Sparrows and Baboons

More photos this week....




Above: Baboon at Franklin Zoo.

Below: Sparrow at my window.

Dragonfly Nymph

A shell of a dragonfly nymph, from Walden Pond.

Sketchcrawl and Zoo

Saturday Sketchcrawl with Dave M!

*Like a bar crawl, but people bring along sketchbooks and watercolors and draw whatever they see. In this case, the crawl started at the Middle East restaurant in Central and ended at Grendel's Den in Harvard Square.

** I don't think I've ever taken 7 hours to walk from Central to Harvard before.


Update! See more sketchcrawl info here!

Dave Marshall's Sketchcrawl main page
Sketchcrawl 23
Dave M's Flickr page
Dave M's facebook photos
The Cambridge Sketchcrawl on the International Sketchcrawl Homepage

Article in Wicked Local
Below: Video from Wicked Local
(You can see me at 0:17 and 1:08)

Above: Middle East.

(The restaurant.)
(Not the geographical location.)

Streetways of Central Square, outside Phoenix Landing.

Photo courtesy of Dave M.
Yes, that is a bomb. I think.
Pop by People's Republik and see it.
I don't think its active.

Below: zoo sketches!

I hope Franklin Zoo and Stone Zoo stay open.

4th of July in Atlanta

Lovely 4th of July in Atlanta with family, fireflies and fireworks.

Weather was fantastic, too.

It's almost July and I'm wearing a jacket

It's June 28 and I'm wearing a jacket because of the temperature outside.

. . . . .


And unrelated, but I just discovered that I might have mis-stapled a copy (or several copies) of "Kattan"... if you bought a copy and managed to read this blog entry, please email me and I'll do something about it!


Now here's a photo of some clouds from Cambridge River Festival two weeks ago, when the temperature and sunlight was at a level where one could walk outside and say "Ah, it's summer" with more confidence.

Meme: Draw youself as a Teenager vs Now

I don't usually do memes, but this one was pretty interesting: Draw yourself as a Teenager. (And more importantly, draw yourself now, because comparing the two is the most interesting part.)

http://drawn.ca/2008/05/05/meme-draw-yourself-as-a-teenager/
http://davario.livejournal.com/30861.html

Not that I followed the classic examples.

(Click for zoom.)

Cambridge River Festival 2009

Saturday was the Cambridge River Festival!

(Above: Lindsay striking a pose)

I was there, selling comics and jewelry. And eating kettle popcorn, Samosas and Jamaican food.



As the photo above correctly suggests, it was a gorgeous, sunny day. We had a lot of fun!

This may have been one of the nicest events I've sold comics at. For one thing, it was outdoors, with live music, dancing and food stands happening nearby. Also, we were the only ones selling comic books.





A lot of people wandered up to the booth, not entirely sure what we were. At least one person remarked, "Well, this is an interesting change from all the jewelry booths." It was fun to watch people pick up books and read them, and I had a great time meeting interesting people.

One girl bought my pop culture minicomic mostly because of "this gag about Ed Elric and a cheesegrater. My friend will like it."

I met Ben, who had picked up a copy of "Mark" at Atomic Bean and emailed me about it. A few other people recognized the comic from being displayed at the Cafe.

One gentleman recommended a German movie for me, seeing my "Angel" comic.

I forgot to ask someone how her scavenger hunt went.

One person picked up "Kattan" and said he had heard about this story involving dentists, while on the streets of Harvard. I'm a bit surprised, since there are about 15 copies in print, and I imagine most of those are somewhere out of state. In fact, I only had two copies for sale at the festival. Perhaps I misheard him.

Or perhaps, by some strange chance, he walked by the dentist who had bought the only other copy of the book (earlier in the day).

Anyway, more pictures below --

(I'm repeating this photo just to emphasize how nice the weather was.)

And finally, the festival ended and the day drew to a close.