Headed off to Chicago for my... 4th time? Going with the OSU glass program and presenting this at this. My cousin Jasmine is being rad enough to let me crash with her, other people are driving and I'm pretty excited to have a vacation-y sort of trip where there's very little burden of travel effort. Makes me think about travel and hope for the 3C Rail Corridor.
This is my first big 'thing' with the glass program. It's weird, I've been at OSU so long and I think this is the academic environment I was looking for. People are working hard, doing good stuff, but aren't assholes nor obsession workaholics. I think it kind of lynchpins upon a key faculty member, but I'm impressed to see it at all.
A bit sad to be away from my girl for a bit, but I feel better that it's something I'm excited for versus her last professional trip which she was not exactly bursting at the seams with enthusiasm for. Hey maybe it will sell me on the city more? We've talked about Living Places Not Columbus, but I've always weighed pretty much on the nay side for Chicago purely upon it's winter but... I'm of few truly permanent opinions. I save those for brussle sprouts.
If you want to go pump the vote like 50 times or something, you know I won't stop you. The show is the weekend after this, go, it'll be fun and interesting.
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.
I added this to the robo-text
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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