The Good Life (a Vox.com remnant)

Take Your Passion ... And Make It Happen

I took a big leap this week.

I signed up for, and took my first, watercolors class.

As may arts as I can do (draw, paint, sculpt), I have never done watercolors. Not because I was thinking I couldn't do it, just it never seemed worthwhile.

Well, I was wrong. The last few months PBS has been running a series that has this jolly fellow showing how to do watercolors. And it looked SO fun to me. Well, I just knew I had to try it.

Thing is, I don't have the energy/will to do much art at 10PM when I have free time. I am just not inthe creative mood, and I would rather not get something started when I am not "into" it.

I know some folks won't understand that. 'Specially when I try to explain that I have an "uncontrollable urge" to do something creative. A daily urge. One I can't usually do anything about. So I stuff it back in my mind and go on. And the next day, it happens again.

So I finally had enough, and I enrolled in the class. I bought my supplies. And I sat in my first art class since College.

Well, it was GREAT! Now, we didn't get to watercolor yet. We went over some techniques, some mindsets and some ways to start a painting.

We all went through some books and picked a photo  to paint.

Then we sketched it and transferred it to our watercolor paper. That is where we left off.

I will have more to report, and maybe show, next Friday.

Maybe before then actually, My first photo I sketched and it turned out good, but wouldn't work so well for a watercolor -well not my FIRST watercolor. So I decided it worked better as a pen and ink, so I might work on that and show it here.

Quarter Slot

Melissa's post on Pole Positon reminded me of this television commercial I saw on BoingBoing.

 

 

Pole Position Commercial! (Atari)

And Vas' post on Ms. Pac-Man reminded me of this other BoingBoing post!

chimp playing pacman

Good stuff that BoingBoing!

Oh, I'm picking out a Thermos for you

On the clearance shelf at Target, I found this Thermos.

Target-thermos

By the way, am I the only one suddenly singing the "Thermos Song" from "The Jerk?" (dig this remix, a la Python's "Spam")

I thought it was odd that they said it holds 1.1 Quarts (1 Litre). I deal in ounces. 16 oz Coffe, 20 oz Coffee and so on.

So since my math skillz iz weak, I had to do a Google to get the lowdown. So, in case anyone else needs help too, here's the scoop.

1.1 quarts = 40 ounces = 1 Litre

1 quart = 32 ounces = 4 cups

So, there ya go!

Oh and ladies, you might want to dig on this Thermos!

Lunchable

Lunch Box Pad has a great collection of, well, lunch boxes, but so much more.

I discovered that John Pound did most of the art for the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. Which explains why they looked so much like Wacky Packages - he did those too!

-Gallery 1

-Gallery 2 (unpublished Wackys)

Flick'r Gallery of 50's Advertising (others too, if you explore)

This is why you don't see clowns on Kid cereal anymore - and I was almost done with my therapy!

..... and to wrap up this meandering, now almost pointless post, from the Gallery of the Absurd: Gigantic Heads on Stick Bodies

Oops

Sorry, I've been really busy!

 

Umm_oops

Feature Request: Mass "Viewable By"s Change

Much like the Comment Editing function in MovableType 3.2, I'd love to have the ability to Change the "viewable by" in the Organize posts section.

You see, when Vox was NotComet, I just posted willy nilly about everything. I knew a small group of users would read it and I didn't mind. Well woah nellie! Now this thing is open to "the world" and I need to change a\the "viewable by" on a few posts.

Nothing bad, mind you, just some things I don't want "the world" to know. Friends, probably. Family, sure.

Well, I can change this, but it would be nice if there was a check box that I could select for each post I want to change, and change it (can I say "change" more?)

So that's what I'd like to see.

Though I admit, by the time it shows up, I will probably have changed the posts by then.

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