I love the juxtaposition of these simple little handwritten sticky notes "naming" all of these important people's bits of technology.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Presidential Afternoon Snack
Just discovered the newly-released "Official White House Photostream," and I really love this little snack!
The NYT has an interesting article about this new Flickr photostream and Creative Commons, called Why Obama's Flickr Photos Aren't in the Public Domain.
Artistic Communities
I've been trying to work on more Scottie dog illustrations tonight but it's so hard to do "matching" illustrations in terms of theme and style that would be appropriate for a card series. Mostly I just want to draw things that stand alone instead.
Last night was a rare night of insomnia for me, stayed up until I could hear birds waking up with day. I almost made it to sunrise, thought about going out to the lake to watch it, but didn't make it quite that far. I ended up editing this short story I've been writing, One Hand, and it's progressing nicely (with the immense helpfulness of comments from J.B. and T.L.!) I finally added names, which was a good progression into the land of fiction. Names are so hard, though. So many connotations and weighted choices in names.
Just got off the phone with J.B., who sent me a song he's been working on. I love love love sharing creative things with friends, having there be a dialogue and a communication about something you've put time and soul into. It's so important and I wish I did it more often, with more people. I want this blog to kind of spark more things like that, a sharing of mutually interesting ideas.
Send me your ideas! Your visions! Your yearnings and fears.
React, for goodness' sake.
Last night was a rare night of insomnia for me, stayed up until I could hear birds waking up with day. I almost made it to sunrise, thought about going out to the lake to watch it, but didn't make it quite that far. I ended up editing this short story I've been writing, One Hand, and it's progressing nicely (with the immense helpfulness of comments from J.B. and T.L.!) I finally added names, which was a good progression into the land of fiction. Names are so hard, though. So many connotations and weighted choices in names.
Just got off the phone with J.B., who sent me a song he's been working on. I love love love sharing creative things with friends, having there be a dialogue and a communication about something you've put time and soul into. It's so important and I wish I did it more often, with more people. I want this blog to kind of spark more things like that, a sharing of mutually interesting ideas.
I've been trying to work on more Scottie dog illustrations tonight but it's so hard to do "matching" illustrations in terms of theme and style that would be appropriate for a card series. Mostly I just want to draw things that stand alone instead.
Just got off the phone with J.B., who sent me a song he's been working on. I love love love sharing creative things with friends, having there be a dialogue and a communication about something you've put time and soul into. It's so important and I wish I did it more often, with more people. I want this blog to kind of spark more things like that, a sharing of mutually interesting ideas.
I've been trying to work on more Scottie dog illustrations tonight but it's so hard to do "matching" illustrations in terms of theme and style that would be appropriate for a card series. Mostly I just want to draw things that stand alone instead.
Happenings, this first weekend in May
May?! Really?
April felt like a cool wet breeze, punctuated by a lovely weekend cabin reunion. Other than that I'm not sure how April slipped through my fingers so. Alas, onward we go...
Art Chicago is looking like a pretty cool shindig to check out this weekend. If I can snag a student ticket I think I'll try to head over to the Merchandise Mart on Friday and take a little looksee around. Hopefully I'll see some of the Tandem Press crew there, stop by and say hi, reminisce about cutting those crazy amounts of Judy Pfaff Year of the Dog stencils, you know, the usual. The lectures and seminars that they are offering at Art Chicago look really interesting as well, so I hope that just one ticket gives you access to everything.
Also really, really want to get into The Books concert at the MCA on Sunday. It's been sold out for a while, but I may just try and go anyway, stand in line, see if I can hop in if someone doesn't show at the last minute.
Fun fact: the This American Life movie screening is happening again, as an encore performance on May 7th. Tickets are a blistering $18 so I'm not sure I want to see Ira Glass on the big screen that much, but I still am interested in the show itself. Maybe it will be a DVD adventure in a few months. Mainly I just want to see how awkward Ira Glass is in person, and the Chris Ware bit, whatever craziness he gets up to.
Thinking about The Roches' Hammond Song-- I think it's the one P.E. and I listened to in the car on the drive from Cleveland, and I'm really digging it more and more. Up until hearing this song I really never thought about The Roches having more music in the world other than their Christmas album, We Three Kings, because that is all I ever heard growing up. But I may have to investigate them a bit more thoroughly.
Here is the song (not a great recording, but it'll have to do):
April felt like a cool wet breeze, punctuated by a lovely weekend cabin reunion. Other than that I'm not sure how April slipped through my fingers so. Alas, onward we go...
Art Chicago is looking like a pretty cool shindig to check out this weekend. If I can snag a student ticket I think I'll try to head over to the Merchandise Mart on Friday and take a little looksee around. Hopefully I'll see some of the Tandem Press crew there, stop by and say hi, reminisce about cutting those crazy amounts of Judy Pfaff Year of the Dog stencils, you know, the usual. The lectures and seminars that they are offering at Art Chicago look really interesting as well, so I hope that just one ticket gives you access to everything.
Also really, really want to get into The Books concert at the MCA on Sunday. It's been sold out for a while, but I may just try and go anyway, stand in line, see if I can hop in if someone doesn't show at the last minute.
Fun fact: the This American Life movie screening is happening again, as an encore performance on May 7th. Tickets are a blistering $18 so I'm not sure I want to see Ira Glass on the big screen that much, but I still am interested in the show itself. Maybe it will be a DVD adventure in a few months. Mainly I just want to see how awkward Ira Glass is in person, and the Chris Ware bit, whatever craziness he gets up to.
Thinking about The Roches' Hammond Song-- I think it's the one P.E. and I listened to in the car on the drive from Cleveland, and I'm really digging it more and more. Up until hearing this song I really never thought about The Roches having more music in the world other than their Christmas album, We Three Kings, because that is all I ever heard growing up. But I may have to investigate them a bit more thoroughly.
Here is the song (not a great recording, but it'll have to do):
Screen No. 2
Here is another example, taken through a screen with the focus in the foreground. Here the shapes are more clearly figures because they compose a larger part of the frame, but you're still forced to question how you perceive the figures, what they are doing, etc. Does the fact that this is in color make the image easier or more simplistic to read? Maybe I should try it in black and white as well...
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