by Nick Smarto | Sep 25, 2013 | Experiences, Featured, Photography |
I got the invite from my Skilletation Nation friends to come up for the Purple Pig Music Festival in Naples, New York. It was in the backyard of my amigos from the North, though it was a good five hour drive for me. Totally worth it. It was bitterly cold those nights,...
by Nick Smarto | Aug 1, 2013 | Great Blue Heron |
My eyes close, bathed in the pallid orange glow of sodium-vapor street lamps. Strings of consciousness dissolve in to threads of memories, like nerves that can be plucked and awakened by my transient state as I pass through the chasm in time between here and those...
by Nick Smarto | Jul 10, 2013 | Featured, Great Blue Heron, Photography |
Another great festival year came and went, and consistent with every prior year, it just keeps getting better and better. As usual, Nathan and I committed the entire week leading up to the festival to helping prepare for the flood of thousands of people. Our main...
by Nick Smarto | May 9, 2013 | Featured, Great Blue Heron, HDR, Photography, Videos |
I always look forward to the May Day celebrations at the Heron. It’s a great waypoint on the way to summer, as the snow thaws and the land turns green again. This year was a special year, as we celebrated the life of Alicia Passamonte, a past Heron volunteer...
by Nick Smarto | Apr 25, 2013 | Experiences, Featured, Videos |
Go ahead, feel free to accuse me of collecting too many odd hobbies… But in my defense, it’s pretty fun to (safely) blow things up. Last weekend, I participated in a training course provided by hometown pyro-gurus, Pyrotecnico of New Castle, PA. They offer...
by Nick Smarto | Mar 18, 2013 | Featured, Great Blue Heron, Videos |
Back when we were still assembling the yearly Great Blue Heron flyers by hand, we always threw a yearly party between winter and spring to get together and produce the mailer. Even though we now started outsourcing the mailer, we still get together around the same...
