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<em>andytuba - A wandering Delawarean</em><p style='clear: right'>Having finished a Project 365, I'm shooting for even more fun and the occasional theme week when things are less fun. Also, I swear that this year I'll program some functional apps to use with ShutterCal!</p><p>Find me on Twitter at <a href='http://twitter.com/andytuba'>@andytuba</a></p>

Name:

Andy Tuba

Location:

Arizona, USA

Gear:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28
Nikon CoolPix S210
LG enV3 Cameraphone

Started On:

1/1/09 (Day 438)

About Me:

andytuba - A wandering Delawarean

Having finished a Project 365, I'm shooting for even more fun and the occasional theme week when things are less fun. Also, I swear that this year I'll program some functional apps to use with ShutterCal!

Find me on Twitter at @andytuba

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What it looks like coming home from downtown, except there's a lot more cars here during the semester. See that pick-up down by the light? That's in front of my house. (Nikon S210)

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Construction at the Christiana Mall, next to the Circuit City where I bought my camera. After I took this photo, a mall security guard told me to cease and desist: it's against mall policy to take photos. Um ... OK? (Nikon S210)

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I prefer shopping over at the Pathmark in town, partly because it's cheaper than the Superfresh (which is closer), but mostly because it's open 24/7. I have a hard time going grocery shopping before ten at night, as you can see here. (Nikon S210)

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I served my civic duty for the State of Delaware today at the New Castle County courthouse in Wilmington, which was only built a few years ago. (Nikon S210)

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Playing in the UD Pep Band for basketball games = baller. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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KITTY! (aka, pussy in a box!) That's my roommate Sam's cat, Harley. Surrounding the tub are the remains of Sam and Steve's Christmas, including some pine needles from the tree, which is still up. (Lumix FZ28)

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Life at home is a little ... disorganized. The kitchen is home to many, many cans. (P.S. It's been raining for two days and I don't have dexterity to handle an umbrella and my camera at the same time. If it's still raining tomorrow, I'll try shooting from inside tomorrow.) (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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I work here -- not in the trees (or the lens flare), but in the building behind them. That's UD's music building; also, the multitude of English ivy and straight lines of evergreens that soften its harsh bricky edges. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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Mask-Making for Theatre -- my only class for this semester. This is the first step of making a mask: putting plaster bandages onto the model's face. After it dries, we can peel it off his face and pour plaster of paris into it to make a cast to work on. But first, Bill waits for his face to dry -- with style! (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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My compatriots -- and friends -- from the University of Delaware Colorguard practice their winterguard show. This is Delazure. (Lumix FZ28)

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This is probably going to be what I end up doing at the latter end of my career in theatre, as it's what I've been doing since I started getting paid for theatre: setting up tables and chairs for conferences, in before 8am, out after 6pm. Today was an Audition Day for the music department and I was awake with dawn not long before this moment. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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These work calls that last late into the evening are also a big part of what constitutes my career path's typical work-day. This is a view of both the music building and the new performing arts building, which are the only places I'll likely be working this month. P.S. This is almost exactly how the colors look by the naked eye. Our on-campus street lights are this garish orange-gold glow that illuminates, but washes out a lot. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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Down the block from my house is the Studio Art building (campus building code: ART); there's a lot of random arty crap just sitting on the sidewalk next to the building. I guess they didn't have anywhere better to stick it. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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The winter session Mask-Making class just gets better and better: underneath the tin foil hides some clay, adding extra features to the plaster cast of my face. That happens to be one of my utility knives, I just noticed, hiding behind the mask (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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You can tell that this is a women's game because of the lack of risers on the court behind the cameramen. These guys have slightly more expensive cameras than I do, which is why they get to chill down on the floor at the games, unlike my position at the back of the band. (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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Colorguard's been a good home to me this past fall, so now I come hang out with indoor colorguard squads like this group: Field of View, out of PA. Warm-ups tonight were fierce! (Panasonic DMC-FZ28)

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Back to Delazure indoor colorguard practice! I didn't get many photos at this rehearsal because I was busy video-taping their run-throughs. Here's a still, though, of one of the captains being goofy. I'll try to get a better one later, when I'm on my own computer (Lumix FZ28)

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The University of Delaware Fightin' Blue Hen Marching Band is going to perform in the Obama/Biden 2009 Inaugural Parade! (P.S. Joe Biden is a UD alum.) To prep, 300 of our 350 descended upon campus on Sunday to practice Sunday and Monday before driving down to sleep over in Fairfax County, VA Monday night. Also, our band director bought 600 bagels, 600 bottles of water, 600 bottles of orange juice, a shit-ton of granola bars, and 300 lunch/trash bags. She stuck them in the tuba/percussion cage. That pile of food stands over 6 feet tall, I'll have you know. (Lumix FZ28)

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On Monday, the UD marching band ... kept practicing for the parade. We went up to my parents' house for lunch break and mom fed us lasagna; the girls made Rice Krispie Treats (which we all just call Rice Krispies, thus confusing mom.) Leigh (the colorguard seamstress) and I (a domestic) kept busy with mending tears in the silks. Melanie, who incidentally owns the slightly older version of my Lumix -- the FZ-18 -- made sure to take this picture of the two housewives. (Lumix FZ-28)

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We woke up at 3am to start getting ready for the inaugural parade. The UD Marching Band was in division two, as were the rest of the ensembles in our tent, which was on our staging area: the Ellipsis, in front of the White House. At this moment, we were watching the inauguration ceremony on the HD TVs while it was happening pretty much across the street. (Credit: Brent King, UDMB videographer)

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We're nearly done our first mask in Introduction to Mask-Making. On the left is the plaster cast of my head from last week; on the right, the mask itself. On Friday, I'll add a base coat of gesso and then paint it. (Motorola Z6c camera phone)

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Across the street from the music department is the Blue-Gold Club, the fancy faculty dining hall. The last president of UD, Dr. Roselle, had a home-game football tradition of hosting grand high mucky-mucks at the BG Club before the game, and the marching band would assemble on the lawn to serenade them before taking busses down to the football field. Four years, I performed Saturday mornings on that lawn; and at the last home game, received a senior pin from my university's president. (Lumix FZ28)

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In Mask-Making class, we're nearly done our first mask -- but Yolanda (the only real artist in the group) is already on to her third: reconstructing a unicorn that was originally papier-mache. The face has since crumbled, but she still has the horn. Behind her, Meredith is working on a seahorse and Bill is still catching up from being sick last Friday. (Lumix FZ28)

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Another Audition Day for the music department. While the prospectives wait for their auditions and the parents wait for the admissions informational meeting, they have the opportunity to sit in Gore Recital Hall and watch a video of junior and senior recitals and ensembles. I rather enjoy it myself. (Lumix FZ28)

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Field of View, the colorguard I visited on Jan 16, 2009, held their preview today, the first public exhibition of their show for this season. In attendence were family, friends (that's me), other colorguards (like Delazure and St. Marks), and alumni from the previous incarnation of Field of View (which has been inactive for ten years). They talked at us a lot, then we watched warmups and two run-throughs. Pictured here is a rifle exchange; but what's even awesomer is that, during the show itself, six flags are standing in between the rifle lines. (Lumix FZ28)

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This photo is simultaneously shitty and awesome. I was trying to get a shot in the freshly falling snow, but decided against getting wet snow in my camera. (Lumix FZ28)

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This is what's consuming my life at work this week: rebuilding a six year-old webapp in a newer language (AOL TCL --> PHP) with more features. Interesting example of how LCD computer screens refresh. (Lumix FZ-28)

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It snows in Delaware now and then, usually around the turn of February. It's pretty for about four hours, then it gets kinda wet because the temperature won't stay below freezing. Then it refreezes at night. Thus, my life blows when it snows. (Lumix FZ28)

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A bunch of theatre dept. classes took a bus up to Princeton to watch Mrs. Warren's Profession at the McCarter (which was very good - I highly recommend it, if you pay enough attention to catch all of Shaw's text). Princeton campus is beautiful -- but not well-enough lit for good night photos. The train station was, though. (Lumix FZ28)

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I skipped Mask-Making class this morning to work a kiddy show about Harriet Tubman at Mitchell Hall, so I spent the rest of the day in the workshop catching up and getting ahead on my masks. The Scream has his base layer of paint, while the fox needs some more fabric to stiffen his face up. On my laptop is a thequestionclub post asking for suggestions for my third mask. (Lumix FZ28)

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Weekends means winterguard. Today was the first show of the competition season and I drove a handful of Delazure girls up to see them. We got there just in time to catch the St Marks HS guard, who I mix music for. Shown here is Blackwatch, who hosted today's competition in Atco, NJ, ready to begin their show. (Lumix FZ-28)

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