Month: November 2009

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the rose bowl

Before one more person from Ohio asks me if I’m going to the Rose Bowl I’d like to share my coworker’s story… He asked me this morning if I was going, to which I gave the usual reply “I can’t afford $500 tickets.”  He informed me that I was lowballing it, because he just talked […]

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deep diver

When I bought all the pieces of wood a few weeks ago I bought one that was really thin.  5.5″x24″ to be exact.  I had many ideas about how to use this space, but eventually each one proved to not be a good fit, I just couldn’t make any compositions work in that frame. Then […]

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octopus attack

I fiddled with this idea about an octopus attacking a guy underwater for a long time.  I finally decided to try it out on one of the long pieces of wood I bought a few weeks ago.  First though, I took all the sketches from my sketchbook and tried to combine them and bring in […]

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brain wiz

Fox Sports West just honored a USC player with their “brain wiz” segment during the halftime of the UCLA/USC game.  The smartest player on USC’s squad has an amazing…. wait for it… 2.9 GPA.

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Eczema sucks

Years ago, when I was working at CardSupply, my fingers on my right hand started getting weird.  The skin would blister, dry out and crack.  At first I thought it must be from handling paper all day.  However, more than five years later, it is still here.  I’ve tried various remedies, even saw a doctor […]

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happiness

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” That quote from Hemmingway is one of my favorites.  I’d have to add though that unhappiness is probably the biggest motivator for intelligent people. To that end, with my latest paint fumblings (see last blog post) I started over with some good old 2B pencil drawing.  […]

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still not going anywhere

A few years ago Cindy asked me to paint her.  At the time I was thinking about trying to paint again.  I’ve gotten this inclination a few times since college, and every time my little experiments ended up looking like some kind of visual torture mechanism.  I would “quit” again for a year and then […]

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