Weekend away

I'm going out of town today for a three-day weekend..... I know I've been more or less ignoring this blog lately. Perhaps the time away will recharge my batteries enough that I return with renewed dedication.... I have been working on my art quite a bit, have been developing a new technique, and spending quite a lot of time actually after work and the last couple weekends. The last 2 or 3 weeks have kind of passed in a blur. I'll post some pics when I have a chance.... I likely won't be around any wifi hotspots during the trip and my camera's already packed, so I'll just have to leave you with that teaser!

Artist Studio

I love seeing what an artist's studio looks like, almost as much as watching art in motion. It stirs this feeling of possibility within me, that I'm seeing a place of creation, and I wonder what might I possibly create myself if I had such a space of my own.



Today I saw the temporary studio of San Jose resident David Choe, who is currently in China preparing for a show. Reading through his blog today for the first time, David has this hybrid of street and studio art that I've been seeing all over the place in the last 3 years or so. This time it was brought to my attention by Village Savant, the voice of Anno Domini gallery, which I think I originally found through my local newspaper (whose own Arts & Entertainment blog has devolved into posts about video games and concerts...seriously you'd think the third-largest city in California would have a more sophisticated newspaper and readership, wouldn't you?) They're all about the local art scene here in San Jose & the greater Bay Area....I wish I was more of a participant in what's going on in galleries and stuff, but like David says in this video, nobody goes to museums anymore. The last time I was in a gallery or museum was a school field trip. I should do something about that....

Introducing Ninjette

Who is Ninjette? Why, she's the mascot of this site, my alter-ego if you will. She's a little hard to pin down - especially lately - and to date there have been no sightings of her. I've been meaning to invite her to this party for a while, but the invitations have been getting lost in the mail. You know, from the lack-of-pinning-down thing.

Ninjette has some words of wisdom to impart, and I've got the first contribution from her here.

Seen in my gmail inbox today, another reminder that I need to figure out what to do about my day job!

"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job." - David Sarnoff

Blog guilt

I feel like I haven't had much time lately to post. Maybe I've lacked the focus to do so. I had a goal to post at least every other day when I first started this thing, and I've been feeling guilty about it. Or rather, about not meeting my goal. But do I need to feel guilty? I'm no professional blogger, I make no pretentions about that. I know why I'm here and what I want to do with my tiny corner of the web, but there are only so many hours in a day. (I really need to try sneaking in a few posts while I'm at my day job sometime.)

To crunch my time even further, I joined a gym on Tuesday. I went twice and am realllly sore today. And tired! I'm actually sitting here in my bed at 10 pm, something this night owl almost never does! Hopefully this time I'll stick with it for more than a few weeks, and that promise of more-energy-through-regular-exercise will actually come through for me.

I really do want to make more of an effort here though. I just need to remind myself that not every post has to be wonderful. Sometimes the best a person can do is say "Hello, I'm here." Sometimes it's enough to just show up.

Dance in the Rain

This has been around before, but I saw this quote today and thought it was apropos. Between economic storms, personal storms, and trying to rework my career - something a whole lot of people are going through right now - seeing this in my inbox first thing this morning put a happy spin on my day.

• "Life's not about how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain." - author unknown