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"content": "\u003cp>Carmen Gonzalez combs through pictures of her youngest son, Jacob. She picks one that shows him in boxing gear, his gloved fists raised. He looks straight at the camera. In another, he’s more relaxed, with his long, wavy hair reaching down to his shoulders. His arm hangs around his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son was a very charming, popular kid with girls,” says Gonzalez. “He was funny, and he always had a smiling face. No one could resist him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when Jacob was 17, he was accidentally killed by a friend who shot him in the back while they sat in a parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868753\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of waiting for a kid to graduate from high school or drive his own car, we have nothing. He just left. 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And today, that includes tapping into traditional medicine and art as \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em>, the Mexican celebration of loved ones who have died, approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-100504 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Carmen Gonzalez (R) and other members of a grief group at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Gonzalez’s son was accidentally killed two years ago at age 17. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Gonzalez (R) and other members of a grief group at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Gonzalez’s son was accidentally killed two years ago at age 17. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and her husband first made a nicho -- a small box decorated to honor someone who has died -- in their son's memory for \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em> last year. They decorated it with things Jacob loved, such as green apples, Cheetos, Star Wars figurines and chicken. She says the process of making the nicho brought a lot of tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to think that our kid is not with us anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nicho that Gonzalez is making for her son this year is different. She glues red sequins onto the edge of the box and says she plans on adding a dancing \u003cem>calavera\u003c/em> or skeleton. The pain of losing her son hasn’t subsided, she says, but she feels less anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one I’m doing now is a little bit like resignation, because I know he is connected. Energy always transforms into something different,” Gonzalez says. “And that’s what I want to believe, that he is still with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone in the group is busily working on tables with fabrics and flowers. They take turns using a glue gun to paste tiny ceramic figurines of tamales and enchiladas onto their boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Perez, 14, has just put the first layer of paint on the nicho for his parents. They died in a car accident when he was just 3 years old. He made a nicho last year with pictures of them and other items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to have his own workshop so I put cars, tools. And a hummingbird, because every time I used to see a hummingbird, that reminded me of (my mom),” says Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he says, he kisses the nicho goodnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist Ricardo Carrillo leads the group, which is part of La Clinica’s \u003cem>Cultura y Bienestar\u003c/em> (Culture and Wellbeing) mental health program. He says that by making this art, people here are rerooting themselves in traditions that offer healthy approaches to life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-100508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It strengthens our mental health in that we have a place to bring our grief, bring our loss in a celebratory way,” says Carrillo. “We accept the fact that we are going to die. The question is, what do we want to leave and what did our loved ones leave for us? And that’s what we try to celebrate in the artwork that we are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo is also working on a nicho for his sister, who died last year of complications from alcoholism. He paints it with bright pinks and purples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a really girly girl, but at the same time had the heart of a tough guy,” says Carrillo. “She was a beautiful person, but she suffered her entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art therapist Alicia Diaz started the grief group nearly nine years ago. She recognized the natural fit of making nichos to help this community, and now is setting up an altar with nichos at the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If people can make that connection to the person that's passed away, let that creativity just run from their heart to their hands and create without judgment, it shows,\" she says. \"People love it, and people love to look at them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz didn’t grow up with the tradition -– this hybrid between popular and religious art. 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She’s the most prominently featured of the album’s singers, and Muñoz makes the most out of her sensuously throaty voice on the opening track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJurCZDeFD8\">Preludio y Fin\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For players, Muñoz draws on a cast of longtime collaborators, including pianist Adam Asarnow, bassist Brendan Statom and guitarist Daniel Zimmerman. Each track features different instrumentation. On “Argentina,” an elegant setting for a lyric by Nicaraguan singer/songwriter Luis Enrique Mejía, Herrera engages in a hip-swaying dance with the flugelhorn of Jonathan Dane, whose self-possessed horn work provides the album with another striking voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Costa Rica, where he graduated from the National Conservatory, Muñoz moved to California in the mid-1970s to study music at UC Santa Barbara. 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"content": "\u003cp>In February, 85-year-old artist Ray Dutcher fled a wall of fire three stories high as it roared down the mountain toward his cabin near Bishop, a town in the remote eastern Sierra south of Yosemite. The self-described hermit took one thing: a painting he’d been working on since 1982. The Round Fire sparked the artist’s rediscovery and his first show in four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand on Ray Dutcher’s porch and you start to get the whole hermit thing. The view from his cabin in an area called Swall Meadows is a breathtaking panorama of stark mountains, deep valleys and sky. If sky can be measured in tons, this is tons of sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came up here just to get away from L.A. and find a better place to create,” says Dutcher. “I liked the back country. I didn’t enjoy myself down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738716 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Glacier Lake,\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Glacier Lake,\" the only painting Dutcher took as the Round Fire blazed toward his cabin. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutcher is a wiry man with bright eyes, long gray hair and a white beard. He’s a fast-talking fellow who’s sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn’t smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he’s been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. That same year he co-founded the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, exhibiting work by West Coast artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and John Wesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that affiliation, the art scene was not for him. “I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living,” he says. “I want to paint whenever I darn well please to paint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher’s last exhibition was in Encino in 1973. It sold out. After that, he moved to the Sierra, where he’s been working on his pieces -- often the same ones -- for decades in his backroom cabin studio facing western light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where these works may have stayed, were it not for the Round Fire that swept through the area in February, consuming 7,000 acres and destroying over 40 homes and structures. Dutcher was forced to evacuate at the last minute, and took with him only one thing: a painting called \"Glacier Lake\" that he’s been working on since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Ray’s 52-year-old son, Mark -- an artist in Los Angeles -- was unable to get in touch with his father, whose home was spared. He checked on him by way of Facebook and a Bishop-based gallery owner named Bruce Licher, who was a stranger to Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10740157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg\" alt='\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. ' width=\"800\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10740157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1440x1418.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1180x1162.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-960x945.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t friends with him on Facebook,” Mark explains, “but I saw that he was posting images of the fire in Swall Meadows, so I contacted him in a message on Facebook and said, ‘My dad lives up there and I can’t get ahold of him. Can you check on him?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Licher and his wife, Karen, also lived in Swall Meadows at the time, “we didn’t even know that Ray existed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he dutifully trekked up the hill in search of Mark’s father, found the cabin and knocked on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I saw on his walls were these amazing paintings,” Licher says. “I thought, wow, you know, these would be great to show in our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent Project Press is the Lichers' “space.” The couple’s main business for the last 30 years has been creating unique printed material on vintage letterpress equipment, veritable works of art unto themselves. The space also houses The Project Room, a gallery that’s helped to galvanize the local art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Licher’s enthusiasm, Dutcher was not thrilled with the idea. His first reaction was, \"Oh no, I’m done with showing my work in galleries. Galleries just want you to produce lots of work and I don’t do that. I don’t work fast and I don’t want to sell these anyway. I want to pass them on to my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher reluctantly agreed to an exhibition, after stipulating that none of the pieces would be for sale. Signed prints of the work are available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it happened. The Sept. 25 opening night of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1495941167369951/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Adventures in Visual Thought,\"\u003c/a> a 40-year retrospective of Dutcher’s work, drew a significant chunk of tiny Bishop’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The adventures start here.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The adventures start here. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see in his paintings, your mind’s eye would walk into the depth of them, so it’s pretty unique,” offers Karen Licher. “Ray’s got his own way to do this that I haven’t really seen with any other painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group stood in front of \"Tundra Pond,\" an oil on canvas image of yes, a tundra pond, but Dutcher has captured the light, the water and the moss-covered stones in such an exact manner it would seem to define photorealism. Yet this entire exhibition might not have happened were it not for the fire and Dutcher’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for Mark, they’d never been shown,” says the artist. “And the Round Fire and Bruce. They all came together and got me down here. Otherwise, the paintings, maybe through selfishness, they’d never been shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray left the family when Mark was 7 and, until recently, they saw each other only sporadically. But art is where they connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that my dad is the reason that I’m an artist,” says Mark. “It gives me encouragement that he’s been painting all these years. It really inspires me to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray’s art is what’s kept \u003cem>him\u003c/em> going. Each piece is continually evolving, and he doesn’t like to let them go. He still feels the sting of selling his work back in ’73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just disappear,” he says. “What the hell have I got? Someone else has it. I have nothing to show for it but money. Money’s not that important to me. I’m not suffering for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his self-imposed four-decade absence from the gallery walls, Dutcher is glad to be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to have a show,” he says. “How long am I going to live? I’m a late bloomer, as they say, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Adventures in Visual Thought\" runs through November. Then Dutcher will pack his paintings into his old truck and drive them back up the mountain to his cabin.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. That same year he co-founded the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, exhibiting work by West Coast artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and John Wesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that affiliation, the art scene was not for him. “I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living,” he says. “I want to paint whenever I darn well please to paint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher’s last exhibition was in Encino in 1973. It sold out. After that, he moved to the Sierra, where he’s been working on his pieces -- often the same ones -- for decades in his backroom cabin studio facing western light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where these works may have stayed, were it not for the Round Fire that swept through the area in February, consuming 7,000 acres and destroying over 40 homes and structures. Dutcher was forced to evacuate at the last minute, and took with him only one thing: a painting called \"Glacier Lake\" that he’s been working on since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Ray’s 52-year-old son, Mark -- an artist in Los Angeles -- was unable to get in touch with his father, whose home was spared. He checked on him by way of Facebook and a Bishop-based gallery owner named Bruce Licher, who was a stranger to Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10740157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg\" alt='\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. ' width=\"800\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10740157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1440x1418.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1180x1162.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-960x945.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t friends with him on Facebook,” Mark explains, “but I saw that he was posting images of the fire in Swall Meadows, so I contacted him in a message on Facebook and said, ‘My dad lives up there and I can’t get ahold of him. Can you check on him?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Licher and his wife, Karen, also lived in Swall Meadows at the time, “we didn’t even know that Ray existed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he dutifully trekked up the hill in search of Mark’s father, found the cabin and knocked on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I saw on his walls were these amazing paintings,” Licher says. “I thought, wow, you know, these would be great to show in our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent Project Press is the Lichers' “space.” The couple’s main business for the last 30 years has been creating unique printed material on vintage letterpress equipment, veritable works of art unto themselves. The space also houses The Project Room, a gallery that’s helped to galvanize the local art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Licher’s enthusiasm, Dutcher was not thrilled with the idea. His first reaction was, \"Oh no, I’m done with showing my work in galleries. Galleries just want you to produce lots of work and I don’t do that. I don’t work fast and I don’t want to sell these anyway. I want to pass them on to my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher reluctantly agreed to an exhibition, after stipulating that none of the pieces would be for sale. Signed prints of the work are available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it happened. The Sept. 25 opening night of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1495941167369951/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Adventures in Visual Thought,\"\u003c/a> a 40-year retrospective of Dutcher’s work, drew a significant chunk of tiny Bishop’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The adventures start here.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The adventures start here. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see in his paintings, your mind’s eye would walk into the depth of them, so it’s pretty unique,” offers Karen Licher. “Ray’s got his own way to do this that I haven’t really seen with any other painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group stood in front of \"Tundra Pond,\" an oil on canvas image of yes, a tundra pond, but Dutcher has captured the light, the water and the moss-covered stones in such an exact manner it would seem to define photorealism. 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Now his photographs are being noticed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month Todorov's picture of Koehn Lake in the Mojave Desert won a first-place \u003ca href=\"http://www.photoawards.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Photography Award \u003c/a>and he was named Nature Photographer of the Year in the contest's non-professional nature category, which drew 2,449 entries. Earlier this year, his image of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone finished second in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldphoto.org/about-the-sony-world-photography-awards/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony World Photography Awards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Koehn Lake in August. His winning picture looks more like a painting than a photograph. Todorov thinks it resembles a magical forest, but it actually illustrates the effects of wind and time on a dry lake in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I stumbled upon it around sunset. There's nobody there and it's very remote,\" said Todorov. \"When you're performing, you get a natural high. It was the same kind of feeling. I had goosebumps when I was shooting it. These abstract shots are the ones I love the most. This is nature's art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began flying in 2002 and is now licensed as a private, instrument-rated and commercial pilot, and a flight instructor, too. Five years ago, he bought a four-seat 1976 Piper Warrior, which he keeps at San Carlos Airport. It can go for 5½ hours at a stretch at 120 mph -- roughly from San Francisco to Twin Falls, Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10739554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com\" target=\"_blank\">Todorov's mix of skills and passions\u003c/a> might seem improbable, but not to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of patterns and repetition in music. There's a lot of discipline,\" he said. \"There are rules, but when you break them -- that's when it gets exciting. When you apply all of that to a new art form, you can advance quite fast. Music and photography are very similar in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other parallels, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can talk to people about what I've seen, but then I show them some pictures and they go 'wow' immediately,\" he said. \"That's the power of still photos. I can explain to you what Bach sounds like, but you hear it and it transcends you to a different reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov's fascination with flying started a long time ago. He began collecting models of cars and airplanes when he was 5, and about 200 of them can still be found in his house in Bulgaria. His grandfather used to take him to the airport in Sofia to watch the planes come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole idea of traveling, of exploration, of discovery, seemed so fascinating,\" he said. \"It's much more interesting to see the world from above. Flying gives you wings! Who doesn't want to have wings?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the kitchen of the house he rents in the Ingleside, a 15-minute walk from S.F. State. In the past 12 years, Todorov has taught classes there in chamber music literature, string methods, music appreciation, fundamentals theory and career management in music. He has also given private violin lessons to undergrads and graduate students -- as well as actor Richard Gere, to help him prep for his role in \"Bee Season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although teaching and concerts are, as he puts it, his \"primary assignment,\" photography has become an obsession in the last three years, since he decided to seriously pursue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov had just returned from a flight around the West that covered six states and 2,000 miles in four days. He'd shot about 800 pictures and had already posted some on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jassensf/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page.\u003c/a> But he was still editing and happy to relive the trip through the photographs on his laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think of fields of potatoes when you think of Idaho. But they have these fields of craters. ... Here are reflections of clouds on a lake in Utah. ... I was 1,000 feet above Old Faithful here. ... Nevada is full of these red rocks. ... Look at these rivers of mud in Death Valley. Even though it's terrible, it's incredible to photograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1440x949.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On average, Todorov flies twice a week. So far, he's racked up more than 2,000 hours of flying time since he got his license. He keeps a folding bike in his plane so that he can quickly get where he wants to go if he decides to land and take pictures from the ground. He used to lug along a bag full of charts, but now he relies on ForeFlight, an app on his iPad, for all his navigation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current camera is a Nikon D810, with a 70-200mm zoom lens. He holds it with his left hand and shoots with his right through a small open window. The camera is heavy -- about 5 pounds -- and Todorov lifts it up to demonstrate its heft. Then he brings out his Tomaso Eberle violin, which was made in Naples in 1778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To put it in perspective, Mozart was 22 and Beethoven was only 8 when my violin was made,\" he said. \"But it's kind of like the camera. If you have a better instrument, it allows you to better express yourself. With music you want an older instrument. The more it ages, the more it starts to flourish. But with technology, in a year or two my camera won't be so relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the best equipment, though, clarity and sharpness can be elusive. But Todorov enjoys the challenge. He was dealing with high winds and turbulence at 11,000 feet when he shot his award-winning photo of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really want to take advantage of the morning light and the sunset light,\" he said. \"Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I don't. If I don't, there's always tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His pictures have been published by National Geographic, The Guardian, China News, USA Today, The Telegraph and several other media outlets, and they've been exhibited in London and Chicago. In August, National Geographic asked him to be a guest editor for its \"Your Shot From Above\" assignment -- which entailed reviewing 17,442 photographs before picking 29 winners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's no doubt that music comes first, to the point that Todorov did not have time to go to New York to accept his prize for the Koehn Lake picture, presented Oct. 27 at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lucies.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lucie Awards\u003c/a> in Carnegie Hall -- the same venue where he's performed twice as a musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, traveling for performances gives him more opportunities to take pictures, and he often rents a plane. When he was in the Philippines in early October for a concert, he captured the struggles of people trying to reach their homes by canoe after a huge flood in the town of Candaba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very humbling experience,\" said Todorov. \"It puts the problems of myself and my friends in perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a similar reaction shooting the oil fields surrounding Taft in Kern County. \"It's so polluted here,\" he said. \"This is what we do to ourselves. The oil rigs look like ticks sucking the blood from the earth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more isolated a place is, the better, as far as Todorov is concerned. \"Sometimes I feel like a pioneer,\" he said. \"Many of the places I fly, there's not a single soul for hundreds of miles. When I'm in these areas, my greatest inspiration is Bach and his music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often listens to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with his iPod when he's flying, making his trips even more surreal. But it doesn't take music to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When my girlfriend and I were flying to Wyoming, there was a hawk next to us at 11,000 feet,\" he said. \"You don't think of hawks as going that high. And every once in a while, there are a lot of beautiful birds. They're moving and I'm moving. One day I saw a huge flock of egrets taking off from the salts in San Francisco Bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Todorov's outings are not always so ethereal. He recently landed in Kayenta, which is on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The residents were surprised to see him pedaling through town on his folding bicycle, and a few invited him into their homes. That went well. On his way out of town, though, three large canines started chasing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was imagining myself being ripped apart by these dogs,\" he said. \"They eventually gave up but it took awhile. I rode so fast. I couldn't wait to get back in the plane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another time, coming back from Utah, he spotted trails -- the kind made by aerobatic aircraft -- on the right side of his plane. \"And then I felt crazy turbulence,\" he said. \"People were shooting manmade rockets. They could have shot me down. I could have exploded. Talk about the Wild West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not scary but even stranger: In December 2013, he was returning from Mono Lake and flying over the Sierra when he shot a sunset photo with his cellphone to send to his mother and girlfriend. But he dropped the device and it fell 11,000 feet into the snow. Eight months later, someone found it on a trail. There wasn't a scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These kinds of things, when they occur, you think: Is that a dream?\" Todorov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739615\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch. \u003ccite>(Alex Bederov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His favorite photos are from this past summer, when he went to Iceland. \"The rivers of Iceland are probably the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life,\" he said. \"Volcanic ash mixed with water -- I could not stop photographing. It looks so out of this world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn't have to go far to get other amazing shots. South of Half Moon Bay, he captured a kitesurfer in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went flying on a windy day,\" he said. \"When it gets very windy, you can't take pictures because the plane is shaking. I thought, 'I must be the only crazy person out and about.' Then I saw another crazy person. I saw the shape, the kite and the shadow of the kite. And then I saw him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one example of how aerial photography has changed his view of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see things I did not see before,\" Todorov said. \"And I get into a different dimension. When I'm playing music, it's not part of reality. It's the same with taking pictures when I'm flying.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jassen Todorov doesn't seem possible. He's an aerial photographer, a licensed pilot, a music professor at S.F. State and an acclaimed violinist whose concerts take him around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm well organized -- which often times I'm not -- I can fly the plane, I can play my violin, I can teach, I can take pictures and I can take a second flight at sunset,\" said Todorov, 40, who lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Bulgaria in a family of musicians and started playing the violin at age 5. When he was 17, he was given a full scholarship to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.idyllwildarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">Idyllwild Arts Academy \u003c/a>in Southern California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com/performances_past.html\" target=\"_blank\">His music\u003c/a> has been getting attention for almost two decades. Now his photographs are being noticed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month Todorov's picture of Koehn Lake in the Mojave Desert won a first-place \u003ca href=\"http://www.photoawards.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Photography Award \u003c/a>and he was named Nature Photographer of the Year in the contest's non-professional nature category, which drew 2,449 entries. Earlier this year, his image of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone finished second in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldphoto.org/about-the-sony-world-photography-awards/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony World Photography Awards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Koehn Lake in August. His winning picture looks more like a painting than a photograph. Todorov thinks it resembles a magical forest, but it actually illustrates the effects of wind and time on a dry lake in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I stumbled upon it around sunset. There's nobody there and it's very remote,\" said Todorov. \"When you're performing, you get a natural high. It was the same kind of feeling. I had goosebumps when I was shooting it. These abstract shots are the ones I love the most. This is nature's art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began flying in 2002 and is now licensed as a private, instrument-rated and commercial pilot, and a flight instructor, too. Five years ago, he bought a four-seat 1976 Piper Warrior, which he keeps at San Carlos Airport. It can go for 5½ hours at a stretch at 120 mph -- roughly from San Francisco to Twin Falls, Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10739554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com\" target=\"_blank\">Todorov's mix of skills and passions\u003c/a> might seem improbable, but not to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of patterns and repetition in music. There's a lot of discipline,\" he said. \"There are rules, but when you break them -- that's when it gets exciting. When you apply all of that to a new art form, you can advance quite fast. Music and photography are very similar in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other parallels, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can talk to people about what I've seen, but then I show them some pictures and they go 'wow' immediately,\" he said. \"That's the power of still photos. I can explain to you what Bach sounds like, but you hear it and it transcends you to a different reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov's fascination with flying started a long time ago. He began collecting models of cars and airplanes when he was 5, and about 200 of them can still be found in his house in Bulgaria. His grandfather used to take him to the airport in Sofia to watch the planes come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole idea of traveling, of exploration, of discovery, seemed so fascinating,\" he said. \"It's much more interesting to see the world from above. Flying gives you wings! Who doesn't want to have wings?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the kitchen of the house he rents in the Ingleside, a 15-minute walk from S.F. State. In the past 12 years, Todorov has taught classes there in chamber music literature, string methods, music appreciation, fundamentals theory and career management in music. He has also given private violin lessons to undergrads and graduate students -- as well as actor Richard Gere, to help him prep for his role in \"Bee Season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although teaching and concerts are, as he puts it, his \"primary assignment,\" photography has become an obsession in the last three years, since he decided to seriously pursue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov had just returned from a flight around the West that covered six states and 2,000 miles in four days. He'd shot about 800 pictures and had already posted some on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jassensf/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page.\u003c/a> But he was still editing and happy to relive the trip through the photographs on his laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think of fields of potatoes when you think of Idaho. But they have these fields of craters. ... Here are reflections of clouds on a lake in Utah. ... I was 1,000 feet above Old Faithful here. ... Nevada is full of these red rocks. ... Look at these rivers of mud in Death Valley. Even though it's terrible, it's incredible to photograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1440x949.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On average, Todorov flies twice a week. So far, he's racked up more than 2,000 hours of flying time since he got his license. He keeps a folding bike in his plane so that he can quickly get where he wants to go if he decides to land and take pictures from the ground. He used to lug along a bag full of charts, but now he relies on ForeFlight, an app on his iPad, for all his navigation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current camera is a Nikon D810, with a 70-200mm zoom lens. He holds it with his left hand and shoots with his right through a small open window. The camera is heavy -- about 5 pounds -- and Todorov lifts it up to demonstrate its heft. Then he brings out his Tomaso Eberle violin, which was made in Naples in 1778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To put it in perspective, Mozart was 22 and Beethoven was only 8 when my violin was made,\" he said. \"But it's kind of like the camera. If you have a better instrument, it allows you to better express yourself. With music you want an older instrument. The more it ages, the more it starts to flourish. But with technology, in a year or two my camera won't be so relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the best equipment, though, clarity and sharpness can be elusive. But Todorov enjoys the challenge. He was dealing with high winds and turbulence at 11,000 feet when he shot his award-winning photo of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really want to take advantage of the morning light and the sunset light,\" he said. \"Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I don't. If I don't, there's always tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His pictures have been published by National Geographic, The Guardian, China News, USA Today, The Telegraph and several other media outlets, and they've been exhibited in London and Chicago. In August, National Geographic asked him to be a guest editor for its \"Your Shot From Above\" assignment -- which entailed reviewing 17,442 photographs before picking 29 winners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's no doubt that music comes first, to the point that Todorov did not have time to go to New York to accept his prize for the Koehn Lake picture, presented Oct. 27 at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lucies.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lucie Awards\u003c/a> in Carnegie Hall -- the same venue where he's performed twice as a musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, traveling for performances gives him more opportunities to take pictures, and he often rents a plane. When he was in the Philippines in early October for a concert, he captured the struggles of people trying to reach their homes by canoe after a huge flood in the town of Candaba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very humbling experience,\" said Todorov. \"It puts the problems of myself and my friends in perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a similar reaction shooting the oil fields surrounding Taft in Kern County. \"It's so polluted here,\" he said. \"This is what we do to ourselves. The oil rigs look like ticks sucking the blood from the earth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more isolated a place is, the better, as far as Todorov is concerned. \"Sometimes I feel like a pioneer,\" he said. \"Many of the places I fly, there's not a single soul for hundreds of miles. When I'm in these areas, my greatest inspiration is Bach and his music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often listens to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with his iPod when he's flying, making his trips even more surreal. But it doesn't take music to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When my girlfriend and I were flying to Wyoming, there was a hawk next to us at 11,000 feet,\" he said. \"You don't think of hawks as going that high. And every once in a while, there are a lot of beautiful birds. They're moving and I'm moving. One day I saw a huge flock of egrets taking off from the salts in San Francisco Bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Todorov's outings are not always so ethereal. He recently landed in Kayenta, which is on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The residents were surprised to see him pedaling through town on his folding bicycle, and a few invited him into their homes. That went well. On his way out of town, though, three large canines started chasing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was imagining myself being ripped apart by these dogs,\" he said. \"They eventually gave up but it took awhile. I rode so fast. I couldn't wait to get back in the plane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another time, coming back from Utah, he spotted trails -- the kind made by aerobatic aircraft -- on the right side of his plane. \"And then I felt crazy turbulence,\" he said. \"People were shooting manmade rockets. They could have shot me down. I could have exploded. Talk about the Wild West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not scary but even stranger: In December 2013, he was returning from Mono Lake and flying over the Sierra when he shot a sunset photo with his cellphone to send to his mother and girlfriend. But he dropped the device and it fell 11,000 feet into the snow. Eight months later, someone found it on a trail. There wasn't a scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These kinds of things, when they occur, you think: Is that a dream?\" Todorov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739615\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch. \u003ccite>(Alex Bederov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His favorite photos are from this past summer, when he went to Iceland. \"The rivers of Iceland are probably the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life,\" he said. \"Volcanic ash mixed with water -- I could not stop photographing. It looks so out of this world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn't have to go far to get other amazing shots. South of Half Moon Bay, he captured a kitesurfer in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went flying on a windy day,\" he said. \"When it gets very windy, you can't take pictures because the plane is shaking. I thought, 'I must be the only crazy person out and about.' Then I saw another crazy person. I saw the shape, the kite and the shadow of the kite. And then I saw him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one example of how aerial photography has changed his view of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>National (Insert Noun of Choice) Day phenomenons seem to have picked up steam since our lives have migrated increasingly to the digital space. Events we once maligned as \"Hallmark Holidays,\" now serve as the oh-so-perfect opportunity to re-share an old photo, offer a kind tribute to a loved one -- or gorge on decadent foods we might typically pass on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's Sibling Day on April 10, full of Facebook posts like \"My brother means so much to me! Look how handsome he is!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doughnut Day on June 3 brings the department-wide emails: \"I left a dozen crullers are on the food table!\" (Yes, every office has a food table.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we must not forget what is arguably the \u003cem>most\u003c/em> successful day-long take-over by a corporate brand: 7-11's Free Slushee Day on July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is not usually the kind of shop that jumps on the non-official holiday du jour, but we decided to bend our policy a bit today because ... cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so we bring you, a few of the many cats that inspire the people who bring you public media every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Reporter Rachael Myrow's cat Cleo will tell anyone who will listen she is being starved to death. You be the judge.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley Reporter Rachael Myrow's cat Cleo will tell anyone who will listen she is being starved to death. You be the judge. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446145191647.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738392 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver sits for treats and fetches rolled up balls of aluminum foil (when he feels like it). He belongs to the sister of political reporter Marisa Lagos.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver sits for treats and fetches rolled up balls of aluminum foil\u003cbr> (when he feels like it). He belongs to the sister of political reporter Marisa Lagos.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg\" alt=\"This is Boomerang. He was a little scrawny stray when reporter Steven Cuevas rescued him 10 years ago. He’s now a healthy 17 pounds. Cuevas tried to find a good home for him when Boomerang first showed up on his doorstep, but to no avail. In the meantime he crept into Cuevas' heart, even though he never even wanted a cat! "In a sense HE adopted ME," says Cuevas.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Boomerang. He was a little scrawny stray when reporter Steven Cuevas rescued him 10 years ago.\u003cbr>He’s now a healthy 17 pounds. Cuevas tried to find a good home for him when Boomerang first showed up on his doorstep, but to no avail. In the meantime he crept into Cuevas' heart, even though he never even wanted a cat! \"In a sense HE adopted ME,\" says Cuevas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg\" alt='Odo and Kira \"help\" interactive producer Lisa Pickoff-White with laundry.' width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odo and Kira \"help\" interactive producer Lisa Pickoff-White with laundry. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg\" alt=\"Puk the cat in KQED Forum producer Tina Laurberg's sink.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711-400x533.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puk the cat in KQED Forum producer Tina Laurberg's sink. \u003ccite>(Tina Laurberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg\" alt=\"We feel the same way, Archie. Some days humans are just TOO MUCH.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We feel the same way, Archie. Some days humans are just TOO MUCH. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1098px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter April Dembosky's cat Lucas must be a Giants fan! This photo was taken in Oct 30, 2012, before Halloween and when the Giants were in the World Series – “orange and black attack” was the team’s tagline at the time. \" width=\"1098\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg 1098w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-400x356.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-800x711.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-960x853.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1098px) 100vw, 1098px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter April Dembosky's cat Lucas must be a Giants fan! This photo was taken in Oct 30, 2012, before Halloween and when the Giants were in the World Series – “orange and black attack” was the team’s tagline at the time. \u003ccite>(April Demobosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg\" alt=\"Radio news intern Martha Perez-Sanz has a close relationship with this cute kitty, Tiny. She doesn't have any teeth, so she can't hold her little tongue in very well!\" width=\"640\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny-400x710.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio news intern Martha Perez-Sanz has a close relationship with this cute kitty, Tiny. She doesn't have any teeth, so she can't hold her little tongue in very well! \u003ccite>(Martha Perez-Sanz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10739674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ghoasty was found abandoned in Golden Gate Park as a kitten, and rescued by Dylan Weir, the son of News Editor David Weir.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghosty was found abandoned in Golden Gate Park as a kitten, and rescued by Aidan, Dylan, and Julia Weir, children of News Editor David Weir. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dylan Weir )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg\" alt=\"=Fun fact about Pazzi (which means crazy in Italian) is she can tell the future! She enjoys reading tarot cards, eating chocolate and licking stamps, according to Lindsey Hoshaw, an interactive producer with KQED Science. \" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun fact about Pazzi (which means crazy in Italian) is she can tell the future! She enjoys reading tarot cards, eating chocolate and licking stamps, according to Lindsey Hoshaw, an interactive producer with KQED Science. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stephanie McInroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg\" alt=\"Mishka is a fluffy little troublemaker who got lost for four days last week ... but eventually found his way back home to Senior Arts Editor Chloe Veltman.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mishka is a fluffy little troublemaker who got lost for four days last week ... but eventually found his way back home to Senior Arts Editor Chloe Veltman. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2848px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738656\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg\" alt=\"Friends forever! Science reporter Amy Standen's cats are besties. \" width=\"2848\" height=\"2136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg 2848w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2848px) 100vw, 2848px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends forever! Science reporter Amy Standen's cats are besties. \u003ccite>(Chris Colin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so we bring you, a few of the many cats that inspire the people who bring you public media every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Reporter Rachael Myrow's cat Cleo will tell anyone who will listen she is being starved to death. You be the judge.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3481-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley Reporter Rachael Myrow's cat Cleo will tell anyone who will listen she is being starved to death. You be the judge. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446145191647.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738392 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver sits for treats and fetches rolled up balls of aluminum foil (when he feels like it). He belongs to the sister of political reporter Marisa Lagos.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_5108-e1446160203139-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver sits for treats and fetches rolled up balls of aluminum foil\u003cbr> (when he feels like it). He belongs to the sister of political reporter Marisa Lagos.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg\" alt=\"This is Boomerang. He was a little scrawny stray when reporter Steven Cuevas rescued him 10 years ago. He’s now a healthy 17 pounds. Cuevas tried to find a good home for him when Boomerang first showed up on his doorstep, but to no avail. In the meantime he crept into Cuevas' heart, even though he never even wanted a cat! "In a sense HE adopted ME," says Cuevas.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/boomerang1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Boomerang. He was a little scrawny stray when reporter Steven Cuevas rescued him 10 years ago.\u003cbr>He’s now a healthy 17 pounds. Cuevas tried to find a good home for him when Boomerang first showed up on his doorstep, but to no avail. In the meantime he crept into Cuevas' heart, even though he never even wanted a cat! \"In a sense HE adopted ME,\" says Cuevas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg\" alt='Odo and Kira \"help\" interactive producer Lisa Pickoff-White with laundry.' width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_3658-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odo and Kira \"help\" interactive producer Lisa Pickoff-White with laundry. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg\" alt=\"Puk the cat in KQED Forum producer Tina Laurberg's sink.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711.jpeg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image1-e1446152299711-400x533.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puk the cat in KQED Forum producer Tina Laurberg's sink. \u003ccite>(Tina Laurberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg\" alt=\"We feel the same way, Archie. Some days humans are just TOO MUCH.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1023-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We feel the same way, Archie. Some days humans are just TOO MUCH. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1098px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter April Dembosky's cat Lucas must be a Giants fan! This photo was taken in Oct 30, 2012, before Halloween and when the Giants were in the World Series – “orange and black attack” was the team’s tagline at the time. \" width=\"1098\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin.jpg 1098w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-400x356.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-800x711.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Lucas-and-pumpkin-960x853.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1098px) 100vw, 1098px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter April Dembosky's cat Lucas must be a Giants fan! This photo was taken in Oct 30, 2012, before Halloween and when the Giants were in the World Series – “orange and black attack” was the team’s tagline at the time. \u003ccite>(April Demobosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg\" alt=\"Radio news intern Martha Perez-Sanz has a close relationship with this cute kitty, Tiny. She doesn't have any teeth, so she can't hold her little tongue in very well!\" width=\"640\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Tiny-400x710.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio news intern Martha Perez-Sanz has a close relationship with this cute kitty, Tiny. She doesn't have any teeth, so she can't hold her little tongue in very well! \u003ccite>(Martha Perez-Sanz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10739674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ghoasty was found abandoned in Golden Gate Park as a kitten, and rescued by Dylan Weir, the son of News Editor David Weir.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0283-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghosty was found abandoned in Golden Gate Park as a kitten, and rescued by Aidan, Dylan, and Julia Weir, children of News Editor David Weir. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dylan Weir )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg\" alt=\"=Fun fact about Pazzi (which means crazy in Italian) is she can tell the future! She enjoys reading tarot cards, eating chocolate and licking stamps, according to Lindsey Hoshaw, an interactive producer with KQED Science. \" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_0273-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun fact about Pazzi (which means crazy in Italian) is she can tell the future! She enjoys reading tarot cards, eating chocolate and licking stamps, according to Lindsey Hoshaw, an interactive producer with KQED Science. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stephanie McInroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg\" alt=\"Mishka is a fluffy little troublemaker who got lost for four days last week ... but eventually found his way back home to Senior Arts Editor Chloe Veltman.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2989-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mishka is a fluffy little troublemaker who got lost for four days last week ... but eventually found his way back home to Senior Arts Editor Chloe Veltman. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2848px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738656\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg\" alt=\"Friends forever! Science reporter Amy Standen's cats are besties. \" width=\"2848\" height=\"2136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457.jpg 2848w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DSCF6457-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2848px) 100vw, 2848px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends forever! Science reporter Amy Standen's cats are besties. \u003ccite>(Chris Colin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dragcity.com/artists/joanna-newsom\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Newsom\u003c/a> can be polarizing. Maybe that comes with the territory of being an indie-rock harp player. Some dismiss her as twee and precious, her music as flighty and pretentious, her voice as, well, odd. But there are others who embrace her with loyal devotion for the very same things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her last album, 2010’s “Have One on Me,” was too much for even some of her most ardent fans, literally. It clocked in at more than two hours, spread over three CDs -- often brilliant, but a lot to take in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229805067\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s taken in a lot herself since that album, notably marrying comic actor Andy Sandberg in 2013 and playing the role of the “Earth goddess” narrator in the movie\u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/article/2014/12/14/joanna-newsom-inherent-vice\" target=\"_blank\"> “Inherent Vice”\u003c/a> for director \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000759/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Thomas Anderson\u003c/a>, a fan and friend. It’s a long way from her Nevada City, California, origins. But rest assured: She hasn’t gone Hollywood. She’s pretty good with a cinematic-level narrative, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10730288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 487px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10730288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Joanna Newsom's "Divers"\" width=\"487\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/JoannaNewsom_Divers_Mini-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Newsom's \"Divers\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the last one was an epic trilogy, her new album, “Divers,” is a compelling, complex novel, clocking in at a much more manageable 52 minutes. It’s still full of unexpected twists and turns, in story and in her ever-evolving, ancient-modern mix of folk and classical-derived styles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and co-producer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Georgeson\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Georgeson\u003c/a> continue to show a taste for the unusual and arcane (a chorus of musical saws on one song, “The Things I Say”), but never without artistic impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Divers” opens with a war scene, a battle not witnessed directly but reported by scouts, in the song “Anecdotes.” Love is a battlefield? OK, she’s not the first to use that analogy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s an intimacy to the portrayal, a depth of both experience and emotion, expressed equally in words and music, that threads through the shifting scenes and scenarios that unfold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keke7BGzJPI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most touching, moving moment, perhaps, comes in “Same Old Man,” a traditional folk song in which the singer has returned home from an emotionally painful time in New York. She’s comforted to see the same old woman putting out the wash, the same old man sitting by the mill. Yet the pain remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6NMhR7vXdN8CwUujyibzyW98gdmeDObW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title song, with poetically archaic language and an art-song lilt, describes a diver who pops up for air now and then and a woman who watches from a pier. It’s a strange dance of a relationship, but in her telling seems to hold infinite possibilities and magical mysteries within its “rules that bind,” as she sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closer, “Time, As a Symptom,” is a song of birth, with a touch of death. Here she and Georgeson outdo themselves, even by the chamber music standards set on earlier albums. With gradually increasing orchestral grandeur — strings and winds and peeling tympani — Newsom’s confident, strong and not-odd voice is joined by chirping birds. Yes, birds! As the music fades, they remain to sing us out, nurtured by nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twee tweets? From Joanna Newsom, it’s a perfect ending.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And of course he was speaking Yahi for the first time because he had been living alone. So this idea of being isolated and having people encourage him to speak his language was clearly a revelation for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these recordings appear to offer a treasure trove of material for linguists and historians, they are nearly inaudible now due to mold that has grown on the wax cylinders over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago, physicist Carl Haber from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory created a state-of-the-art machine that can digitally restore damaged recordings. With the help of Haber’s machine, which he calls \u003ca href=\"http://irene.lbl.gov/\">I.R.E.N.E.\u003c/a>, academics will soon be able to learn more about Native Californians and the stories they told.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Hear the difference between the original and restored recordings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/158247233\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"350\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially a big microscope that takes a very, very high-resolution picture of the physical item upon which the sound is recorded,” says Haber about I.R.E.N.E., an acronym for Image Reconstruct Erase Noise Etcetera. “When I say we take a picture, we’re actually making a big topographical map of all three dimensions of the surface of the entire cylinder.” Haber then uses software to analyze and ultimately minimize the noise caused by mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next month, Haber’s team will load the entire collection of Native California Indian recordings onto I.R.E.N.E., which will analyze and restore the recordings over the next three years. 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"content": "\u003cp>A wild, hairy, primate-like creature living in the forests of Northern California has long been part of the lore of a small mining community known as Willow Creek. Everything changed in 1967, when the creature was supposedly captured on film. Yes, we're talking about Bigfoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/OBTUQI60yqQ?t=175\" target=\"_blank\">iconic Bigfoot video\u003c/a> shot just 29 miles north of Willow Creek made national news. Nearly 50 years later, people are still flocking to the Humboldt County town, which celebrates the creature every year during its Bigfoot Days Festival. We stopped by this year's event, held on Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228750700\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of believers within the festival. 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He held up one of the prints and explained that some are not always accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek. \u003ccite>(Trisha Fawver/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve amassed a collection of reported Bigfoot prints,\" he said. \"Some of them are quite interesting, but other prints are attributable to normal animals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to finding various Bigfoot tracks, the Bluff Creek Project leads outdoor adventure trips, including regular visits to the place where Bigfoot was supposedly filmed. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a child, Luis Valdez started asking \"who am I?\" long before most kids learn to add numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acclaimed playwright says he has vivid childhood memories of when his parents took over a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley farm town of Delano. But then they went back to being migrant farmworkers near San Jose, and that's when Valdez says he started asking questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that the farm hadn't been ours, but belonged to a Japanese-American farmer who had been sent to an internment camp during World War II,\" says Valdez. \"The U.S. Army took over the farm, brought in mules because of the gas shortage, and brought in my dad to farm it. Then the war ended, and my dad was on his own with the farm, and he couldn't hold onto it. He had to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This memory of the contrast between the relatively prosperous time of having a ranch to the ugly discovery that the Japanese-American owner had everything taken away inspired him to write his latest play, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyoftheheart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Heart.\u003c/a>\" It's a love story set in Cupertino in 1941 about the relationship between a Mexican-American ranch hand and the daughter of a Japanese-American rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez says \"Valley of the Heart\" not only tackles history and race issues of that era but is also relevant to a new generation because, at its core, it is about today's blended multicultural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QqiJesJwY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez was in San Jose on Monday holding auditions for \"Valley of the Heart\" at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestage.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Stage Company,\u003c/a> where it will open Feb. 10 and run through March 6. Then it goes to Los Angeles. Valdez hopes there will be a movie version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in the Bay Area to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of his theater company, \u003ca href=\"http://elteatrocampesino.com\" target=\"_blank\">El Teatro Campesino,\u003c/a> in San Juan Bautista. \"Valley of the Heart\" has been playing there since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Teatro Campesino (the farmworkers' theater) was founded on the picket lines during the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a> in 1965, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez launched his theater company on flatbed trucks with short plays performed by novice actors for audiences of Central Valley farmworkers. He had graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in English before heading to the Central Valley to connect with iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and get involved in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to figure out how I could fit in,\" says Valdez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10724596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg\" alt='Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967.' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967. \u003ccite>(George Ballis/El Teatro Campesino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At age 75, Valdez says he is comfortable in his roles as playwright, director, writer, actor and the person some call the hero of Latino theater. The work has come a long way from the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of a lifetime, 50 years is a considerable chunk,\" says Valdez. \"I have the freedom in San Juan Bautista with my theater company to do more. I can do what I do by watering the root of where I still belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldo Billingslea, a professor of theater and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Santa Clara University, has studied Valdez and his body of work at El Teatro Campesino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of his work is biting satire. His plays and movies hold up a mirror to society and speak truth to power,\" says Billingslea. \"The common theme in all Valdez's work is about empowering the individual. 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He also directed the highest-grossing Latino movie of the time, \"La Bamba,\" about the life of singer Ritchie Valens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/50-year-retrospective-luis-valdez-y-el-teatro-campesino-tickets-18055903694\" target=\"_blank\">KQED-hosted event at the San Jose Stage Company, \u003c/a>Valdez will talk about the 50th anniversary of El Teatro Campesino and the successes and challenges of interpreting the lives of Latino Americans.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rain failed to deter more than 100,000 locals and out-of-towners from showing up at the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/\">45th Annual Art and Pumpkin Festival\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic Main Street was lined with art, pumpkin doughnut vendors and, of course, the occasional kid in a \"Ghostbusters\" costume. A highlight was the Great Pumpkin Parade, with the local high school’s homecoming court leading the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event, which raises thousands of dollars each year for community organizations and scholarships, now attracts thousands of outsiders and features live music, face painting, shopping and DIY art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10724065 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, OR won the 42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off with his 1,969 pound pumpkin. 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The airline pilot from Pleasant Hill, Oregon, won the weigh-off twice before, once in 2001 and again in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Competition growers all over the world understand the stature and historical significance of Half Moon Bay, and to win here is an incredible feeling,“ said Daletas in a post on the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HalfMoonBayPumpkinFestival/\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. “It’s been a great year and I simply could not have accomplished this without the support of my family ... it’s definitely a team effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724077,10724152,10724071,10724150\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival was created by the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/hmbbc-facts.html\">Main Street Committee for Beautification \u003c/a>in 1970 to raise funds to restore the historic downtown. In the first year, the city was able to paint buildings and plant trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, millions have gone to grants and donations, with more than $100,000 going to local scholarships in the past 20 years. About $25,000 goes to maintenance on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the proceeds and profits [from the Pumpkin Festival] go right back into the community and organizations like the Boys & Girls Club and the Senior Center\" said Shari Mills, a festival volunteer at the information booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724083,10724155,10724229,10724154,10724228,10724227\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Pumpkin Festival isn't just about the pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oddyssea's activity and adventure garden on Main Street, visitors could make everything from sand art to earth treasure necklaces -- paid for, of course, with pirate doubloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young princesses hoping to win the annual costume contest could pass time in line for a walk through the Haunted Barn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers could also treat themselves to seasonal pumpkin harvest ales or beverages from Half Moon Bay Winery, all while watching the MLB playoffs in the \"Take 5 Lounge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724304,10724306,10724157,10724307\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When rain began to sprinkle, visitors either put on their hoods or headed back from where they came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers from Hayward, Santa Cruz, San Jose and beyond contributed to the traffic along the two main highways leading to Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in the backup, it was a scenic ride along the country side of the small pumpkin capital with a now 45-year-old festival that, in 1970, was just a modest hometown effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like a group of friends from San Jose, Sunnyvale, Union City, Menlo Park and Santa Clara, were just getting started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why would we leave now?\" they said as they ate their pumpkin pie in the rain. \"We drove over two hours to get here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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