{"id":5300,"date":"2015-06-20T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2015-06-20T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T18:30:13","slug":"2015-golden-gear-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/2015-golden-gear-awards-5300\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Golden Gear Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5307\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5307\" data-attachment-id=\"5307\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/2015-golden-gear-awards-5300\/despres_profile\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"667,809\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"despres_profile\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Michael Singman-Aste. Photo: Douglas Despres (detail)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile-247x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Singman-Aste. Photo: Douglas Despres (detail)\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/despres_profile.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Singman-Aste. Photo: Douglas Despres (detail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rhythmix Cultural Works has announced the nominees for their 2015 Golden Gear Awards, and guess who was nominated in the Arts Educators category?!? <strong>THIS guy! =&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great honor, particularly considering the caliber of the two dozen nominees in the field. Among them, our beloved Poet Laureate Julia Park Tracey; Michael Sturtz, the founder of fire arts studio The Crucible; Art Yowza founder Rebecca Stees; and Vicki Sedlack, Executive Director of the Alameda Education Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>There are two other categories for the awards: Performing Arts and Visual Arts. I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of writing about many of the nominated artists previously, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/alamedia-fitz-4542\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew &#8220;Fitz&#8221; Fitzpatrick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/alamedia-ginny-parsons-4632\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ginny Parsons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/twin-art-stars-4641\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacqueline Cooper<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/studio-23-gallery-4579\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley Warren<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rhythmix.org\/golden-gear-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5303\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/2015-golden-gear-awards-5300\/golden_gear_web_banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"380,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Golden_Gear_Web_Banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner-300x213.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5303 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Golden_Gear_Web_Banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden_Gear_Web_Banner.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Votes will be accepted until Tuesday, June 30th at <a href=\"http:\/\/rhythmix.org\/golden-gear-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rhythmix.org\/golden-gear-2015.html<\/a>. If you&#8217;d like to vote for me, thank you. I&#8217;m not sure who I&#8217;m going to vote for! Winners will be announced at the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rhythmix.org\/wine-women-song-2015\" target=\"_blank\">Wine, Women &amp; Song Spectacular<\/a>&#8221; on Saturday, August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Singman-Aste<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PostdiluvianPhoto.com\">Postdiluvian Photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythmix Cultural Works has announced the nominees for their 2015 Golden Gear Awards, and guess who was nominated in the Arts Educators category?!? THIS guy! =&gt; It&#8217;s a great honor, particularly considering the caliber of the two dozen nominees in the field. Among them, our beloved Poet Laureate Julia Park Tracey; Michael Sturtz, the founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[73,1120,94],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-events","tag-alameda","tag-golden-gear","tag-rhythmix-cultural-works"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPxQO-1nu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}