Word Cloud

Where do I find these things? These endless-hours-of-distraction things?

Does it matter?

This is something that I found at another blog. SnapShirt generates a Word Cloud from the words on a (your) website or blog. Lookit what they got, randomly from mine. You can force word replacements, and looking at mine, I would say that I'd like to force the word 'cream' to be represented as 'ice cream' in my little Word Cloud. And I kind of like 'Southern CA' instead of 'Southern'. Oh, hey, and 'heffalump' showed up.

Hmmm.

Oh, I see. Looks like they're getting most of this content from the template, since those words are used on every post. Ah ha...

You can get, I'm guessing, t-shirts and stuff made from your own Word Cloud. Anyone want one from the Digital Fridge Door? Maybe I can make money for my summer vacation that way [smirk].

I don't know if they'll start sending you spam if you have the image emailed to you (I can let you know), but you can get your own here.

A little bit of drawing

Catching up with posting a few drawings here and there. I ought to be catching up with laundry and cleaning, but, okay... let's be real, this is more fun for me.

The flowers on the left made me think of Lisa Simpson (yes, the cartoon character).



Is it really a hair scrunchy? Or just a really deformed crinkle-cut fry? Hmmmm.

Tagged!

Karen tagged me. Do you really need to know what’s in my fridge, closet, purse, car, and nightstand? Oh dear.

By the way, Karen did these great illustrations to go along with her lists. That's a nice touch. I'll work on a few of my own as I go along, but I've got plans for the weekend, see...


In my fridge (near and dear to my heart):
Among other things - Spinach, miso, small containers of Yoplait, fat-free Lactaid milk, olive tapenade, champagne, wine and beer, eggs, sweet hot mustard, Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar crunch ice cream and leftover beef stew in the freezer.

In my closet:
Among other things – running shoes, lots of pastel yellow t-shirts, white cotton blouses and jeans, handbags, and a collection of stuffed animals that I felt compelled to hide: Tigger, Stitch and Pooh bear.

In my purse:
3x5 notecards, hair clip, lip balm, sketch pen, Kodak EasyShare C340 digital camera, extra AA batteries, Aveeno hand cream, business cards, HP ipaq. Oh, and my wallet, checkbook and cel phone, of course.

In my car:
Ha Ha! I just got it detailed! It’s unusually clean! Gum, Altoid mints, a bandaid, a towel (so I don’t spill coffee on myself on the way to work), Thomas guide (LA and Ventura counties), golf clubs.

Night stand:
Among other things – photos of my high school graduation and Denny and Claire’s wedding, my first term shop class jewelry box, cuticle rub cream, Restoration Hardware ‘Shore’ sheet spray, Johnson’s bedtime lotion and books: On Becoming a Leader, The Te of Piglet, Just Ask a Woman and The Now Habit.

It’s a busy life full of lots of things to do and enjoy, huh? Imagine what I edited out. No, wait, on second thought, maybe it’d be better if you don’t…

So now, I tag Nina and the other Wendee. And we’ll see if Ken is willing to join in on the fun.

Oh, was it supposed to be just five things of each? Whoops.

It’s about time!

I hear you all saying, "It's about time!"
You will note from the last parking sticker that my last term at school was Summer '02, when I graduated. Hey, I was just looking for a good round sticker to take the place of the old ones, so I could readily identify my tan Camry...


Before:


After:

Off on a tangent

Working from home today, trying to enjoy my breaks a little bit, to get back to a bit of drawing, restoring some of that balance...

As I’m finishing (the drawing, not the oatmeal), I think, “Wow, now that’s an unfortunate tangency there. Whoops. Oo, and there, too. Gee.” It’s this annoying knack that I haven’t been able to shake. If you see it, you know what I’m talking about, and you know that it bothers me. Egh! If you don’t see it, then that’s just fine. Sigh. That’s what Photoshop is for, I guess.

But, just so that you know, I’m not gonna let that bother me too much beyond typing that last paragraph. I was actually concentrating on getting the spoon to read like metal, and the bowl to curve, show the shadows … make the stuff in the bowl look like oatmeal, instead of, say … ice cream. Poof! The angst? See? It’s gone!

Ice cream. Hmm. Ice cream. Y’ know, I have ice cream … in the freezer. Hold on, I’ll be right back.

Wow, it’s been forever since I last posted. I guess I’ve been distracted, but happily, not by crazy, endless work. What? Not by work? Oh, you’re wanting details? Yeah, right.

;)

EDM

I finally got my copy of “Everyday Matters” and stayed up late to read it all. It's really touching; Oh my, what a struggle. I recommend it.

I like the idea that when you draw, you really slow down, your brain clears, and all you concentrate on is your subject. You see things that you hadn’t realized or noticed before – sort of like when you have to walk through a street that you normally pass by in a car. In slowing down, you manage to see more of it, concentrate on it, and can see the beauty in all of it.

But, I’m fighting the idea of drawing with pen and ink (it forces you to commit to a line). I have to do plenty of this for work; it’s so precise. I like the idea of soft pencil gradations, the fuzziness of it all. With the ink, I find myself feeling like adding words, commenting. Or is it all Danny G’s doing? An emulation? Or an inspiraton? I dunno. It sort of just comes out. I squirm internally and fight it, but I’ll give it a bit of a go, since it seems to be tapping into something a little bit different. I’ll admit that even at work, I’m enjoying the coloring and especially the shading parts of it all, prismacolors and graphite pencils. I might do a bit more pen work, but I just can’t resist the temptation to add in backgrounds, shading.. I’ve become a bit compulsive about it lately, enjoying my black and white prismacolor pencils.

But I'll give it a go.