a)NAME: Gabriel L Romeu b)CONTACT: gr(at)studiofurniture(.)com c) BOATS: Dagger Baja, plans for a CLC Northbay sitting in my office. Have never paddled a fiberglass for fear of being seduced. Looking for a WW boat for enhancing the small taste of surfing I had this past summer. d) BOAT NAME: Depends on how cooperative it is with the circumstances I am in. e) SPECIAL INTERESTS: making stuff (process/tools-machinery), hiking (only in urban areas armed with a rangefinder camera), reading(usually critical, historical or technical, rarely narrative), aesthetics/design, music. Used to skate a lot and enjoyed that immensely- moving to the country made it inconvenient. Obviously kayaking- maybe as much with the diversity of skills it has encouraged learning as the beauty of the equipment. f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: metal working, painting, print making, photography, electronic imaging, wood working, graphic communication g) STRONG OPINIONS: 'Artist' is bandied about as a positive descriptive term for someone who either does/makes anything very beautiful or skillfully. Art, in the 20th century, has very little to do with beauty or craftsmanship. A very poor use of the term 'artist'. Strong opinions are slippery at best. h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP: Does this include the 60's? i) BIO: middle-aged and act it- I was way too naive, goofy and reckless as a kid to repeat it now. married to a person who obviously has pretty poor taste and great patience- guess I'm just a lucky guy. I design and make furniture for a living, make other stuff in between(CLC Northbay this winter). I maintain a daily journal of photographs on the web which is an extension of the street and event photography I have been doing since the early 70's. Don't photograph from the kayak generally, feel it is an inadequate medium in expressing the experience. -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://users.aol.com/romeugp paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 28 1999 - 17:58:37 PDT
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