Chit Chat:

As part of my recent quest to get more experience with public speaking I will be talking (for exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds) at Pecha Kucha. Meaning Chit chat in Japanese this great international forum is meant to energize and connect people. Charlie and I went to the most recent one in Rockland, Me. and heard: a boat builder, gardener, photographer, ceramicist, woodworker, painter, and sculptor speak. Check it out as it is bound to be in your neck of the woods sometime.
Here's the line-up:

MC: Arthur Fink

Terrill Waldman/Jenkins, Glass blower - Inspiration from Nature.
Jeff Swanson, Photographer - Arts & Equity Portland Police Poetry Project
Fred Abaroa, Maine Coast Botanical Gardens - An Unexpected Oasis on the Maine Coast

Scott Collard, Landscape Architect - How to Present Work
John Ossie, Architect, Artist - Pen and Ink drawings

Intermission

Ruthanne Harrison, Artist, Architecture Student - Connections between painting and architecture
George Smith, President, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts -
Martin Simpson, Furniture maker - images of his work
Dave Wade, Photographer - Arts & Equity project Portland Police photographs
Liza Kelley & Teddy Stoecklein, Graphic designers, The VIA Group - Believe. Good luck, Mr. President.