Ooops -- discovered the original post, hiding behind everything on my desktop, as I was shutting things down, to go home. So now it's out there (I think), in addition to my peevish post-post failure rant.
And I did manage to get one more sample piece tied together today -- it'll need more work, but at least it's up on the wall with the other things. Tomorrow (or the next day?), I'll tackle the orange version, and then... who knows? Layers of colored plastics? And wait until I start slinging the shellac around. I'd like to have about a hundred of these smaller things before it's time to pack up.
Hah. Like that's gonna happen...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
After The New Moon...
Well, this is my first 'blog' entry actually created in the studio itself, and even though I'm a bit disoriented (how did I know that a 'dashboard' was going to permit me to type things? This doesn't happen in my car...), I'm more pleased than not. And a little excited, finally, to be working in the space, making new things...
So far, I've put up a lot of stuff on the walls (I think I covered this in my first post), and have brought in some older work that needs repairing, and I made three test samples of wall pieces, using the new colored plastic bags I was so excited about when they arrived... oh, months ago already, I think. I've installed two nice sturdy hooks from the nice sturdy ceiling; I've changed some of the fluorescent bulbs to the day-light variety. I've gotten myself a selection of power cords, and a new glue gun (the old one died on Sunday -- is this an omen?), and a package of strawberry Twizzlers, which I'll have to remember to hide, to deter varmints...
My next order of business, on the practical front, is to provide myself with a wheeled work table -- I've already pretty much covered the five flat surfaces initially available, and I'd really like to see what it's like to work on a relatively clear space, instead of either in my lap, or on top of three months' worth of accumulated who-knows-what-this-is/I-hope-this-doesn't-fall-over/at-least-not-while-it's-still-wet...
I'm also daydreaming about creating a plexiglass storm window, so I can uncover the back window without letting in arctic blasts of early spring air. We'll see...
So. Nothing of particular profundity here, I don't expect, but it's still interesting to have this as a kind of cyber-journal -- a way of checking in, even if only with myself.
And the new moon -- I'd mentioned that I'm intrigued by trying to schedule things in synchronization with the lunar cycles, and that I'd given myself permission to use the first few days of the residency for moving in. The moon was new, officially, on last Friday afternoon, and I was working here on Saturday and Sunday. I heave a sigh of relief. It's not much of an accomplishment, I know, but I'm so talented at subverting my own efforts, that it's nice to see me managing not to get in my own way once in a while.
But now, the new glue gun is hot, and it's time to glue some stuff to other stuff, and see what things look like, covered in heat-shrunk yellow plastic. I wonder what Christopher Columbus would think, if he knew what we do with this America he found...
So far, I've put up a lot of stuff on the walls (I think I covered this in my first post), and have brought in some older work that needs repairing, and I made three test samples of wall pieces, using the new colored plastic bags I was so excited about when they arrived... oh, months ago already, I think. I've installed two nice sturdy hooks from the nice sturdy ceiling; I've changed some of the fluorescent bulbs to the day-light variety. I've gotten myself a selection of power cords, and a new glue gun (the old one died on Sunday -- is this an omen?), and a package of strawberry Twizzlers, which I'll have to remember to hide, to deter varmints...
My next order of business, on the practical front, is to provide myself with a wheeled work table -- I've already pretty much covered the five flat surfaces initially available, and I'd really like to see what it's like to work on a relatively clear space, instead of either in my lap, or on top of three months' worth of accumulated who-knows-what-this-is/I-hope-this-doesn't-fall-over/at-least-not-while-it's-still-wet...
I'm also daydreaming about creating a plexiglass storm window, so I can uncover the back window without letting in arctic blasts of early spring air. We'll see...
So. Nothing of particular profundity here, I don't expect, but it's still interesting to have this as a kind of cyber-journal -- a way of checking in, even if only with myself.
And the new moon -- I'd mentioned that I'm intrigued by trying to schedule things in synchronization with the lunar cycles, and that I'd given myself permission to use the first few days of the residency for moving in. The moon was new, officially, on last Friday afternoon, and I was working here on Saturday and Sunday. I heave a sigh of relief. It's not much of an accomplishment, I know, but I'm so talented at subverting my own efforts, that it's nice to see me managing not to get in my own way once in a while.
But now, the new glue gun is hot, and it's time to glue some stuff to other stuff, and see what things look like, covered in heat-shrunk yellow plastic. I wonder what Christopher Columbus would think, if he knew what we do with this America he found...
Again with the New Moon...
Well, this is disappointing...
I just spent nearly half an hour, pouring out a touching little post about how excited I am, having more or less moved into the studio, and in synch with the new moon, and when I went to preview the post, I couldn't get out, and ended up posting absolutely nothing. Maybe I'd better go check the parking meter -- I got a $45 ticket on Saturday (twelve hours or so after the new moon, by the way), while I still had 40 minutes on the clock. Court date, anyone?
So, eventually I'll catch on to the difference between previewing and saving and publishing, and I apologize for carping, but I tend to get grumpy when 'tools' end up getting in the way of the work they're supposed to support.
Maybe tomorrow I'll get back into the expansive literary mode. Now I'm just going to use my new glue gun, to cover something with other things, and then shrink some yellow plastic over it all. It's a dirty job, but...
I just spent nearly half an hour, pouring out a touching little post about how excited I am, having more or less moved into the studio, and in synch with the new moon, and when I went to preview the post, I couldn't get out, and ended up posting absolutely nothing. Maybe I'd better go check the parking meter -- I got a $45 ticket on Saturday (twelve hours or so after the new moon, by the way), while I still had 40 minutes on the clock. Court date, anyone?
So, eventually I'll catch on to the difference between previewing and saving and publishing, and I apologize for carping, but I tend to get grumpy when 'tools' end up getting in the way of the work they're supposed to support.
Maybe tomorrow I'll get back into the expansive literary mode. Now I'm just going to use my new glue gun, to cover something with other things, and then shrink some yellow plastic over it all. It's a dirty job, but...
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