I’ve been spending all of my copious free time going through my old photos and uploading some favorites to Flickr. Here are some of the new sets of old photos:
- Random photos of my brother
- I lived in Queens for almost 3 years, and here are some of the photos from that period: New York (2001 to 2003)
- Way back in 1999 I got an early webcam and took a photo of myself. Then, entranced with the wonders of the old shareware app PaintShop Pro, I went to town and created a fun slideshow that I call “Nicco the Thug“.
- My aunt gave me a bunch of old family slides from the early 1950s. I’ve scanned the first four slides and thrown in a much later scanned photo. Most of these photos are of my father, Nick Mele, and his parents, Nick and Dorothy.
- In 1996 or 1997 (I can’t remember exactly when), I got a grant from the Charles Center at William & Mary, where I was in college. The grant was a special cross-disciplinary scholarship, only to be used for something totally unrelated to your major or minor. I was particularly entranced by Dale Chihuly at the time, and so I applied for a grant to study glassblowing. I received the grant, and spent part of my summer at the Corning Glass Studio in Corning, New York. My obsession with glassblowing continues to this day.
- I’ve also got a a random collection of family photos… This is pretty interesting – a scan of William P. St. John’s obit from the New York Times, not sure the date. Born in 1849, so probably early 1900s. He’s an aged ancestor of mine – my maternal grandfather had this obit.
- Speaking of my maternal grandfather, here’s a photo from a trip to his childhood home, Hellhole, California. I’m not kidding.
Besides the sets, there are a bunch of random photos that aren’t in sets. Some of my favorites:
- Breakfast with Adam
- Sailing with the older Bubb Brothers
- SupaKristi
- My grandparents used to have a house in Placerville, California. We would spend the summers out there, and there was this bar in Placerville.
- Here’s a random photo I scanned from my high school life in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As memory serves, my buddy Shi-Hao Kuo took the photo – you can almost make me out, climbing the tree, about mid-way up.
- And my favorite Zippy the pin-head cartoon
- An old photo of my beloved Marta from when she was a puppy! Massey, can you believe she was smaller than a basketball?
- Some people may or may not know that I paint occasionally. I’m in the middle of a painting now, but this is my favorite painting that I’ve painted.
- My childhood hero was Frank Buck.
- My adult hero is Matt Keller.
- Matt introduced me to Joe Trippi.
- Obelix, anyone?
More photos to come.
October 11, 2006 at 4:39 pm |
you know what i’d really love to see sometime? a shot of the typewriter webpage from the old widomaker.com page. and the “wolf and howl in the bookish dark” strand poem. and the roethke poem.
October 16, 2006 at 3:02 pm |
Here you go Anne…
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://widomaker.com