why the dog hasn't yet learned how to make and bring me coffee in the morning is a source of constant vexation. also vexing: why a check i could use very badly hasn't shown up yet, despite six phone calls to see where it's at over the last five weeks, and seven different stories i've been told about it's whereabouts.... i'm off to go convert and post a bunch of digital paintings to the gallery.
Read Morebecause i'm the art director, that's why
however, instead of A Plan, we're currently doing a lot of Running Around In A Panic, which, while it might feel like planning has happened because of all the frenetic energy involved, really is not at all the same thing.... you can use them to make a total goat rodeo of bits and pieces of copy and photos look organized, and like you actually designed it, instead of like you haphazardly took the text file your client supplied and tried to arrange it decoratively around a sprinkling of clip art and stock photos, then wondered why you had all this extra space left over, so you thought you'd try to put big gaps in between your blocks of text and images to even it out a bit.... in the works: a redesign of pantagruel.net, because i need another project with which to threaten old deadlines a character drawing i need to finish a wedding present painting i need to start a cloth banner i need to paint a comic book cover i need to do home decorating advice for two people art for two blogs homework portfolio assignments self-promotional work and of course, work from the day job just looking at the list makes me cringe; mainly because all but three of those things are not paying work.
Read Moreonly an hour and fifteen minutes left in the work day...
…and that's really quite enough, i think.
Read MoreGen Y: "cognitively sharp but intellectually immune"
in today's chronicle of higher education was a review of: The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School (Tim Clydesdale) it was extremely depressing, but confirmed my suspicions -- anti-intellectualism, always a trend in america, has now become the norm for Gen Y. An excerpt from Lang's review: "In other words, freshmen spend most of their time and intellectual energy figuring out how to handle life without parental restraints and support: how to deal with money (or lack thereof); negotiate newfound freedoms with sex, drugs, and alcohol; and determine how much time to devote to studying, working, and playing. But what freshmen don't do during their first year of college comes as more of a (perhaps depressing) surprise: "Most American teens keep core identities in an 'identity lockbox' during their first year out and actively resist efforts to examine their self-understandings through classes or to engage their humanity through institutional efforts such as public lectures, the arts, or social activism."
Read More8 types of bad creative critics
yep, it's been that kind of week.
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