Unreal

There are many things I have learned being here with Tom. He has a different perspective on life, on art , and on music. He has an appreciation toward clouds that I have never seen before. I have followed suit , and now look at clouds every time I am out. This is why you will probably be seeing many pictures of them. They are unbelievable, and everyday they offer something new.

photos of me

Im just doing this blog for mom and dad so I don't have to send all of these twice... mildly embarrassing . I will continuely update this one of just the photos of me.

Start of the adventures

This is Jimmy

This is John

So yesterday we started a new project- building a trellis for the lilikoi plants. Apparently, they are the best tasting fruit on the island! They must taste pretty unbelievable because every fruit I have tasted here tasted like candy!

After that got done being built, we decided to take a little adventure down to the gulch- one of the first of many!

Stuck in traffic!

Today was an adventure. First we got to meet these guys that we see everyday on Baldwin beach. We call them the bar guys. Everyday they are there, leaning up against there red pick-up truck drinking beers. Today was the day that we set out to hear their story. This is what I found out from the five minutes I talked to them.They were both born and raised here, the one on the right worked in the sugar mill most his life, and the one on the left was once in a movie! Very interesting people.

The drunken monkeys

Tom getting in from swimming

We went into the city today to pick up some things from Costco, and saw some helicopters with buckets of water attached to them. We figured they were putting out a fire, what we didn't realize was the fire was one of the only roads to get back to Haiku. Needless to say, we were in traffic for awhile... We decided to have some fun! These are only a few....

Clouds 6/17/10

We were driving home from getting dinner and drove down the road to this......

Fun in the studio

On of Tom's major art project involved a photo booth. He has taken pictures in it everyday in this 1960's photo booth for over 30 years. It is currently not working, so we decided that we are going to do that on the computer "photo booth"until his gets fixed.

Introduction of the current members of my life

Amanda and Jill-aka the Jungle to Jungle girls. Jill (the one on the right) was an intern of Tom's a year and a half ago. Her and her sister now live on the property and continue to help Tom, while continuing on their adventures. They started a non-profit organization , called Jungle to Jungle. The idea of this program is to get kids engaged, gain understanding and to learn in a unique way of cultures around the world. The girls go the middle school before they head off on their journey ( they last went to the Amazon) and see what questions the students want to know about this certain place. They are than guided by these questions as they go around, answering them and taking video of the whole experience. They than find a school there-set up the videos- and have the students talk to one another, sort of like a modern day penpal. They are such fun girls and are soon going off to Borneo.

Baldwin Swim Club members

As most of you know- A group of us go to Baldwin beach every morning to swim a mile down to Baby beach. This tradition started when the tragic accident of Max happened. Last year he was ran over by a boat while diving and got one of his arms cut off, during this he lost so much blood that he had a stroke. This left him very depressed and feeling worthless. Tom and Skeeter (known as the best yoga instructors on the island) one day decided that they should get him back out in the ocean swimming, something he has done his entire life. At first he would make up excuses on not coming, but quickly realized that they wouldn't take no for an answer. So this was the begging of the club. Before we get into the water two things must happen. One: We must all line up and do a little ritual blessing the water. Two: Max tells us our mission, you see Max is a well traveled guy. Has traveled around the world on his boat. He actually was a treasure hunter, in fact found the largest treasure that anyone has ever found. Lets just say the man knows his stuff- and sends us on some pretty intense missions!

Us doing the blessing

Max

Skeeter

us gathering for our mission

Katharine Dahl

Katharine Dahl is a well known painter in the Atlanta community- and also my new best friend. here :) She is the sweetest , most extravagant women I know. She inspires me to be a better person every time we talk.

Lecture by David Greenburg

David Greenburg is a world class architect, and is one of Tom's friend. He just got back from giving a lecture in Shanghi China, while he is was there the world expo was there. Tom had a group of people come and gather to watch a slideshow that he put together. This was super interesting, and unlike anything I have ever seen. It really opened my eyes to the world of architecture.

Recent works in the studio

The weeks I have been here I have been working on creating these blogs for him among other things... but these are the blog websites, nothing too complicated. We also re-designed his studio, and made his library into a gallery. I have also been working on editing some more photos to put on the website.

www.sewellexhibithions.blogspot.com

www.tomsewellarchive.blogspot.com

Some more nature pictures

These are just some more pictures that I took around the land

works in the studio

These are some photos that I found in the archive to put on the website to make stronger, until we find better ones.

These are just some projects accomplished down in the studio for Tom in photoshop-Not perfect, but he wanted them done quickly.

More pictures from yesterday

I have always been infatuated with the colors of moss. To me, one could do a painting merely imitating a photo of it. I found that these were my favorite moss photos... and I had to put the other shot of the garage in it. Who would have knew that a garage could be so beautiful.