The Night The Stars Fell 1833

"....the whole firmament, over all the United States, being then, for hours, in fiery commotion! No celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, since its first settlement, which was viewed with such an intense admiration by one class in the community, or with so much dread and alarm by another." "Its sublimity and awful beauty still linger in many minds ... Never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, north, and south, it was the same. In a word, the whole heavens seemed in motion. ... The display, as described in Professor Silliman's Journal, was seen all over North America. ... From two o'clock until broad daylight, the sky being perfectly serene and cloudless, an incessant play of dazzlingly brilliant luminosities was kept up in the whole heavens."  

R.M. Devens, American Progress; or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, 

My Night the Stars Fell: 

Backfire!

Backfire: to bring a result opposite to that which was planned 

or expected: The plot backfired. OR to start a fire deliberately in 

order to check a forest or prairie fire  by creating a barren 

area in advance of it.

Take it to the Lizard

Stops along the way on Dis Astros

Below, The Final Dis Astros:

Suplex

Suplex: A suplex is an offensive move used in professional sport wrestling . The move consists of one wrestler picking up his or her opponent off the ground (or mat) and then using a large portion of his or her own body weight to drive the opponent down on the mat. Nearly all suplexes have the attacker going down to the mat with the opponent landing on his or her back. For example, common in professional wrestling is the vertical suplex, which has the wrestlers begin face-to-face, then the attacker forces the opponent's head down and locks the opponent's arm around it. The attacker then places his or her opponent's arm around the opponent's own head, to force opponent up and over. At the zenith the opponent's body is upside-down and vertical above the attacker. The attacker falls backwards onto his or her own back, using his or her body weight to slam the opponent down onto his or her back.

                                

Perspective

Cow Palace Teen Spirit

I never thought I would be the type to pine for 1991. Things haven't been the same for me since as a girl, I saw Nirvana play San Francisco's Cow Palace on New Years Eve. I am always trying to recreate the motion of the crowd that night. 

Detail

Bioluminescent Algae

 Last September in Southern California the red tide was blowing peoples minds. Tiny bioluminescent algae lit up the waves at night. The glowing surf has provided me with a point of origin for new work, coming soon. The way that the organisms glow when agitated is awesome. Check out this surfer agitating some algae: