as I'm told sometimes happens long after I've headed home, a member of the staff - often young, female, and delicate in appearance only - will literally bounce the offender out to the curb - and the party resumes without noticeable interruption.<br />
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Here's what happened:<br />
After plenty of hugs, I was treated to a drink<br />
Then came the offer of "so, would you rather have the ersters or the shrimp?" My reply - "yes, please." So much for thinking dinner was going to be the Clif Bar I had before heading over.<br />
Guitar Lightning Lee and his friends hit the stage with three distinct styles of Blues.<br />
And there was birthday cake for everyone.<br />
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I wound the evening down reconnecting with Lightning. (I don't say that every day :) <br />
It's been a while since I shot his performance at the Ogden Museum and included the photos and videos in my book on the city.<br />
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Enjoy the clips and check out Kajun's. They're always open and next time they'll know your name.<br />
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Aquarium Gallery<br />
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"Lit From Within"<br />
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A few years ago I discovered the art of photographer and writer, Peter Hill Beard and was immediately captivated by his collage diaries documenting a long life of adventure and passion. Soon after moving to New Orleans I learned that Peter's nephew, artist Alex Beard and his family live and work in my new town. <br />
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In the Winter 2012 issue of Art New Orleans Magazine, writer Libby Allen noted "Beard came to New Orleans in 1994 when he was invited to spend a year at the city's prestigious Art Institute...<br />
According to Alex, "The pace of life in New Orleans is conducive to creativity. You can really sink your teeth into a project and not be distracted by the daily rigors of just trying to get across town."<br />
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Read read more about Alex Beard in Art New Orleans Magazine <a href="http://www.artneworleansmag.com/Winter12/artnowinter12flip/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>. (go to page 36) and visit his studio at 712 Royal Street, New Orleans.<br />
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Alex takes a break from working on a new painting.<br />
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My new friends (and my little assistant) at d.o.c.s. Gallery suggested I sit <br />
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Remembering my excellent Christmas Day lunch at John Besh's Lüke, I headed that way and found an empty stool at the end of the bar. "Heather" the bartender took one look at me and said, "you're getting the Lüke Burger and which beer do you want to go with that?" Now, any time a waiter has ESP THAT good, I know it's crazy to resist. So, I went with her suggestion of the burger voted by Travel + Leisure magazine as one of America's best. The combination of Allan Benton's bacon, caramelized onions, tomatoes, Emmenthaler Swiss cheese and house-made fries was better than anything I could have expected. Pairing it with the subtle robustness of Lüke's own amber Alt beer made it one of my new favorite weekend meals.<br />
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For STUNNING interiors and architecture photography and a photographer YOU WILL LOVE, see <a href="http://jstephenyoung.com" target="_blank">JStephenYoung.com</a>.</html>Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-39831838705295825202012-01-20T16:48:00.000-08:002012-01-30T11:48:16.099-08:00Valentine's Shopping on Magazine StreetGorgeous Valentine's Day shopping for your guy or girl on Magazine Street!<br />
Including:<br />
Agora Galleries<br />
be sweet cupcake<br />
the Blues Jean Bar<br />
Cece Shoe<br />
LF New Orleans<br />
Mimi<br />
Sterling Silvia<br />
Tribal Revival<br />
Truck Stop<br />
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<a href="http://thinkstill.smugmug.com/BeyondBourbon/Magazine-Street/Magazine-Street-January-2012/21152999_TRFz4G#!i=1683050353&k=VNKKGhB" target="_blank">Click here to see and download photos</a> from one of New Orleans’ premier shopping and entertainment districts.Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-64969391651914357532012-01-07T04:14:00.000-08:002012-01-08T05:32:32.642-08:00To find the inner wild woman (or man)... Fall in love.I met a beautiful new friend yesterday who shared that she's been struggling with the desire to achieve perfection in the art she desperately wants to create. She said that when she was young, she would adorn her body and clothes with painted flowers but now is consumed with achieving academic perfection in her art. "If only I could find my 'inner wild woman' I could create again."<br />
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Christianne, it's no coincidence that we met. This morning I came across something beautiful of which I needed to be reminded and that you may find helpful. In her book, "If You Want to Write" author Brenda Ueland shares this profound little story...<br />
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"If you read the letters of the painter Van Gogh you will see what his creative impulse was. It was just this: he loved something—the sky, say. He loved human beings. He wanted to show human beings how beautiful the sky was. So he painted it for them. And that was all there was to it.<br />
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When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “It is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.<br />
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When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I had thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about <i>design</i> and <i>balance</i> and getting <i>interesting planes</i> into your painting, and avoided, with the most stringent severity, showing the faintest <i>academical</i> tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and on.<br />
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So, Christianne, here's the secret...<br />
1. Discover something beautiful.<br />
2. Share it with someone you love.Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-74045641835095703022011-12-24T20:55:00.000-08:002011-12-29T03:36:16.890-08:00Merry Christmas Eve from New Orleans<html>I know I've found home when, within just a few days of arriving in New Orleans to begin my next adventure, I'm (literally) embraced by a great, new group of friends. This is going to be fun!<br />
Merry Christmas Eve from the Big Easy. - Stephen<br />
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People are fascinating - often more so than the attractions and shops and restaurants where we are told to go. But when we get a glimpse into a day in the lives of real people - whether it's a student in Paris, a model in Cape Town, or a restauranteur in New Orleans, we get to experience those attractions through <i>interaction</i>. We go from being an observer as when we visit a zoo to being a participant. It's one thing to walk down a street and imagine what it might be like to live in "that" house. Well, "Passionate People & Places..." takes you inside.<br />
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From restaurant owners, architects, and a few beautiful artists to an indie rocker and a gospel cathedral parish priest, I shadowed nearly a dozen fascinating people who agreed to allow me to photograph and write about their New Orleans as they experience it every day. <br />
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From early morning until I was exhausted at night, I hung out with these folks as well as got to know their friends and favorite places that make the city truly unique. <br />
What you're about to experience is not what you'll find in a conventional guidebook. If you want to know where to spend your money, pull out your phone and type "overpriced hot new tourist attraction." But, if you want to know what it's really like to experience a city - in this case, New Orleans, join me in spending a week hanging out with locals who are in love with their town as well as their friends and neighbors.<br />
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There are even bar codes throughout the book that you can scan with your smart phone to see video clips.<br />
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So, you have a beautiful old world book that comes to life with videos of the fascinating people and their places.<br />
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A publishing veteran referred to the mockup as "the guide that Indiana Jones would take with him to New Orleans." The leather-bound, handstitched 1st edition is approximately 200 content-filled pages and 40 blank/lined pages for personal photos and memories. You will be proud to carry this with you on your journey and display it on your coffee table upon your return. <br />
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This brief clip demonstrates the project.<br />
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Happy Holidays from New Orleans-bound Noah, Stephen, Josh, and Melissa.<br />
Thanks Josh for bringing your bike out. (I was planning to pose on Josh's Harley for the photo with Noah and Melissa who helped make the New Orleans edition of <i>Passionate People & Places</i> a reality. But, when I saw the old-school yellow tricycle, I knew THAT was my ride)</html>Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-34322094402625710432011-12-02T11:27:00.000-08:002011-12-26T12:13:29.569-08:00The Beginning of an Extraordinary Journey of Passionate People & Places<html>What started as an idea on a cross-country flight a few years ago - and has been fine-tuned from the southern US to Europe and Africa and back - is now a week or so away from delivery to your mailbox and coffee table.<br />
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The leather-bound first edition of Passionate New Orleans will ship by the middle of December.<br />
For those who purchased through Kickstarter, please be on the lookout next week for an email confirming your postal address and other contact information. Even if you believe I have your info, please take a moment to respond to the email to ensure your book(s) are sent to the proper location.<br />
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Last week, after final edits, the book file was handed over to the printer. They should be coming off the press in a couple of days. Melissa and I delivered the (heavy) leather hides to my new friends, Stanley and his team, at Fabric Services of Hickory NC where they will be cut and branded. Then, we're throwing a pizza and beer party with friends for the final assembly, sewing, and packaging. (If you'd like to join us, Santa's elf costumes are optional but guarantee a better beer selection)<br />
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The Making of a Leather First Edition:<br />
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Steel die for leather covers.<br />
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Dexter and Stanley trim excess from one of the hides.<br />
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Dexter prepares the die for cutting the covers.<br />
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Precision cutting of the hide.<br />
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Leather book cover is now ready for branding.<br />
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Stanley, Helen, and Melissa discuss placement of the <b>New Orleans</b> brand.<br />
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Branding Plate.<br />
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Measuring original hand-cut sample cover. (Stephen's <i>Hemingway</i> edition :)<br />
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The <b>HOT</b> branding machine.<br />
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New Orleans is heating up.<br />
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Final Step: Dexter brands the leather covers.</html>Stephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424634872085021290.post-53550730241668988422011-11-23T11:46:00.000-08:002011-12-26T11:47:44.162-08:00Giving Thanks With My Parole OfficersTomorrow, my dual parole officers, Melissa and Robert will stop by to remove the ankle bracelets I've been wearing since beginning my self-imposed book redesign house arrest. I'll join handcrafted leather book aficionado Melissa and her family for mid-day giving of thanks. Then, tomorrow evening, Robert has enticed me with the possibility of diving face-first into his mother's homemade pan carrot cake. Later, I'll return to my "cabin" in the woods (I'm attempting to channel Thoreau) to finish the journal redesign in time for delivery to the printer Monday morning.<br />
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I can't begin to express the love and support I've received from old and new friends around the world since beginning my "Passionate" journey. Thank you everyone and Happy Thanksgiving.<br />
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StephenStephen Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14997041199229942813noreply@blogger.com0