What kind of drawing and painting tools are available for artists in a digital space? I don’t know. Because sometimes I actually am under a rock. Why didn’t I know about this cool app so I could vote for it in the Webby’s? Sometimes you just miss cool stuff until most people think it’s old and tired. Well, It’s new to me. Here is a cool app where you can get your inner Pollock out.
I spent hours playing with this software toy. You probably will too.
Been working on the design of the new Heavybubble HQ. This space will server as studio, HQ, and gallery for exhibitions. This is one of my earlier renderings using the marvelous free SketchUp from Google. To see more of the design process of the new space head over to the artlog.
Came downtown today to catch up on some work. I fell behind in April because of the flu. We romped into town for breakfast. A awesome day the studio! Broke through several thorny design and development issues. Before we knew it it almost midnight. Time for a second breakfast. Baked eggs for the first breakfast, blueberry pancakes for the second.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Just thinking. Thinking about opportunism. Thinking about how human beings don’t matter in certain equations.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
