Headlines from Alex Schapiro's Weblog "Notes from the Kelp"
Last updated on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

A moment from my day, while sitting at my desk
“Hey you! Cool lookin’ eagle-dude over there! Your fly is open!” That was SO not funny. Dumb human… …click to listen: …about the music Don’t mess with nature. Especially when it has a sharp beak and even sharper talons… “Uh oh…. uh, sorry… um… wait! I didn’t mean it… I was just kidding!… ack!… composers really don’t taste that great… all [...]

Found art
…click to listen: …about the music Found, even if lost. I grew up in Manhattan, and thanks to being plain dumb lucky enough to be born to parents who loved art, I spent more time than most kids you’ve met absorbing the contents of some of the world’s greatest museums. I lived walking distance from most of them, [...]

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
…click to listen: …about the music From the depth. And perhaps I too shall sleep spent happily exhausted from life my body splayed atop rocks and memories of where saltwater ran and tides crawled a sprig of kelp glombed to my thigh like an eager lover and you to my psyche imprinted washed ashore by the push of the unseen restful and at peace.

Moon shot
…click to listen: …about the music Music from another planet. This is actually an x-rated photo and should be immediately censored. We are looking at this moon jelly’s gonads. And they are oh, so beautiful! Now, comment-prone readers: behave yourselves.

All wet
…click to listen: …about the music Proud? Sometimes the subject in one’s lens is far more wonderful than the technical abilities of the fool behind it, and my posting today is a fine example. If ya want slightly better bald eagle shots, try this earlier entry. Regardless, I offer these pics, taken in a rare moment of ingenuity [...]

Size 6 1/2…
…click to listen: …about the music Jam for toes. …but actually, one size fits all. Greetings from this evening, on the Salish Sea.

All muses on deck
…click to listen: …about the music Suite, for something extraordinarily sweet. Greetings from your hostess de la kelp, the Princess of Algae herself. As my toes (see prior post’s video below) and I have mentioned only in passing until now, Her Highness of the Low and Other Notes, who might have been a marine biologist had she not has [...]

Where some of the music is hiding
And where inspiration is sometimes found. Okay, I admit it: I had a lot of open time this week to accomplish a gazillion things on my apparently-never-ending-until-I’m-pushing-up-daisies to-do list. And far too few of them have been accomplished thus far. Except, perhaps, something rather important: sanity. Calm. Peace. Exhaling. I think [...]

The adventures of Net Girl
…click to listen: …about the music A fine collaboration over the net. As I bumble happily along in my career, one of the things I seem to have become a little bit known for is my web presence. Click and ye shall find me. Between my professional dot-org existence (more about me than anyone could possibly ever wish [...]

One of these things is not like the other
…click to listen: …about the music ¿Cómo se llama? The first time I saw geese gliding along on salt water, I was surprised. I had only thought of them in the context of lakes and the like. The first time I saw deer balancing on the damp rocks of a tide pool, I was surprised. I had only [...]





