All guitars should be destroyed. Autoharps can stick around for a little longer, but accordions are on notice. The fun of seeing people do assignments (react to a theme)is when they really use the assignment to stretch themselves, not when they build a tenuous bridge of justification between it and what they would probably do… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: October 2009
The cluttered desk has its charms as well…
Horrid anxiety attack about finances today, which put me on autopilot for much of the afternoon. Ugh. And again, Ugh. Tags: daily photo, finance, work
A new Blake it Yourself: in time for the holiday…
Head on over to this location to get the instructions for the latest “make your own Nayland Blake”. Tags: biy, making art
Flyby….
Where did yesterday get to? It seems like I was waking up one minute and then seconds later I was laughing at the latest Venture Brothers episode. There was stuff I was supposed to do, and I didn’t do it. There were friends I was going to see, and I didn’t see them. The furthest… Continue Reading
Contender…
Tags: career, self daily
At a nearby restaurant…
Tags: daily photo, food
Ain’t gonna do The Mouse no more (was: Big Link Friday)
The first time I ever desperately wanted to see someone get hit in the face with a pie, it was this man. Soupy Sales had a TV show on New York’s channel 5 four a few years when I was a kid, and he could take a pie like nobody else. Somewhere betwen Mr Rodgers… Continue Reading
Talk to the future…
This morning I spoke to a group of students from Duke University as part of a cultural program supervised by my friend Jeff. Every time I’ve done it I’ve been gratified to meet with enthusiasm and hunger that these people have for the chance to be out in the world making things and garnering experience…. Continue Reading
An encounter…
Tags: self daily