When I Was 15 I Was Commissioned By A Drummer Friend Of Mine To Paint His Drum Kit In A Psychedelic Fashion.

When I was 15 I was commissioned by a drummer friend of mine to paint his drum kit in a psychedelic fashion. To avoid making the paint job permanent I painted the designs on canvases and then glued the canvases to the pearlized acetate drum shells. The paint job gained quite a bit of attention and was featured in Verve magazine. This picture was shot by a staff photographer of Verve Magazine. Circa 1968. ~ Trabue Gentry

London, March 22 (ANI): Terry Jones, best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team, has confirmed that a film starring the surreal comedy group is in progress. Sci-fi comedy 'Absolutely Anything' will be helmed by Jones and star John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Jones himself, the Daily Express reported. Jones has insisted that getting the troupe together wasn't a ploy to get more cash from financiers for the movie. (ANI)

“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.” 

Maria Mitchell is known as the first professional female astronomer in the United States. On October 1, 1847, she peered through her family’s telescope and “swept around for comets,” as she did every night it was clear. But that night she became the first woman in the U.S. to discover one. She later became the first Astronomy professor at Vassar College, where she would often ask her students, “Did you learn that in a book or observe it yourself?” 

My wife, Amanda ~ Trabue Gentry

Photography by Trabue Gentry, 2013