Jerry Aaron Hazard

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Snow near Durango. Testing the pins and plates in the hand.. its about 70% now…

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making sure the new pins in my hand work…

Ruse One for Pongas, originally uploaded by Jerry Aaron Hazard.

Spray Paint on Masonite 4′x8′, Autumn 2009

HAZARD PONGAS 1, originally uploaded by Jerry Aaron Hazard.

Spray Paint on Masonite 4′x8′

TELLURIDE FALL-TILT 12 HOUR DOWNHILL BIKE RACE ALBUM 2 | Telluride Photography

Me on the lift, heading towards dark…

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Downhilling @ Telluride, checking the trails out for the 12 hour race next week… self portrait

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So.  Recently returned from a vacation to the east side of the country..

• Boston was cool.  very cool.  great city, great energy.
• New Hampshire was…  different.  Mount Washington area was keen.
• The coast of Maine was cool – what we were able to see of it at the time.  Portland Maine rocked though.  Very young, artsy energy – in a good way.
• Gelato is keen.
• Flying is fun, but airline travel bites the big one.  Come to think of it, it bites the big two as well. 
• Traveled with the girl, which was also very, very keen. 
• Boston was cool.  did I say that already?
• Got to catch up with Jay, which was also quite keen.
• Candlepin Bowling.  WTF? 
• Walked about on a Submarine, as well as the U.S. Constitution (which was under re-construction)
• MFA in Boston was interesting. 
• Coolest part was being able to hang with someone special 24-7.
• UnCoolest part was stress associated with the travel.  Sort of took that ‘vacation’ feeling away a bit.
• Still, glad we went, thumbsup to the whole deal.
• Driving in the city is a trip.  Forgot all ’bout that stuff.  Makes my daily commute look like a ride in the country.
• Oh, wait.. my daily commute is a drive in the country.
• Bike messengers are crazy brave crazy cats for sure.  I sort of miss riding my fixed gear among traffic, the way they were meant to be ridden (not on country roads and small town main drags by dufus hipsters)(yeah, I could catch hell for that, but… )
• Was good to see graf again.  also keen to ride a subway.  the transit system in Beantown rocks too.

During the trip back, we remarked how were a bit enamored with the city life (again).  Keen buildings, a less pretentious art scene, just that whole buzz of life thing.  Then, as we were driving back from the Denver airport and nearing pagosa, the Colorado landscape reminded us why we both love it out here so much, and the city buzz softly faded to the background.  Can’t believe I became a country boy. ha.

Some visual highlights from the trip:

We arrived at the tail end of hurricane Bill.  I heard that the surf had swells up to 10ft. on
the day we arrived.  The next day, we made it to the coast and the surf had subsided somewhat,
but the surfers were still out in droves…

Su watches the sideways waterfall near Mt. Washington…

Sunset near Newick’s – a very neat restaurant in NH, where I had swordfish chunks for the first time.  Think
chicken mcnuggets, only made out of swordfish instead…

mmm, architecture….

it was funny to see all the gawkers shooting this car as it drove by… and yeah, i too was
a gawker…

There was more graffiti on this one building than you can find in the entire Durango | Cortez | Farmington | Aztec area collectively.
I was especially fond of the person doing the little cloud stickers on top of that chimney.  Saw that stuff all over Boston.

Not HDR, not even processed in any funky manner.  This was at the MFA in Boston…

Anybody know what blockbuster movie this beer may have been featured in?  I had no
idea it even existed in real life…  Thanks to Jay for the introduction….

Me.  Taking the outside line on purpose to test out my
ability to grip the bar.  I’m at about 40% maybe… for the
foreseeable future, I will probably not be riding with a finger
on my front brake lever.  strange.

The hand and scar in their present state…

Back on July 8th or so, I broke two bones in my left hand in a silly mtb accident.  These are the first official broken bones I’ve ever experienced.  Its coming up on 8 weeks now.  I have several screws and two plates in there, and finally the swelling has gone down a bit, and a little range of motion is restored, but I have a lot of work to do there.
I’ve been a little down about the whole thing, almost defeatist at times, but Su has always been there providing and reminding me about some
positivity and not behaving like a victim or something, and has tried very hard to get me to proactive about it.  I’m very stubborn (and impatient), and even though its “only a hand” (compared to other injuries I know are happening to people) its been difficult to remain positive.  At some point about a week ago, it just started feeling a bit better.  I don’t have even 50% of my motion back, but its coming.  slowly.  but its coming.

So yesterday and today, I’m out on the single speed just getting used to the pedal thing again.  I’ve lost a lot of cardio (not that I had that much to begin with!) and I’ve got a lot to gain by the 19th.  But, I can hold on to the handlebar tightly with my thumb and two good fingers, and the two broken ones are slowly coming along.  And props to Su again, when she flatted on Saturday, she urged me on to continue the ride (no spare tube, and the flat was a valve failure), which I did and despite a little frustration with the trail, I had a blast… and could not ride slowly .  Went out with Ben again today and rode the same area, but different trails.  Lots of sand, and a set up whoops that you could pump through so fast that, well, it became dangerous.  Fun stuff. 

             That’s Ben, tearin’ it up….

The bikes – Ben’s deathmobile on the left, mine on the right.  Ben, ever the glutton
for punishment, decided to gear his single speed at like 36-18 or something.  Mine is
geared at a more friendly 32-18….  I had issues keeping up with him for sure.  Sand
did not help . yeah, it was the sand…

No Country For Old Cars… 

And THAT is an “emulsion transfer” from my epson – of the Graff alphabet I designed a while back.  There’s a whole new thing going here with graf that I’m getting involved in, but more on that in the near future when plans and activities coalesce a bit more.

Starting yet another, new blackbook…  the transfer in the image above is bound for the inside cover here…

And that’s about it for now.  Thanks for looking.  Hope all is well in the world for the rest of you.  :peace:

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