Thursday, June 7, 2007

Well, I FINALLY figured out how to get the rss feed from my blog into my webpage... I had to use this gadget someone wrote to do it. So now I can finally just post to this blog instead of adding entries to my website. Googlepages is great because it's free... but it could use some work. Anyway, hopefully some better posts are on the way, since I'll get more visibility by having the posts in multiple places.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Well, this is the last month before Daniel is born. He could be born sometime this month too... I just keep worrying about whether or not I'm ready to be a father. Also, this job is starting to really get to me. I thought I would love having a lot of time late at night to work on things, but it ends up being really hard to make myself create art this late at night. I just end up wandering the internet... and it's getting really old. I really feel the fact that I haven't made any art in a long time... I need to figure out a way to start making some art and then just MAKE it. I have to make these nights more productive.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Getting closer and closer to being a dad. It won't be very long at all until I see what it's like to be on the other side of the father/son thing. It's early in the morning, and I'm at Assembly Inn doing another night shift... the second of seven in a row. I started a new blog and I've been adding things to it. It's called "Candlebarn" and it's at http://candlebarn.blogspot.com. It's a lot different than this site.. and that's good. I want a place that I can really go crazy on and just post stuff. I want this site kept a bit more tidy. TIDY.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Today is my brother's birthday. Just realized that, and feeling bad because I should have sent him something. Anyway, I just started this new job working as a night auditor in a resort hotel. This is my first overnight shift (It's 6 a.m. ... almost done). It's pretty interesting trying to stay up all night. I had planned on drinking lots of coffee, and I brought some singles, but there is no working microwave to be found. I'll have to bring a thermos next time. I am hoping that I will be able to get some art making done during these overnight shifts... I'm really only doing this because my son-to-be will need someone home during the day, and this is a way that I can do that. I'm making absolutely no sense. I'm looking forward to going home and sleeping for quite a while.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Ooh, I didn't realize until writing the date that this is a friday the 13th. That's creepy. Anyway, I just wanted to blog about a couple of pictures I've come across. These are pictures of a Godzilla playset I had as a kid. It was possibly my favorite toy ever, and I can't really explain why. What I loved the most was Godzilla himself... who was nothing more than a hunk of green plastic. There were no movable parts, no special features, nothing. But I really loved it. My parents bought it from Family Dollar for me and I'm sure they paid no more than 9 or 10 bucks. Today, this playset is so rare that it goes for hundreds of dollars. I lost all the parts to mine over the years, and, most tragically, I lost Godzilla himself when I was playing around in a college library as a kid. I still visit this library often, and you bet I still keep an eye out for my green plastic Godzilla.

Monday, April 2, 2007

DONE! I really can't even believe it, but I'm pretty much done with graduate school! So now all I have to do is get a job. Hopefully this degree will make that at least somewhat easier.

I also really need to make some art. We're in a new place, and my painting stuff is all outside in a storage unit. I can paint out there when it's nice... but I think I'm going to have to get into the whole digital art thing again. Hopefully I can make some interesting stuff and post it in the next few weeks.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Student teaching is still going really well. I feel like I've already learned a great deal, and I know I am going to learn much more as I take on more classes.

I am really itching to make some art, but we just moved into a new place, and we put my painting materials outside in a storage building. There is a lot of room out there for painting... but it's so cold! Hopefully I can come up with a way to heat and light the place so I can make some new work. I'm also thinking about creating some new digital work. A new version of Blender should be out soon, so that should inspire me to make some new stuff.