02007-08-16 | Ottmar, Performance, Santa Fe
Looking back it always becomes obvious. Last year in April I did the first three solo shows in Seattle and Redwood City. In November and December of 2006 I did another 14 shows solo, but with the addition of a vid projector that showed a selection of my photos while I played guitar. The next series of solo shows is starting to shape up for April of 2008.
My friend Greg Gorman enjoys teaching photography and does several workshops per year at his home and studio in Mendocino, California. I am going to attend his workshop there in October and will play guitar and show my photos on the last evening of the workshop.
Well, we are working up plans to offer a special and exclusive experience in Santa Fe (and maybe a few other locations) next year. The 3 or 5 day experience – it’s not a workshop and not a retreat and experience is the best name I could come up with so far – will include something like this: an unamplified solo guitar performance in my studio, a performance by the quartet somewhere, walks with me into the mountains and to Santa Fe’s hidden spots, an evening at my house with a meal cooked by myself, and, making use of Santa Fe’s rich resources for taking care of our physical well-being, things like Pilates and acupuncture. Emphasis will be placed on covering topics like music/hearing/listening and our human development. Naturally this sort of experience can only work in a very small circle. Watch this space or sign up for our mailing list to find out more as this develops.
02007-08-02 | Ottmar, Photos
Playing guitar at Roshi’s 65th birthday. From the Upaya Flickr.
02007-08-01 | New Mexico, Ottmar, Photos
I met Luis Alvarez at this photoshoot with Greg Gorman when he was in town in March. Today we shot at the old Penitentiary where the famous 1980 prison riot happened. Luis used a Hasselblad that records 39 mega pixels per image!!
This is the very room where the riot started. Inmates burned mattresses in this room. The fire burned for three days and became so hot that the concrete “melted”. See this photo that shows a hole in the floor.
I wish I had brought my EOS 20D, but the Nokia did pretty well.
02007-07-31 | Ottmar, Photos
Vibram Five Fingers – perfect for playing guitar in cold TV studios or on hot outdoor stages – the solar festival stage in Taos was a good example… Also, swimming, surfing, walking on rocky beaches, crossing hot parking-lots on the way to the rocky beaches etc…
Here is an interesting fact I did not know. Vibram is an Italian company named after its founder Vitale Bramani.
02007-07-30 | Interview, Ottmar, Touring
We added a couple of shows in August:
Aug 10 Paradise CA – Paradise Performing Arts Center
Aug 11 Santa Ana CA – The Galaxy Theater
Aug 12 San Diego CA – Humphrey’s
Aug 25 Harrisburg PA – Sunoco Performance Theater
Aug 26 Westhampton Beach NY – Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
Aug 27 Annapolis MD – Ram’s Head
Aug 28 Boston MA – Scullers
Aug 29 New York NY – B.B.Kings
Aug 30 New York NY – B.B.Kings
Aug 31 Ridgefield CT – The Ridgefield Playhouse
Sept 01 Alexandria VA – The Birchmere
Page 184 of the September issue of Cowboys & Indians has a full-page interview with me. The title is “Desert Hot Strings”. which is almost as funny as the title of an interview with me in Details magazine years ago that was called “Mother Plucker”.
