Along with trying to learn how to play bass and making art (which involves a glorious amount of mess), I also study Muso Shinden Ryu Iaido, which is a Japanese martial art involving drawing and cutting with the sword, and I sing, mostly jazz.
I was delighted the day I discovered transcription. It’s generalised work not involving specialised training as medical and legal do, that covers the gamut from short recordings of people’s dream diaries, to hours-long university lectures on sociology. If I hadn’t signed an NDA I could tell you the strangest thing I’ve ever had to deal with on that job. But it’ll just have to remain a mystery! It is the first time in my many decades on this earth that I have found work that suits my education, my life experience, my knowledge, and my temperment. Working from home on a contract basis also gives me a rare, and cherished, life flexibility that allows me to pursue other things–or simply to take a nap in the middle of the day if I want to.
I do have a severe vision impairment that has impacted my life from birth. But, while it has been a mighty struggle at times in more ways than I care to go into here, it hasn’t gotten in the way of everything. With my art, even, it’s actually been somewhat of a help. It helps that I like abstract art when sometimes I can’t see the details of what I’m doing!
You can find me online at the places below:
Just when you think some things have finally gone away, or you at least hoped they had, oh no, there they are, right there, on your walls, on your floors, on the bodies of your children. It’s the ?70s, and they’re baaaack. Wallpaper From the 70s Sometimes I think the ?70s was a giant acid… Read more »
They say the best things, even big ones, come in small packages, and those packages can vary in type from the plain cardboard box to the skin we all walk around in. World’s Smallest Man I think that one’s self-explanatory. World’s Smallest Works of Art I am blown away by this. How could anyone manage… Read more »
If variety is the spice of life, then the Internet is the spice rack of the universe. Sometimes it astounds me the things you can find, from the sublime to the ridiculous. 800 Notes http://800notes.com/ Just one in a growing group of many sites dedicated to the collection of information regarding ?junk mail? phone calls… Read more »
It’s a good, round, solid number that can mean nothing, or everything. See for yourself. 10×10 http://www.tenbyten.org/ ?10×10? (‘ten by ten’) is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10×10 collects… Read more »
Every time I think I’ve seen it all, somebody proves me absolutely wrong, sometimes dumbstruck, but mostly just amazed and delighted at the capacity of the human creature to innovate and create and cause me to think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” or even “I’m so glad I never thought of that.” Wall-Mountable Wireless… Read more »
One thing I’ve noticed about carrying a camera is that it gives you–truly–a third eye. You cannot help but see: see more, look more closely, and find subjects in things you might otherwise pass by. This week, then, are a couple of collections of photographically related links. People – A selection of sites of photographers… Read more »
Sometimes, in the name of function and functional, we forget the form. Just because we are required to sleep, sit, and store everything we own, doesn’t mean it has to be milk crates and two-by-fours. ISTDIBS http://www.1stdibs.com/ Everything from the seats we sit on to the places where we keep the books we read while… Read more »
Someone told me that what you should get for the person who’s got everything is antibiotics. I, however, prefer a little more levity with my gift giving. Hand Soap http://foliage.myshopify.com/products/handsoap Who says soap has to look like a cake of Camay or seashells that collect dust on the bathroom windowsill? Glowbrick http://www.gadgetshop.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=333 Interior decor need… Read more »
Too often, I think, we rush from sun to sun, and do not take enough time to look at the beauty of the world that we inhabit. This week, then, a celebration of some of the beauties of planet Earth. U.S. National Arboretum: Bonsai Images http://www.bonsaihunk.us/pic/nat/nat.html No doubt the most well-known of plant life manipulations… Read more »
There are those who would say that perverting the poetic form of haiku is just that: a perversion. However, there are those who also say that one ought not to take anything that seriously. I shall let you decide for yourselves. Here is a selection of haiku-related links that demonstrate the less formal side of… Read more »