Rhapsodies

Well I’m calling it quits for the week and am off to do my annual marathon of one of my favorite events of the year Seattle’s Northwest Folklife festival. I grew up liking folk music listening to my parents’ collection of Pete Seegar, the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary and Flatt & Scruggs and I’ve been fascinated by all different forms of traditional music for as long as can remember. Because of this I enjoy immersing myself in the entire folklife experience. My taste in music generally leans towards styles with a fast tempo like Celtic, Klezmer, Bluegrass and Zydeco but I always enjoy discovering new sounds. I also very much enjoy going for the people watching there is something wonderful and organic about a venue that attracts everyone from the most straitlaced gospel singer to the tattooed rivethead and everyone in between. This is also why my other favorite reason to go to folklife is a little exercise I like to call extreme sketching that is drawing moving targets mostly performers by getting down a basic pose as quickly as possible and than put in as much detail as you can before your model disappears. Most of what I produce out of this is garbage but one would be amazed by how many portfolio pieces I’ve created by recycling some of the better ones.

Anyway off I go an I’ll be writing as many reports as possible. (I’m also going to experiment with biking there which shall be… interesting.)