Election Day Update
Today is a distracted sort of day, not only in and of itself, but in the culmination of so many distracted days in the last weeks and months. The world feels uneasy and uncertain…
JR Update – Deadlines and Other Imaginary Animals
I am consciously missing today’s publishing deadline for the first time since I started regular updates last year, and…mixed feelings.
Updates and Promotion
Hey hey…little housekeeping update. I’ve done a good amount of site cleanup and maintenance, and while there’s always more to do, the site is “live” for all intents and purposes. There are links to my social profiles, everything is categorized, and I’ve created enough content that I can stick to a weekly update schedule (every Tuesday at 11 am eastern). As far as content, this site is the hub; I’ll publish some types of content (like video) on other platforms, but my intention is to have it all linked from here. For example, I’ll be doing readings of poetry as video content on TikTok, and I’ll add links to those performances on the blog posts (and I’ll flag them as such so you can find them). Speaking of…
waxing poetic
I’m hesitant to say that what I’m finding myself writing is Poetry, or any good, but it does follow the pattern of what poetry is generally accepted to be (structurally at least). So, in the interest of not being too disgustingly self-deprecating, I will say it: I’m writing poetry. A lot of it. And I’m really enjoying it, more than I expected.
ideas: personal Graceland tour
We went to Graceland a few years ago and it was interesting to see basically a normal working home turned into a museum. It got me thinking, how interesting would it be to do that in your own home? Basically, create a “typical American household in the year X” exhibit. You would set up some ropes to guide people through the place from room to room. Put up little placards around typical household items explaining that this is a “tv remote control” or “stack of folded laundry” or “door mat” or whatever. Describe the items: “Whereas earlier television sets required viewers to make adjustments to volume or channel on the sets themselves, remote controls allowed watchers to make these adjustments from the comfort of their own couches. The…
snowmelt logo sketches #1
I know when I was first thinking of logo ideas, the water droplet was a big part of it, and I think I did some sketches somewhere else…maybe in the margins of a notebook or something. The idea of what I wanted it to be was clear in my head; it was a matter of taking those nebulous curves and establishing what they would look like on paper. Primarily, the design needed to be recognizable for what it was without explanation. At the same time, I wanted it to be something that I could quickly draw, with the same ease and utility of motion as a signature. It was a signature. I wanted to explore some different ideas to make sure I wasn’t leaving anything on the table.…
medium-rare
Play-doh colors are meant to be mixed and combined and integrated. But the very reusable nature of the medium (yes, Play-doh is an art medium) discourages the user from doing so; we don’t worry about mixing paint or clay or sand or whatever because when the art is done, it’s done. Nobody scrapes the watercolors back into the tube. The pinkish-red hue that’s included (this is a grilling set) is actually pretty spot on for a nice medium/medium-rare center. I doubt these will be easy to separate, but I think that should be ok.