tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50831434492023924112024-02-20T04:56:45.577-05:00little raywendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-63729010434134044792012-05-30T22:47:00.001-05:002012-05-30T22:47:39.613-05:00How many more?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love cinnamon, and Vietnamese cinnamon truly rocks. It's dark and really spicy. It's odd for someone who came of age in the '60s to be able to buy stuff from Viet Nam... You'll see a line on the right hand page: HORRIBLE NEWS... That's referring to the closing of Magnolia Grill in Durham, NC, one of the finest restaurants I have ever eaten in. Whenever I ate there, I saved the menu and pasted it in my journal, noting who had what alongside the entrées. Plus, I could always give gift certificates from there to my family and know that they would be used and appreciated. Alas!<br />
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Two of my favorite guys. And they have their own ice cream. Now that's famous!</div>
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<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-67905033744661892892012-05-09T16:41:00.002-05:002012-05-09T16:41:29.213-05:00Phoenix and beyond...I did return from Phoenix... Just in case you were wondering why you hadn't heard from me. I returned with a new guitar -<a href="http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/714ce" target="_blank"> a Taylor 714ce</a> - which I hadn't meant to purchase, but there you go. It spoke to me. Of course, I'm sure it had something to do with spending an afternoon in several of those 'humidor' rooms that guitar stores have for their good guitars. I think they add something to the air that makes you want to buy... Or maybe I just like guitars?<br />
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Now you may notice that there's a page 'missing' here. I go from 73 to 77. It's actually not a missing page, it's just me goofing up numbering the pages. What can I say? Shit happens...<br />
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And just to further prove I make tons of mistakes in my journals, page 79 should've been cut out. It's one of those waste sheets I sew in to the journal... But in the darkness of the <a href="http://prankstersgarandbrill.com/thejesterroom.html" target="_blank">Jester Room</a>, I didn't notice that. Or maybe it had something to do with the two shots of Maker's Mark I had?<br />
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Here I am, playing the Taylor at the Jester Room! It was a fine gig and thanks to Zonal Rick and all the fine staff at Pranksters Too. The food was great and the music was fine!<br />
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Funny thing about getting the Taylor home. I flew US Airways there and back. I flew there with a big suitcase, which I checked for $25. I had to fly home with two things to check, the suitcase and the guitar, which would be $25 for the first and $35 for the second. I wanted to insure the guitar against theft. You used to do that at the counter, but not any longer, no. Now you have to do it at the US Airways website... 24 hours in advance! Of course, I didn't know that. There was no way I was going to put my new guitar into the baggage system uninsured! It's insured against breakage, but not theft - a policy from the place I bought it does that much. The US Airways counter people were as surprised by the 24 hour advance policy as I was, and thought about as much of it as I did. They suggested I 'gate check' it, which meant I carried it through security and then down to the gate and down the ramp thingy and then handed it over to be put into the bowels of the tiny CanadaAir jet. That was fine with me. It took awhile for them to uncharge my credit card for the second bag, so I had to run down to the gate, but everyone at US Airways was nice! Nice! Nice! They put a first class baggage check on the guitar so it would come off first and away we went.<br />
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Extremely helpful folks!wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-45445407402603960062012-04-18T07:18:00.001-05:002012-04-18T07:18:32.832-05:00Latest pages...Lots of writing, not much arting, but then the arting comes and goes. I still haven't finished the last of the black Artistico pages. I'm saving it to work on when I fly to Phoenix tomorrow. Or when I get there. Not that I won't have stuff to do when I get there, but it's always good to have a reward ready.<br />
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Why, you may wonder, am I going to PHX? Actually, I have a gig there, at <a href="http://www.prankstersgarandbrill.com/thejesterroom.html" target="_blank">The Jester Room</a> of Pranksters Too. Now who could resist playing at a club called Pranksters? Cover is only $10 if you're in the area! I go on at 9...<br />
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I doubt I'll post from Phoenix because I'm not sure if I'll have a scanner and the software I need to do it, but I may be able to post something. Who knows? </div>
<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-75337899713650181532012-04-11T22:07:00.000-05:002012-04-11T22:07:01.021-05:00Sheesh, I'm running out of titles...More pages... The first is kind of sad, so don't read it if you can't handle something sad happening. Not much art, but there is some. I do find that I'm doing more art because I'm posting more. Which is really cool, in an odd way.<br />
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Writing in your diary about other people's dreams posted on Facebook? <br />
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And, finally my take on Albert Camus. The Henri Cartier-Bresson photo appeared in <i>The New Yorker.</i>.. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2012/04/adam-gopnik-camus.html" target="_blank">Article</a> by Adam Gopnik. I loved Albert Camus when I was in young!wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-45481466700628245352012-04-07T13:26:00.000-05:002012-04-07T13:26:47.368-05:00Más...I haven't worked on anymore of the Artistico pages - I'm hoping to treat myself this afternoon - but I have been journaling, never fear...<br />
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That's my attempt at Neuland, a hand I really like. Bold, chunky, fun!</div>
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The number '49' is another number I love. Maybe it's because I'm a mathematician's daughter, or maybe it's because I'm just nuts, but I really love certain numbers. Especially odd numbers and prime numbers, and their factors. They're not just numbers to me, they're characters. But then so are words. I tend to anthropomorphize pretty much everything I come into contact with...<br />
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Ahh, yes, and here's another thing. Many people write me about how I do my journal pages. Do I write everything out first and then copy it into the journal? (NO!) How come I never make mistakes? And here's one on this very page: the page number, that lovely '49,' is wrong. This is actually page 51 (3x17), which is why '51' is written in above the very pretty 49.<br />
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When you visit schools these days, you have to get a pass at the office and be escorted, unless you're a regular visitor. It's very different than it was in my day...<br />
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I love tins. I love roosters. So a tin with a rooster on it is going to come home with me... And this one contained Olive Oil, another thing I love!!!<br />
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I've started putting more photos in my journals. I'm doing it because when I read biographies or journals, I always want to know what the people in it look like... What the places they're at look like. If they're famous enough and have famous friends, you can find pictures, but otherwise you're out of luck. I don't want to subject y'all to the same experience!<br />
<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-32984533560853712792012-04-03T23:04:00.000-05:002012-04-03T23:04:41.066-05:00Three down, one to go...I finished the spread in the black Artistico pages. It came out of a discussion with my friend, Nancy, about how bloody hard it is to paint roses. Other flowers are much easier, at least for me. Of course, antique roses have fewer petals... And that makes them much easier.<br />
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It's done with the NeoColor IIs: lots and lots of layers.<br />
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Mostly Pentel ColorBrush... With little dots of Maimeri gouache...wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-39285399766472575202012-04-02T23:12:00.000-05:002012-04-02T23:12:17.939-05:00The first of the missing pages...Back to page 35, one of the missing pages on the black Fabriano Artistico. It's supposed to be a portrait of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb" target="_blank">Roscoe Holcomb</a>, but it doesn't look like him.<div>
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It's a flat spine book - like a kid's book - which you can't fold completely backwards, but is still quite a nice style for a journal. Because it's not 'shouldered' the pages all open flat-flat.<br />
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Here's the page I did yesterday after I posted... More music and color!<br />
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In the first 'M' of YUMM!! There's a spot of gold. It's <a href="http://search.store.yahoo.net/yhst-131221940731303/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=yhst-131221940731303&query=maimeri&x=0&y=0" target="_blank">Maimeri Gouache</a>, which I love. (It's also coloring the OH, YEAH and BTW.) I carry three tubes of it (the deep and light golds and the silver) in my little tool caddy with me almost all of the time. My friend, Nena, gave me the little caddy thing. Well, actually, she gave me three, and I have the others loaded up with other art tools...<br />
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You can see a Niji water pen, some Pigma Graphics, a passel of Zig Calligraphy markers, four Pentel ColorBrushes, three Prismacolor Premier Markers, a couple pencils, a Sheaffer calligraphy pen (with a shadow nib in it), a bone folder and a partridge in a pear tree.wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-27689770510147081592012-04-01T11:14:00.001-05:002012-04-01T11:14:10.017-05:00¡April Fool's!There are four pages missing in this post. In the middle of a couple of signatures, I sew in a sheet of black Fabriano Artistico, because I love doing colored crayons (the NeoColor II's although Roz is making me want to try the Stabilo Woodies) on black, or, really any darkish colored paper. But I never do these in sequence, because my journal is a pretty fast thing, and that kind of illo takes me awhile. So we left off listening to Rafe Stefanini channel Roscoe Holcomb...<br />
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I'm not showing 34 & 39 next to each other because that's not how they appear in the journal... One of the most fabulous things about living in ATX is the music. Bands play for free that are just wonderful. Sometimes the guys are sidemen for more famous guys, sometimes they were sidemen for famous guys, whatever... But they can all play the holy shit out of stuff. <a href="http://www.planetcasper.com/index.php/site/about/" target="_blank">Caspar Rawls</a> is one of those guys, Ernie Poole Ball, who played with Johnny Cash, is another.<br />
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Note the decorative paper - it's actually two strips, pasted side by side, of a paper I covered a little book with earlier this week... I'll post some pics of it at the end - that is actually a wrapping paper, I think. Not a traditional 'decorative paper' by any means, but really pretty.<br />
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This is one of my favorite recent pages. It's got drawings. Heck, it's got drawings that are talking! And it has another of my favorite things for journals: an autograph. Admittedly, it's an illegible autograph, so I had to write the guy's name over it so we'd all know who it was. I spelled his name wrong - it's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShQNP_iGfM" target="_blank">Rafe Stefanini</a> - so I'll have to write about THAT in my journaling tomorrow!</div>
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It's got another one of those beaded headbands, and the white leather is actually vellum.</div>wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-16406152853954414402012-03-28T13:53:00.000-06:002012-03-28T13:53:14.985-06:00Yet again...Here are the next batch....<br />
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Now you might just wonder why someone would 'celebrate' their 25th anniversary with someone they are no longer married to. And you might wonder why someone lets their ex sleep in their guest bedroom. (He likes to say it's on the couch, but, really, he has his own room.) I'm wonder myself at times. Of course, when you marry someone, you marry their whole family, and the short answer is that I'm still married to the family. (The shorter answer is that I'm nuts.)<br />
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And finally, because, frankly these pages have been a bit boring, one with some art on it...</div>
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...which takes us up to the beginning of this week. I should note that the color in the illustrations is from Prismacolors. I neglected to mention these in the list of art supplies yesterday, but I use them a lot. They're what I color the center of the shadow nib lettering with, among other things. </div>
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Ahh, here's a page with some photos printed out - onto a commercial printing paper: Fortuna Matte 80# text. One shows me doing page 7, and the other the progress of the sunset, which continues on...<br />
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More Neocolor stuff here, like the illustration of my foot in the sandal, and just above it, the tab for holding the business card...<br />
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The Neocolors do smear, as you can see on page 12. You can fix them with <a href="http://www.krylon.com/products/crystal_clear_acrylic/" target="_blank">Crystal Clear</a> from Krylon, but probably some other less toxic pastel fixatives would work as well. I like the Crystal Clear 'cos it makes stuff shiny and that makes the colors 'pop' out, but it's stinky and gives some people a tremendous headache!<br />
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I've just started a new journal, as you know. Here are the first few pages... <br />
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So, there you go... Three and a half images. I scanned them at slightly different resolutions. Some people like to just get the general look of things, others want to read the journal closely. </div>
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<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-88963280147254573182012-03-13T16:01:00.000-06:002012-03-13T16:01:38.575-06:00Ephemera...I love ephemera! All those weird little things that one finds on the street or just in the course of everyday living... Stamps, playing cards, business cards, photos, tea envelopes, chocolate wrappers, theater tickets, flyers... The list is endless!<br />
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Over the years it's all found its way into my journals and has caused the 'V' effect I mention in Saturday's posting about <i>Transformer</i>... The way I get around this in my hand bound journals is to bind in a waste signature of a single folded sheet of cover stock every other signature. I use cover stock cut to the same sheet size as my regular pages, but when I come to them, I cut them out. They hold space at the spine of the book for all the stuff I paste in. Here's one from <i>Crazily Paisley</i>:<br />
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You can see the ephemera: a card, a tea envelope, and, tucked into it, a chocolate wrapper from a Bliss chocolate. Here's a side view:<br />
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This is just cheap card stock. The one here is an off-white because that's what I had on hand when I bound the book. Since the paper I use, Schiller, is a white-white, I usually try to use white cover stock, but sometimes I'm in a hurry to bind a journal and the paper store isn't open.<br />
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Another thing to notice is what's holding the playing card into the book: it's an address label. I carry a bunch of these in the back pocket/envelope in my book, so I can stick stuff into the book right away and not have it fall out. If I think I want to attach it in some other way, I'll put it in the pocket/envelope until I get home and have time to deal with it. Here's a picture of the pocket from <i>Four of a Kind</i>:<br />
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When I print the endsheets, like I did for this journal, it's easy to make the pocket match the papers... You just print another and cut the pocket/envelope out of that.<br />
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These latest bindings all have either eight or nine signatures of paper pages - four sheets to a signature... Which, when folded and thought of front and back, mean sixteen pages to a signature. Right now a journal this size is lasting me a bit over two months. My old, larger journals usually lasted for six months or more! Looks like I'm going to need to build more shelves to house all these guys!wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-66720650215508237782012-03-12T13:11:00.000-06:002012-03-13T16:03:16.520-06:00A few pages from Flying Cloud...Roz wrote a comment about wanting to see more of the inside pages of my journal. Most of them are visually fairly boring, I think... A tidge of calligraphy, a spot of color, but mostly blah blah about my life and the universe. Here is a fairly typical page:<br />
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I always get excited about sunshine. I like numbers. I write about other people's lives as well as my own... Sometimes carefully, in code, but not usually, so I have to block the names out here.<br />
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I don't normally use background color on my pages, but Ricë gave me some Peerless Water Colors a few years back and I love their saturation and purity. While we were having some dreary days, I painted several pages to give myself some color. Here are ten pages in a row:<br />
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I write about dreams frequently, if the imagery interests me...<br />
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I love japonica and one of the colors in the Peerless set is Japonica Red... Hence my feeble attempts to draw a japonica blossom.</div>
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White Flower Oil, mentioned in the pages above is a Chinese analgesic balm that saved my body this winter. I tore my rotator cuff (muscle only!) on the tree lot this year, and it helped get me over the pain....</div>
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Ricë and I talk on the phone about all sorts of things. We noted that the sun rises later in Midland than it does here in Austin. They are way west and a bit north of us, which accounts for that, but we had fun trying to be mathematical and figure out what was due to what...</div>
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There's a lot of discussion about money in these pages. That's mostly because it was tax time - property and state sales tax - and I had to come up with a chunk of change.</div>
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You can't really tell it from the picture but the little swirls and the centers of the letters have marks done with glitter pens. I'm sure if medieval monks had had glitter pens available, they would have used them. They are just plain fun...</div>
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<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-41424451878164078332012-03-10T17:28:00.000-06:002012-03-12T08:04:29.775-06:00The last three journals...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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OK, so it's been forever since I've posted. Forever enough that I've got three journals you haven't seen. These are a new thing for me, in a way, yet in another way, they're a very old thing... They are small journals, bound with artists canvas, much like the journal that got me started into bookbinding... <i>Transformer</i>, from 1993. This journal...<br />
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I bought it at Whole Foods and loved it... I never painted it, though, and it started to come out of its covers after being carried in my backpack for seven months. These photos show some of the damage:<br />
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The one on the left shows the split at the hinge. The reason it split is visible in the next photo... I pack too much ephemera into my journals, which causes that 'V' effect. It's kind of like your journal has gained ten pounds and it's still trying to fit into its favorite shirt, its cover... Because I still like to paste ephemera into my journals, I now make journals to accommodate the extra 'weight.'<br />
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Here's the first of the new journals. They're all split-board bindings. The covers are all painted before the boards are covered.<br />
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This was an experiment in using day glow paints, which is why the book is glowing. I airbrushed the background, the green part. The endsheets are also day glow, just stripes painted on paper.<br />
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The next journal was <i>Flying Cloud</i>... I've always loved clouds... My Dad and I used to stop when we saw a really cool cloud when I was a kid. More recently, when we went to the beach, we stayed at a house that had a set of coffee mugs with pictures of clipper ships on them, among them the Cutty Sark and Flying Cloud. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_%28clipper%29" target="_blank">Flying Cloud </a>was the fastest clipper ship in her day, and held the speed record for traveling from New York City to San Francisco for 136 years. Even more amazing was that the navigator on that record-breaking sail was a woman, Eleanor Creesy, wife of the Captain, Josiah Perkins Creesy.<br />
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My latest journal is <i>Four of a Kind</i>. I found a ten of hearts on the ground on one of my recent walks and got fascinated with doing images of cards. Ah ha, you're probably saying, there are only THREE cards on the cover. The fourth card is on the endsheets... I used a beaded headband on this cover. I think they're really lovely.<br />
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I'm really having fun with the hand painted covers. The journals are pretty tiny for me. I'm doing the pages nine out of sheets of Hahnemühle Schiller: each sheet is about 11 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches, more or less, so the page is half that. I have trouble writing in columns in these journals... But I do it anyway.<br />
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<br />wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-18917136898050624812011-10-19T16:57:00.000-05:002011-10-19T16:57:27.414-05:00New Journal!I started a new journal today! Actually, I don't think any of y'all have seen my old journal, since I started it when I was at the cabin this summer, and I don't have any 'real' internet access there. OK, I do have dial up, but you just can't upload files of any size using dial up these days; it times out too quickly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I made this book cloth by painting cotton fabric.</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>First off, here's a picture of my last journal, which ended up being titled <i>Cap'n Midnight's Museum for Exceptionally Intelligent People</i>. The title came from an essay in Joseph Mitchell's <i>Up in the Old Hotel</i> about Captain Charlie's Museum for Intelligent People. I don't remember which story it is; you should just read them all; they're wonderful. It had one less signature than I usually put in my journals: eight instead of nine. I'm trying to downsize and lighten my journals, once again, to lighten the load that I carry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A few of my favorite things: Kenny inspecting my journal, and my cup of coffee.</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Here's the new journal, titled <i>Crazily Paisley</i>. It's the brightest journal I've ever had, and possibly the brightest one ever made. It glows in the dark... Well, it glows in the dark if you have a black light, anyway. I was hoping to marble end sheets for it with day glo paint, but they were just too transparent to really see, except with the black light. I ended up painting stripes on paper instead.<br />
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</tbody></table>This journal is even smaller than <i>Cap'n Midnight </i>whose pages were 7 1/8" wide by 8 1/2" high. Crazily's pages are 77% smaller: only 5 3/4" wide by 8 1/8" high. It's very hard to get two columns in unless I concentrate on writing really tiny.<br />
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To protect this journal - and the last - I'm carrying them in a plastic baggie in my purse. (Thanks, Roz, for that tip!) I feel somewhat odd about this, because the idea is to make semi-indestructible journals. There is some kind of a varnish you can put over day glo paint to protect it, but for now I'll use the plastic baggie. As you can see from looking at the top of the pages, there are two sheets of black cover stock in the journal for me to color on. I like coloring on them with my NeoColor watercolor crayons. Here's a paean to Pierce Bros Fogbuster coffee and non-electric coffee grinders.<br />
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The electricity went out at the cabin for over a week this summer after Hurricane Irene swept through the Catskills. I can live without lights - especially if I have one of those little headlamps - but I cannot live without coffee. So I had to beg and borrow a hand crank grinder. Then I found one at the flea market in Woodstock, a real beauty and capable of grinding for espresso makers, little Bialetti Mokas.wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-51753001938219984292011-10-16T08:10:00.002-05:002011-10-17T08:10:30.546-05:00I'm typing this from my new iPhone...When the iPhone first came out, I held off from buying one for several months... At least three, anyway. I lost my cell phone in May, right as I was getting ready to go to the beach with my Dad and his wife on what I called the 'Fogies Trips.' Dad and Ginger and two other couples - and sometimes a couple of other people - would rent a house on Bald Head Island for a week. Dad was in a wheelchair and needed help doing stuff, so I would go along as his 'nurse.'<br />
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I was really upset when I lost that phone. I knew the iPhone was being launched in another month and I really wanted one even though I'd never seen one. No one had. All I really knew was that they played music. I mentioned this when I went to the AT&T store, and the lady who helped me said that lots of phones played music, and wasn't I just being silly to want an overpriced phone. Who knew then what an iPhone really was? <br />
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I happily bought a Razr phone, which played music and connected to the web and did email, if you didn't mind hitting a key three times to get a 'C.' So, when the iPhone launched at the end of June, I put my hands over my eyes and went around saying 'Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah," like a PC person.<br />
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It wasn't until I went over to my friend Clark's house right before I left for the cabin that summer that I saw my first iPhone. I played with his phone the whole time I was there and drove from his house to the AT&T store and bought one. It was a completely different animal from the Razr... Completely! Evolutionary speaking, it was a new species, or maybe even a kingdom!<br />
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My first iPhone's screen cracked after a year, but it still worked. I got the 3G eventually. Im not slavish about it. I buy the new one when my old one craps out and I'm eligible for an upgrade. I didn't get the 4 when it came out because of reception issues. I was eligible, but I waited. And then, two weeks ago, it rained.<br />
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Now if you don't live in Texas, you may not know that it hasn't really rained here in a really, really long time. Months, really. Johnson grass was growing in my backyard and the soil was too dry to pull it out. So the morning after it rained I went out into the dewy grass with my cup of tea and my iPhone to weed. Because the ground was really wet, I didn't want to place my phone down on it, so I very carefully balanced it atop my mug of tea. Ahhh, I hear you gasp. Sadly, you are so prescient. Indeed, my iPhone dunked itself in that mug of tea.<br />
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I tried to order the new iPhone online, but the wait was already backed up. Since I still had my old Razr, I went straight over to AT&T and had a SIM card put in it so I'd have a phone for the duration. I mentioned the long wait to the AT&T kid and he said, "Oh we'll have plenty of them in stock; just come to the store on Friday the 14th!" And that's where I was just after 9am Friday... In line at the AT&T store.<br />
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It only took me an hour to get inside. There I talked with the Director of Sales for Central Texas. I told him and my sales rep the tea story. They thot it was very funny. I said, "That's nothing; my daughter dropped hers in a White Russian!" (Laugh.) "Then she got her replacement phone and dropped IT in a White Russian. That's when I told here she had a drinking problem!"<br />
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So I have the new phone. Frankly, I wasn't expecting much, so I've been completely blown away by it... Sure, sure the camera is awesome (or at least more awesome than the old one.) It's new and shiny. But it was the feature most hyped - Siri - that I expected the least out of. I had the Siri app on my old phone and it was coolish, but not integrated into the phone itself. Now it is and...<br />
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It has a sense of <a href="http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/">humor</a>!<br />
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The folks at <a href="http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2011/10/with-siri-apple-could-eventually-build-a-real-ai?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher">Apple</a> took the time to think about and program these things into their personal assistant. They anticipate their audience. <br />
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It's not that I'm smart, or even that my phone is smart.<br />
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It's that the people who make my phone are smart...wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-87947717883416564862011-10-14T14:55:00.000-05:002011-10-14T14:55:46.783-05:00RIP Steve JobsIf it weren't for Steve Jobs, you wouldn't be reading this, because I wouldn't be typing this.<br />
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Many, many years ago, perhaps back in 1970, I took a computer course in college. It was actually a 'computer graphics' course. That's in those little quote marks because to do computer graphics in the early 70s you first had to learn how to program. So I was also taking a course in Fortran and flow charting as well. I can't remember if they were the same course; I think they were, but it was very, very long ago, and it was very, very painful.<br />
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The object of the computer graphics course was to write a program that drew a little tetrahedron - on a CalComp plotter - that could send the tetrahedron spinning across an XY grid. This would be drawn in black on that white weird paper with the perforated edges. Not only did one have to write the program - which frankly was beyond me - but one had to punch the little cards that were used to tell an IBM 360 to tell the CalComp plotter what do do. It involved hundreds of cards, at least in my memory.<br />
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I not only proved completely incapable of writing the program, I couldn't, for the life of me, punch the damn cards right. This was not surprising, really, as I didn't know how to type at the time. It took every ounce of conniving, wheedling and ingenuity I possessed to copy someone else's cards and take them over to the basement of some science building where the 360 resided. And there, walking in the through the doors, I bumped into somebody. My cards flew into the air and came down like leaves around me. Lovely disordered leaves, floating all about, unnumbered and so impossible to reorder. I had to borrow another student's cards and run them to get the little drawing of the little tetrahedron poised on one edge of the little grid getting ready to jump forward into the future.<br />
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This was NOT cheating, at least not in our department, the Design Department. We were being trained to be generalists who interacted among specialists, and I, along with several others in the CG class had quickly figured out that computer graphics was a <i>specialty</i>... And <b>not</b> one any of us were going to be taking up anytime soon. As generalists, it was our job to find out who could do things and to get them to do it, so running someone else's cards was a perfectly viable solution to the problem. A few people in the class were able to write to the program. Many of us could not, and so we formed a club - the only club I officially belonged to in college - called the Fraternal Order of Computer Fuck Ups, better known by its acronym: FOCFU (pronounced FOCK PHU). We took a solemn vow not to touch a computer until they could talk to us.<br />
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All thru the 70s, I waited.<br />
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In the early 80s, I waited.<br />
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I had told the FOCFU story to many people, people who seemed to be able to use IBMS to do things, but, even though doing things no longer involved those stupid cards, it still involved programming... Or at least writing 'commands,' which is not my style.<br />
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It's not like I was holding my breath or anything. Frankly those computers, with their black screens with the green or blue or amber monospaced fonts didn't interest me in the least. They didn't SPEAK to me.<br />
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Then one day, I think in the spring of 1984, my friend John Salik came over to my house. He said, "I have something for you. I have a computer that will talk to you." And he put a Mac 128 down on the table and started to leave the room. "But, John," I said, "I don't know how to use it!"<br />
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"You'll figure it out," he said and walked out of the house.<br />
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How hard could it be? It only had one button on it. I pushed the button and a black and white, low-res screen came up with two icons on it: a word program and a paint program. Of course at the time, it wasn't a low-res screen, and I didn't know those little things were icons. I used the weird little thingy attached to it by a cord to move a pointer around the screen - the mouse, as I later found out it was called - and touched one of the little icons.<br />
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When John came back an hour later I was painting happily away.<br />
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A computer had talked to me. Thank you, Steve Jobs.<br />
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The first computer I got was not that one, but a used Mac 512. The second was the only non-Apple computer I've ever had, an Atari Mega STE. It was great, actually, because it could switch between Apple and Mac platforms and had a great desktop publishing program. The next computer I got was the iMac in August of 1998, one of the Bondi Blue ones. I got the iMac G3 in tangerine a year later, and have been hooked ever since.<br />
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They talk to me. In my own language.<br />
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No punch cards, all love.wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-82268010484568352382011-03-29T09:27:00.000-06:002011-03-29T09:27:27.032-06:00musings...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div>I encountered an interesting word this morning: hedonics. I have been meditating on nuclear power since the recent unpleasantness in Japan, which is how some nuclear proponents seem to be viewing it. Mitch McConnell said that we shouldn't let what was happening in Japan affect how we think of nuclear power in the US. I guess Mitch has been listening to Frank Zappa's <i>It Can't Happen Here</i>.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The lead Talk of the Town <i>New Yorker</i> article is about nuclear power and mentions that, at its inception under Eisenhower in the 50s, insurance companies decided it was too risky to insure. They said they would only insure plants to one tenth of what they estimated a nuclear accident would cost. A government insurance pool was created for the nuclear industry instead.</div><div><br />
</div><div>All power generation has environmental costs, of course, even solar. I wondered what the effect of solar panels was on the resale value of a home, mostly because there are a LOT of houses with solar panels in my 'hood. The city of Austin, which owns its own power company, has generous rebates and citizen-friendly incentives for putting panels on your house. It's still freaking expensive, but pays out in a bit less than 10 years, with a life rating of 20, so you get perhaps 10 years of free electricity. Not a bad thing for someone hoping to retire...</div><div><br />
</div><div>I couldn't find a lot of info on the resale issue, but this little blurb from the Christian Science Monitor caught my eye:</div><div><br />
</div><div><div>Abstract</div><blockquote><div>This study uses a large sample of homes in the San Diego area to provide some of the first capitalization estimates of the resale value of homes with solar panels as compared to comparable homes without solar panels. While the residential solar home market continues to grow, there is surprisingly little direct evidence on the market capitalization effect. We find evidence using both <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">hedonics</span> and a repeat sales index approach that solar panels are capitalized at roughly a 3% premium. This premium is larger in communities with more registered Prius hybrid vehicles and in communities featuring a larger share of college graduates.</div></blockquote></div><div><table cellspacing="5" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody>
<tr><td><span class="hw">he·don·ics</span> <span class="pron">(h<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ibreve.gif" />-d<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/obreve.gif" />n<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.gif" /><img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ibreve.gif" />ks)</span><div class="pseg"><i>n.</i> <i>(used with a sing. verb)</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b>The branch of psychology that studies pleasant and unpleasant sensations and states of mind.</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b><i>Philosophy</i> The branch of ethics that deals with the relation of pleasure to duty.</div></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="brand_copy"></div><span class="hw">hedonics</span> <span class="pron0x">[hiːˈdɒnɪks]</span><div><i>n</i> <i>(functioning as singular)</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> (Psychology) the branch of psychology concerned with the study of pleasant and unpleasant sensations</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2.</b> (Philosophy) the study of pleasure, esp in its relation to duty</div></div><div class="ds-list"><br />
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</div><div class="ds-list">The part of the abstract where it says that the 'premium is larger in communities with more registered Prii' cracked me up. I joke that in my neighborhood you're most likely to be run over by a bicyclist or a Prius driver who's talking on their smart phone while sipping their green tea from a eco-friendly cup.</div><div class="ds-list"><br />
</div><div class="ds-list">And, finally this morning, a present from the NY Times... Pictures of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/28/science/20110329-clouds.html">clouds</a>.</div></div><div class="ds-list"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>pages 60-61 from Red Lead...</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>pages 72-73 from Red Lead...</i></td></tr>
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</div>wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083143449202392411.post-13133918782080707972011-03-02T16:53:00.000-06:002011-03-02T16:53:30.492-06:00Post 2...I'm almost caught up with my envelope exchange doo dah. I mailed my February envelopes off today, and feel totally inspired for the upcoming months.<br />
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Here's what the demonstrators looked like:<br />
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Otherwise it's spring here! The trees are all blooming and going for my afternoon walk is a joy because of the flowers and warmth... And the beautiful blue skies...<br />
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A couple of other things. In my latest journal, I added two fold out pages of black Fabriano Tiziano to play with. I really like using pastels, colored pencils, and watercolor crayons on black stuff. Of course I get to these pages and they interrupt of my flow, since I don't have the time to work on them just then... But they're so fun! And, if you've read my recent (sort of) posts, you'll know that I've mostly given up coffee. I get a cappucino (decaf, with skim milk) once, maybe twice a week these days. It's my big treat! This was done with Caran d'Ache NeoColor II crayons (water soluble).<br />
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What else? Ahh, here's a recent page. Not great art, but colorful. Again with the C d'A crayons. I truly love them!<br />
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For those who are wondering... I have quit coffee, and don't even seem to be craving it, in the sense that I don't slobber when I smell it brewing... But giving it up forever? We'll see.<br />
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I'm in Florida with my family. We're staying on a 300 acre ranch with a huge lake, groves of oranges, and hydroponic strawberries and blueberries. We haven't actually found the blueberries yet, but we have found the strawberries and the oranges are all around us. One of my stepsisters gets up ungodly early every morning and goes out and takes pictures of birds and wildlife. This morning she awoke us all just past the crack of dawn and told us we had to get up, not to change into our clothes, just to grab a blanket and come. Fortunately, I put some pants and shoes and a sweater on. It was FREEZING outside! She drove us to the road alongside the ranch and there we saw icicles all over up to about 3 feet. The lower oranges on the trees had them. The light was shining through them. It was beautiful, very beautiful.<br />
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</tbody></table>It was also bloody cold! The earth is sandy here. The irrigation lines lie on top of the ground, so they wouldn't be good for a hard freeze, but it's supposed to be in the upper 50s today, so that's fine. I'd love to be able to enjoy all this frozen orange juice, but oranges and grapefruits aren't on the elimination diet for some reason, so I watch others drinking it. Strawberries are on the diet, so I can eat them! There's a little park a couple of miles from here, Lakeland Highlands, it's called. 250,000 years ago it and a few other highlands were all there was of Florida, although 65,000 years ago there was apparently a lot more of it. Who knew?<br />
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Here's Ginger looking for what's making the little trails in the sand... Pam says it's worms... Leslie confirms it.<br />
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Are we having fun yet?<br />
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You betcha!<br />
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The problem I was having was with my <a href="http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/pastels/pastel-accessories/pastel-holders.htm">crayon holder</a>. I got one from Jerry's Artarama, stuffed my favorite deep blue crayon (<a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/caran-dache-neocolor-i-artist-crayons/">Caran d'Ache NeoColor I Wax</a>) into it, and couldn't get the crayon out when I was ready to switch colors. I did color with the other colors holding them by hand, but after I broke two of them - they're very brittle, these crayons - I gave up and went looking for my other crayon holder. It's the same kind, but I couldn't find it.<br />
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So there the page sat looking pale and unfinished. I needed to be able to color really hard on a hard surface so there were no uncovered bits of paper showing. Finally this morning I found the other crayon holder, went out to the studio and colored away.<br />
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</tbody></table>The odd thing for me about wax resist is that it's unlike many other media that I use. When I get to the part where everything is blocked in and a preliminary coat of color is on the paper, I have to go back over the whole thing and 'color hard,' to fill in those spots. It's boring. I usually do it while listening to podcasts. You might not want to watch a movie, but something is needed to occupy the mind.wendy hale davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410587234929629339noreply@blogger.com0