March 31, 2011

March 31, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 6 (East Potomac Park)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
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March 30, 2011

March 30, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 5 (West Potomac Park)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?”
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March 29, 2011

March 29, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 4 (FDR Memorial)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
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March 28, 2011

March 28, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 3 (East Potomac Park)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“Climb a tree, it gets you closer to Heaven”
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March 27, 2011

March 27, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 2 (Hains Point)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go”
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March 26, 2011

March 26, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 1
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival (3/26/11 – 4/10/11)
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
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March 25, 2011

March 25, 2011
Self – portrait: Serenity
West Potomac Park – Cherry Blossoms

“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.”
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March 24, 2011

March 24
Self – Portrait: Friends and Art

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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March 23, 2011

March 23, 2011
Self – portrait: Amazing night!
Exclusive Heaven’s Rain premiere screening – custom timer

“Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.”
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March 22, 2011

March 22, 2011
Self – portrait: The beginning …
Cherry Blossoms along the Tidal Basin - Potomac

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain
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March 21, 2011

March 21, 2011
Self – portrait in a Cessna
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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March 20, 2011

March 20, 2011
Self – portrait: Do not …
Old Dominion Boat Club, est. 1880
Ole Towne Alexandria

“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.”
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March 19, 2011

March 19, 2011
Self – portrait: Pot-Man (no really)
Grandale Farm Restaurant

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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March 18, 2011

March 18, 2011
Self – portrait: Jefferson Rock
Harpers Ferry, W. VA

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
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March 17, 2011

March 17, 2011
Self – portrait: Idle time (30 seconds)
St. Patrick’s Day – Irelands Four Courts

“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
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March 16, 2011

March 16, 2011
Self – portrait: Disambiguation
Robert Rauschenberg’s Whale
Hirshhorn Museum
(“Meet the Artist”: Hans Op de Beeck, Staging Silence in Black Box)

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
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March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011
Self – portrait: Adjustment
Milk Run – Light projection of fluorescent tubes and colored gel dimensions variable
Hirshhorn Museum

“Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.”
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March 14, 2011

March 14, 2011
Self – portrait: Staging Silence
Black Box exhibit - Hirshhorn Museum

“Silence is the secret to sanity.”
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March 13, 2011

March 13, 2011
Self – portrait: Caboose
Southern Railway X699, Manassas, VA

“Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the END, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.”
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March 12, 2011

March 12, 2011
Self – portrait: In between
D.C Downtown – 9th St, NW

"Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.”
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March 11, 2011

March 11, 2011
Self – portrait: Awakening!
National Harbor, Maryland

“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”
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March 10, 2011

March 10, 2011
Self – portrait: Looking in…
Treasures of the Gem Palace
The Kennedy Center

“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.”
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March 9, 2011

March 9, 2011
Self – portrait: Day II
Samuel L. Jackson – Madame Tussauds

“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.” From Pulp Fiction
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March 8, 2011

March 8, 2011
*International Women’s Day*
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Self – portrait: Independent
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Wax Figures of the Obama’s
Madame Tussauds, Washington D.C.
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
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March 7, 2011

March 7, 2011
Self – portrait: X 4
Exhibition: Treasures of the Gem Palace
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

“Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.”
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March 6, 2011

March 6, 2011
Self – portrait: Time for an exhibit(ionist)
Jitish Kallat's Public Notice 2 recalls the historic speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of the epic Salt March to Dandi in early 1930 as a protest against the salt tax instituted by the British through some 4,500 bone-shaped letters.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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March 5, 2011

March 5, 2011
Self – portrait in a back alley (yes on a mattress)
Chinatown (Washington D.C.)

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
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March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011
Self – portrait: Spotted!
Philadelphia – Market St. STIKMAN!

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
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March 3, 2011

March 3, 2011
Self – portrait: Detour …
Baltimore Inner Harbor – Lightship Chesapeake – Pratt Street Power Plant

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”
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March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011
Self – portrait: Good (pp)
On the National Mall at night -

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
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March 1, 2011

March 1, 2011
Self – portrait: Options
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
(“… designed "to give people as many options as possible to go this way or that, to reverse directions, to pause, to start over, to be alone, to meet others, and to experience as many different sights, smells and sounds as the site permits…)

“To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.”
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