Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Earth Day

This picture was done in 1989, hand-drawn on a Macintosh computer. It is a view of Mt. Hood, from the shore of Trillium Lake. It was featured in “The Verbum Book of Digital Painting”, for which I wrote a chapter describing the process of creating it. It was also featured in Verbum magazine’s “Earth Gallery” in their 20th anniversary tribute to Earth Day in 1990.

This is the future of that scene if the so-called “Clear Skys” and “Healthy Forests” schemes are allowed to be put into practice by the Bush regime. Global warming, air and water pollution and clearcutting have decimated this formerly pristine beauty. Don’t let it happen!

For Earth Day this year, I recycled all my old computer gear through Free Geek, who will repair and reuse components, instead of dumping them in a landfill. Ironically, it included the computer used to draw the first Mt. Hood picture, it was 14 years old and still ran fine (gotta love Macs!), but was way too old and slow to do what I do today. And I started my bike-riding to work earlier this season.