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2.12.2009
Googling Cornpone
I find titles for my art pieces in the most unusual places. Sometimes, I do word association with the piece and Google. I take a word that describes my association with the piece (in this case, cornpone) and enter that into the Google search bar (within my Firefox browser). I take the first set of words that come up that cyber-associate with that word of mine. Kind of like that game we played when we were kids, or what the psychiatrist asks you to do.
2.09.2009
Two Thoughts - Monday's Art
Don't combine bananas and onions when cooking, and don't confuse a bar of soap with a block of cheese.2.08.2009
Birthday Celebration
Tonight we celebrated D's 21st birthday. Here he is with Mom, and here's a pic of three cute girlz...
And one of another cute girl:
And here are the art shots:
2.02.2009
Guy Fieri!
It is almost impossible to see from this photo, but this is Food Network's Guy Fieri at SFO tonight. He was in the seat behind me on the flight in from Chicago. By his carry on, my hunch is that he had been to the SuperBowl in Tampa. He had a football with him. I told him the Jimbo Hambo was great and he was quite pleasant, but sleepy. (I think he partied pretty late last night....)
I know, this doesn't really qualify as art, but it was artful to get a photo of him with my honkin' camera without him seeing me. Distinct advantage of having a semi-telephoto lens. I was at the far end of the baggage claim - he was at the other.
I first saw him in the waiting area at O'Hare and thought he was a football player, but then someone came up to him and when I heard his voice I knew it was the bad boy himself!
I first saw him in the waiting area at O'Hare and thought he was a football player, but then someone came up to him and when I heard his voice I knew it was the bad boy himself!
2.01.2009
How It All Came Out
Funny thing happened in the archetype workshop. I avoided using the "engineer" archetype because it just seemed too easy and obvious. But, the pack of cards I received had two engineer cards in it, so I resigned to it and re-picked and re-sorted. Here is my cast chart of archetypes, including the engineer in my Unconscious House (#12).
1.31.2009
Stats for January
There are 31 days in January and I came in with 29 posts. I am not counting this one as it is not really art-related.
Goal for February: a full 28!
Goal for February: a full 28!
First Commission Piece
I have been meaning to post this painting I did last December for my sister-in-law.I transferred a photo of the Eiffel Tower I took while in Paris in late 2006. Then, I painted around it, including collage elements.
I also gave my SIL the two photos in the above post to go with it for this Christmas.
She was thrilled!
1.30.2009
Are These My Archetypes?
I'm at the Sacred Contracts workshop in Chicago (taught by the awesome Carolyn Myss). Tomorrow is Day #3 when we will pick our eight archetypes that form our basic wheel (together with the core four: victim, child, prostitute and saboteur). This has been a really good class. We've been reviewing the structure for the archetypes that form each person's contract about what they are up to in this world. I hope to finish the next two classes (May and September) and go on to become certified to use the archetypes with coaching clients.
So, for now, we are learning about our own wheels in the real-time. The twelve archetypes form this basic wheel of advisors who interact to form the sacred contract. I know, sounds all very woo-woo, but it's amazingly not. We've watched the Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life, with commentary by one of the workshop teachers to help us see the symbology and archetypes in Dorothy and George as they make their Hero's Journeys. These observations are so rich and helping me to see life on a higer level, as well as how I interact in the world.
These eight are the ones I came up with out of the 70 or so in the deck. If you know me, would you agree?
I love to find processes and solutions (engineer) and cannot survive even a day without creating art (artist). I am nurturing to my children and in general in the world (mother) and always striving to see the long view (visionary). I always want to know how things work and what the underlying story is (detective) and find myself always relating my experience of life thorugh stories (storyteller). I find my way through risky situations - like my whole life! - through intuition (gambler) and I work to make things succeed financially (midas).
I'll let you know how I did after we go through this more formally tomorrow.
1.29.2009
Hotel Decor
It's still too cold to go out for any photos in Chicago, plus our class went from 8 am to 10:30 pm. We saw Wizard of Oz which was dissected for us into archetypes and mystical lessons.A movie that has terrified me since childhood was delightful tonight, seeing examples of the survival archetypes (child, victim, prostitute and saboteur) and it was nicely moderated by one of the workshop instructors.
I'm learning a lot!
1.28.2009
Chilleeeee Art
I've just arrived in Chicago and there is a beautiful blanket of snow covering everything that we saw as we landed at O'Hare.The outside temperature is about 18F, so I'm snuggled into the hotel room. I didn't get too chilled between the airport and here, so I am comfy, but not willing to venture outside for some photos either.
The art here is two photos of art that hangs in my hotel room. It's not bad for hotel art. I've photographed, collaged and captioned it using Picasa, my favorite Google app.
1.26.2009
Not Sure About WordPress
It was easy enough to just import a year's worth of blogging over from Blogger.com to WordPress. But now that I'm over there, I'm not sure how I feel about WordPress. I was initially interested because the theme offering at Blogger is so limited. The themes at WordPress are so sleek and stylish, but they are really limited in terms of color and font choices, which is something I really liked about Blogger. Also, while there are added statistics for seeing how many people visit your blog, and new/different widgets that don't mean anything to me, there are no links for You Tube and Picasa Web Albums (duh).
WordPress is not a Google app, so of course, the things that are Google-based, like Picasa, would not be supported. Still, it's a bit of a bitch to use for creating an entry and adding graphics, and the fact that I can't change the color/size/styling of any fonts is a serious drawback.
Oh - I can change these things, but WordPress relies on the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and I so know how to create those - not!
Guess I'm coming back to Blogger....
1.25.2009
Today's Art Was Cooking
Today, I made my French Country Apple Tart, and took photos of the process and created the recipe using iWorks Pages from Apple. The software templates make it look like you know what you are doing and are reminiscent of Publisher, but with much richer built in graphics and that lovely drag and drop feature for the photos. I'm still getting used to the "mask" feature that emulates the crop feature on the PC.
1.23.2009
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