a day of glamour

the egg is for my second attempt at the painting i should really have finished earlier in the week, but didn't -- my homework assignment of painting a white egg on a white background, after my pitiful attempt in color theory last saturday. it wasn't that it was a white bust on a white background under white light that defeated me; it was that i couldn't seem to get the white paint out of the bristles of my brush, so all my colors got chalky and zombieish. you wouldn't think that'd be a problem when painting a white object, but let me assure you: it's a problem somewhere on the scale of looking at a G4 server whose power cord your boss has just tripped over and yanked out of the socket.

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Amnicado Day

if you had something of mine which you've lost, or the dog ate it (the latter is entirely possible, for some of you), please replace it, or offer me something else that's shiny, of equivalent worth.... since Mabon is almost here, and in the spirit of sharing my harvest -- if anyone would like avocados, you're welcome to come on over and pick your own.... my dog would like to try eating them all by herself; but while it's good for her coat, an all-avocado diet has some interesting gastrointestinal effects on canines.

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so many shiny things

i want to try the bonfire scent -- who doesn't like things with guy fawkes references?... custom-fit jeans might be in my future… if i drive to san francisco, where the nearest intellifit machine is.... making amandarin watch red vs. blue while she's at work is fun -- she's one of the very few people who can legitimately claim it's 'research,' since she's coordinating a Halo 3 event in a few days.

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awesome antlers

this morning didn't go particularly well; i woke up when my first alarm went off, then promptly fell back asleep, and managed to somehow ignore the second alarm going off three times. i woke up at 6:08, then flew out of the house and got in the car, with no coffee, and began the two-hour drive to work… where i discovered i'd left my office keys 55 miles away, back at my house.... in it, he wrote, "There are two kinds of books I find intolerable - the ones that show you how to draw animals or humans by starting with a series of ovals and parallelograms and the art books that are filled with overlays scarring famous paintings, mapping out the purportedly arcane secrets of composition and golden sections."

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