Writer, Dabbler In Things
There are times I’m struck by unexpectedly gorgeous art, be it a photograph or illustration or painting, as well as other arts, like writing. I’m not sure who initially took this photo–I saw it on Mastodon and it seems to have initially come from making rounds on Twitter–so I unfortunately can’t give credit where it’s … Read more
I realized ages ago that I come up with the bulk of my creative ideas while working on other material. Not as much sitting and staring out the window (though that happens) and not as much while reading or seeing or hearing something (though that happens more), but far and away, the bulk of my … Read more
As I’d written about back in earlier days of isolation, I’m trying out making some stop motion videos. It’s been a while since I took a crack at another one, in part because I wasn’t able to come up with more than a handful of ideas lo these many months, and in part because I … Read more
I’ve just realized how much I enjoy finding art in unexpected places. I knew decades ago that I liked seeing artwork done with spray paint on buildings that you may pass by on a walk somewhere or when the subway zips past the walls of businesses that some daring artist sees as a canvas–I’m reminded … Read more
Like everyone else, my family has been in isolation mode for (he cites off the top of his head because he just happens to be keeping track of it and just happened to see what today’s number was) 161 days. That’s a lot of time to be jammed right close together for anyone. To those … Read more
I’ve written previously about the importance of finishing projects you start. It’s something I finally got around to committing to way too late in life, which led to decades of untold numbers of just-started or half-finished stories and scripts in my wake. But the flipside to that is the importance of knowing when a project … Read more
My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s hacked around with “a start-to-finish path with spaces that have effects”-style board games in the past that were clearly thought up and filled in on the fly–but this … Read more
I’ve occasionally wondered if there are apps to help create stop motion video. Today it hit me again, and this time, rather than allowing my brain to get distracted with something else (as happens an embarrassingly huge amount of the time), I actually sought out such a beastie. Not surprisingly, there were quite a number … Read more
The top of our front door has a window of combined frosted glass and triangular-cut glass pieces, the latter of which which make for unexpectedly nice prisms. When the sun is at the right point in the sky or reflecting off a car window, we sometimes get rainbows thrown onto our walls, but I think … Read more
We saw this example of “tagging”, as the kids call it, on the way to the park. It’s deeply disturbing that my daughter has to see stuff like this.