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It's semi traditional for us to have Chinese food on New Year's Day, so my wife and I went out for a great lil' meal of salt & pepper squid and fried tofu cubes in sesame sauce. Of course, after any Chinese restaurant meal, out come the fortune cookies. Ours were wrapped in cellophane plastic.
My wife grabbed her cookie's bag and pulled from the edges to open it, as she often does. But instead of a controlled release she used too much pressure. As we watched the cookie shot out of the bag, described a beautiful arc eighteen inches above the table top, and landed square in the middle of my water glass with the grace of a gymnast dismount. Nothin' but net!
We stared at each other in surprise for a second, then burst out laughing. I liberated the cookie from its watery landing pad and handed it back to her. She opened the now soggy treat, pulled out the fortune, read it, and erupted with a new round of laughter, tears now forming in her eyes. She handed me the fortune and it read: "Failure is an opportunity to do better next time." Cookie validated!
Have a Happy and Strange New Year, all!
My wife grabbed her cookie's bag and pulled from the edges to open it, as she often does. But instead of a controlled release she used too much pressure. As we watched the cookie shot out of the bag, described a beautiful arc eighteen inches above the table top, and landed square in the middle of my water glass with the grace of a gymnast dismount. Nothin' but net!
We stared at each other in surprise for a second, then burst out laughing. I liberated the cookie from its watery landing pad and handed it back to her. She opened the now soggy treat, pulled out the fortune, read it, and erupted with a new round of laughter, tears now forming in her eyes. She handed me the fortune and it read: "Failure is an opportunity to do better next time." Cookie validated!
Have a Happy and Strange New Year, all!
Simmering
While I haven’t been leaving much of a visible art foot print, these last few weeks, I haven’t been slacking off. First, I’m working on both building up my digital resources and trying to get my 3D-skills updated after about a three-year absence. There’s quite a few image ideas swimming in my head, I’m just building to the point where I can tackle them in my “new ways”.
Second, I’m taking an online natural illustration course out of Australia so that’s not only going to be taking some of my art time, but also (hopefully) giving me a refresher with my old skills in physical art media. So l
2020: The Year I Make Recontact
Well it’s been only about a month (give or take) since my last blog update so maybe I’m having success in retraining myself back to the DA habit. I’ve made really good progress on migrating my old arting materials to my new machine and getting up to speed with DAZ Studio 4.12. I may have only pumped out three finished pieces, but behind each one is a number of experiments and trials. With each one my “render legs” have regained a bit more strength. It feels kinda nice being back at the digital drawing board… if only to provide some distraction from our nation’s dumpster fire du jour.
I’m also r
From the shadows shuffles the unspeakable horror..
Well hey there! Long time no chat. I’m still alive and kickin’… I’ve just been kickin’ it elsewhere: in my reading nook, on my modeling bench, and in my kayak. So I’ve very much NOT been here… due to the fact I didn’t have much new to show anyone. But that may change in the coming months.
The biggest thing that’d been keeping me away from making art was my aging machine (as I work mostly digital, these days). The ole box just could keep up with the state of the tech. Like a (too) old car, it can still get me from point A to point B – most of the time – but not without great ag
We here I am again… after another loooooooong absence. For whatever reason I just haven’t felt driven to create much art this year, and something in me feels guilty about coming to DA purely as a spectator. All I can say is that I sure hope this lull passes because I’m much happier when I’m creating!
I’d be lying if I said political anxiety here in the U.S. wasn’t part of the problem and with the outcome of the last election I find myself driven to become even more politically engaged to preserve the progress made over the last couple of decades. But I’ll attempt to minimize bringing my political bag
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Don't make me laugh, it makes me cough! 
Don't make me laugh, it makes me cough!