January 5th, 2009 - Uncategorized - Comment
| I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m a
Self-Knowing Romantic Builder
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I’m only posting this because apparently 0% of the 37,683 people who have taken this quiz are like me. . . which is totally unsurprising.
School starts next week. More posting will come with this. Routine is nice. I’ll be taking Printmaking, Digital Photography, Junior Studio II, Statistics and Archery. I have to add in Exhibits and we’ll be all set for the 4 year plan, somehow that didn’t get added in to the schedule like it was supposed to. No biggy.
I’ve been working on my New Years goals, this week is going to be dedicated to getting a good start on the year. I have a long way to go.
Here goes nothing.
December 18th, 2008 - Just a Story, Site News - Comment
Finally got the top nav looking the way I like it.
Messing with Conditional Tags in the sidebar, which is definitely something I’ll be utilizing in the ArtStudio139 site. The blog has a bloggy side, and certain pages simply have links to sub-pages. The home page has nothing but a search box so far, and won’t until sometime tomorrow. Time for me to snooze.
Oh, and I’ve started using FeedBurner for my RSS. So if you’re subscribing to the old address, by some slim chance, there’s a link to the new style up in the new header. It says 16 readers, yeah that’s obviously a placeholder. Right now my real stats read “1.” ha.
My next step is going to be getting the Folio cleaned up & spuffed up. After that the shop. I’m going to upload a couple of starter designs to Zazzle, a couple that some Church friends will enjoy, especially. And maybe link to some good books on Amazon. Do a Movies about Art shop page, as well. That may be a Friday task, because I’m also going to start on ArtStudio’s template tomorrow.
Other plans include actually writing real articles now and then as a way to help me learn things. . . instead of just these goofy site updates.
There’s also a a show coming up, which I will not be on stage for, but will probably be backstage when the time comes. It’s another Michelle Miller production, but Steve and I were in Florida when auditions came around. Somehow her favorite male actor got a part anyway though. I guess there were only two girl parts that got filled in pretty quickly. Oh well- I have too much on my plate right now, anyway. Spring or Summer I’ll get back in something.
Enough rambling. Time for sleep.
End.
December 17th, 2008 - Everything Blogged, Just a Story - Comment
Chuck the Super Cool Snowman, complete with Sea Shell eyes from Florida!
December 16th, 2008 - Just a Story, Site News - Comment
As the snow falls outside, I decide to write a post.
The website is getting its new look, which Dustin dubbed “Cleaner” than the last. This one is probably going to be slowly developed over the next couple of months as I see new techniques I like. I’ve already discovered how I’m going to handle the top navigation, but that will have to wait until tomorrow night. Be expecting a new shop to emerge as well.
I should do better with twitter now, too- I’ve found Twitter Tools by Alex King, which will allow me to update my status from here, which is going to be much more convenient. I’m trying to use this new 2.7 interface to its fullest. Oh, and, thanks to the Twitter Status app in facebook, it also updates my Facebook Status at the same time.
What other crosspostiness am I thinking? Well, I tried to re-install the LiveJournal crossposter to update the old LJ for my long-time friends more often, but evidently it has a category problem with 2.7, so that will have to wait. I’m also going to bring back my facebook photo album, if that still works, and put it in the “Life” section.
There are other things I’ve been doing for the new year- I’ve switched bank accounts and am now getting that completely switched over, and telephone companies to something cheaper, and I have now switched half my light bulbs over to the spirally kind. I’m hoping to have enough dough saved up for Adobe CS4 by next semester.
As ever, I’m hoping this year will be better than the last, although 2008 has probably been the best of recent years. I think I’ll redo my 43 Things to have some goals for 09.
So, as the snow falls, I finish this post- and prepare to go bundle up the short one for some awesome wintery art creation outside. Then it’s hot chocolate and popcorn strings for the pseudo-Tree! Until the next random post-
End.
December 8th, 2008 - Just a Story, Site News - Comment
Well, after a busy week in Florida, Reni and I have returned! I could do a whole series of posts on the trip- but I don’t really have the time right now. Today is the last day of fall ‘08- 3 more semesters to go! - and I’m busy printing and scrambling to get things ready to go. I just turned in my poetry zine/paper to Dr. Jo and got several “Wow’s” all in a row, so that was a nice feeling. Wish I could squeeze in more English classes. So much to learn, so little time.
I’m really here to post quickly about my plans to do a new layout for the Holidays. New knowledge in CSS, JQuery and design in general is prompting me to update. So don’t be surprised if Wing o’ the Wolf gets a facelift around January. This layout won’t completely die, though- I’ll be using something similar on ArtStudio139.com, which should be going up in the next few months for Amy Landrum.
Alright, back to getting things together for my pretend portfolio for my pretend interview in Junior Studio.
November 20th, 2008 - Uncategorized - Comment
This site I subscribe to occasionally gives away eBooks for free for various promotional reasons. I got a Photoshop book the last time, which was really for beginners, but it was pretty thorough. They’re doing a CSS book now for 14 days- “The Art and Science of CSS.” You have to either follow their Twitter feed or send them your email address for alternate instructions, which will probably ask you to subscribe to one of their mailing lists to get the book.
Here’s the link:
http://twitaway.com/
Mine is downloading now. I did the Twitter thing, and got an email with a download link like 5 minutes later. It’s 23 MB on dial-up, though. *ugh*
Also- another video podcast to watch- “TheInDesigner.” http://www.theindesigner.com
It hasn’t been updated in a while because he just had a kid, but there are already 51 spiffy episodes full of InDesign tricks. I have half of them on my laptop!
Enjoy 
November 19th, 2008 - Uncategorized - Comment
Totally found a Jazz Anthology full of music in the public domain- enjoy!
Jazz Anthology
November 16th, 2008 - Artistic Excitement, Just a Story - Comment
Ever feel like you just don’t belong with people? Like in general, the whole human race. There are certain people you are close to, but they’re spread out. You don’t really have a niche. A community. You have a web, where you are the center and stretched on the strands, far out and spread apart, are people who think a little like you.
The biggest thing I’m taking away from my Movies About Art class, besides the technical stuff like learning how commissions work and how difficult it is to obtain gallery showing, and how critics will be critics, unless they’re Henrys. . . the thing that has most affected me from this class is that being weird isn’t just okay- it’s almost a requirement. That being different from the rest of the world is almost necessary to realizing your true potential, and to really experiencing the world. That it’s okay to be that 16 year old girl who went to Wal*Mart in bunny ears three days after Easter with her off-beat best friends. . . To be an artist you have to be an observer, and to be an observer you have to separate yourself from the flock, and that’s okay.
But to separate yourself from the flock means you’re watching the rest of the crazy sheep. . . and there’s a sadness there. Seeing that nobody else is seeing what you are seeing. It’s not only lonely, but at times infuriating. That’s why many artists go crazy in the end, I think. Still, there are a few who held on. Who learned to accept that they’re just not like other people. Who learned that it’s okay to be weird.
I’ve been very lucky the last two years. I’ve been taught by practicing artists. People who are also observers. Not just my art teachers, but my Literary Imagination prof as well (see her book - Eros Operatica
) . I’m being taught so much beyond the technical, and it’s a blessing. It’s remarkable to look back and see how my path got me here.
I can know the secrets of life that are mine, that the rest of my generation may have forgotten. I can be different. I can feel the subtle wrongness of Jazz and Tea. There’s something there.
If I can teach my daughter that it’s okay to be different from the rest of the world, I think I’ve completed my overall mission on this earth.
November 10th, 2008 - Uncategorized - 1 Comment
Me: I think I’m going to have to start drinking coffee.
Steve: Okaaaayyy?!
Me: lots. And LOHOTS of coffee.
Steve: Whahy?
Me: I don’t know. It just seems like a thing that half-dead graphic
design students who work long nights on the weekends and have a 4
year old who wakes her up around 7 in the usual 4 year old way should drink.
My dad’s a high school teacher. He lives on the stuff. I’ve never touched the stuff, besides cappuccino.
Thoughts? Should I join the dark side?
November 3rd, 2008 - Everything Blogged, Geek Talk - 1 Comment
I am officially posting in WordPress 2.7 Beta 1, and it is soo very pretty! I mean really- I just logged in and I’m blown away by the redesign and how everything is arranged. So far I’m very impressed. The media section is still a little buggy in Safari, right off the bat, but it is, after all, still a beta version. I’m looking forward to looking around the rest of it. . .
Now, the Fun with Fonts, I was wanting to add a Typography blog to my list of RSS feeds, and #1 on Google was ilovetypography.com- so I clicked, and I was taken. Tons and tons of info in the blog, and a super fun font game to play! I got a 25/34 on my own, then I shared it with the lab and we played as a team and got 30. Good times in the Mac Lab
So that’s all for today- enjoy!
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