looking in and looking out
The multiplicity of smartphone “publishing” media have me a little more scattered than usual lately– one day I’ll be all about microblogging on Twitter, the next snapshot-happy via Instagram– in all a frittery array of assorted pointlessness, aka the overarching theme of my existence these last several months. I am here and there and nowhere at all, perennially frustrated by the conundrum of forcing it all somehow to cohere.
on thursday evening we went with chris’s mom and dad to the field museum’s member night and glimpsed behind the exhibitions to witness some of the designer’s spaces and rarer specimens. the things that most appeal to my eye are, I think, telling.
illustration sketches:
the exhibit design loft space:
and creatures:
this morning while walking floyd I found a four leaf clover, and apparently it works, as evidenced by today’s ridiculous-awesome thrift fun: a globe ($5) which is both an educational toy and a LAMP! shirts $2-3 each; jacket $4.50. highway robbery. call me the baron of thrift.
(for the record I’m blaming excessive cleavage prominence on sark)
a play session with mister webcam
lying in bed and looking, all dozey-eyed.
chris’s mom met me on a rainy cold morning on milwaukee avenue to go through intuit‘s unobtrusive green door to visit the henry darger room exhibit and other captivating outsider art…
yesterday was a good, long day– I went in to the press and tinkered with jen’s tabletop 6″x9″ sigwalt platen press, learning lots of hands-on lessons about how linoleum blocks play on this kind of machine and about print area limitations and the like (all in aid of considering purchasing a similar press for home use)– with a break midday to drive up to skokie and meet laura and tammy and gina for a giddy catchup lunch– more printing through the afternoon, and then to drew’s eatery with jen and her daughter jo (how doggone cute is she??) for yummy clear-conscience fare for dinner– and eventually home, feeling good and tired…
only to find an envelope virtually sparking with surprise from my lovely friend (both FB and REAL) gina down in durham, nc– the first of our mutual “pay it forward” creative pledges for 2011…
happy lucky me.
target damages: ridiculous japanese cutopia socklets, buckets of unnecessary easter candy… can’t even recall what I initially went in for.
apparently floyd is equally susceptible.
We have a new mayor!
I was proud to get out and exercise my democratic right to vote today in a world where this privilege is far from universal. I’m deeply conscious in the face of developing events in the Middle East and North Africa of my enormous good fortune and range of ideological motion and free speech in the first world, in the West, as a member of a long-standing democratic union whose respects for life and liberty far outweigh its developmental challenges on the grand scale of things.
I’m hopeful for Rahm Emanuel’s ability to helm the leadership and infrastructural changes we need so badly in Chicago.
It’s (beyond) high time to embrace progressive transparency in a city that has long and infamously bumped along on slipshod representational ethics.
Let’s hear it for our new Mayor, Rahm Emanuel!
