OK, another blogger with the same blog name, across the pond. Different font and different capitalization. And is mostly cat pictures.
I should leave a note on the cat's blog...or Dyoji, as the cat has been named.
: P
Crap, can't leave the cat a note...for I just tried. Talk about synchronicity. How many other cats named "dog" are out there?
Showing posts with label synchronicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synchronicity. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Go West, young woman
So, I fly to the west coast tomorrow. I still have to shove my clothes in my bag, confirm my flight, decide how I'm getting to the airport and if I'm gonna call in a favor to get there. Or if I'll leave my car in long-term parking & pay the fee.
But my car needs to be seen by the body-work guys who worked on it last year, to see if they can find the intermittent leak which occurs when it's raining like hell or when I go through the car wash. And it would be nice not to have it looked at while I actually need it to run around in.
Anyway. I'm going to a poetry workshop offered by Diane Frank of Blue Light Press in San Francisco. And I'm visiting an Aunt for two days. I haven't seen her in about 10 years, since the last time she came out to visit her Aunt with my Dad, who was living with her then. I think. Then I'm sharing a hotel room with a view of the Pacific Ocean with two other poets in the workshop from Friday night til Monday. I'm not sure if I'm going back to my Aunt's house or not after that. I may try to extend my trip for a day or two, since I was an idiot and booked a red-eye for myself on the way back Tuesday night. That way I'll be sure to catch up with an acquaintance I know from Greensboro. Since it took me three days to recover from the last red-eye I flew on, last fall, that might be the smart thing to do. Oh, how soon we forget what a pain in the butt red-eyes can be.
I need to run off some more poems, like pretty much all of a chapbook I've been writing on for the last year. It may be book length by the time I'm finished with the series. She said to bring poems of a project we've been working on. And that is a long-term project I have been working on.
I'll keep you updated!
But my car needs to be seen by the body-work guys who worked on it last year, to see if they can find the intermittent leak which occurs when it's raining like hell or when I go through the car wash. And it would be nice not to have it looked at while I actually need it to run around in.
Anyway. I'm going to a poetry workshop offered by Diane Frank of Blue Light Press in San Francisco. And I'm visiting an Aunt for two days. I haven't seen her in about 10 years, since the last time she came out to visit her Aunt with my Dad, who was living with her then. I think. Then I'm sharing a hotel room with a view of the Pacific Ocean with two other poets in the workshop from Friday night til Monday. I'm not sure if I'm going back to my Aunt's house or not after that. I may try to extend my trip for a day or two, since I was an idiot and booked a red-eye for myself on the way back Tuesday night. That way I'll be sure to catch up with an acquaintance I know from Greensboro. Since it took me three days to recover from the last red-eye I flew on, last fall, that might be the smart thing to do. Oh, how soon we forget what a pain in the butt red-eyes can be.
I need to run off some more poems, like pretty much all of a chapbook I've been writing on for the last year. It may be book length by the time I'm finished with the series. She said to bring poems of a project we've been working on. And that is a long-term project I have been working on.
I'll keep you updated!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Artist of the Month, Part Deux
As I wrote last week (al-frelling-ready?), I received a call that my name had been pulled from a hat to be Artist of the Month. The pool is made up of those volunteers and member artists who volunteer more than the minimum 5 hours a month at the gallery, on committees or at events (I think).
Despite having one of those* fathers, I got hooked by the B&W photography bug early. I was my Jr High School's "photographer" and went on many basketball & wrestling tournaments during my year (year and a half?) stint. I even went to Anchorage for the state band tournament, much to the dismay of the band. I spent a lot of time in Kilbuck Jr. High's** darkroom that year.
I volunteer at the gallery because: I am self-employed and have time to give them. I want to keep the doors open so I can finally SELL a photograph, rather than have me and my S.O. give them away as gifts. I also want to be a part of an artistic community, as I didn't do when I lived less than 5 miles from Penland School of Crafts.
I am not a natural club member, being a loner. And I don't like dealing with the public much, thanks to years spent behind the counter working at a convenience store in high school. I'd rather spend time actively doing something, but get stuck behind the desk a lot. I do catch up on things while I'm there and there isn't much foot traffic. Multi-tasking at it's best!
So I have five photo's in the front half of the gallery as artist of the month. Two are black and white oldies from college, but I like them both enough to have them framed and hang in my house. Three are digital color prints I took on a trip to New Zealand with my Mom a year and a half ago. They are pretty much straight prints, though I want to play with them a bit with software, though I don't know what the hell I'm doing and get frustrated more often than not.
It's an honor to be chosen as Artist of the Month, even if I did get pulled like a rabbit out of a hat. I had to answer 6 questions about my creative process, which is a bit of synchronicity, since I'm focusing on all things creative and introspective and networking and with RLB's Platform Challenge.
My next challenge is to find a way to post photos to my blog. I think I need to do this through Google's program. Which is yet another software program to learn.
*"DA-AAAD, take the picture already!"
** Currently just an elementary school, with the Jr High & HS students combined. EEK! Poor 6th graders!
Despite having one of those* fathers, I got hooked by the B&W photography bug early. I was my Jr High School's "photographer" and went on many basketball & wrestling tournaments during my year (year and a half?) stint. I even went to Anchorage for the state band tournament, much to the dismay of the band. I spent a lot of time in Kilbuck Jr. High's** darkroom that year.
I volunteer at the gallery because: I am self-employed and have time to give them. I want to keep the doors open so I can finally SELL a photograph, rather than have me and my S.O. give them away as gifts. I also want to be a part of an artistic community, as I didn't do when I lived less than 5 miles from Penland School of Crafts.
I am not a natural club member, being a loner. And I don't like dealing with the public much, thanks to years spent behind the counter working at a convenience store in high school. I'd rather spend time actively doing something, but get stuck behind the desk a lot. I do catch up on things while I'm there and there isn't much foot traffic. Multi-tasking at it's best!
So I have five photo's in the front half of the gallery as artist of the month. Two are black and white oldies from college, but I like them both enough to have them framed and hang in my house. Three are digital color prints I took on a trip to New Zealand with my Mom a year and a half ago. They are pretty much straight prints, though I want to play with them a bit with software, though I don't know what the hell I'm doing and get frustrated more often than not.
It's an honor to be chosen as Artist of the Month, even if I did get pulled like a rabbit out of a hat. I had to answer 6 questions about my creative process, which is a bit of synchronicity, since I'm focusing on all things creative and introspective and networking and with RLB's Platform Challenge.
My next challenge is to find a way to post photos to my blog. I think I need to do this through Google's program. Which is yet another software program to learn.
*"DA-AAAD, take the picture already!"
** Currently just an elementary school, with the Jr High & HS students combined. EEK! Poor 6th graders!
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