Friday, 13 August 2010

Book Life

Image from FFFFOUND

It's been a pretty exhausting but good week at the bookstore--training someone new, and receiving a million new books for fall. Going out to Karaoke tonight with some friends. Time for a drink but no singing for me.


I just took some photos of my backyard raccoon friends with my film camera. I'm hoping they do justice to the cuteness of those little teddybear faces.

Happy weekend to everyone, and especially happy Friday! 

Ripley Lamp


ripleylamp, originally uploaded by _stringsong.

Friday.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Saturday, 7 August 2010

Christoph Niemann


niemanncover, originally uploaded by _stringsong.

Got this week's New Yorker in the mail yesterday. I'm in love with the cover -- "Dropped Call," by Christoph Niemann. He also does an excellent blog on the NYTimes http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/ Ch-check it.

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Becoming a Sketchblog

Hello peeps,

Over the last 3-4 days I've been blitzing my flickr with drawings from my sketchbook. I want to actually follow through and have a real SKETCHBLOG though, because I think it's a better format etc. I'm going to really try to follow through this time, and that will be cool.

From Today:

flatcatandgirl

Also: If anyone knows how to fix the flickr display settings so my photos don't get off and can advise me that would be awesome! Never mind, a new layout did the trick!

Monday, 19 July 2010

Things About Today

1. Started dance classes. Felt good at first, then slowly worse. Felt like an elephant in a tutu, even though there was no tutu. Felt like the fat kid who doesn't get picked, the person no one wants on their team. Felt like a fool. Going to try to do it again.

2. Applied for a Marriage Certificate.

3. Had a weird, melty drink from Second Cup. The lid came off when I was riding home. The half empty drink was in my bike basket and I kept getting splashed with residual whipped cream mixed with ice water.

4. Tried to convince Andre to move to a new apartment. Was easily persuaded to move on from that plan.

5. Tried to explain the merits and cuteness of Peggle.

6. Bought my friend lunch at McDonald's. Ate McDonald's.

7. Ended the day by eating the bologna sandwich I had carried around with me all day. Feeling ambivalent over possible food poisoning.

Keri Smith has changed her blog layout. http://www.kerismith.com/blog I couldn't find her How to Feel Miserable As An Artist on her site anymore. I found it referenced elsewhere. i.e. here I printed it out and am applying it to life in general, artist and not.