Ordway Fire Aftermath

Panorama - Ordway Fire Aftermath
Originally uploaded by gamp

I was visiting family in the area and so I went over to Ordway this morning. They had a large fire last Tuesday that killed two firefighters and destroyed 24 homes. This is an autostitched panorama of a field that used to contain some of those homes. I also have some photos taken from where the wooden bridge was that collapsed, a railroad bridge just north of there that would collapse if anything went on it, and some industrial stuff. My uncle is a firefighter in nearby Fowler and he was there driving a truck too. Incidentally he was told that the bridge was on fire so he avoided it, but apparently the two firefighters that died didn't know about its condition and they attempted to drive over it. It sounds like there must have been much mayhem and miscommunication at the time.

Church Bell Handles

Church Bell Handles
Originally uploaded by gamp

The 150th year of Denver's architecture was celebrated this weekend with Doors Open Denver. I didn't get to very many places this weekend, but this gem of a photo was taken in one of the towers of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral. I refer to it as my flickr whore shot. I think I framed it a little too low, but I predict that it will still get more views than the other photos I shot at doors open denver. We'll see if I'm beginning to understand flickr.

Playing Guitar Hero

Playing Guitar Hero
Originally uploaded by gamp

I stayed up too late last night playing guitar hero with some friends from work. At least I did the best considering I was the least drunk, if at all. Of course I still got a hangover.

Shown playing here is Lynne Craig, who is now in the leadership too program at work. We're real role models.

Sixteen to One Mine

Sixteen to One Mine
Originally uploaded by gamp

I went looking for waterfalls around Central City this weekend. I tried to get to one called Missouri Falls in Missouri Canyon but it was on private property. It also didn't seem to have much water coming from where it was supposed to be, but I bet it had some kind of ice trickle going on. Maybe some other time I'll check it out somehow.

Across the street though I found this mine, which my map said was called sixteen to one. It is locked up with a permanent iron gate, but I managed to get this cool photo of the inside, showing the iron rails still intact. It doesn't look like it ran for long from the size of the tailings, but it's one of the better ones I've seen up close. I believe it is a tungsten mine.

I also looked around nevadaville and some of the cemeteries. Tomtom showed me some picture places west of Central City, one of which was called "Queen's Chair" but all the roads it showed to the location were private trails. Apparently if you're a Gilpin County resident you can get a permit to hike there, but I'm not.

World Pillow Fight Day - Easter Bunny Pummeling

World Pillow Fight Day
Originally uploaded by gamp

The cacophony society hosted Denver's pillow fight for world pillow fight day. They usually host zombie jesus and easter bunny day but got a little surprised by the early easter this year, so combined the pillow fight with easter bunnies. Without the zombie jesii it must have appeared a more civil and faith based event, because it got on the cover of the Denver Post (at least the online edition) on an article about being faithful and celebrating easter early in the year. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8664897

For more on Denver's Cacophony Society see their page:
http://denver.cacophony.org/

And yes, the Denver Post misspelled cacophony.

Holly and her Fireman

Holly and her Fireman
Originally uploaded by gamp

Holly has a thing for fire fighters. Yesterday we had a fire alarm and she got to get her picture taken with one, by me.

Go Holly.

She works in the cubicle next to mine, so I get to hear about things.

Delia

Dahlia
Originally uploaded by gamp

I bought a print at kitchen's ink, art gallery and tattoos, 757 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

The print was Delia 07 by Trevor Alyn, mouseskull.com

This is Delia, the model, and she's looking lovely but different from the photo I purchased. Too bad I only had my point and shoot camera.


Also tonight, which of course is the first Friday art walk, I ran into Daud and the art bus, Ms. Terious, Nat the bat, and Valerie. The steel shop and location of many fire sculptures and dj shows on 8th and santa fe was still open, to my surprise. Next month they should still have shows but it will be a gallery and not a steel fabricating studio.

DU Hockey Game

Daychief Down
Originally uploaded by gamp

I'm not much of a sports fan, but I was given some tickets to last nights game and I went and checked it out. Being close to the ice really helps keep me interested, but having a long and fast lens helps too. I snapped some shots and ended up staying for the whole game.

Darden

Darden
Originally uploaded by gamp

I went to the Birds of a Feather show at the Oriental Theater on Friday. It was a great show with burlesque acts, aerial rope acts, bands, and DJ's. Here is a photo of Darden that I took, and like.

Conifer

It warmed up to almost 60 in Denver today. I got on my ninja and rode down 285 until I got too cold and turned around. I made it to about Conifer. I was going to take a picture, but I didn't.

ESM Holiday Party 2007 (2008)

ESM Holiday Party 2007 (2008)
Originally uploaded by gamp

We have a really late holiday party at my company (January 19th). Here's Lynne and Sophia doing some kind of dancing.

Geeks Who Drink

I went and played trivia last night with some classmates from DU's library program. We won.

Here's the blog entry from the group that runs the trivia at www.geekswhodrink.com/blog/

I look weird, like I have a sweaty big brain or something. I don't know what was wrong with me. I didn't even get any questions right.

And in 1st place, newbies The Organization. They mentioned something about being librarians. They are smart.

SCORES:

The Organization                 71 
Occam's Razor                         65( + 1 )
That Burning Sensation                 65 
Brat Pack                         64 
Still Sore From the Stock Show         64 
Merle Funk Effect                 61 
Flogged Infidels                 56 
Handsome, But Not Too Bright         55 
Bomb.com                         54 
Satan's Pets                         54 
"I'll Take The Rapists for 200, Alex" 47 
Elvis                                 27

Mclovin

Get your own Mclovin ID

Been there, done that, loved it!

Projector Light

Projector Light
Originally uploaded by gamp

New Years morning I eventually made it to the Bubbledubdub party on 3330 Larimer St. in Denver. I was so tired from moving all weekend and sick with some nasty sinus cold thing, that I didn't do much partying. I did see Valerie and Ryan as well as Leaf and other burners. Some burner guy was giving out beers with red bull in them, which is a horrible waste of shitty beer. Red bull y vodka however = happy times, although Valerie said it was bad for you. Tell that to Ibiza!

So the party was named with the bubbles because of some inflatables from liquidluxworks. While a cool idea, and maybe a cool thing to touch if you were on massive trippy hipno drugs, I wasn't and couldn't even find the inspiration to take a photo of them. The other room was the steampunk / industrial area. There the decorations consisted of the paper with a victorian sort of logo with a gear in it, some plastic candle holders, and a plast tubing made to look like brass tubing that had no function sculpture. The one cool art piece was a rose lamp thing, but it wasn't photogenic. I think the decorations would have been better if instead of decorating they just held it in a basement with an old boiler.

In both rooms though there were projectors and cool suspended screens, and I do like projectors and light beams.

I'm Santa!

rich guy sees santas
Originally uploaded by pesoptimist

Who's in charge? Santa's in charge!!

I took part in Santacon this year, put on by the cacophany society - http://denver.cacophony.org/spg.html.

This photo was taken by pespoptimist (Valerie) at the debutante ball at the Brown Palace. Boy were they introduced to the wrong society.

F.T.W.

F.T.W.
Originally uploaded by gamp

This is the first photo I've sold. Last night it appeared in the "Wee" show at the Flash Gallery in Belmar, Littleton, Colorado. It sold for $65. It was matted in a 4x6 clipless frame and the image size was only about 1"x2"

Gears

Gears
Originally uploaded by gamp

I'm doing my first gallery show tomorrow night at the Flash Gallery in Belmar.

This is one of the pieces. The show is called "Wee"

Nov 16-Jan 6, 445 South Saulsbury St, Lakewood, CO

I'll be at the opening on the 16th from 6-9pm

Zombie Caver

Zombie Caver
Originally uploaded by gamp

After caving I put back on my caver outfit, some facepaint, and went to "the gog" for a burner rave. It was pretty much the rave I've always wanted to go to, but ended up being sort of invisible. I think people thought my costume was making fun of the some recent mining tragedies, which is perhaps more clever than my intention of the ryhme of zombie caver with zombie raver.

I was surprised to recognize only a few people at the party, and they apparently didn't recognize or want to talk with me. I was feeling a little anti-social anyway. Cool location though, lots of power outages, weird murder and orgy rooms, and some good dancing.

soda straws

soda straws
Originally uploaded by gamp

Took a trip to Fulford Cave. It's cold enough now that there is snow leading up the hill to the entrance, but that doesn't really change the internal temperature. Inside I'd guess it's about 40 degrees, and very very damp and wet. There's lots of places to slide around and fall off stuff, and weird looking walls and formations to shine your flashlights at. I think we didn't even make it through half of the cave, so I'll return at some point.

Confluence Park Fire Spinners

Stephiniti Illuminated
Originally uploaded by gamp

Every Sunday night at Confluence Park in Denver (behind the REI on the Platte River) fire spinners practice their stuff, and a drum circle beats out a rhythm. You can see people breath fire and spin poi, staffs, darts, and their own creations.

Here ~dragon~ spins his dragon's tail behind stephiniti

They even got on the news and on cnn video.

Here's my flickr photo set so far.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/09/17/cole.co.fire.dancing.kusa