Monday, April 11, 2011
I am not dead.
Monday, August 2, 2010
The end of Pollyanna...
- rainboots...and rain, and weather in general, storms, sunshine, the changing of the seasons and everything in between including spending time on the high seas!
- professional people I admire, aka my professional heroes - getting to meet and work with them is an added bonus!
- pets - other peoples, ones on the street, native wildlife. If I can pat it, I like it.
- friends - that mostly love to eat (and yes have the odd tipple), and then there are their friends - the joy of meeting people that know your friends (social networks! gah!) are always a new possibility
- time to myself - and learning to make that time
- Phwoar and Swoon - men worthy of cravats and breeches (and cycling lyrca).
- random acts of song/music - it is something about voices raised together (BYO daggy 80's hits) or music that floats into the street (BYO violinist and soprano)
- armchair sport spectatorship - I've yelled and booed at the World Cup and the wondrous Le tour de France, perhaps lawns bowls spectatorship next?
- art in everyday life - off to galleries and performances, being reminded of art works I love...
- sleep - lots of it, preferably a nice daily dose.
- giggling - to take a leaf out of Elizabeth Bennet's book 'Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can' closely followed by instigating said giggling
- achieving something - and having it immortalised on a plaque or planting the seeds of bigger achievements
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project
Each artist is sent the same blank Moleskine sketchbook. We've only got two rules: first, the book must be used in some way - no sending us back an empty book or a completely different book! Second, the sketchbook must stay within its original dimensions (because we don't want to have to provide an extra suitcase just for your book while we're touring the country).
Each book will be given a barcode so we can easily catalog it into The Brooklyn Art Library system. Once we catalog it, artists will be able to track where on the tour their book is viewed and how many times someone pulled it from the shelf - we want to make sure you can stay connected with your sketchbook!
The availability of sketchbooks vary each day, so sign up quickly to reserve the one you want! You have the option to choose the kind of Moleskine and the color of the cover when you add the project to your cart over to the right.
thunderbolt and lightning... very, very frightening!
....I love storms, particularly ones that light up your whole house with that flash of silvery light before the boom, the crash....the opera? I'll stop with the musical references, but nothing quite thrills like the smell (yes smell!) and sound of ozone in action. Makes me think of all those long forgotten geography lessons on evaporation and precipitation, about the far too many documentaries on the weather I have watched....and Muffins the dog I had growing up who, if he was still with us, would be up on my lap the minute the first crash rang out!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Aren't you glad I'm back?
Friday, July 16, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
My annual holiday
Why you should quit your job and travel around the world...
What is dangerous, however, is when delayed gratification becomes an excuse for not living the life you want.How many people do you know that actually do the things they say they are going to when they reach arbitrary ages of leaving the jobs they have given their lives to? Far more common is the downsizing of dreams along the way.
If you want to play golf all day and take your medication at regular intervals, the 40-year career track plan should work well for you. If you have other ideas or ambitions, though, don’t kill yourself as a slave for the future. Instead, go and figure out where you want to travel and do something about it.