A trio of John Butler Trio videos
Nifty groove! John Butler is fabulous! Found some excellent videos of John teaching 12-string guitar on YouTube as well, in case anyone is interested. He can be my guitar guru!




For Sadako Sasaki (7 Jan 1943-25 Oct 1955)- x1000, and the power of how one person can make such a tremendous difference. I may yet achieve folding a thousand of them. This is my latest Inkscape SVG offering. It would have been easier to fold one and photograph it, but where would be the fun in that? I had an origami crane to work from, but I didn't care for design of the paper, preferring the traditional Japananese patterned origami papers, so I created my own design, and attempted to reflect the pattern as it would look folded at different angles. I say "attempt" because obviously it would take some really good math and being able to skew the pattern to get the proper direction and perspective of the folded pattern, but I think I "eyed" it convincingly enough. I have a fascination with ornamental patterns, the Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, being among my treasured design books. The above link is the full, page by page on-line version.