ste!!a gassaway: unpredictable thoughts

So what do you think I’m thinking about.
Quick, to Naked Chocolate!

Ok I forgot to post this one. Just did it now.

Tags: marzapan, birthday, 12, color, six

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Just thinking. Thinking about opportunism. Thinking about how human beings don’t matter in certain equations.

More at the website:
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

patti smith : twelve

Heard a terrific interview with Patti Smith about the songs she choose for this new release. Great covers well choosen. Bought it on itunes. My ipod is very happy this birthday month. This is a good buy. Check it out.

I just want to get some sleep.
Deadlines have been crushing.

Tags: sleep, birthday, me today, coffee

Ok, I just want to be able to design the construction facades for Apple stores. What a great gig. Here’s a shot of the new Apple store in Boston. Remind you a little of Fenway Park? Thanks to SmallDog for the post.

Barkings!: Boston’s NEW Green Monster

Biggest happening today was my haircut by Joe at Groom. My hair was almost long enough to braid. Joe just moved his shop from the Philadelphia building to The Arts Tower Building, dumb name.

Tags: groom, barber, philadelphia, birthday

So, I check my email today and there is an Amazon notice. New book by Ursala K LeGuin. What a great gift for my birthday! Margaret went down to Joseph Fox Books just around the corner and bought a copy — my gift to her. My gift would be that she would read it to me.

You can listen to her read here. http://www.ursulakleguin.com/MP3s/index.html

You can watch her read from her new book Lavinia at youtube. Here’s the video.

Tags: UrsalaK LeGuin, books, Lavinia, epic, poem

Other Lives* All of us have public lives. Some of us have other lives, as well. It may be an inner life that is shared with no one. It may be a secret: an undiscovered crime, an unacknowledged lover or a child surrendered years ago. It may be an obsession that we pursue in the shadows. What do we really know about anyone, even those closest to us?

Her Other Life, episode 1: stella

When it is your birthday month everything is about you.
This is an interactive novel by a girlfriend; an interative thriller to be precise. The first episode is like a birthday gift because my name is the title. It’s a little steamy. That’s good too.

Enjoy it and add your own twists.

The photo is from Ms. Jane Hudson.

Tags: stella, may, birthday, novel, lissa, thriller

Today was geek day. My new drive from Other World Computing came 200 gigs or 7200 rpm goodness, yummy. I took out my drive and all the tools I needed (so I thought) and began by formatting and installing OSX. That wasn’t too painful. Then I began to take apart the case of my Macbook Pro. Tiny screw by tiny screw. Damn this thing has lots of teeny tiny screws. Twenty seven in total. The whole case was apart and now I removed the hard drive.

Now I am taking apart the screws on the hard drive itself with the little rubber bumpers… geeze where is my torx 6? I can’t find my torx 6. 9:45 pm — Everything is closed.

This is what it looked like.

I can figure this out. I get a small hex driver and I can get three of the screws out. I can’t get the fourth and I don’t want to strip the screw. Emergency geek friend call. Driving to George’s house at 10 pm. I get the torx 6 and buy an extra hard drive case he happened to have around. Got the screw out and heading back downtown.

The rest of the story… I’m writing this post on my machine with my new hard drive.

Tags: macbookpro, birthday, apple, memory, DIY

Woke up after about four hours sleep and headed to my studio. Margaret tossed some stuff in my lunchbox, I grabbed my ipod and I was on my way.

Getting ready to make work is always a ritual. It helps me when my brain isn’t functioning — my body remembers what to do. After plugging in the ipod, lighting the incense, and putting on a cup of tea I was ready to sit and look at the new work I started last week. I opened my sketchbook and began to write the chant in my head that would take me to the high peaks, to the huge stands of fluttering aspens, to the huge hemlocks, to the deep fragrant spaces of red pines.

These drawings will be in All About Trees. Here’s a glimpse of one still in the works. It was a very productive day. Two of the drawings are finished.

Tags: trees, birthday, art, drawings, yupo, philadelphia

Came downtown today to catch up on some work. We romped into town for breakfast. An awesome day in the studio! Broke through several thorny design and development issues. Before we knew it it almost midnight. Time for a second breakfast. Ran and skipped to the Marathon Grill on 16th street — they close at midnight. It was close but the staff was kind and cooked for us. Baked eggs for the first breakfast, blueberry pancakes for the second. Yum. We went back to the studio and dug in. Didn’t get home until 5 am but we were jammin’.

Some birthday gifts aren’t what they seem.

Tags: design, software, birthday, breakfast

It was a strange day. Pretty productive and certainly fun. One of the best things was finding out that the cards I designed and uploaded to modern postcard will be here on friday. This is the front of the card. I had to design something quick and something without representational art. This will do. It was a real relief to know that the cards would show up with time to mail them.

I’m really thrilled to be in this show with many exceptional artists. I look forward to meeting with a group selected by Pam Taggart. She’s also doing a workshop. Check it out at the chester springs site and at the smARTS, sherman mills arts site. I will be showing new work. That excites me too.

Join me at the reception if you can make it. It will be a party!

opening reception
June 1 : 2-5 pm

exhibition
June 2-27

lincoln building

chester springs studio
historic yellow springs
center for visual art

gallery hours
monday – friday 10 am – 4 pm

610. 827. 7277
www.chesterspringsstudio.org

Tags: art, birthday, exhibition, philadelphia, trees, artists, seeing

This is a drawing from my flickr buddy Len. He has some amazing work. This is not my favorite of his 50 children series so far, but it is the namesake for my birthday month. She is no where near as happy as I am. Spring and a full month of birthday activities is very exciting. She looks a bit how I felt in April. Trying to remember who I am and what drives the work I make — both the design and the art. I remember now and have new posts at my artlog. It’s been a great first day.

Tags: birthday, May, older, taurus, gemini, Len Cowgill