Hi - Greg. Your blog is going well - although I missed the one about an earthquake - where are you living
- Hawaii ? I hope that some of these photos you are taking are going to appear in the Photo Competition ? We have used the new logo on both the plaques and the Certificate of Merit.
I will be sending you a Certificate - however, if you want one of the expensive plaques - you must win-it ! Mervyn

Mervyn,

Hawaii? Alas, no, but here in Virginia is where the quake happened- no one, except those of us who are "travelled", knew what was going on (not an everyday event here).

Sorry, but as I was concentrating on the galleries, that is where the photos can be seen. Time to let someone else win something ;-).

Greg

"Many changes; and most, I fear, will not work out at all."

You said it! Same story here. Maybe only with a little higher order of stupidity and incompetence. Day- and-night-around-the-clock.

"Still, it is a paycheck..."

Exactly! Sometimes you don`t have even that (my life story all way throught 90s).

"...this are some rough times ..."

I think soon enough we`ll see something much much worse... But don`t worry - I`ve got your back So far only in Moscow...But who knows... With all this globalisation nonsence

P.S. How you become so interested in faleristics?

P.P.S. Sorry for my importunity

How did I become interested in faleristics... hmmmmm. Kind of a weird story but, bear with me. As you may know, I recently had the honour of having an example of my art chosen as the GMIC logo. Well, I've been doing this type of thing for awhile (degree in Commercial Art/Photography). You may or may not know that my politics are decidedly "red". Given these facts, I was, several years back, requested to produce a body of art by a political entity that is, shall we say, decidedly "left of center". OK, fine, no problem... but, as I got into the art at hand, I found I needed some examples to study- just images would be fine.

Went to our favorite auction site and began to get ideas akimbo and noticed the prices (for what I was looking at at that moment) weren't prohibitive at all, so I went ahead and bought a few examples; you know, just to have around in case I needed a "muse". Well, one thing lead to another and I got bitten by the "collector bug" and have been one ever since. So, in a nutshell, art lead to my collecting.

Nice story. Thanks Grag. Now I don`t need to ask why your primery interest USSR and ex-communist block countries ... Even GMIC logo resembles KGB honor badge :)