New Start

Happy New Year!  

So this year I'm doing a few things differently. I did pick a word for the year. TIME. I waste a lot of it and take advantage of it.

Last night I gave myself a TIME. limit to finish my first page in my art journal, Even though I did put one finishing touch on it at work today. I was so excited that I actually finished the page and don't have to go back to it and finish it a few days later when everything I was thinking had vanished, I'm happy with it.

I love the zipper.

Have a great day!



AHAHAHAHAH

Ok,

So I did bring my cord to get the pictures off my camera to just show you a little bit of my days.
But at work...MAN, computer had a national virus (anyone to to connected to our server in TN tuesday night got the virus, which is all 11 factories and an OP's computer in 4 different counties and every state in the USA)

Boss just got back from being stuck over seas. So no time. No excuses. but no time today.

Have a good night.

Week in the Life

I did the first day. BUT I forgot my cord for my camera to show you the 6 pictures I took! lol. I willl bring it tomorrow.

But yeah for me. I actually wrote down everything I did. Not so much how I was feeling. But I'm proud of myself. Now lets get through the week and then actually complete the task at hand.

Last nigth I just about finished a piece. Funny how things come together at the last minute.

tonight Teaching again, and well haven't done choreography for it yet, but I work better under pressure.


OH OH OH. I just finished watching the 2nd season of 24. (I know I know I'm a few years and seasons behind) It's so good. If you have netflix. its on their demand. watch it!

until tomorrow. be creative today!

New Read

Started Reading a new book - Twyla Tharp - The creative Habit - Learn it and Use it for Life

You need to read this book. I've come to a part that i'm going to share about her five big fears when creating a new piece of art.            

1. People will laugh at me.

2. Someone has done it before.

3. I have nothing to say.

4. I will upset someone I love.

5. Once executed, the Idea will never be as good as it is in my mind.

So she goes on to say yes, just about everyone can use this in any profeshion. Then this is what she had to say about those five fears.

1. People will laugh at me. Not the people I respect; They haven't yet, and they're nto going to start now. (some other have. London's Evening Standard fro m1966; "Three girls, on of them names Twyla Tharp, appearred at the Alber Hall last evening and threatedned to do the same tonight." So What? Thierty-seven years later i'm still here. )

2. Someone has done it before. Honey, it's all been done before. Nothing's really orginal. Not Homer or Shakespeare and certainly not you. Get ove ryour self.

3. I have nothing to say. An irrelevant fear. We all have somethign to say. Plus, you're panicking to soon. If the dancers dont' walk out on you, chances are the audience won't either.

4. I will upset someone I love. A serious worry that is not easily exorcied or stared down because you never know how loved ones will respond to your creation. The best you can do is remind yourself that you're a good person with good intentions. You're trying to create unity, not discord. See the curtain call. see the people standing up. Hear the crowd roaring.

5. Once executed, the Idea will never be as good as it is in my mind. Toughen up. Leon Battista Alberti, a fifteenth-century arheitechural theorist, said, "Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model." But better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

And I'm only on page 24. I think this will be a book I own. loving it.

Another thing I'm doing - A week in the life - something scrapbookers are really into right now. I am going to do my best and ACCOMPLISH this documentation of a week in the life of me. Its all about what I do during the week. My goals whats on tv, whats going on in the news. my every day things. I'm excited, and have taken like 25 picutres of just stuff that I do daily.

You should do it too. Will you really remember next year what you were doing now? I know I wont. and I want to remember my life to share with someone or family or just to know when I'm 80 I can go back and see the difference I made or didn't make. again. I'm excited! 

Friday

I now have a creative space in my apartment, a table set up, all my things around it. I have used it three times, and every morning I'm tempted to just sit down not go to work and just create!.



I'm so excited!!!!


Right now I'm doing a few experiments with doing different transfers. I will let you know how it goes and give you a few pics soon.


Until then, I miss the fall already, and wish I could get more than a month of beautiful bright colors and a nice warmth from the trees....


Have a wonderful weekend!!!!

New Season of Dance

So....



I'm starting my first class here tonight, and I'm nervous. There is nothing to be nervous about really, I've been dancing my entire life. But when it comes to touching others in ways to make them come back, I get really nervous.

I know From experience that I have taken from teachers that I love and one combo or song gone bad or that I didn't connect with I didn't look forward to coming back. But I do know that we all can't always connect in positive ways. I know that I was touched even though it was negative. It might also been my mood, or people in class who knows.

I also get nervous because I can shape some ones mind. These are young kids, so I'm responsible for teaching them the correct way to use their bodies. Which I'm thankful for all the collage knowledge I know. I wish I had someone to really push and pull me the way I do in their class. I basically had to teach myself how to dance in many different ways. One thing I'm trying to figure out how to teach or how to find. Is passion. I think either you have it or you don't. You have to discover it yourself.


Another thing with dancers. We constantly have to look at ourselves in the mirror. The mirror is a tool, yet it can be a very harsh tool if used incorrectly. It's hard to get someone our of the mirror. either your so attached to looking at your self you can't take your eyes off of it. Or so consumed by how you look that you can't even look into your eyes at all. It's very hard to have someone find the middel. I know it was hard for me. I was always told i never gave my self credit, or wasn’t confident enough to stand in the front unless pulled there. I didn't know when I should just go up there without looking conceded. Its so hard to care about what others think yet not care about what they think at all. It can really drive you nuts if you constantly care about what they think.

It can get so confusing for me. But in the end It depends on me, Some days I can care less what they think, and other days, I’m so worried.

So here is tonight. I'm not ready at all, just found my song, but I choreograph better unders pressure.

The song I'm using tonight is Studying Stones by Ani Difranco. Let me tell you this woman has touched me is so many ways. I always enjoy dancing to her music. It is in many ways spoken word, but not. You should check her out.

Things to remember

A few things to mention today.

I'm having a problem remembering to look in my "datebook" to accomplish things. I have no problem looking at it at work. But if I write down something that needs to be done at home at work, as soon as I walk out the doors to go home I immediately forget. why is this? Same goes vis versa.

We have been going to the library a lot. I like it, you can check out movies look at magazines which I would want to have, but to many to subscribe to them all. So I naturally write down things that I would want to look up when I have access to the internet. But then I get to work and I forget that I even wrote down anything I wanted to look up in the first place.

You following me?

Here are a few things I wanted to look up.

VPI Pet insurance I have been reading in the Cat fancy magazine. Learning different ways to well, be good with my cat reno. She has been acting up lately peeing where she isn't supposed  to be peeing. I think its because I wasn't giving her enough attention. So I have been working on that among other things. So yes insurance. In the past she got really really sick and cost me $1,500.00. My whole tax return. I'm glad I had that money to help her. Always wanted to get insurance for her since then, just couldn't find the right coverage. I can't afford to help her if she gets sick like that again. So I started researching it.

Christian Lacroix He is one of my favorite designers. Let me tell you after moving from NYC and being in fashion all the time. I look at magazines now and i'm amazed at what is "IN" and what I would have been seeing walking down the street. I miss it.

Vera Wang I fell in love with her many years ago with one of her wedding dresses. I was in Medford Oregon's Barns and Nobles looking at fashion books, and stumbled upon Vera. I wanted to buy the book don't know why i didn't. Well I was thinking oh just write down her name and you can look it up on the internet. Well not knowing anything about fashion. Usually you find something in the magazine and you will never see it again. Everything is made for someone or a collection, and Its not marketed to buy. I guess I could be wrong. but let me tell you I looked and searched for this dress, and never could find it. I even went back to B & N and well couldn't remember what book I saw it in. Side note- Barnes and Nobles here in Portland (DOWNTOWN) sucks. they hardly have anything. Medford's is more stocked then this one is. Its disappointing. -

Malcolm T. Liepke

Intensity II
Oil on Canvas, 09
Arcadia Gallery, NYC

I found this as advertisement in a magazine at the Library. Oh man it really brought be to a holt. I loved the brush strokes, and the color intensity. Of course I found this picture off of someone else's blog. and this picture throws the color off but I think you can see what I mean.



One more thing to add that I found. Meaningful Beauty. since I have been aging more and more. Yes getting gray hairs that I'm currently plucking out myself. Even though I probably shouldn't, don't have much hair these days. anyways, I have been noticing age lines, which on some people look fantastic, me not so much. I over heard that you are to start on using age creams when you turn 23. Well I'm started way late. But Cindy Crawford swears by this, and its from a specialty fruit!. So I think I just might try it. I mean have you seen Cindy lately. Her skin is amazing and she still looks beautiful. Ok I know she is a super model. but, why not try it.

Oh and once again, I forgot my camera. And I'm already a day behind on my creations. hasn't even been a week yet. yes I knew this challenge would be hard hence the word challenge.

Oh - got addicted to a new show. Brothers & Sisters. you should watch it. Its funny and good.