The Fezziwig News by Stu Jenks

"Miller's Spiral"

"Miller's Spiral, Sonoran Desert, Arizona" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

All 8 1/2" x 11" A/P archival pigment prints by Stu Jenks for $25, shipping, handling and taxes included...

Image: "Queen Esther Baptist Church, Lancaster, Virginia" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks (Just down River Road from Victoria's house. Love that luscious red carpet. And for you nocturnals out there, it was handheld. Rare for me.)

In this time of making photos on iPhones and Macbook Pros and only looking on screens, I forget I'm a old-school guy. I make a 8 1/2 x 11 work print on archival paper of EVERY image I make. EVERY one. It's the only way, for me, to accurately check for color shift, density, composition, etc. I really like my iPad screen but it's no way to make a good print.

And I have hundreds, if not thousands, of work prints artist proofs at my studio.

If you see an image of mine on The StuBlog or on my old website or on the Fezziwig Press Store or in any of my books, there's a beautiful small print in a box somewhere, perhaps with your name on it. And since I'm organized, I can find it.

Many of you can't afford my larger prints. I understand. I don't have an extra 50 or 100 lying around either. But I do have an extra $20 for stuff I really like.

So if you see an image of mine on any of my sites or in any of my books and you want it, it's yours for $25, shipping, handling and tax included. (I believe in paying taxes, sales and otherwise.)

Just email me at my facebook page or through the StuBlog or at stujenks@gmail.com, and tell me what print you would like or just pull the jpeg and send that to me.

I was just watching the Tarhells lose today in basketball, working on images at my computer when I thought, 'I bet people don't realize I have boxes of work prints here.'

You all do now.

Love and light,

Stu

p.s. Ignore the catagories belows. The computer went wacky. Another reason why I prefer a print in the hand as opposed to an image in The Cloud.

"Asheville Spiral"

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

"Raleigh Spiral"

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

"Two Choke Hill Spiral: For Terri & Howard"

"Two Choke Hill Spiral, Arizona: For Terri & Howard" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

An earth spiral from yesterday's hike near Oracle, Arizona. Due to a combination of too long a lens and too big a spiral, this truly looked better in person, but this photo'll do.

And most of the red ants below this spiral were hiberating, so I don't this they minded the piece of art above their heads, but you never know. They are fire ants after all.

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"Earth Spiral at Owl's Head"

"Earth Spiral at Owl's Head, Arizona" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

"Chapel Hill Spiral"

"Chapel Hill Spiral, North Carolina" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

Painted Desert Spiral, Arizona: Things I'm Learning By Writing Fiction.

"Painted Desert Spiral, Arizona" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

Things I'm learning by writing fiction instead of memoirs:

1) I don't risk giving too-much-information about my own personal life. My life is only a single life and not everyone needs to know the details.

2) I don't risk hurting the feelings of others, as I might writing memoirs. I'm now creating the lives of brand new people.

3) I can talk about ideas and emotions that are meaningful to me without have myself or people I know in real life say them. Instead, my characters speak these thoughts and feelings, in far more compelling ways than I can say them.

4) I get to express an ever rising spiral of emotions, actions, and thoughts, through characters who, at times, seem as alive as the friends who I have coffee with. These characters act in wonderous or monsterous ways. They love fully or not at all. They think of others first or selfishly only of themselves. And all the greys inbetween.

5) And lastly, writing fiction is a scariest yet most exciting creative thing I've done, since I discovered that Zippo lighters make great light sources.

 

"Lily Of The Forest" by Tom Whittington

"Lily Of The Forest" by Tom Whittington

[Old friend Mott Odah (i.e. Tom Whittington) make this spiral photo just for me. Sweet of him to do. Nice cranker photo, Tom, and love to you and your family.]