It's a New Day for a 6 Year Old

the school year has ended for me and my little friends over at school. the scene was totally molten moulting; kindergarteners step out of their kindergaten skin are now 1st graders....gigantic. all there is now is an expansive of beach days, sleep overs, movie nights, and pizza until the fall. at least that's my plan, we'll see what the kids do.


like last year we celebrated with a screening of the claymation movies that we all made, followed by a wild dance romp. who knew that "I like to Move It Move It" is the chart topping dance hit in the kids dance world...luckily its one of my favorites, so I could play it for them over and over.

it was a blast, though there was one incident...one of my favorite now 1st grade friends asked me to flip her upside down while we were dancing, and I did, but I didn't realize that in the process of the flip, her stretch pants got tugged off and for a few moments I was dancing with an upside down completely bottomless girl swinging from my arms. she was not happy about it. Oh god! i felt so bad! nothing like a good traumatizing experience to cap off your first year of school. I relayed that story and my horror for how deep her embarrassment might be scarred to my wise friend Terri (mother of a young one of around the same age), she reminded me that kids don't hold things for long, each morning they wake up and rebuild themselves for a new day. and that's why they're rad.

Devin sees Headlands

To finish this survey of photographs from the Headlands day of exploration, here's some pictures from my friend Devin Woolf. Devin weighs in again and again and again with beautiful photographs. Thank you everyone for continuing the tradition of sharing your sights and experiences from these art outings, what a collection.

Also, on the tip of sharing, David who curates at 18 Reasons just begot a new webplace called Despite Everything devoted to sharing happenings and art shows. He posted some kind thoughts on the Headlands outing and some photographs of some art installations that were out there. Johnny Ray Huston at the Guardian also offered a spirited response to the day a few weeks back.

Enjoy the long days.












and here's one more picture by cielle that I think is quite nice:

Jesse sees Headlands

Jesse Pollock is buds with Mariah and Franklin. They seem to have connected over a special ability to take really great pictures. And they seem to also have connected over the pursuit of good times....I feel lucky to connected with them too.

Jesse has a lots to look at here, and you can find his thoughts published over at fecal face.

Mariah (and Franklin) sees Headlands

Mariah Gardner. she is positive. she has miles of style. and she takes beautiful pictures. that's what I know. this first photo is her (taken by Franklin...who also has great style and photographic prowess).





and now to admire the fuller batch of Franklin's photographs.

Maggie sees Headlands

welcome june...talk about thresholds.

if you're just tuning in, I've been taking this time to collect the different sights people beheld over the course of their wanders out in the Marin Headlands for the day of installations I thought to plan a few weeks ago.

here's some photographs that maggie otero passed along to me. I've had the richest pleasure getting to know her through the course of this project. She and Chris Duncan and I had a quite a magical day plucking some feelings from the Headlands about a month before the outing. it was one of those teenage camp days when you go deep with someone really quickly, and leave the day arms in arms. she built a beautiful wind harp, letting the wind sing through bottles atop sticks. walking up to the choir of singing sticks at the edge of the cliff was a particular highlight of the day for me. In her photographs, she followed Tomo and Colter of Coconut through a walk. thanks maggie.