I've got the art bug. In that specific and dangerous way. I want a lampworking station, for all it's various economic and ventilation issues. I need an annealing kiln and a Serious Business torch... and may need a studio or super-ventilated space. But still, I could be doing glass that I actually wanted to sell and in like weeks not year. Exciting but still cautious.
The quarter is over. Love live the quarter. Summer will be kind of busy, autumn will be depresso-busy. So much art to do.
Art + Law = :(
http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/fashion-incubator-a-good-idea-while-it-lasted/http://capwiz.com/americanapparel/issues/alert/?alertid=13284121&type=CO
tl;dr US federal law protecting dress "designs". This is a horrible, horrible, idea to make essentially a crafting technique legally protected. I can explain more if people are curious but this is radioactive creativity poison on so many levels.
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Art isn't something always easy to arrive at, and two people can come to the same conclusion via entirely different routes. Trying to put a legal wrapper around this will be unwieldy and stifling in an already difficult economic environment. Seeking to regulate design is a poor and artificial way to influence markets, if a designer really makes something unique and wonderful, then the market will likely pay it. You get what you pay for, and this outside legal interference isn't needed.
Go tell the government that stem cell research is kind of awesome. Last time they had 6000 comments, mostly from right wing nutjobs that thought we wuz murdering babiez with the cellstemz, so let's uh give an alternative to that voice.
It's open for comments until tomorrow. Even if you just say "Stem Cell research is both imporant and nice. I support it.", that would do the trick.
Figure I'd try rounding up a week's worth of the internet. The formatting is terrible, I know, this took way more effort than it should have as is. And it goes back further than a week, eat my false advertising hell.
Spector switching from Republicans to Democrats. Not just Independent or Green or Libertarian or Space Pope but Democrat. Holy crap, I want to know what did he see / experience that finally made him go "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"?
EVE is fun, but one of the surprise benefits is... my laptop's LCD power management system works when the EVE client is running? Yeah, so I have a Gateway gaming laptop and there are many many things I adore about it, but an odd feature is that the thing where the monitor goes off after X minutes? Has never worked. But if I leave the EVE client running? Like clockwork.
Art. Good? Bad? Frustrating? Delightful? Challenging? Boring? All of the above? I think I feel good about myself, even if I'm seeing many non-optimal things. Painted a Munny for a thing @ Rivet, and I like it, but I really need to give it another layer of work. Should I post WIP pics or just wait till it's done?
Also doing a lot of sketches. Trying to ingrain that as a lifestyle habit so to speak for when I get bored. Doing good, but it still gets strong challenges for time sink rival "video games". I'm a man child, but I'm reigning in the child part. Note, reign, not remove.
Sup.
Oh god it's spring in Ohio. My ragweed allergy disappeared when I got out of high school/moved to CBus, and great googely moogely I love Ohio springs. Anyone interested in some hiking in one of Ohio's copious parks? I have a hankering for maybe Englewood or Yellow Springs. Yes yes, everyone loves Yellow Springs, which is why it might be the Englewood Reserve.
We've been doing spring... nesting? Did some stuff with the living and dining rooms, makes me like this place more and more. And I finally have a good setup for the studio in the basement and it's really good art making times.
Grilled yesterday with Randy, Karl and Angel. Lamb chops, zucchini, portabellos and mustard chicken, such good times. Fact: Grilling is one of the most satisyingly primal activities a human can do.
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