There needs to be a zombie movie set in Victorian era London and/or United States starring a fop. That'd be awesome.
Who knew it was possible for RapidShare to suck more than they already did? Ever since they "revamped" their site, downloads have been a hell of a lot slower than they used to be. They weren't slow before the revamp, but now, I get speeds ranging from 13kb/s-70kb/s. Never goes any higher than that. It's ridiculous. And, people still insist on using Rapidshare (instead of better file hosting sites, such as MegaUpload or MediaFire), so not only am I restricted in how much I can download within a certain span of time, but the speeds are now absolute shit.
When will everyone realize how shitty RapidShare is, and finally stop uploading their damned files to it?
I did a lot of painting last week and I feel that my hands are getting a bit restrained, which, for me is not a good thing. It's important to keep my hands pretty loose because I like those contour lines to really flow, whether painting or drawing. The best way I've found to do this is to sketch and sketch and sketch... which is so much fun, because that is my first love: drawing. The other cool thing about keeping a practice of drawing is that it releases lots of thoughts and ideas which may translate later to painting. The following are a group of sketches from the last couple of days.
In the next post, I will send out my invitation to y'all for my August show in Flagstaff... still working out the details and graphics and such. It's fun to plan and I've kept any stress at bay by doing a bit of work on it each day and letting it flow.
Another exciting bit of news is that my local events newspaper, Flag Live, did a cover story on my art and it went out yesterday! I think they did a wonderful job and I'm really honored to have worked with Flag Live's nice folks. ;-)
Hope you all are having a great day and enjoying the summer while it lasts. Here in Northern Arizona, monsoon is in full swing, so the weather feels more like San Diego. I don't mind that one single bit!
Take care!
Here's a very nice post from Scott Bourne of MacBreak Weekly and the Apple Phone Show from last week: I Saw A Little History Yesterday Thanks to Leo Laporte.
Scott says a number of very nice things, including this excerpt:
Leo managed to make sure things kept rolling even though the iPhone was covered non-stop for 24 hours. Again, this is not easy. I was pretty excited by the variety of topics and opinions that were presented as was the audience.
Now let’s look at what really happened. At any given second, between 7000 and 8000 people were watching LIVE. The cumulative audience for the event was just under 300,000! These are cable TV numbers folks without the Cable TV! We constantly had about 600-700 people on chat joining in as well.
The streaming part of this was amazing. The folks at Stickam did a great job. Streaming media has come a very long way since I started delivering radio with the Internet at NetRadio in the 90s. We could never support an audience that large simultaneously.Many of my listeners commented that it felt like the old TechTV days. I have to agree.
Leo’s been on the bleeding edge of technology media from day one. He’s always innovating and always trying to find new ways to serve his audience.
As far as I know, nothing has ever been done like this in the brief history of new media. To do 24-hour, live, streaming coverage of a single event in front of an audience of this size is a staggering achievement.
This is awesome.
In case you don't get why the box art looks so terrible, it's parodying the fact that the old Mega Man games for the NES had awful box art in the United States. Here are some examples.
Siren: Blood Curse looks somewhat interesting. None of the previous Siren games interested me, though, and I don't care for the whole "episodic content" thing.
A sketch I did a while back has been tickling my dreams, floating in and out of my mind at the oddest times... I finally up and painted it this weekend while the little ones napped and hubby worked on college courses. This is yet another one that was kind of born from thinking about this existential life, how things can trap us, hurt us, shock us. How those very difficult turns in life can actually be the beginning of another more beautiful path if we just continue to be honest and see things for what they are. Like the layers of an onion, I think honesty and transparency of character can evolve day to day with each new bit of understanding we have about humanity. I know this is a very meandering post, but that is kind of how I am the last few days. These thoughts just flow in and out in a rather stream of consciousness sort of way. I know we are the same on many levels, you and I, though we may have different paths, interests, life stories - I think we all get broken and put back together in some way or another in the course of living. I think of these breaking down/rebuilding times as "interruptions" in life and how they are critical times of learning and loving, maybe being (brutally) honest. I can think of events that have left me nothing to learn or feel in the moment of happening, and so I buried my head, wrung my hands. But each new day has a way of bringing more illumination. The idea that life is actually working on me with its own life force is interesting and something I want to think upon for while. It's there that I feel a sense of the divine.
"Reconstruct", 12 3/4" x 10", watercolor combined with ink and pastel.
I have also begun reading The Artist's Way. I'll have to post more on this later.
These waters in life are very dynamic, wonderful, strange to me. All of it. Incredible. Rich in experiences. I love being able to ruminate while painting... the complexity of life never bores.
Here are several new works.
"Deserted and found", 10 1/4" x 7", watercolor combined with ink and pastel. This is a study for future paintings.
"Lightly we were walking", 10" x 12 3/4", watercolor combined with ink and pastel.
I am now finished with this painting:
"I don't know you yet, but I will love you forever", watercolor with ink and pastel, 140 lb archival paper
16" x 16 3/4".
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