Weaving Patterns
I visited with a local weaver today and was reminded of my digital-art patterns I made a few years ago.

Draggable Objects
Draggable Objects

New Jabberwacky Chat Excerpt
Read the latest excerpt of my Jabberwacky chat.

Vector Cartoons
Lately I have been fascinated by a certain sort of cartoon. The Japanese do it well, but it isn't anime. It's a clean, simple, cheerful style, suitable for icons, logos, packaging and toys. If anyone knows what I'm getting at, please let me know.

Jabberwacky Excerpted Me Again!
Another Jabberwacky Excerpt

Airplane Photos
Shot a photo series at the local airfield on Sunday, mainly a bright red Cessna. Have shot over 500 photos since beginning in mid-March, my goal being 1,000 as my first round of activity, just to "get my feet wet." I'm not retouching or modifying them in any way. This was a conscious decision.

Imagine List
* Shoot aerial photos
* Do audio and print interviews
* Try out a higher-tech camera
* Shoot photos at night
* Make a fotonovela

Bot Notes
P.S. I made the cut again! Here's the excerpt of my latest Jabberwacky chat.

Back to the Graphics Tablet
I'm back using the graphics tablet again, having reinstalled the drivers after the office computer was upgraded to Windows XP. I never did really get the hang of it before.

In the analog world, I'm making a lot of 14" X 17" works on paper, mixed media with collage.

Learning CSS
Worked hard today on making the transition to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in my Web site. I created an external style sheet. The transition is still not complete, but code has been mightily trimmed!

Women Photographers
I've just read about six women photographers:
* Lola Alvarez Bravo
* Imogen Cunningham
* Elsa Dorfman
* Dorothea Lange
* Cindy Sherman
* Carrie Mae Weems
in the book In Real Life: Six Women Photographers by Leslie Sills, 2000.

I'm now reading Berenice Abbott: Aperture Masters of Photography, Number Nine, with an essay by Julia Van Haaften, 1988.

It means a great deal to me to read about women artists working in non-standard or traditionally female forms: the diary, the letter, the snapshot. Women often need "permission" from peers to use such forms in the arts. For example, Carrie Mae Weems made storytelling photo series with text and audiotape. One featured a woman and her young daughter around a simple kitchen table. The focus was on emotion and relationship. Also, Cindy Sherman's stills from imaginary movies left it open to the viewer to imagine what led up to the scene and what might follow.

Low-Res Hijinks
A Jazz JDC 15 fact sheet says that it can take either a 1-minute or a 30-second video clip at 8 frames per second. I have yet to try this, but have been thinking about making a video short strung together of many such clips. One would shoot very short vignettes, one per day, then at the end of a month, the short would be done.

Shades of the Fisher-Price toy camera, Pixelvision, perhaps ... This camera, intended for kids, made video with audio on ordinary audiocassette tapes. A 90-minute tape fit about 5 minutes per side.

I would like to make a film about women's lives and the impossibility of such, the ways we are thwarted. And what we really want. Are we dreaming anymore?