Or as we call it: I Follow Flash your fur and flash drive Friday.
In the office doing some training and then some recruiting. Big open house tonight.
I ran across an interesting post that in some way relates to what I was talking about yesterday. Where I work it’s very easy for all of us to get caught in reactionary work flow, since we are confronted by the needs and requests of students every day. But I and they, ultimately suffer if time isn’t made to balance that with creative work processes. We need to work on building in time to create the structures that we will be using down the road, instead of always jerry-rigging in response to crises. Conceiving of these two modes of work and recognizing that my job needs to be made up of both definitely helps me in sorting priorities.
Talking about my struggles with time-sucks I’ve come to call The Browsehole, there are several people here on live-journal that I’ve developed a love/hate relationship with in that regard. Love because they bring such great content, and hate because they send me off searching through the endless images here online instead of getting all my other work done.
Firstly, two of my favorite communities here on LJ are vintage photo and vintage_ads, both of which have an incredible amount of imagery pouring through them. And over the last year I’ve noticed that a lot of my favorite imagery seems to be coming from one person, the intrepid carabaas. I read Russian half as well as I speak it, and I can’t speak Russian, so I have no idea about him at all or what he has to say for himself, but I can only imagine that he has a warehouse full of trained monkeys, flatbed scanners and old copies of Life and Esquire in order to generate the amount of posting he does. Much of it doesn’t even end up on either of those two communities, like his many pictures of women wielding guns
I’ve also been enjoying the blog Pikaland which led me to these lettering sketchbooks which are almost unbearably twee, but somehow very inspiring to look at.
Inspiring in an um, earthier way is the incredibly filthy work of Robin Bougie (So Not SFW). I know he won’t object to the adjective since he is the editor of several crazy publications, including
Cinema Sewer a great great zine of beyond fringe movies. If you order one of his anthologies, he’ll draw a demented sex scene for the title page. He even takes requests! I ordered mine and not only did the drawing delight me, but the contents took me right back to 42nd Street in the late seventies, reminding me of porn movies I’d almost forgotten I’d ever seen. (Hey Robin, I haven’t thanked you yet but you should know that I saw Falcon Head in the David Cinema around when it came out. In those days It took all my courage to duck into a theater, and you didn’t bother with stuff like show times, so I went in saw a bunch of the more surreal stuff and wandered out again mystified, never even knowing the title. Thanks for bringing that all back!!)
Tags: big link friday, daily photo, drawing, fyff
I’m a fan of carabaas myself.