Work con­tin­ues on the Ann Head but progress is slow. This sore throat/​fever/​aches and pain — stuffy and I can’t rest syn­drome is for the birds. My seden­tary days make the dogs nutzo bazooms because I won’t take them for a walk until the sun goes down and the air is cooler. My lit­tle house­hold fills quickly with inter­nal squalor […]

Trial run of Apture, an amaz­ing plu­gin for Word­Press. Most extra­or­di­nary, I must say. Will com­ment more on this later…

For the Art House Coop’s visual ency­clo­pe­dia project, another of my words is blus­tery. What’s your first reac­tion to blus­tery? Prob­a­bly same as mine. Betcha’ it is… Win­nie the Pooh and the Blus­tery Day. Right? So do I give in and draw Pooh with a kite? Would view­ers get it and if they did, would it be too cheesey? […]

Well, the test results are finally here. I’m nei­ther. Dur­ing some of my spare times, I took the high school stu­dent quiz on About​.com to find out if I was left– or right-​brain dom­i­nant. Turns out I’m Mid­dle Brained. More to come on this but gotta’ go to Fire­fox because this new Safari install won’t let me […]

While research­ing aerie, one of my project words, and try­ing to find more than “nest of a bird on a cliff or moun­tain top”, I came across Coven of the Mother Moun­tain Aerie. Now I won­der if there’s any way to include such a group as my ency­clo­pe­dia entry for aerie. Prob­a­bly not, since the COMMA folk, while being quite […]

Reg­is­tered for new projects at Art House on Thurs­day. (click on the link to learn about the Can­vas Project) The 5 — 3“x3” can­vases arrived today. Thanks be to the coop for allow­ing me to par­tic­i­pâté in 4, count ‘em four, projects. Will post my progress thus far on tomorrow’s entry fea­ture. My words for the Canvas […]

Art needs us. Art must find itself uni­ver­sally and — exist — even within a vac­uum. It can occur thus, it was decreed. The Inter­net abyss of online adver­tis­ing requires redis­tri­b­u­tion of artis­tic mem­o­ra­bilia rather than pixel-​to-​pixel dis­cus­sions of what to pur­chase, of what we “need” because, as we all know, it’s not about “us” and our “needs”. It’s about the […]

The last Wood­side Antiques auc­tion we attended must have been in, what… Jan­u­ary? That’s when we acquired the Vic­to­rian scrap­book and the sewing bas­ket filled with dozens of spools of vin­tage thread. And the Vic­to­rian hand­made lace, the 1920s dresses… great bunches of “stuff” at some very low prices. Yes, I’m talk­ing to myself. Didn’t […]

Some­times a great notion becomes a real­ity. Tucker Nichols removes the mun­dane and con­fus­ing olive pits left uncon­sumed when one fin­ishes the mar­tini of life and cre­ates some­thing beau­ti­ful. The Anony­mous Post­card. Sub­mit your claim today. I did. To the fam­ily in the yel­low house around the cor­ner — Please clean up after your dog. My yard is not a toilet. […]

The Pub­lic Art Pro­gram of the Utah Arts Coun­cil announces a call for artist qual­i­fi­ca­tions for the cre­ation of site-​specific pub­lic art for the North­ern Utah Veteran’s Nurs­ing Home in Ogden, Utah. Inter­ested artists and/​or artist teams are encour­aged to sub­mit a let­ter of inter­est, images of their work and qual­i­fi­ca­tions. The dead­line for sub­mit­ting mate­r­ial is […]