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Impeach Both composition

The most recent Impeach at the Beach event was held at Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, on April 26, 2008. At that time we were going to spell out “Impeach Both”, using the people attending to fill the space to spell the words. Well… There weren’t enough people and the event was close to not happening, when it was suggested by Tom Heinz, the photographer, that we do each letter individually, photograph the letter from the helicopter, and then have the folks move on to the next letter. It was fun and worked out very well. Tom had a lot of shots of each letter, and now came the task of putting them all together. You’re trusty correspondent volunteered to collaborate with Tom, and together we created the composite that spelled out “Impeach Both”. The angles were not uniform and it was a hard, fun task that took us about 11 hours.

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Tom has prints of the above image for sale at the City Art Cooperative Gallery. To see a panorama of the image go to the Impeach at the Beach web site.

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Barbara and Stu Rabinowitsh have started playing on Friday nights at the il Piccolo Caffe in Sausalito. They both play a variety of instruments, Barbara on flute, clarinet, various saxophones, and of course, the piccolo, and Stuart playing piano and accordion. They’re playing an eclectic mix of musical genres, including Italian, French, Brazilian, jazz, and blues standards, and more.

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