A few more Pics From Knoxville Conference

Michael Crews wrote a fantastic book called "Books Made Out Of Books." It is an indispensable resource for Cormac McCarthy fans and scholars. he is also a super nice funny fellow!

Painting of John Sheddan. Sheddan is in "The Passenger."

Kidwell also made an appearance in "The Passenger."

 

Some More Moments In Knoxville

 

Wes Morgan

Wes Morgan presenting on the real-life people mentioned in McCarthys twin novels (or duololy)

Travis McDonald and I in Market Square, Knoxville.

Annie DeLisle and I. McCarthy's send wife, she typed Suttree TWICE!

Russell Hillier and Yakuz

Terra on left, Travis on right...getting some supper.

Dennis McCarthy, Cormac's brother, read a paper by Rick Wallach who was unable to attend due to health challenges.

Todd Wobble, who I know from ALBQ conferences.

Knoxville Conference 2024

 

William Quick

Nell Sullivan

A panel with Nell Sullivan, Marcus and Jonathan Elmore

A downtown bar and restaurant named after a well-loved novel by Cormac McCarthy. Drinks have names of significant plot details 

Wes Morgan and Stephen Frye

Official McCarthy biographer Lawrence Gonzalez and his wife Debby.

I've never seen a park decorated for Halloween!

Margeret Visser

The brilliant Canadian Margaret Visser describes herself as "an anthropologist of daily life." I'm reading her most recent book...and I've read all her previous books.

 “Trivers defines guilt as a kind of debt, incurred by a "cheater," one who tricks others into giving when they need not, or who fails to reciprocate

"altruism." The others must punish him in order to bring him into line. If a

"cheater" finds all future aid from others cut off, "then the cheater will have paid dearly for his misdeed. It will be to the cheater's advantage to avoid this, and, providing that the cheater makes up for his misdeed and does not cheat in the future, it will be to his partner's benefit to avoid this, since in cutting off future acts of aid he sacrifices the benefits of future reciprocal help..." Pardon is therefore thought to be a matter of pure self-interest, and cheaters are "selected" to make a reparative gesture so as to mollify others, for in this manner the rupture of reciprocal relationships is prevented. The emotion we call guilt or remorse has arisen to help this to happen, through natural selection.®

Guilt leading to reparations must occur, according to this view, mainly when everyone knows what the guilty person has done. In 1966 a laboratory experiment produced this conclusion by setting up a piece of expensive equipment so that it would automatically break when handled by some— but not all—of the human participants. All of them were then asked if they would care to volunteer for an experiment that would cause them to experience pain. The ones who had "broken" the expensive machine were more likely, out of guilt, to sign up than those who had not—but only if they thought their transgression had been discovered.'’

Sorting Buttons By Color-ASMR

 

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Patterns For Buttons? ASMR

 

I was asked by one of my subscribers to start making patterns with the ASMR button videos....so I'm here thinking about how to do that...

Vogue Fabrics

 

I visit a fair number of Fabric stores. This is Vogue in Evanston, Il. 

A Bucket Of Buttons

 

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I Love Carousels

 

Bryant Park carousel.....

Pencil Crayon AMST Part 2

 

Now I have recorded finishing this drawing. 

This image happened on a. road trip I was on in Florida in 2011. I had a dream with this image. I woke up drew a sketch then I have made several paintings with this image. Part 1 is scroll below this post. Thanks for watching!

Pencil Crayon ASMR Part 1

 

I had a request to make a video with the ASMR of pencil crayons. Drawing is slow so I've made two videos till the drawing is complete. Here is the first one. If you enjoy this please consider subscribing to my Youtube channel. Thanks! Click on video to go to my channel.

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Another early video of buttons I made for Etsy. If you like these videos please subscribe by clicking here

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My Youtube Channel

 

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Button Fun

 

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Reverie And Buttons

 

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Green Lace And Buttons

 

I love this cotton lace as a backdrop to playing with buttons. I got this lace at the Fabric Fabric store I mentioned in previous posts.

Accidental Time Lapse

 

I made this video by accident with the feature of time-lapse. I've kept it....and it has been one of my most popular videos! Please click "like" if you enjoy on my Youtube channel.

Daydream With Buttons

 

Hope you enjoy this video and feel like daydreaming and relaxed...

Fabric Fabric Store

 

There is a terrific fabric store in Toronto...I did a little fast motion of the place called Fabric Fabric...looking for buttons. If you enjoy my video please click "subscribe". Thanks for watching!

Buttons To Listen

 

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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

 

It's funny...almost everyone knows what ASMR is now. I love the sound and feel of buttons in a tin, on a towel or blanket....it reminds me of playing my my sister when we had our grandmother's button tin. If you enjoy my video lease click "like" and subscribe to my Youtube channel. Thanks!

An autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson.ASMR is a subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control. 

Behind-The-Scenes

 

I can't remember if I shared this little "making of" video here yet...but I'll share it again...

How Do You Say Toronto?

 

Recent podcast episode...hope you enjoy this one.

Button Fun

 

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Revitalization Of Cherry Street Beach

 I got my camera rolling as I drove around Commisioners, Cherry Beach and Port of Toronto...

How Do You Say Toronto?

 Recent podcast episode....thanks for listening!

Reverie...Daydreams...Buttons

 “Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.” Gaston Bachelard

A button box brings memories of grandmas or moms button and sewing kits. Playing with variety of oddball buttons always seeing something new. Rainy day, cottage, behind the couch geography on a carpet or tiled floor. Metal candy boxes holding all the colours and dreams...soldiers, fairies, pattern making and infinite feelings of no time.

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Super Fast Button Play

 I accidentally pressed time-lapse when recording this video...it's still fun though....

Button ASMR

 

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Sansepolic

We conducted our interview with food historian and online friend in Sansepolic. We drove to the nearby Tuscan city for a walk and then a wine bar where we did our interview. Then we went for supper at Enoteca Guidi. Fantastic.

 

Behind-The-Scenes Of Making A Documentary

 

I have begun the phase of editing my documentary. I still don't have a title! I've had some challenges with technology but finally worked things out. To be expected I am sure. I've been slowly but surely transferring footage collected since 2006-2007...culminating in this recent trip to UK and Europe in 2024 for more interviews. 

I made a little video here on my phone...just showing how I've been going to my co-editors place in Wisconsin about an hour from my apartment in Chicago to work on the doc. I hope to share more updates as I go along...likely on Patreon Page and here....I've actually been posting on Patreon the places we stayed in Europe...kind of fun!

Tuscany...Citta Di Castello

In February, 2024, we were continuing our way part sightseeing...but part going to meet people I was interviewing for my documentary. We met up with an online friend in Citta di Castello taking trains and buses. Tuscany is so much like one imagines from movies and the motifs of Italian restaurants LOL. This medieval city is walled and on the Tiber River. Some have theorized it was the birthplace of the Renaissance...but I'm not sure that's true.

We walked around the walled city one day and along the Tiber River.

This was a main square in the small village/city. We had some great lunches, coffee and walking around here. The region is Umbria and the city along the Tiber was begun in 3 century BC.

Some scenes from the bus we took from Arezzo.

 One of the gates to the walled city.