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Photo Reflection: Approach to Dark Shadows, Las Vegas, NV
Out first big stop on our summer road trip. No home and living out of our car for several months. Our first stop was at Red Rocks. This is still one of our favorite places to climb. On this day we climbed 4 pitches of Dark Shadows. Related Images:
Kung Fu Films and Climbing
I went through a Fist of the White Lotus phase. I became transfixed by the choreography, the movements, and the super-humanness of the characters. It translated to climbing and storytelling. The cinematography with it’s quick-zoom, close-ups, sweeps left and right, became an element of the story. Plus the brilliant humor and near-absurdity – which, relates…
Photo Reflection – Ice Climbing and Ice Farming at the Silos in OKC
Photos of ice climbing through the years at the silos in Oklahoma City.
The Unnormal: Part 3 of x. People look better in masks
The longer this pandemic goes on the more companies I see getting into the designer-mask game. There are some really creative ones out there. Not only do I not mind wearing a mask, I think it is a moral imperative that we wear them for ourselves, but moreover, for others. I read a comment to…
The Buildering Files: Historical Climbing Guides to Urban Ascents in Norman, Oklahoma
Publishing these guides online for posterity. If you are interested in buildering and buildering guides you will appreciate these. The Urban Climber was the first published guide for climbing on the OU campus. It was authored by Bernie Wire and Ramzy Telley. Though there is no copyright date on the version I have, based on…
Unearthed: Terry’s garage climbing gym
These days, garage climbing gyms are ubiquitous, if not a bit cliche. Holds on cinderblock walls, sheets of plywood attached to a wood frame, angled wood planks fabricated to create a crack…there are no limits when it comes to fabricating climbing contraptions. Particularly at home where you can get away with making stuff that would…
The Unnormal – Part 2 of x. 101 years ago
Ongoing dialogue and reflection in the age of covid-19 In thinking about what is happening in our world today it brings about thoughts of the past. The picture above is of one of my great uncles who fought in WWI and died 101 years ago this month (March 25, 1919) as a result of the…
Throwback: To Outdoor Film Shows at the Silos
The Renegade Picture Show was an idea I started in April of 2007. At the same, there were other guerilla-movie projectionist around the world who were doing similar things each in slightly their own way. The idea stemmed from the concept of a drive-up drive-in style movie venue. People could relax in their cars or…
The Unnormal: Part 1 of x. Staying Home
The difference between right now – March 24 – and the beginning of the month is staggering and evidenced by comparing the world map then and now. If we further consider that in Asia, by 3/3/2020 there were already over 80,000 cases before the pandemic truly took hold of the rest of the world it…
More articles, essays and stories
I’ve been going back through my archives of written material and it’s surprising how much stuff I have but haven’t published. In reopening these files I’m discovering that, in some cases, these pieces are decent enough to put online – or need some more editing, first. In either case, I’m taking the opportunity to add…