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This creative conundrum always comes up with me. The design I like least is always the one someone else digs. What can we learn by this? Never rule anything out… our own perspective messes with our heads.
This creative conundrum always comes up with me. The design I like least is always the one someone else digs. What can we learn by this? Never rule anything out… our own perspective messes with our heads.
Because sometimes artists get too serious and try too hard. They forget the stuff they like to goof around with is the stuff we really want to see unless we’re the type to hang around a gallery with a wine glass all day. 😀
I actually have a blast just flipping through peoples’ sketchbooks, just to see what they’d been fiddling with.
Well, sure, Spill, but you do the painting thing. Me, I’m a beadweaver, and my daughter does sculptural crochet, and a paintbrush doesn’t say “craft store” to us at all.
Isn’t that the truth? While writing one of my novels, I made a “historical comment” that was all of two lines. It turned into two novels.
Go figure.
Grey… I, too, love sketchbooks… I get all inspired by them… I keep a regular sketchbook myself. They turn out to be visual journals as I put all kinds of stuff in them… whatever is going on in my life.
Suzii (hi ho!).. oooo…. you guys is crafty! Beadweaver and sculptural crocheter… have you seen the new 3-D pen? It combines drawing with sculpture… in a weird way…
Pete… I like that… happy historical accidents… or were they accidents? … or prompted pathways…?
First, an update on yesterday’s coffee bowls.
In todays news was a story of a man in Washington (state not d.c.) who may have ordered the most expensive custom-blended Starbucks coffee ever. $47.30. He brought his own 52 ounce travel mug, started with 48 shots of espresso and then added all sorts of extras into what he called a “Quadriginoctuple Frap.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pricey-starbucks-drink-20130220,0,7801206.story
Yup, custom-blended coffee bowls can be pricey.
Wolf… I dunno. Is that a continuously refilling bottomless wine glass that complements a similarily self-restoring munchy table? Hoo Wee, happy hour(s) at the gallery. Okay, why did God create alcohol? So too serious stuffy paintings could be loved too.
Yup, logos are not always appreciated or even what they seem to be.
This cartoon makes me think of Nike. Like many huge companies (Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Google, Ford Motor Company), Nike started humbly as a garage project. Phil Knight at Oregon State University in Beaverton was trying to make a better track shoe and devised his waffle sole by melting rubber in his wife’s waffle maker. He liked the result, found a manufaturer, but had no logo. So he offered up a $50 prize for the best one. As I understand it, a secretary at the school’s PE dept did a quick checkmark like swoosh that he didn’t like but reluctantly went with because he had no more time left. He would take his resulting shoes to track meets and sell them out of the back of his station wagon. In due time he made enough money to replace his wife’s destroyed waffle iron. That and grow to like the logo he didn’t before.
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Your linked 3-D pen is pretty neat, kind of like an arts and crafts hot glue gun that pushes out threads of colored plastic. I’m impressed with the whole 3-D printer concept, including how NASA hopes to send a gigantic 3-D printer to somewhere like the Moon or Mars and use the soil there as source material to create a space station building complex.
Speakin’ the truth there. The one’s you spend the most time on are usually thrown out. It’s a mad mad mad mad world!
Wow! That really is an amazing idea.
Randie, tell that to Anthony Burgess. He hated ‘A Clockwork Orange’, and yet it’s the only thing he seems to be remembered for!