The Fezziwig News by Stu Jenks

"Deaths & Injuries" is now on iTunes and at CDBaby.com

"Deaths & Injuries" is now available at your local iTunes store on your computer and on your mobile devices, and at my CDBaby.com page, both as a digital download and as a physical CD. You can also buy the physical CD at the Fezziwig Press Store. CDs are $12.00 through me and $13.00 through CDBaby.com (S & H extra.) And the digital downloads are your standard .99 cents per track.

Thanks, y'all.

Stu

p.s. The above image, "Ed-Lil" is on the inside cover of this CD. Just tired of putting the same cover image on my blog to promote this CD. If you want to see the cover, just scroll down.

"Asheville Spiral"

"Asheville Spiral, North Carolina" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Raleigh Spiral"

"Raleigh Spiral, Governor's Mansion, North Carolina" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Barrio Door"

It's a photographic cliche to shoot doors yet sometimes cliches are all right. In this case, these photographs are potential choices for images beginning chapters for a book.

And Happy Valantine's Day, y'all.

"Deaths & Injuries" Is Now Here!

Deaths & Injuries, the physical CD, is now here! (It'll soon to be on iTunes and the other platforms. When it's up in the iCloud, I'll let you know.)

One small thing: I'm having a little problem with the shipping and handling at The music section at the Fezziwig Press store. They are calculating a couple bucks too much for shipping. If you don't mind the slight extra cost, just buy the CD at the Fezziwig Press store. But also feel free to simply order the physical CD directly through my Paypal account. stujenks@gmail.com is my Paypal login. Just add money to my account, tell me what you are buying and give me your name and address. (And if you want me to sign or personalize the CD, let me know that too.) Either way, I'll get the CDs to you as quickly as possible.

Deaths & Injuries is $12.00 for the CD; $5.00 USPS Priority Mail in the U.S.A.; $8.00 US, International Mail. (Except through the Fezziwig Press store right now, which I think is calculating shippng at $8.00, worldwide.)

I'm very happy with the quality of the printing and pressing of this product. (Thanks, A to Z Media.) Very little color shift in the cover images and the sound quality is just excellent, better than the mp3s you find on iTunes. iTunes is fine. I buy a lot of music through iTunes, but the physical CD has a very wide tonal range, great for the atmospheric nature of this music.

Below is an mp3 of Prayer For Gabe Zimmerman. It sounds even better on the CD.

Download Prayer For Gabe Zimmerman by Stu Jenks

There is a fine line between self-confidence and arrogance, and we do live in a narcisstic time, don't you know, but I really like this CD. It's the best music I've ever produced. I guess all that practicing and running scales has paid off. And Craig Schumacher's mastering of the CD makes my playing shine.

I hope you enjoy Deaths & Injuries as much as I do.

Cheers,

Stu

P.S. There'll be a CD release party soon at Studio BR-549 in Tucson. I'll let you know more when I know more.

P.P.S. Play it loud in your car. It's really good loud.

"Ridgeline Reflected In A Whipple Mirror"

"Ridgeline Reflected In A Whipple Mirror, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Culvert on the Gabe Zimmerman Trail"

"Culvert on the Gabe Zimmerman Trail, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"The Ferro Avenue Angel"

"The Ferro Avenue Angel, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 1997, 2012 Stu Jenks

"Sand Dunes Moon"

"Sand Dunes Moon, Colorado" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Shiprock Scrapyard"

"Shiprock Scrapyard, New Mexico" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Algathla Peak"

"Algathla Peak, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Shiprock Horses"

"Shiprock Horses, New Mexico" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

...some images from the Tohono O'Odham Nation...

...some images from the Tohono O'Odham Nation (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

On the Etsy now (and the new CD...)

I'm on Etsy now. (Click here to go to my Etsy store)

Frankly, I didn't know you could sell photography on Etsy. I was wrong. Happy to be wrong.

Book sales are OK (I say with a slight wince), but art sales have been down the last year or so. We are in The Great Recession, don't you know. But I completely understand.

It's easier, in this economy, to buy a $12 CD or $10 eBook or a $20 hardback book, than it is to buy a $100 to $200 print, or a large, more expensive, framed piece. That is, if you are part of the 99%, or the 90%, or the lower 50%. (I'm in the lower 28%. I looked it up.)

Good news: The new CD will be shipped next week. More on that later. I may have a CD release party but I have a very small studio. But I'm thinking about it. Maybe in the parking lot, some night, during the Festival OF Books in March.

Any ideas? I'm open.

"Santa Rosa Cemetary"

"Santa Rosa Cemetary, Tohono O'Odam Reservation, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Two Flags Over Sells"

"Two Flags Over Sells, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Helicopter To Sells"

"Helicopter To Sells, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"The Watertower at The Archie Hendricks Sr. Skilled Nursing Facility"

"The Watertower at The Archie Hendricks Sr. Skilled Nursing Facility, Santa Rosa, Tohono O'Odham Reservation, Arizona"

"Adobe LEDs"

"Adobe LEDs, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

Not that it's a big deal, but I'm heading toward the end of the first draft of the novel. Three more big things need to happen to my characters, including one character's mother dies of dementia. (Wonder where that idea came from.) And thanks to two writer people friends who will remain nameless (for now) for pushing me to finish the first draft before I do any revisions at all to the novel. Y'all are so right about that and so encouraging. I can't thank you enough. Now back to work.

"Wolf Creek Wood"

"Wolf Creek Wood, Colorado" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"St. Augustine's Pigeons"

"St. Auguestine's Pigeons, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"New Mexico Wood"

"New Mexico Wood" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"The 41 Nights"

"The 41 Nights" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"God Who?"

"God Who?, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Mirage near Alamosa"

"Mirage near Alamosa, Colorado" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"The Jenks in 1971"

"The Jenks in 1971" (c) ???, 1971 and Stu Jenks, 2012

Found this in my mother's wallet. Was taken at some photo studio in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1971. I was 16 or 17, Pamela was around 21, Dad was 49ish, and Mary was in her early 40's.

I put this up on the StuBlog primarily to show that my sister was once quite the pretty woman. Those horned-rimmed glasses though don't help my parents' looks, and sweet Jesus, did I have terrible teeth back then with the braces and such or what? Yikes. And my long hair just drove my Dad nuts. This was 1971 in the South, you know. And no, I don't know exactly why I decided to part my hair on the right, making a big blob of hairishness. My guess it was I knew if I parted it in the middle, my father and I would come to blows.

But wasn't Pamela a pretty girl?

And i did fiddle with this image a little, but I don't believe in photoshopping away the cracks and lost paper in old photos. They are the lovely scars of time in pictures. And yes, this once was a color photo. Guess it wasn't printed on archival paper (chuckles).

...this and that, from Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado...

I'm just going to put these images up on the StuBlog and say very little. Some are good, some not-so-good, some in-between. Some from last week, some from last year. Enjoy.

All images copyrighted by Stu Jenks, 2012.

And may tender arms keep you warm this winter.

"Grand Canyon Hoop Dance"

"Grand Canyon Hoop Dance, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

There's a story to tell with this image, but I'll tell it another time. Let's just have the image speak for itself for a change.

Fun Facts: This photograph was taken around 4:30 this morning. That's about as fast of a production turnaround as you'll ever get out of me.

And I wasn't in much danger shooting this. A little, but not much. I tend to be careful and heights don't scare me.

"Jesus at El Tiradito"

"Jesus at El Tiradito, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

To all of those who died and who were injured a year ago today, you continue to remind in my thoughts and prayers.

"Epiphany Peak Hoop Dance"

"Epiphany Peak Hoop Dance, Baboquevari Mountains, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks 

[Note: In this age of photoshopness, everything you see is on the digital negative. Was created using a large embroidery hoop, owned by my sister, wrapped in two hundred battery-powered Christmas lights. And happy Twelth Night, to one and all.]