{"id":710,"date":"2007-05-15T23:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/05\/15\/various-sundry-part-fifty-two\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:47:40","slug":"various-sundry-part-fifty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/710","title":{"rendered":"Various &#038; Sundry, part fifty-two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 I fell short of my goal to get the Band Festival poster into final production today when downtown Danville had a power outage. It had to do with a line that fell down near the college, possibly due to \u201cmetal fatigue\u201d from a previous lightning strike. With our cordless handsets useless, I had to make an important call with our old rotary dial phone, still hard-wired on the ground floor of the Town House. The sound quality was excellent. Don\u2019t knock old tech\u2014it can still provide an adequate butt-saving now and then. On the other hand, I let the back yard grass get so long that cutting it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/05\/28\/uncle-art-must-have-known-about-these-things\/\">Uncle Art\u2019s old push-mower<\/a> is out of the question. Time to fire up our Troy-Bilt for the first time in several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 You\u2019ll have to consult with Brendan about how far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/06\/17\/i-would-like-to-see-their-webmasters-face-when-he-checks-the-referral-logs\/\">Jennifer Brummett<\/a> has to go before she\u2019ll achieve any level of credibility with him, but perhaps the hole she dug a while back is not quite as deep after this past weekend. In addition to putting together a rather nice feature on my KOSMOS exhibition for <em>The Kentucky Advocate,<\/em> she selected my donated art when her ticket was called at Saturday night\u2019s Art-Full Raffle. It was an enjoyable event, with proceeds funding the Arts Scholarship Program of the Arts Commission of Danville\/Boyle County. The piece (which I titled <em>Microcosmic Musings<\/em>) was the smallest collage from the body of work created for KOSMOS, so I decided to donate it to the Art-Full Raffle. Since its inception in 2004, the program has awarded more than $5,000 in scholarships to 74 children for extra-curricular classes their families would not otherwise be able to afford.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 It\u2019s been a while since the old Graybeard first went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/11\/08\/tales-of-the-graybeard-prospector-i\/\">into the Knobs to stake a claim<\/a>, but it\u2019s finally paid off with a project from Casey County. The Central Kentucky Ag\/Expo Center is an extraordinary investment, but has always struggled with its marketing image. Not a bad strike for our studio, and, if things work out, we might have the opportunity to drop a connecting shaft into a few other promising veins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?s=Sundry\">V &amp; S<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 I fell short of my goal to get the Band Festival poster into final production today when downtown Danville had a power outage. It had to do with a line that fell down near the college, possibly due to \u201cmetal fatigue\u201d from a previous lightning strike. With our cordless handsets useless, I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,17,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}