*crab crab* plus art over the weekend
i'm feeling kind of crabby and oppositional today. i just want to disagree with everyone. i've got all this crank and no one to vent it on, because no one's said or done anything to deserve me bitching at them. today may be a very non-commenty day on lj. just to be safe, you know. i don't like it when people are bratty in my lj, so i'm not going to do it to other people.
possibly i just need to get more sleep....
in much sillier news, a guy in england built a walker for his fish. apparently they looked bored swimming around their bowl, so he built a cradle kind of thing on wheels so he can take them out on walks. cuteness. but also kind of odd.
went to somerville open studios over the weekend. saw art. bought a print and some handmade paper from farwing's roommate whose lj name i can't remember. (corruptviridian, i think.) i like open studios - i get to see art, i get to see inside people's houses and work spaces, and even tho i can't and don't want to make the kind of art that most people show, i still get to see the kinds of things that are possible. like, i saw a few photographers' studios and looked at the way things were framed and where the light came from and was b/w more effective than color and what was in focus. i'll never be art show good but i want to be able to take nice pictures, and it always helps to be able to see the kinds of pictures i want to take. it's like watching bakebakebake or handmadebooks - even when someone's posting something i know i can't do, it can still give me an idea for something i could learn how to do or adapt for my own purposes. being able to admire better books than mine makes me want to be better. a rising tide lifts all boats, y'know?
plus which, i get exposed to all these different media and styles of painting, which is handy when you write about artists but don't actually know anything about art. so i have a pile of business cards and promo postcards now. and saturday was just a really gorgeous day to be out.
saturday night i went to see tamalinn's chorus in concert, which was fun, and last night i went out for dinner with the parental unit and my cousin and ate too much. it was good (beets and goat cheese, yum) (and also coq au vin, altho the noodles were too salty), but still. i felt kind of overfed, and not necessarily in a good way.
possibly i just need to get more sleep....
in much sillier news, a guy in england built a walker for his fish. apparently they looked bored swimming around their bowl, so he built a cradle kind of thing on wheels so he can take them out on walks. cuteness. but also kind of odd.
went to somerville open studios over the weekend. saw art. bought a print and some handmade paper from farwing's roommate whose lj name i can't remember. (corruptviridian, i think.) i like open studios - i get to see art, i get to see inside people's houses and work spaces, and even tho i can't and don't want to make the kind of art that most people show, i still get to see the kinds of things that are possible. like, i saw a few photographers' studios and looked at the way things were framed and where the light came from and was b/w more effective than color and what was in focus. i'll never be art show good but i want to be able to take nice pictures, and it always helps to be able to see the kinds of pictures i want to take. it's like watching bakebakebake or handmadebooks - even when someone's posting something i know i can't do, it can still give me an idea for something i could learn how to do or adapt for my own purposes. being able to admire better books than mine makes me want to be better. a rising tide lifts all boats, y'know?
plus which, i get exposed to all these different media and styles of painting, which is handy when you write about artists but don't actually know anything about art. so i have a pile of business cards and promo postcards now. and saturday was just a really gorgeous day to be out.
saturday night i went to see tamalinn's chorus in concert, which was fun, and last night i went out for dinner with the parental unit and my cousin and ate too much. it was good (beets and goat cheese, yum) (and also coq au vin, altho the noodles were too salty), but still. i felt kind of overfed, and not necessarily in a good way.