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Coyote News , est. 1976
October 25, 2007
Vol. 32, No. 22
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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Travel show
to feature
traditional
dancers
Filmmakers visited the Museum
at Warm Springs last week foy, foot
age of Native dancers to be broad
cast as part of a television series For
the Travel Channel Europe.
^ Executive Producer Terry Selk
said the footage filmed in Warm
Springs will be featured as part of a
1 S^episode television series called
“Oregon Uncovered
-Of the 15 episodes, several will
focus on Oregon’s wide range of
travel opportunities in hopes of pro
moting the state for increased glo
bal tourism.
The series will be broadcast on
the Travel Channel Europe and on
various other networks for the next
three to five years.
The footage of traditional danc
ing will be combined with footage
of various othqr elements: of Cenqf
tarai Oregon culture.
“It’s just ¿one small piece of the
message we’re trying to.capture
around Central Oregon,” Selk said.
In addition to filming dancers, the
filmmakers spent time filming fly
fishing, rock climbing, golf and vari
ous other aspects of outdoor recre
ation, The series \yill al&o foçtis on
ctilhw y% s^^
The filmmakers will return to the
area later this winter foi footage of
local winter recreation activities, Selk
said.
The Travel Channel Europe
worked in conjunction with Travel
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From Warm Springs
to the World Series
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
Leslie Mitts/Spiiyay
Travel Channel Europe cameramen visit the Museum at Warm Springs
to film traditional dancers.
Oregon and the Central Oregon belk said.
^isito$s Association to make tins f|m . The Travel Channel Europe
broadcasts to 48 million households
projteqt possible. (|
“The overall purpose of this is to across Europe.
create an awareness of all the great
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recreation within the state of Oregon,”
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It is a long way from the Warm
Springs t-ball fields to the center of the
baseball world. Over the past 20 years
Jacoby Ellsbury has made that journey.
Ellsbury lived with his family in a
house on the Warm Springs Campus
until he was A' or 6. He went to kinder
garten and part of his first-grade year
at Warm Springs Elementary School.
During that time, he played for the
Warm Springs Fire, and Safety t-ball
team-
Twenty years later he is playing in
the World Series^; •
Ellsbury plays'left and center fields
-for the American League champion
Boston Red Sox’"*:
His parents are Margie Ellsbury,
who works at the Warm Springs Early
Childhood Education Center, and Jim
Ellsbury, who works at the Warm
Springs Forestry Department.
Margie and Jim are out bf town this
week, of cburse, as they are at the
World Series.-
Their first stop is Boston and
Fenway Park, and then Denver and
Coors Field. If the series goes beyond
f i v e games, they’ll return to Boston.
Jacoby is in his pre-rookie season
this year, which makes his trip to the
World Series all the more amazing.
. “It’s something yqjj hope. jEpr ” Jim
Ellsbury said. “Some people play fpr
20 years and never make it that far.”
Jacoby Vras fortunate, he said, to
have been drafted by a great organiza
tion.::;:
Ellsbury Was taken by the Red Sox
in the first round of the 2005 draft.
He played high school baseball at
Madras High, where he was also an
outstanding basketball player. In college
he played for Oregon State and went
to the College World Series. Then after
college he moved quickly through the
Red Sox farm system.
He was called up and played for the
Red Sox at various times during the
2007 season.
He started 33 games during the regu
lar season, playing left field when
Manny Ramirez was injured, and cen
ter field when Coco Crisp was injured.
His batting average was ¿&53,j ^
He started games ti and- 7>.©f the
American League Championship series.
(The World Series started after the dead
line for this' newspaper.)
Jim and Margie and Margie’s sister
Sylvia traveled on Tuesday to Boston.
They had purchased airline tickets a
couple of weeks ago, knowing there was
the possibility that the Red Sox Vrould
be in the World Series.
If the Red Sox hadn’t made if t<|
the World Series, Jim said, theÿ could
have used the tickets next year to go to.
a regular season game. For a while last
week it looked like they would be stay-,
ing home this Qctriber, as the Red Sox
weiotiailing tiie Cleveland Indians 3
games to 1.
The Red Sox then won three games
in a row, with Jacoby starting the final
ytwo games. Before game 6, the fans af
Fenway Park gave a loud rotind o f ap
plause when the announcer said that
Ellsbury would be starting in center
field—a major step in a journey that
began here in Warm Springs.
Local artist takes unique approach to creative drawing
By Leslie Mitts
Spilyay Tymoo
< For one local artist, pencil and pa
pier are all he truly need's as tools of
expression.
Travis Bobb spends his spare time
creating works of art that have earned
him some notoriety in Warm Springs.
* ’ But if, he had his way, the quiet man
Wouldn’t be recognized for his work at
ajl. |;
Bobb, 32, grew up in Warm Springs
and began drawing when he was 14.
The intricate details of his artwork dis
play a far more complex mind than
Bobb cares to express verbally. ?
i • The inspiration to begin drawing, he
said, came when his brother game him
-a^ copy of Steven King’s book “Eyes
of the Dragon.’” :
*• “I; started out like everyone else,” he
said.:
David Palladini illustrated the book,
which Bobb said taught him about
shading and structure.
’ in fact, Bobb often draws inspira
tion from other artists. But inspiration
is as far as if goes, as Bobb is com
pletely self-taught.
Bobb has won numerous awards for
his artwork, but he said, “I don’t really
like-to brag about myself, because a lot
of artists do.”
“Throughout my life I’ve never
talked so much or communicated as
much as some people,” Bobb said.
“Generally I don’t like reading about
myself and if I see my name in print
Or I see a photograph of myself I don’t
.get anything out of it,” he added. “I
dori’l like to brag about myself.” -
In fact, talking is something Bobb
Tribal-theme Halloween drawing by Travis Bobb.
sometimes prefers not to do at all.
“Hike a mystery in my life, I prefer
to look at people and wonder about
them, as opposed tti knowing every
detail about their lives,” ¿Bobb said.
“I’ve always loved observing people.”
Bobb added, “I’m a person who
needs time to think and muse1 over
things.”
His artwork is all done freehand and
he mainly uses pen and pencil—-though
he did create a piece using airbrushing
for the Tribal Member Art Show for
the Museum at Warm Springs a few
years ago; if
: In addition to innate ability, Bobb
spends quality time studying other
pieces of art to learn about new tech-
niqueis or ideas.
But it doesn’t all come, easy to Bobb.
“The most difficult thing about a
drawing for me is coming up with a
title” he said.
It is his natural talent that causes
other people to sometimes doubt his
ability, Bobb added.
; “Some people accuse me of tracing
or using a projector to create my draw
ings, but 18 years of self discipline
proves otherwise,” Bobb said. “I can
just about draw anything freehand.”
Drawing is a process that begins the
same each time for Bobb.
“I have the same feeling with every
drawing,” Bobb said. ‘A mixture of
optimism, enthusiasm and denial.”
Inspiration for a drawing can come
from any number of places, Bobb said.
“It’s done in a hundred ways,” he
expired.. “Sometimes the picture ts
already in my head. Sometimes I make
things up as I go along, but once I’ve
decided I was going to-devote all my
time into one project, I become a fa
natic.”
“Anything I see could end up in a
drawing:. a license plate number, a
paperclip, the way somebody sits,” he
said.
According to Bobb, “Wherever the
idea would come from, I would try to
figure out something different about
it—give it a twist or something to make
it unique.”
According to Bobb, “When I pre
pare for a drawing, I do a lot of re
search: 70 percent looking for photo
graphs or an article on that subject and
then 30 percent of the time actually
putting things and ideas together.”
; “The other thing that’s really impor
tant to me in an illustration is subjec
tivity: getting the viewer to see.what’s
happening in the way the character sees
if as opposed to sitting outside,” Bobb
stid. “I like to try to force the viewer
to see it, feel it more the way they do.”
“ ...Iportray the coyote as
always a hero who was
always in over his head and
who was getting himself
hurt and in trouble. ”
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Travis Bobb
Bobb said he draws two cartoon
characters frequently: the coyote and
the cat.
, He describes the coyote as “a kind
of representation of ‘spilyay’ which in
native legend I understand was a mis
chievous character, but I portray the
coybte as always a hero who was al
ways in oVer his head and who was get
ting himself hurt and in trouble.”
“He wasn’t quite up to what he was
supposed to be—»you know, what the
old legends tell us of a mischievous
hero,” Bobb explained.
The cat, he added, is more his alter
ego-
“When I sketched these drawings I
really wanted to do them like a comic
strip——like how trie actual Sunday com
ics were drawn, quick and dirty, using
old fashioned tricks and not spend a
lot of time on it,” Bobb added.
The two characters also interact with
other characters in his drawings, Bobb
said.
According to Bobb, “One of my big
philosophies in doing a drawing is to
take the most absurd, ridiculously in
congruous idea and treat them as real
istically as possible, complete with light
and shadow pops and scratches.”
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