I love the heft of a brass pencil sharpener in my palm, and the sound as I use it to point my prismacolors. When I wander through the day with podcasts blaring through my earbuds, a lot slips by. I haven’t drawn enough, but I’ve drawn. Tags: art, distractions
Tag Archives: distractions
Slow on the uptake…
Gods help me, I’ve figured out how Google Reader works and because it was ugly I combined it with feedly, which means that I will have even less free time as my daily content dump grows ever larger. For a long time my LJ friends page was enough contact with the outside world. Now I’m… Continue Reading
Internet killed the video star…
Did I mention that there’s a TV in my apartment? There it is, right where I like it, at the foot of my bed. Same spot as back at home. When I got here, all the electrical devices were unplugged (except for one clock radio that was oddly set to go off in the middle… Continue Reading
The Void and Why I Need It…
Creativity requires a void. There has to be something missing for us to want to see something new. When life is two replete, where there is no blank wall, no empty space, the urge to make anew flags and ultimately stops. Early on in your career, you’ve made no mark on the world, it all… Continue Reading
Mumbles…
Once again I’m looking at the blank box on the screen with little or nothing to say. And at each of those difficult moments, I turn away and look at something else on my browser. Tabbed browsers are my nemesis! Think I’ll go wash my cutlery and then try again. Tags: daily photo, distractions, new… Continue Reading
I have six pens in my pocket…
Current Book: Richard Brookhiser – The Adamses, 1735 – 1918, America’s First Dynasty Again, a big gap in postings which means that I can’t recount all the important stuff. Or maybe only the important stuff. In any event, unless you’re a hard core fan of the minutia of my life, scroll down now! For the… Continue Reading
Weekend
It is oh so difficult to not turn on the TV right now. Sunday morning, sunlight streaming in and I’m in bed, chilled. Winter has arrived. Actually went through my voice mail just now and listened to my messages and returned calls. Some were 27 days old, unreturned. I think I read some where that… Continue Reading
Cubism
Well as some sort of a “reward” for some sort of “achievement” I went out and bought myself a Game cube. Just another way to waste the 18 minutes or so a day that I haven’t wasted already. I’m much more of a recreational gamer than a hardcore one: things like colecovision and pong were… Continue Reading
Mid aft slump
Past the burnout of the past couple of days. Overslept this morning, but that left me in a much better mood than previously. Obviously I needed it. There are still many things to take care of on the rapidly-approaching horizon, but at least my conciousness doesn’t seem as sporadic as yesterday. One thing I forgot… Continue Reading
Ah well…
The die is cast. After about 6 hours of cumulative talk-time with Dell tech support over the past two days, I had to clean install this morning. So now I guess my system is spring time fresh, and all that info is gone. If you’re a friend and reading this, I probably no longer have… Continue Reading