I think I'll keep him
Saturday, July 4, 2009
getting the news
Living in a rural area, newspapers are sometimes hard to come by. A friend recently turned me on to Newspaper Direct, an amazing service that provides over one thousand papers from around the world electronically — on their date of publication. Now every morning I can sit down with the Washington Post for an hour and keep in touch with "reality". A random sample...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
July coupon!
Due to technical difficulties, the coupon isn't working on the website, so here it is. Click on the image to enlarge, then right click to save, then print.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
monetize?
That really isn't a word, you know. Its something google came up with, and I've caved in to. Maybe a few clicks will buy me a bag of dried beans at some point, and that's a good thing.
You gotta like this though — how many blogs are going to come up with the keyword combination to generate these listings?
Sunday, June 28, 2009
New weaving project!
Just got this on the loom — it's Louet's Cottolin, a 60% cotton, 40% linen weaving yarn. I sell it in the shop, and it's on sale now. This is my first project using it. The sale is to celebrate the launch of Weavolution, the social networking site for weavers.
I'm playing around with randomly varying a few individual strands of the blue-greens in the warp. It might be nice to throw in some warm reds and oranges; I'm still debating it. Opinions?
The NEW New Deal
Growing up as an artist in Washington DC, I had great appreciation for the wealth of public artwork in town, but little more than a basic understanding of how it came to be created. Given our current disastrous economy and my fears — as part of the arts community — about my part in it, I've been reading up on the Great Depression. Some of the approaches to tackle the joblessness back then seem relevant right now.
I'm talking about the New Deal, the WPA, and the CCC. Not only did the WPA create jobs for thousands of artists, artisans and craftsmen (as well as the general population), it left a legacy of public art that is a fascinating look into the social values of the time.
Wikipedia has a great overview on the WPA. It got me thinking...
Maybe it's time to revisit this idea.
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