First Blog

So,

This blog is the result of a week long dream that culminated with needing something to do during the Lakers Celtics 3rd game. The Lakers are ahead and really at the end of the day basketball is not hockey.

Nor is it:
Surfing
Luthiery
Guitar
Hiking
Bella d Dog
Photography
Rock Climbing
Half Baked Politics
Philosophy
or
Strategic Boozing.

So, Why blog.

I have been telling people that I am going to post my guitar building picks and damn it, at the end of the day I have some pretty good pictures and video from the weekend and weekday adventures that my schedule allows.

Why Olaf.

I gave an art show at the Durango Bagel when I was living in Colorado. My roommate was pretty artistic and I decided that with all of my time in the mountains, painting them shouldn't be that tough. I used the pen name Olaf Danielson and fabricate a bio that I thought was pretty amusing. The staff were the only ones who were in on the joke and tourists and locals both bit. It went like this:

The Artist:

Born in a small fishing village in Finland I began to appreciate the outdoors at an early age. My fathers business was processing the refuse from others fishing vessels. He worked hard but, he would make time to teach me his love of painting.

When it became no longer politically or socially acceptable to process and distribute native seal and dolphin species, the family business went in to bankruptcy. I am now here in the US working towards a better way of life.

These painting were mainly inspired by local mountains and my homeland. You can see a marked progression from one to the next as these are my earliest works.

I hope you enjoy them,

Olaf Danielson
Age 15

The oos and aahhs and "Honey, you have to read this" were the gift that kept on giving according to the staff. The paintings (are pastels really paintings?) were either of the Colorado Rockies (mountain range not baseball team) or of Mediterranean scenes that I pulled out of magazines. Not very Finnish.

Here are some of the paintings from my first and last art show.





Anyways, the name served me well and to be quite honest I run my own business's and I don't really need business partners seeing my published mirth online. If they want to know about me surfing during the week I'll tell them about it... Yeah.

So that was my first post. I need to figure out how to post my guitar pic's, surf videos etc...

Peace