While school life has resumed with all of its predictable demands, for a good hour or so per day I can still sit before My Book and continue pasting down the pictures I see inside my head. I miss having an entire day to scoot around the house. Doing something or doing nothing whatever I see fit.
Yet continuing the cut & paste at least imparts a sense of moving in the right direction. Internally, I mean. Keeping the creative engine on the move. That photo of the trees is cropping up a lot. Hastily taken while driving, it's probably my favorite photo of my trip. I love it when the camera sees something I missed the first time around and presents it to me again. See here, this.
The smoke in the air today was almost undetectable. The fires are being slowly wrestled down. Still, the air quality was poor enough so that my young charges had to play inside. My suggestion for a rousing game of Lights Off Cat Nap was rejected. Darn.
If you're a regular visitor to Design Sponge, you already saw this ultra cool tour of Dolman Gaiman's Chicago studio, if not you may want to go have a look-see. That Dolman is one cool cat.
Rama Lama Ding Dong!
Love your books I see all over this page…how do you bind them? Or are they in already bound books? I am beyond hooked on my altered art journaling,in old sale books.
Chicago gives us Gaiman and Obama?…I’m goin’.
Thanks for the intro. Insanely Cool.
Trees are close to my heart. I love the shot that your camera decided to take by itself. Looks like a great silkscreen image. Make a me a shirt. Please?
Hello, I’ve just popped over from Ginny’s blog. I love what you’re doing with your Book!
Thank you for the link to Gaiman’s studio. Don’t you just love peeking into other artists work spaces?
Greetings from England 🙂
Okay, here’s the deal: love that Polaroid. But the main thing is, I love how you remind me here that even though I am a worker bee, and I have to go make someone else richer all day (I being in the Corporate world, not in your sweeter Academic world), I can eek out some moments of artful richness in the midst of my office (thank heavens, not a cubicle), and also renew my creative soul upon arriving home, and that no matter how small a pocket of arting I have, it MATTERS. It matters, Miss G.E.T.E. ! And I thank you for reminding me! By virtue of the happy loveliness of your pages here!
But right now I have to go watch The Bonnie Hunt Show.
(smooch!)
that Book is not the F & J journal, it seems. Did you build that one too – I see more signatures peeking out. I love the apparent (key word) abandon of your pages. That is harder to do than you make it seem, oh Flexible One.
Oh the pages just get better and better!!!
Me, too, I love the surprises in the camera.
Sometimes it’s because the macro focus can see things I can’t see with my naked eye, but sometimes it’s something else entirely……… A shadow, a reflection…………….
I like your polaroid of the trees too. I liked that you took it and later noticed things that you didn’t see when you actually took it!