Tuesday nights in our neighborhood are for setting out trash, with the recycling going out every other week. I like Tuesdays because when I get home, I can be lazy, take the dogs out for their walk and deposit their offerings in the waiting trash cans along the curbs, rather than cleaning up after them in my back yard.
Dogs like it, too. So many fascinating, enticing smells. Especially when there is snow on the ground. The needle noses go deep into the white stuff and the snorting begins
However, lazy not such a good thing. Too addictive. Its' OK in the realm of walking dogs around the neighborhood on trash night, but anything that lets you cut corners, say in the name of efficiency, can really turn your brain away from creative thought.
I battle laziness on a daily basis. I have a creative streak, but I have an Eeyore streak too. I like solitude -- as far as I'm concerned there is nothing better than curling up with a glass of wine and a book or perching on a kitchen stool with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. And as much as I like to challenge my test-your-talents creative streak, my soak-up-things-streak is stronger.
Once in a while I get things really right and the two mesh. Once in a while.
There was a great site, newspagedesigner.com, that allowed print designers to post jpegs of their pages. I had a bunch, only a few of which I was really proud of but, still, you have to show what you do. It seems there is an effort to save it (I think it was a nonprofit site), which would be wonderful because its lovely to see what other print designers, illustrators and graphic artists are doing.
Apropos of that, here is a link to a design site from a coworker, James Hilston, who is a real aficionado
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/02/09/typewriter-ribbon-tin-collection/
I have discs of some of my pages floating around somewhere. Soon, pictures!
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