Digitizing My Van Halen Archives
I have boxes full of research from previous books and articles, especially from my days as a music journalist (I still own MusicJournalist.com if anyone is interested). I was putting off digitizing my mountains of articles, documents, letters, and manuscripts until I had a good high-speed scanner. It’s
A Lesser Photographer Now Available in Libraries and Stores
The second edition of A Lesser Photographer is now available somewhere besides Amazon! You can get the physical version through any book store or library now upon request, and (very shortly) through Apple Books and Google. Sorry it took so long to get this book out in wide circulation, but
A Lesson from the 90s in Finalizing Projects
I spotted this uploaded to YouTube and had to share it. It’s from a 1995 documentary called Reel Satriani on the making of Joe Satriani’s seventh, self-titled album. There’s several cool things about this: 1. It’s from the end of the analog age. Everything in it
Library Tourism: Vancouver
On the way to Alaska [https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/alaska], we had to check out Vancouver, especially the library.
Your Habits Create Who You Are
Sean McCabe posted the following on Twitter [https://twitter.com/cjchilvers/status/1165090933001658368] last night: > To those over 40: What advice would you give a 30-year-old today? I responded [https://twitter.com/cjchilvers/status/1165090933001658368]: > Your daily habits will create who you are at 40, 50, etc. What
Images from Alaska
I’ve been off in Alaska for the past few weeks with the family. Cutting myself off from the internet for a while was healthy. I have a renewed love of writing and creating in general, with dozens of new ideas. I plan on concentrating a lot of energy on
