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I love sharpies
I prettied up my “indoor shoes” with flowery mandala designs in coloured marker. There’s something about indelible ink in a fat nib that makes me happy. Sharpies are not serious and it’s not Art if you’re drawing on your clothes, either. So if you make a mistake or it isn’t perfect, that is ok. Other mediums do…
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Anxieties
Tod’s away and I seem to be alternating between crazy thoughts and productive actions. Today I combined the two to create some sketches of the crazy thoughts, personified. This ratty goblin plagues me at night if I leave the closet open. He bites, gives me nightmares, and settles bad fashion sense on me while I…
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Making Music, part 2
Rob checks levels as Jesse strums my ukulele and Swinky vocalises in my bedroom. Months have elapsed in the quest to make a song for the World Hoop Day Dance project. Shortly after writing the previous post in mid-March, I gave up on the lyrics and turned to the music. Huw and I created…
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Making Music, part 1
A couple of weeks ago I started casting around for someone to write me some music. I want an original tune for this year’s World Hoop Day Dance project and so I was telling to my musician friends about it. I never thought this would happen but my ukulele teacher, Huw, suggested that we work together to…
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Technical Drawings
Tod asked me to help him create an illustration of latency for an executive report. I love finding ways to encapsulate complex stuff into drawings, so of course I made some sketches. I think these illustrate the points very well, and also explain why I am not well suited to the corporate world.
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9 Way Indoor/Outdoor Scarf
Utter beginner’s one skein crochet project.
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I am a Novelist
Book-length fiction completed.
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Handy phrases for vegetarians, near-vegetarians, and picky eaters in Japan
How to get what you want to eat.
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One Product to Rule Them All
A concept for happy summer mornings
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The False Promise of Common Sense
Uncommon sense opens doors to interesting things.
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