The Yellow Star Review.

Appearing Live.

Starring:

John Urbancik

Step 1:

Someone posts the sign.

Step 2:

Our hero finds the sign.

Step 3:

Our hero dances.

Step 4:

And dances.

Step 5:

And thanks you for your adulation.

Who will star in the next Yellow Star Review?

You?

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Have field.

May run with abandon.

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I know it doesn't mean much to anyone but me, but...

The landscape at the top is mine, and this is the first piece ever shown in a juried exhibit, Photofest 2009, currently at the Airport Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida. Tonight was the reception.

Way I look at it, I've got a lot more work ahead of me--and I'm looking forward to it.

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The 333rd self portrait.

Just over a month more to go. I'm anxious to get started on the next project, but I also want to finish this strongly. Today, a straight forward portrait, nothing fancy, not even a whole lot of color.

I'm a simple man.

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Alphabet - X
X-treme Sale at the X-Rated Shop! XXX half off! No, *all* off!

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ah, the stories we will share and create, the whiskey, the songs, the loves and losses; the adventure and the danger, the thrill, the mystery; the passions yet undiscovered

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Plan A was disrupted when I arrived at the location to discover several police cars in the typically empty parking area, the officers checking their automatic rifles, and headed into the park. I turned around, and as I drove out another two police cars came in.

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Thanks to those who served. You've done something I couldn't, and I'm both glad for what you've done and proud of you for doing it.

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Proof that some days, the camera and the Photoshop and I just don't seem to get along.

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Less than seven weeks remain, and the 365-self portrait project will be complete.

But I will continue with the Self Portrait Challenge, which has a monthly theme and asks for no more than one shot a week. That will start in January.

The portrait project will start in January. I haven't decided if I'll post any of those.

The 365-colors project also starts in January.

Before any of that happens, though, I'll be an artist at my first ever artist reception, Photofest 2009 in Tallahassee, Florida, where one of my pictures will be displayed in the airport.
That's just the photography.

I've got several writing projects going, at various stages, as well. I'll save details on those for another post.

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A moment of loneliness, or merely alone with his thoughts? Quiet preparation for the night to come, or a brief recovery from the day.

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The way of the warrior is fraught with peril, adventure, danger, seduction, and death. There are enemies and adversaries by the legion, as well as allies. There will be betrayal in all directions.

The true warrior adapts, and makes the situation his own. The true warrior doesn't merely find triumph, he creates it.

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What if my eyes were green? Would my life have taken a different turn? Would things have been different enough in, say tenth grade, that I would've walked a different path? Could the color of your eyes have that great an impact? Would I see things differently? What would people see in me, or expect from me, that they don't see or expect in brown?

Until about 10 years ago, I wore contact lenses. These muted the true color of my eyes. I didn't know.

My eyes are not green. But what if they were?

The most fascinating eyes I've ever seen, with apologies to all who have eyes that should've been the most fascinating I've ever seen, were a girl whose eyes shifted between brown and green. They changed with the slightest movement of her head, a change of focus, with an inhalation of breath. I'm still not sure if those eyes were even real.

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