Rich's latest venture is jumping into the art of wall shingling. This is titled "The Giant at The Back Door.
Art Shingles
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
TagYerit Tails - October 2010
TagYerit Tails - October 2010
We have 3 items to share with you this issue:
"The Trick or Treat Trials"
Latest Pumpkin Carvings
Expansion of the WWTP Museum
1: "The Trick or Treat Trials"
Yup! TagYerit's favorite time of year has rolled around again ... and since Salem, MA is singer-guitarist Flo's hometown, we released a song on our latest CD "Shimmer" about what it was like Trick-Or-Treating in Salem as a child. "The Trick or Treat Trials" details all the heightened anticipation of the big candy-haul night as well as the mysterious disappearance of Flo's cherished stash of chocolates. The Salem News feature the story of this song on their Living Arts page - you can see the article at:
http://www.salemnews.com/lifestyle/x124778329/Singers-latest-song-a-Halloween-treat
2: Latest Pumpkin Carvings
For years, TagYerit has been posting pictures of their elaborate "playing with light" pumpkin carvings. Plus we post the creations of other pumpkin artists who carve, paint, deeply sculpt, stencil and stack 'em. From the super scary to the silly ; to celebs and stories to the scenic ... go go peek at our vast pumpkin galleries at:
http://www.tagyerit.com/pumpkin.htm
You'll find our newest when you click the 2010 link. You can also visit "Songcarvers" which is close to our hearts since it combines our pumpkin carving art with our songwriting. While you listen to the songs, you'll see that song's characters magically appear as the pumpkin carving progresses.
3: Expansion of the WWTP Museum
Also hosted at TagYerit's website is "The Whole World Toilet Paper Museum". We never seem to be able to keep up withposting the huge amounts of interesting samples we constantly receive from our "in-the-field" collectors. And NOW, an amazing collection has just been generously donated to the museum from a retired biologist who has been collecting toilet paper samples from around the world since the 1980s. So ... we are now int he process of planning add a "wing" to house this venerable collection on our site.
Happy Halloween & Tag yer it
Rich & Flo
We have 3 items to share with you this issue:
"The Trick or Treat Trials"
Latest Pumpkin Carvings
Expansion of the WWTP Museum
1: "The Trick or Treat Trials"
Yup! TagYerit's favorite time of year has rolled around again ... and since Salem, MA is singer-guitarist Flo's hometown, we released a song on our latest CD "Shimmer" about what it was like Trick-Or-Treating in Salem as a child. "The Trick or Treat Trials" details all the heightened anticipation of the big candy-haul night as well as the mysterious disappearance of Flo's cherished stash of chocolates. The Salem News feature the story of this song on their Living Arts page - you can see the article at:
http://www.salemnews.com/lifestyle/x124778329/Singers-latest-song-a-Halloween-treat
2: Latest Pumpkin Carvings
For years, TagYerit has been posting pictures of their elaborate "playing with light" pumpkin carvings. Plus we post the creations of other pumpkin artists who carve, paint, deeply sculpt, stencil and stack 'em. From the super scary to the silly ; to celebs and stories to the scenic ... go go peek at our vast pumpkin galleries at:
http://www.tagyerit.com/pumpkin.htm
You'll find our newest when you click the 2010 link. You can also visit "Songcarvers" which is close to our hearts since it combines our pumpkin carving art with our songwriting. While you listen to the songs, you'll see that song's characters magically appear as the pumpkin carving progresses.
3: Expansion of the WWTP Museum
Also hosted at TagYerit's website is "The Whole World Toilet Paper Museum". We never seem to be able to keep up withposting the huge amounts of interesting samples we constantly receive from our "in-the-field" collectors. And NOW, an amazing collection has just been generously donated to the museum from a retired biologist who has been collecting toilet paper samples from around the world since the 1980s. So ... we are now int he process of planning add a "wing" to house this venerable collection on our site.
Happy Halloween & Tag yer it
Rich & Flo
Sunday, November 22, 2009
TagYerit gets a feature article in the Valley Advocate
TagYerit gets a feature article in the Valley Advocate
Check out this article that explores our music and our toilet paper collection. Pretty funny I hope.
The Valley Advocate
Check out this article that explores our music and our toilet paper collection. Pretty funny I hope.
The Valley Advocate
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Toilet Paper Museum travels to WMAS
For this brief moment in time, press has been falling into our laps like a succession of dominoes.
After having had our toilet paper collection on the web for over 10 years, the Smithsonian Channel filmed us talking about our collection for an upcoming episode of their series "Stories From The Vaults". Using that domino, we sent out a press release. The local paper, the Springfield Union, thought the story interesting enough to feature our collection as a cover story to the great delight of many of our friends who report their first reaction at seeing our faces in color on the cover of the newspaper out on the news stands was to fall over laughing.
But they weren't the only one's to see the article. So it came to pass that Lopez from WMAS 94.7 invited us to their station for a quick interview on the collection. One cool thing about this is the location. WMAS studio is in the Basketball Hall of Fame building. For once a destination that's hard to miss - The building is in the shape of a basketball. http://www.hoophall.com
Once we got there, the first stop of course is to get some toilet paper from the bathroom so we can get Kellogg Krew D.J.'s signatures.
What should I see on entering the bathroom than this electric hand dryer in the shape of a basketball. And people make fun of our collecting obsession? Really?
Once in the studio we get to meet Chris Kellogg, Dina McMahon and Lopez. We had a fun though brief interview. I guess there's no point in holding up signed toilet paper to show a radio audience, so the listeners would have to trust that Chris, Dina & Lopez would be able to verify that there was no sleight of hand happening.
As I said, it was fun. - but our adrenaline was in overdrive and we could have gone on talking for a long time, which thankfully they didn't let us do. It's always great to see DJs at work. When they're on the mike it seems as if their brains shift into gear. They know just what to ask and when to keep it moving. From our perspective, being in front of a microphone in a radio station is almost the complete opposite experience to recording music in the studio, where everything is measured and precise. Anyway, the Kellogg Krew were great and they were gracious enough to sign some tp for us afterwards.
Most likely, they'll be broadcasting our segment either Friday 8/21/09 or Monday 8/24/09 on their show which airs from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. (E.S.T.)
You can listen live at:
http://www.947wmas.com/article.asp?id=538543
After having had our toilet paper collection on the web for over 10 years, the Smithsonian Channel filmed us talking about our collection for an upcoming episode of their series "Stories From The Vaults". Using that domino, we sent out a press release. The local paper, the Springfield Union, thought the story interesting enough to feature our collection as a cover story to the great delight of many of our friends who report their first reaction at seeing our faces in color on the cover of the newspaper out on the news stands was to fall over laughing.
But they weren't the only one's to see the article. So it came to pass that Lopez from WMAS 94.7 invited us to their station for a quick interview on the collection. One cool thing about this is the location. WMAS studio is in the Basketball Hall of Fame building. For once a destination that's hard to miss - The building is in the shape of a basketball. http://www.hoophall.com
Once we got there, the first stop of course is to get some toilet paper from the bathroom so we can get Kellogg Krew D.J.'s signatures.
What should I see on entering the bathroom than this electric hand dryer in the shape of a basketball. And people make fun of our collecting obsession? Really?
Once in the studio we get to meet Chris Kellogg, Dina McMahon and Lopez. We had a fun though brief interview. I guess there's no point in holding up signed toilet paper to show a radio audience, so the listeners would have to trust that Chris, Dina & Lopez would be able to verify that there was no sleight of hand happening.
As I said, it was fun. - but our adrenaline was in overdrive and we could have gone on talking for a long time, which thankfully they didn't let us do. It's always great to see DJs at work. When they're on the mike it seems as if their brains shift into gear. They know just what to ask and when to keep it moving. From our perspective, being in front of a microphone in a radio station is almost the complete opposite experience to recording music in the studio, where everything is measured and precise. Anyway, the Kellogg Krew were great and they were gracious enough to sign some tp for us afterwards.
Most likely, they'll be broadcasting our segment either Friday 8/21/09 or Monday 8/24/09 on their show which airs from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. (E.S.T.)
You can listen live at:
http://www.947wmas.com/article.asp?id=538543
Finished! Pressed! Printed! We've got it - we're psyched! TagYerit's new
CD "Shimmer" is in our hands. It's been a long wild road from the inception of each song to this little package. It's like a Song Mixvah! For us, it represents years of creative play-work. So now it's another exciting moment for the songwriter (that's us - Rich & Flo) ...will the music reach out and 'strike a chord' with you, the listener? Touch you? Transport you? Crack you up?
We've been working in a vacuum, so the "Listener" is the other
important part of the equation.
Since we're not exactly your love-song-pining-over-relationships kinda
songwriters - here’s some of the subjects we’ve explored:
- There's an examination of ‘collection’ addiction and hoarding as
expressed in "Neat Junk". - OK, we admit it, it could be just a touch
autobiographical ...
- You'll run into the strong willed "Pirate Bride" who's damned tired of
being stuck ashore - She deeply longs to rule the High Seas herself.
- In "The Trick or Treat Trials" Flo recounts the Halloween fixation she
and her best friend Sylvia (and others) had as they meticulously planned
their costumes & plotted out their routes in their attempts to amass huge stockpiles of chocolate. Things didn't necessarily turn out as they had hoped..
- And who was the mysterious carver on Mt. Katahdin who left the beautiful but anonymous words etched there in stone? These words inspired the song "Mt. Katahdin" and became its chorus.
- You'll also share in a rather disconcerting chance meeting in the woods
with a dryad that Tolkien might have suspected was a Close-Encounter-of-the-Entwife-Kind.
- ... and more ...
There's plenty of humor, true-life mishaps, reflection and melodic story
telling. - and then there's the rousing return of the "Vulgar Boatmen"
(originally heard on our "Heavy Construction" CD) as they add their
unique blend of voices to yet another song.
If you're interested in getting a copy (No presha, pal!), it's available
for $10 (plus $3 s&h) for CD ($7.50 for digital download) at
http://www.tagyerit.com/music.htm
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