Saturday, June 21, 2008

Kansas City, MO USA

This past week I had the pleasure of holding a color / image management seminar with the folks at the American Truck Historical Society. What a great group!
Guardians of the entire collection of images from the White Truck Co., dating to about 1921 they protect a treasure trove of industrial engineering information and detailed Americana. We spent two days together - solved a bunch of problems and significantly improved their production. Saved them a ton money too!

The only gripe I might have is that I never really got to Kansas City. Since the ATHS is located near the airport I never really got to go into the real thing. So this image out my hotel window looks just like any other area around a big city airport - not much character . I did get to have some good Bar-B-Q though...




Business air travel was crowded, food-less, and boringly efficient. And of course expensive. But how else can you go from Madison to Detroit to Kansas City to Minneapolis to Madison in less than 5 hours air time? You just can't. So as fuel continues to climb those air travel tickets are going to cost a lot more.
Got to go and earn some carbon credits to offset this trip....

Saturday, June 14, 2008

What's wrong with this picture?


Driving by my town's softball field Thursday night was an interesting experience - to say the least.
A few minuets after this shot was made the entire complex was submerged, effectively ending the season until repairs can be made.
All over southern Wisconsin this scene is being repeated - or much worse.
To say nothing of what happened in Iowa - Cedar Rapids a city that I lived in for 5 years - is closed, maybe for weeks, until the waters recede.

And it's just the start of the summer.......