Site News

Well, I suppose it's obvious I've been busy with other things for a while. Life in New Orleans has been a wildly varied experience the last couple of years, as I'm sure many of you are aware. One aspect of life here that you won't hear about on the national news is the prevalence of painters and enthusiasm for painting and art among the Crescent City's denizens, as evidenced by the extraordinary number of galleries and exhibits devoted to painting. All this has affected me as I played around with painting after a hiatus of several years. Those who know me know that I drew and painted and exhibited and sold art since I was a teenager.

Anyway, that's what I've been up to more and more again, and I'm exhibiting still lifes and cityscapes this weekend in cooperation with The Marigny & Bywater Open Studios days (now open to artists of the Lower French Quarter such as myself). Also working on another painting series yet to be exhibited. If you're in the area, be sure to drop by 1314 Dauphine St. and chat with Sally Mae and me, and enjoy some of our paintings. 12noon to 6pm today and tomorrow. map

I'm going to keep this site going and hope to continue with making website art, and I hope to do some updates to the linking facilities when I get a chance. Some other website work I've been doing lately can be found at :

Now We Live Everywhere This is an ongoing project for my dear friends who are tramping around the world and sending me photos and journal entries to post as they go. They're getting some great shots and having some adventures — follow along!

Melodius Thunk Productions - Immersion Records This is an ongoing project by some friends of mine who have been getting some great live recordings during second-line parades in New Orleans in conjunction with some of the younger practitioners of the unique brass band music, unique to our city, such as the Hot 8 and the Lil' Stooges Brass Band.

Ted Hefko My son's official website has been redesigned recently as he continues his musical adventures in New York City.

My other site at http://tom.hefko.net, is now occupied by by a project I'm doing for the Downtown Neighborhoods Improvement Association. Their work is rather intense right now, as those of you familiar with planning and recovery work in New Orleans can easily imagine. Someday they may have time to obtain a domain and hosting and we'll put up their site. Anyway, I'll be soon using this URL to bring together a site for my painting and other work. Keep an eye on it!

“Laughing,” new poem in passage.

“Missed,” new poem in passage.

“Walk,” new poem in passage.

Two new poems in passage.

fenestration title page has new format and order is now corrected.

A new poem in passage.

The ninth (I) series of nine images at fenestration went up today. This completes the originally intended scope of this project. Some time soon I intend to reorganize these series so they are listed in order from A to I, and also provide some notes, but the gist of the work is done.

Yet another new series (H) of nine images at fenestration.

New series (G) of nine images at fenestration.

New poem:Music, in Passage. First of a new series for that opening.

New opening:emergence !
Well I'm finally back at work and play here in the field of openings. Took a lot longer than I anticipated, but I'm now up and running. I have a pretty large body of backed up images and ideas, so there should be regular additions here in the coming months.

Series F in fenestration will probably be the last in that group for a while. I hope to have time to put up another landscape series, though, before I move in September. I'm relocating to New Orleans then, and there'll be a while -?- when I won't be able to work on the site.

Here's another new series in fenestration. I also have moved the inspiritors and artlinks pages to this domain (but haven't done updates yet). The old ones at globaldialog will be going away next month, so be sure to change your bookmarks.

New series in fenestration. Have a look – more to come soon.

Yet another new series in fenestration. I'm finally back to work here. I hope to be having more time to work on this site for a while. I've been pretty busy with other things but now that I've finished my library job, there should be a lot of time for creative work.

New series in fenestration.

New opening today! Check out fenestration – a photographic series. Someone suggested that I'm afraid MS would sue if I called it “windows.” Just think of the free publicity! Really, though, we should all be happy with low traffic here at the 'secret' website, loads faster for those in the know.

No doubt passage is where it's firing here these days.

A passage is opened. One verse at a time, the stories of the heroes are told, meanwhile...

It's been said many times: “All roads lead to Rome.” What's usually left off: “,...eventually.”
More roads are leading to this site, though. A little at a time -- much busyness and fun these days keeps me from being busier with this project. Such a complaint!
And I'm afraid more family, work, and partying is due in the near future. Don't be fooled: Tweaking and changing are going on daily. “Content” is sneaking in the back door...

..another thing that's usually left off: “All roads” eventually lead most anywhere!

Work is going on in the background here slowly. I'm tinkering with style sheets and trying to bring the code more up-to-date as i revise files. All that is very time-consuming, but new things will soon appear. Feel free to converse with the man behind the curtain.

Finished the new series at entrance today, before breakfast, of course. Designed the new sitelet for them yesterday, and completed the onerous task of re-editing all the old files, and reorganizing them in the new environment - that part I did this afternoon.

I puttered around and didn't up load anything of importance, but i passed the day pleasantly enough - i'll say - with the repairman and the neighbors. Made some scenes for entrances, the best candidate for the up-and-comer. Happy Hallowed Evening! Saints day tomorrow may find me still a slug o bed. ...

Well I've made my first links to this site from my old one now, and I'm starting to work up a little momentum for the task of building this one. It's been a while. I went through a period of neglect toward the personal website over the last couple years, brought on by a combination of doing too much web work on my library job, having much of my time off for a while taken up by the illness and deaths of my parents, disillusionment with the web community and the way it was growing, and of course, just laziness.
Eventually I realized that I have to revive my creative life or I'll become too self-destructive - that's just the way it is with me. I also realized that http is really the way I like to present my work. I love the web site as a medium, it satisfies many yearnings I've had for years in my creative endeavors. And I don't really have to care about the whole world's uses and misuses of the Internet - for the time being, I can do whatever I want with it.

We're growing quietly here. Very few will notice this for quite a while. This is my new site, gradually taking shape. It's a little secret I guess. I'm back to playing around with colors, letters, words, photographs and other things, learning and shaking up this stuff again. This is all under construction, gradually things are being redone and added. Some things are coming over from my old art site. Some other things are brand new, like these photos I took at Hartman's Creek State Park in Wisconsin.