Life of Art SitRep #25

A series to mark what I did to further my pursuit of a life sustained by my art each week. Committing to these posts is a commitment to action, because to have content for them, I have to do something. Every week. If you have any sort of goal you're pursuing, feel free to share your efforts of the past week in the comments. Or encouragement, that's good too.

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This week, I

• Found a video tutorial for repairing dust & scratches in Photoshop. Better for spots than scratches I think. Definitely useful stuff though it may just apply to black & white images.
  
  Anyone have a good Photoshop tip for dust & scratch correction? I'm looking for something less painstaking. Or know of a program that does it better?
• Prepped Crane and Counterweight and created some products for my shop:
  
  Crane and Counterweight – Medium by RocklawnArts
  See more Crane and counterweight Postage

  Several years ago during what I'm sure was an imaginary period of my life, I lived in a store front along the border of Nob Hill and Chinatown in San Francisco, California. Theoretically, parking in my neighborhood was routinely horrendous, so I walked whenever possible, noting any structures I wanted to go back and photograph later.
  
  When I saw this construction site in the Financial District, I marveled at how close the barricades were to the equipment. I returned on a Sunday with an amazing sky when the workmen were off. I sidled up to the barricades around the crane and its multi-ton counterweights, and started taking photos.
  
  I chose black and white film to show off the geometry within the crane and pulley system's lattices. To give the crane an unusual look, I aligned the arm of the crane with its base. I still feel the awe of being below (though not quite directly under) this massive piece of equipment when I look at this image.

• Tweeted, FB'd Crane and Counterweight link.
• RT'd Harry Potter zazzle sale info.
• Revised Rocklawn Arts shop's profile and changed the background color.
• Listened to Havi's Copywriting Magic teleclass. Great bit about worth of art and not making assumptions about what people want. There are people out there with money. We don't know value of our stuff because we can do it already.
• Listened to 2 GoingPro podcasts.

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What did you do to pursue the life you want this week?


A year ago on TTaT: Even nothing has a catch

Cemetery clouds

Two years ago on TTaT: After all this time nothing is the answer?

Fungi photos

Two years ago on TTaT: Random Scan Sunday 10: Bedroom sketch

Recycling via art

A while back, my Dad was weeding his immense slide collection and he was going to throw out all these metal slide holders he had. I couldn't resist the modular stack, so I had a pile of them for a while and then started interconnecting pairs and then wired those together.

For a long time, it hung vertically from a hook on the door to their garage.

One day when I was over, I noticed it was gone and then spotted it outside where Mom had nailed it to a tree.

It reminds me of this modular sculpture I made in college. The modules I used for the project were hinges with screws arrayed in an undulating pattern along a diagonal to show acceleration that met with another line of hinges and screws representing constant speed all mounted on a piece of wood. (I'll take a picture of it sometime if you're interested.)

Anyway, the point is, my professor looked at it lying flat on the table, liked the screws hanging off the side, and then tipped the whole thing upright making it about 1000 times cooler.

Slide holders wrapped around a tree instead of hanging straight = much cooler. Thanks, Mom!


Three years ago on TTaT: Je souhaite

Sketchbook, page 39

(Other pages)

The process of filling a 120 60 page sketchbook and posting it all by year's end continues:

p.19 Bridgman's Book of 100 Hands

Two years ago on TTaT: Unanticipated

Pinecones, attached

A year ago on TTaT: The Problem With Polka Dots

Life of Art SitRep #24

A series to mark what I did to further my pursuit of a life sustained by my art each week. Committing to these posts is a commitment to action, because to have content for them, I have to do something. Every week. If you have any sort of goal you're pursuing, feel free to share your efforts of the past week in the comments. Or encouragement, that's good too.

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This week, I

• Uploaded Fountain Spray to my store and created its product line:
  
  Fountain Spray by RocklawnArts
  See all the prints and posters at zazzle
• Tweeted/FB'd new Fountain Spray product folder and Harry Potter sale info:

  Use code: PRICEREVELIO for 10-20% off through July 25, 2010 at 11:59pm PT. 10% off binder, apparel, mug, bag, apron, and shoe net sale prices; 15% off card, keychain, magnet, mousepad, postcard, poster, and sticker net sale prices; 20% off bumper sticker, button, and tie net sale prices.

• Submitted Rocklawn Arts zazzle store to 3 forum threads for promotion.
• Read Zazzle RSS Guide.
• Added Rocklawn Arts redbubble store link to intros on both zazzle sites. Revised both zazzle store intros a little.
• Added Burning Brush to my Rocklawn Arts redbubble store.
• Drew winners of my note card giveaway. (Love the screencap the computer chose.) Tracked down the winners and got the cards sent off.
• Opened Rocklawn Arts twitter account for posting comprehensive info on Rocklawn Arts as well as sale info.
• Opened twitterfeed account and hooked it up to my zazzle feed and my redbubble art page feed.

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What did you do to pursue the life you want this week? A year ago on TTaT: In five years of blogging, I've never posted on July 23rd. I like filling in those stray days. :)