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I’m not sure if you have ever visited David’s blog (located in the blogroll) but is always been one of my favorites because of his great photography. Now David is putting that photography on display at the Weinberg.

David Raimist enjoys taking ordinary objects and making people look at them from a different angle.

Raimist, 43, of Woodsboro, likes to call attention to the patterns and textures of the veins in plants, the railing poking out of the staircase or the snow freshly fallen on bricks. He likes to point out things in objects that people don’t normally see.

Raimist currently has one of his photography exhibits on display at the Urbana Regional Library at 9020 Amelung St. He is the first in a series of up and coming artists to be displayed at the library. The show, which began Feb. 22, ends Saturday.

“Everybody kept saying I should (show my work)” he said. “I thought it would be interesting to try.”

So far, Raimist has only gotten positive feed back from the handful of shows he has done. His photos will be displayed next at the Weinberg Center for the Arts beginning April 7 during First Saturday Gallery Walk and ending Memorial Day weekend.

A little more info from David himself:

Hello! After another successful show at the Urbana Regional Public Library, I am working on my next gallery show - a solo exhibition at the Weinberg Center for the Arts that also plays host to local artists in an ongoing display of multimedia art exhibits.

Various images will be on display at the Weinberg beginning Saturday, April 7th. The exhibition will run through the Memorial Day weekend and will coincide with the 1st Saturday Gallery Walk celebration in downtown Frederick in April and May. While I am not having a formal reception I plan on being at the Weinberg during the 1st Saturday Gallery Walk each month. Learn more about the 1st Saturday Gallery Walk.

I will definitely stop by to see exhibition!

~Guy~ 

I was reading Wired magazine when I ran across this article.

Web Geeks love to hate Uwe Boll, the German director behind the film adaptations of the video games The House of the Dead, BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark. Out of 350,000-plus films rated by users of the Internet Movie Database, Boll’s game flicks all rank in the bottom 100. “He’s a taint on the genre film community!” thunders Ain’t It Cool News. One angry viewer purchased uweboll.com and posted a single-line entreaty: “Please stop making movies.”

Last June, Boll decided he’d had enough. A onetime amateur boxer, he decided to challenge his critics to a fight. He issued a press release that was quickly posted and reposted on nearly every gaming and movie site on the Web: “If critics want to bring Uwe Boll down,” it read, “here is their chance to physically bring him down and have the entire world watch them do it.” Four courageous – or is it crazy? – souls stepped forward. Here are some images from the infamous night of boxing matches that has come to be known as “the Maneuver in Vancouver.”

One of the four contenders was Chance Minter, a 17-year-old from Frederick, Maryland.

Before the fight, Minter got pumped up by listening to the theme song from Conan the Barbarian on his iPod. “Boll’s really wild, more of a brawler than a fighter,” he says. “His jab is weak. He tries to get close so he can swing wide. I’m just gonna go out there and do my thing.”

Minter had never written anything – bad or good – about the director when he asked to take part in the challenge. Nonetheless, Boll waived the rules and let him in. Minter has six months of boxing experience, rendering him the most formidable challenger of the night.

The final fight begins. Boll is ferocious, maybe because his opponent has a modicum of fighting experience or maybe because he no longer needs to hold anything in reserve. Minter gets in a few good shots, but then seizes up. He stops moving and keeps his hands locked in front of his face. Boll goes to work on the teenager’s unprotected rib cage and kidneys.

“Move around, Chance! Hit back!” shrieks Minter’s mom, who accompanied him to Vancouver. As the Teutonic Terror doles out dozens of punishing body blows, a line from Conan comes to mind. It’s the scene where a loincloth-wearing Arnold Schwarzenegger describes every barbarian’s raison d’être: “to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women!”

Minter’s mom rushes to the ring to stop the fight, but it’s already over – Minter’s cornerman has intervened. She leans against the ropes, head in hands, as Paré declares Boll the winner by technical knockout.

Pretty cool! Read the whole article.

~Guy~