it's 84 degrees today here in San Diego, but still somehow feels like fall. Or indian summer. maybe it's the daylight savings thing -- i always dread the fall one, because the sun in my eyes at 6am makes it so i can't sleep, and the darkness at 5pm makes it so i can't work! probably the only perk of living in indiana, in my opinion, is that they don't bother with daylight savings at all over there. it was always such a source of confusion when driving from chicago to michigan (not unlike the time traveller's wife! we spent tons of time in south haven as kids) when in indiana we never knew what time it was supposed to be.
I feel right now like I have so much on my plate -- too much -- but I know I've handled this kind of work load in the past and I know I can do it again. I've been trying to use my time off to do good things for myself: whether it's taking in a good museum exhibit, going for a walk, or cooking a really awesome meal from scratch. i think that's how i weathered the storms in the past: balancing life with work, and i need to learn to do that again!
which reminds me: i welcome any fall recipes! If you have a good one, I'd love to get it. I've been making lots of curry + snickerdoodles these days.
Also, I've been blogging more over on my site -- really mostly about the shop and what's new with me and art. today I posted some paintings over there. But comments are enabled, so please visit me over there sometime.
ok. over and out.
i redesigned the blog. this layout looks so much cleaner and neater to me, but i'm left with the burden of tagging the last ~900 posts which i never bothered to tag the first time around. i tagged about 250 of them before i had a dark, sad thought about the impermanence of electronic media such as blogs and how it seems shortsighted to care if entries are filed according to subject properly. what happened to good old consecutive order, anyway?it's sort of ironic for a journal designer such as myself to keep a blog at all, no?
anyway, not much else is new. i drove for my first time this week since i broke my shoulder (~7 weeks without mobility greater than 4mph) it was kind of scary.
two quotes from "The Beautiful and Damned" by F Scott Fitzgerald (which i am currently reading)
"Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."
and
"Frantically, I get a thing I call sentence-fever that must be like buck-fever. It's a sort of intense literary self-consciousness that comes when I try to force myself. But the really awful days aren't when I think I can't write. They're when I wonder whether any writing is worth while at all -- I mean whether I'm not a sort of glorified buffoon."
on a sidenote, while i love the plethora of design blogs and often find myself clicking around them for hours in wonderment, has there ever been such a sheer mass of work so readily available, so out of context? it does sort of make it all feel meaningless and oversaturated...
i guess that means i have sentence-fever or whatever its visual equivalent must be.
"Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."
and
"Frantically, I get a thing I call sentence-fever that must be like buck-fever. It's a sort of intense literary self-consciousness that comes when I try to force myself. But the really awful days aren't when I think I can't write. They're when I wonder whether any writing is worth while at all -- I mean whether I'm not a sort of glorified buffoon."
on a sidenote, while i love the plethora of design blogs and often find myself clicking around them for hours in wonderment, has there ever been such a sheer mass of work so readily available, so out of context? it does sort of make it all feel meaningless and oversaturated...
i guess that means i have sentence-fever or whatever its visual equivalent must be.
man, these last couple days have been insanely busy.
me and my broken shoulder have been drawing and designing nonstop. i think being unable to do anything for a month basically built up all these creative ideas and by the time i was able to start drawing again, i was unstoppable!
i spent the past 6 weeks basically making stuff for the boygirlparty shop -- here are a couple previews of all the new-ness to be seen there:
( here too )
busy week, see?
i can't paint yet and i still can't drive, so we'll see what else happens before i'm well and in the throes of deadlines and freelance once more. can't say i'm looking forward to life as normal, it's been nice to take a break from work for other people, to draw for fun, and to get BORED -- man, these last few years, i've had too much to do, no time to get bored. boredom is inspiring! i digress.
also, hey, i know a lot of people don't use livejournal anymore, so thanks for still reading / commenting / being here. i actually like livejournal a lot, and having an archive that dates so far back (but if you think this is old, i've got a diaryland account from 2000....)
me and my broken shoulder have been drawing and designing nonstop. i think being unable to do anything for a month basically built up all these creative ideas and by the time i was able to start drawing again, i was unstoppable!
i spent the past 6 weeks basically making stuff for the boygirlparty shop -- here are a couple previews of all the new-ness to be seen there:
( here too )
busy week, see?
i can't paint yet and i still can't drive, so we'll see what else happens before i'm well and in the throes of deadlines and freelance once more. can't say i'm looking forward to life as normal, it's been nice to take a break from work for other people, to draw for fun, and to get BORED -- man, these last few years, i've had too much to do, no time to get bored. boredom is inspiring! i digress.
also, hey, i know a lot of people don't use livejournal anymore, so thanks for still reading / commenting / being here. i actually like livejournal a lot, and having an archive that dates so far back (but if you think this is old, i've got a diaryland account from 2000....)
i realized today that i'm constantly nagging at my sister to blog more but i myself have gotten really bad at blogging regularly.
funfact: did you know a big reason why i keep a journal over here on lj is because it doesn't use the word 'blog'? it is the same reason why i used to keep a journal at diaryland.
i'm really hoping 2008 is awesome for you, for me, for everybody. it feels like everyone i know had such an unfairly challenging 2007. so far, no complaints.
i made a bunch of prints of my artwork with a spectacular local printer! while i adore the print lab in RI i worked with and everybody there, it's really nice to not be waiting to proof prints from across the country or rely on email for communication. proofing is the most important aspect of printing for me, it's always been important to me to have prints look like originals. and i love when people are duped by them, too!
here they are:
funfact: did you know a big reason why i keep a journal over here on lj is because it doesn't use the word 'blog'? it is the same reason why i used to keep a journal at diaryland.
i'm really hoping 2008 is awesome for you, for me, for everybody. it feels like everyone i know had such an unfairly challenging 2007. so far, no complaints.
i made a bunch of prints of my artwork with a spectacular local printer! while i adore the print lab in RI i worked with and everybody there, it's really nice to not be waiting to proof prints from across the country or rely on email for communication. proofing is the most important aspect of printing for me, it's always been important to me to have prints look like originals. and i love when people are duped by them, too!
here they are:
today i happened upon the gorgeous, well-designed and entertaining website of three of my former classmates and friends at risd now running their own design studio. in the time machine of my memory, it's an unexpected pairing of styles, but their collaboration is just incredible; perhaps unexpected pairing of styles is what makes a collaboration successful.
i love finding out that the people who made my formative arty years so engaging continue to grow and be awesome and inspiring. i rarely tote academic pride publicly, but risd was such an awesome, exhausting, depressing and uplifting experience all in one, and my graduating class continues to throw me for a loop.
that reminds me: caitlin started a blog, and told me about a really cool gallery in nashville started by another former classmate.
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i'm thinking of making the switch from livejournal, by the way. reasons to go, reasons to stay?
in my mind: reasons to stay are that it makes me think of this blog as a 'journal' and not a 'blog', which feels more private and reasonable to me. even though it probably isn't.
reason to go: every other blog site is so much prettier. so, so much prettier.
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the show in nyc is up for just one more week.
there are new animal postcards in my shop
it is no longer 103 degrees where i live.
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that does it for today's completely text heavy post.
i love finding out that the people who made my formative arty years so engaging continue to grow and be awesome and inspiring. i rarely tote academic pride publicly, but risd was such an awesome, exhausting, depressing and uplifting experience all in one, and my graduating class continues to throw me for a loop.
that reminds me: caitlin started a blog, and told me about a really cool gallery in nashville started by another former classmate.
- - - - -
i'm thinking of making the switch from livejournal, by the way. reasons to go, reasons to stay?
in my mind: reasons to stay are that it makes me think of this blog as a 'journal' and not a 'blog', which feels more private and reasonable to me. even though it probably isn't.
reason to go: every other blog site is so much prettier. so, so much prettier.
- - - - -
the show in nyc is up for just one more week.
there are new animal postcards in my shop
it is no longer 103 degrees where i live.
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that does it for today's completely text heavy post.
you -- friends, readers, participants in my life -- are awesome.
just wanted to throw that out there, because it's true. i look forward to seeing those in nyc that will be there!
thanx for your ongoing support + friendship + hilarity through thick and thin.
(right now is a 'nothing' time in case you were wondering. neither thick nor thin. sort of 'baby bear' just right-ish, if we must speak in quantitative terms)
i wish i had some artwork to share here but i've been painting backgrounds and washes lately mostly.
laying the visual groundwork, you know.
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just wanted to throw that out there, because it's true. i look forward to seeing those in nyc that will be there!
thanx for your ongoing support + friendship + hilarity through thick and thin.
(right now is a 'nothing' time in case you were wondering. neither thick nor thin. sort of 'baby bear' just right-ish, if we must speak in quantitative terms)
i wish i had some artwork to share here but i've been painting backgrounds and washes lately mostly.
laying the visual groundwork, you know.
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| | <---it's a finch
i feel like one of the problems with blogging is that you get stuck writing about the things that nag you, the things you could go on and on about because you just need to vent, and therefore you spend less (if any!) time focusing on the delightful little details of life that make every other ordinary day wonderful.
i thought to myself, after posting that last downer, it's time for a finch update.
it's nighttime at the finchy station. i just woke up all the little guys, who now number SEVEN, to take these pictures and share their warm, fuzzy cuteness:
( captions, descriptions, more finchy info )
no matter how difficult my day is, when i spend some time with the finches, everything is right again. love these little guys.
i thought to myself, after posting that last downer, it's time for a finch update.
it's nighttime at the finchy station. i just woke up all the little guys, who now number SEVEN, to take these pictures and share their warm, fuzzy cuteness:
( captions, descriptions, more finchy info )
no matter how difficult my day is, when i spend some time with the finches, everything is right again. love these little guys.
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