A Sound of Thunder

I have no excuse and I know it.

I haven’t written in the blog for months.

I haven’t really felt that I had anything important to tell you or to write about.  That hasn’t really changed (and way to go Kath as far as hooking the readers by telling them that you’re boring) but, I do think that I have a few things to say, and that getting back into the writing habit will hopefully help me to become a little better at a few things.

I did discover Google+ and found out that it can be enormously inspiring (that are about 76 Bajillion artists on there) but also completely time sucking, so I need to figure out when it’s OK to let the time suck happen and when it’s not.  My school work has been very intensive this term as well.  Printmaking is just lots of work.  It’s physically demanding, and everything takes time.  The other thing about it is that I can’t do the work from home, like I could last year.  I have to be in the studio working (which is probably just as well, who needs to deal with acid baths, paper racks and giant presses in your 500 sq. foot basement?)

And my media arts class (AKA PhotoShop class) is a giant time vacuum too.  I have discovered that there is nothing in art I can do on PhotoShop that I couldn’t do in a third of the time by hand.  Technology doesn’t always save us time, but it does have that marvellous undo feature.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a giant “Let me take another crack at that” button in our lives?

There are a couple of things I would take another shot at.  Not embarrassing that guy in the cafeteria 21 years ago… that was really not required, and I regret it.  Making a better choice for my vacation that one time.  But I guess really, I wouldn’t undo any of it, because like the butterfly in that Ray Bradbury story, I wouldn’t want my life to have turned out any differently.