Here we are again! Sunday night at the computer. I as pretty excited tonight because we got the kids to bed early and I’d gotten most my “night chores” done during the day. But I was so exhausted I ended up taking an hour long nap from 8-9pm before getting up to feed the fish and fold the last load of laundry. F. woke up at ten screaming and I had to heat up some fully frozen bags of milk for him. He took 8oz, and was back asleep by eleven. So, here I am. The glorious life of the parent of small children.
I feel like I’ve been killing it with the photo editing and updating. This week I updated:
Cotton Candy Mudslide (2014)
Disco Dancing Dinosaur Party (2021)
Donatello Does Machines (2020)
Basically Scrambled Grapes (2018)
Close Personal Bird Friend (2017)
Enlightenment the Hard Way (2012)
Insane in the M-Brane (2014)
Inevitable (2016)
I’m really happy to have good photos for some of these older pieces, especially Enlightenment the Hard Way, Inevitable, and Cotton Candy Mud Slide. It’s also really good to pull some of these out and just look at them again. I am very happy to see Close Personal Bird Friend, and both Insane in the M-Brane and Disco Dancing Dinosaur Party surprise me in how they have aged in my mind. They were both sort of felt a little awkward when I made them, but they feel strong now.
In other news, I finished a book for the first time in a while. We started a book club at work and the first book we tackled was The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It’s all about the group of engineers who created the first 32 bit super-mini computer built by a company called Data General which I’d never heard of but was apparently a pretty big deal in the 80s and was headquartered off Route 495 in Westborough, MA. This wasn’t the world’s first 32 bit super-mini, but rather Data General’s first 32 bit super-mini, which was sort of a follow on to similar machines offered years earlier by their competitors. Very interesting to see how much has changed, and how much has stayed the same. If you’re interested in the history of computer engineering at all this is a good read, and good insight into how these sorts of products are made. I thought about doing a book report here on the blog but this will have to suffice.
Kind of a rough week this week. Kids have been sick. T. stayed home from daycare on Friday, my usual dedicated studio day, so he was with me all day. He came to the studio with me, but we didn’t stay very long. I managed to get photos for five paintings.
We were expecting a visit from grandparents this weekend, which had already been postponed due to child illness a few weeks back, and which we had to just cancel due to child illness again. Nobody wants sick grandparents. T. was really looking forward to seeing them. Hopefully they will make it for Thanksgiving. It’s pretty tough with family all spread out like ours is. Liv’s immediate family is all in NYC, so that’s not too bad, but my mom is in Utah, dad is in Arizona, and my sister is in Texas. My dad and my sister haven’t even met F. yet, and it doesn’t sound like they’ll be coming to Thanksgiving either. Mom came out when he was just born. I wish we had more of a travel budget.
Well this is the third week I’ve managed to post something here. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for sticking with me. Drop me a comment if there is anything you’d like me to write about.