Ah textures, textures, textures. Without a proper exposure unit, a kingdom or a horse - my creative impulses are left to the keyboard. But everything leads to something, and this may come into play at another intersection down the road.

Here is my avatar visiting a gallery in "Second Life." I wondered about the viability of art in this virtual world, until attending a lecture by Matt Mullican. He showed us how he had been experimenting with Mullican's World in virtual reality for some twenty years and at great production costs. Rendering graphics and opting for production shortcuts that cut thousands of dollars. Now any artist with computer skills and focus can build their ultimate installations/environments without getting grants from the French Ministry of Culture. I think it will be a little while until I'm willing to spend some Linden dollars on a parcel - but I can see some potential projects.

Okay my Graduate Assistantship is in assisting in the college gallery with installations of shows. My buddy here Ryan is almost ready to collapse in this picture cause this is the third day in a row he worked on the show. On this day, we worked from 9am to to 3:30am. So long story short - all my fellow artists, remember to be kind to the people who put up your show. It is a lot of work. Cheers to Sugar Bain who has been doing this at Hemphill for over a year!

Then again sometimes my program makes me want a strong drink. 

Sometimes life is like watching paint dry. Now as an artist that has it's place: a time of repose where ideas generate. But the more exciting metaphor is when the paint starts to chip off. That is the time of activity and metamorphosis. I feel the time of actually starting to create is coming around again.

The cooler weather is coming. The 90 degree weather has been very uncomfortable. What about the infamous lake effect up here in the rust belt? This picture is taken from the shore of a Madison, Wisconsin lake. I have no idea what made this texture congeal. Hopefully it is some side-effect of cool weather, though it is mostly likely just pollution.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. Dr. Wifey comes to Columbus for four days!

Tally: Henry, I want to talk to you.

Henry: Hey. I told you, I didn't want that cage with the golden bars.

from - Barfly

Ibid... but I do see some promise with the ordering of new screenprinting equipment for the program.

Feeling a bit fenced in by required courses at grad school.