museology colliery squareness

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to 

everything else in the Universe." (John Muir)

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• Incomplete Manifesto   Bruce Mau
• Avoid software. 
  The problem with software is that everyone has it.
  
  

Headed off to sew the (damn) jacket again today, hoping that by the end of the day I have something to show for my efforts.  We were up at 4 with our anxiety riddled dog who was obsessing over the thunderstorm.  Yeah, I even got up and went out in the rain with her so she could pee at that hour-  wearing my plastic shoes, nightgown, and carrying my favorite umbrella.  Didn't help since the rain was driving sideways, but What A Sight...  (use your vivid imaginations here)  If there would have been any wet tee shirt contests I would have most certainly won 'Most Nerve to Enter'.  I put the dog on a wee Benedril for the day to take the edge off.  Need some myself.

If it doesn't rain again and I can finish up I think I might go wander myself to a couple of shopping sources now that I am in collection-mode.  I may go look for some area rugs but since we don't have a plan yet for what the floors will be, I won't buy anything.  Yet.  THE OPERATIVE WORD.  But you never know when the perfect thing will be ready to pounce and make me buy it, and change the entire plan!  I do know I need some garden stools and some weatherproof side tables for the lanai. (That's the architect room for the covered space, I never thought of myself as having a lanai!) My current dining table and chairs are going out there, so I am also on the hunt for a dining table, cheap, that will fit lots of people.  I have in my mind two tables, matching, that will work alone or together to maximize my options. 

So, that's my plan for today.  Also I packed up my huge bag of extra computer chargers, cords, USBs, etc, and of course took about 100 pictures of the moon last night and need to upload them.  I apparently didn't think I would need a camera cord for the next year, duh.  Hope I can find it.

From the article, 18 things Creative People Do Differently that I've started sending along

They observe everything.

The world is a creative person's oyster -- they see possibilities everywhere and are constantly taking in information that becomes fodder for creative expression. As Henry James is widely quoted, a writer is someone on whom "nothing is lost."The writer Joan Didion kept a notebook with her at all times, and said that she wrote down observations about people and events as, ultimately, a way to better understand the complexities and contradictions of her own mind:"However dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I,'" Didion wrote in her essay On Keeping A Notebook. "We are talking about something private, about bits of the mind’s string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its marker."

Thanks to a Kickstarter project by artist and photographer Lindsey Wohlman, we can now see for the first time Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans … naked! Warhol Soup Cans Naked & Unlabeled, is a series that visualizes the insides of a soup can through gelatine-mixed freestanding soup sculptures. 

And since today's offerings seem to be so nicely color blocked, I'll continue with Color Books that superseded Pantone

 In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope. Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. According to Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel who translated part of the introduction, the color book was intended as an educational guide. The irony being there was only a single copy that was probably seen by very few eyes.

A squirrel iPhone case-  be still my heart!  Would this be a reason to upgrade my antiquated phone?  Yup, you betcha.