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steves — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:37:53 -0400

Glad to help. Sometimes all you do to keep from crying is to laugh:P

"No wonder we're not picking up any radio signals from alien species. They're not sending any! They're too afraid we'll answer." - George Carlin

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

Been Missing You

wbb — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:21:26 -0400

Thanks. Needed to laugh, covers up the weeping tears.

thanks for your comments

innowen — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:57:31 -0400

Hi there,

Thanks anon for your comments. However, I think you're missing the point. I still read the news, just on my terms and my media (the internet). As a result I find that I'm more well-versed in what is going on than the typical media of television. Which tends to report ideas that are way too sensational, depressive and negative. All this does really is scare people and make us all depressed.

What I am advocating in this essay is that people need to remember that they are also their own reporters. What goes on in their families, friendships and communities also is news. When was the last time you really sat down with your family (assuming you have a family with kids) and really talked to them about what is going on in their life? Many families don't do this anymore. They'd rather disconnect from their family and the local life that seems to affect them more-- only to fall victim into the scare tactics of today's anchor-people who bring stories of doom and terror.

My exercise gives them a sense of belonging. It allows them to report on their own world. What's going on in their lives, communities; from their perspective.

That is not stupid. Doing this helps build up your creative muscles (which is the point of my series of articles) and shows people what you are interested in. Sometimes, this is of common interest to others.

Perhaps you should give this a try and post stories of your world to help make the world a better place.

Thanks for reading,
/innowen

This is idiotic

Anonymous — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:30:52 -0400

If we don't absorb the news (by TV, internet, radio, other), we are regressing as a people. Don't be 'that guy' who doesn't know about anything happening in the world- even if its just local news.

People who know the events of the world become wiser.

Try to make yourself better rather than hiding away from the world.

Current work setup?

Anonymous — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:13:31 -0400

I currently use a little Hello Kitty planner for notes . ...I have used them all and actually this has more room and is so cute.
For contacts, calendar, and all other stuff i use my ipod touch. Alot of great programs. Since it syncs up to Outlook i can also print pages for my planner if i need to see a hard copy.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how else i can use either or.....BTW I thought i was the only one obsessed with fountain pens... I have several, but i use waterman with special fuschia ink which is also scented (strawberries)... I know a little much but that is ME

Great quote

ktb — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:11:59 -0400

For years and years I thought that I couldn't possibly be a writer because I wasn't able to sit down with a notebook and churn out a perfectly formed novel. But now I know that even the greatest writers work at it; there are times of inspiration, sure, but so much of it is hard graft. And that I do know how to do when I set my mind to it. Like Neil Gaiman, I'm sure you will get to a point where what's on the page is absolutely what you have in your mind, just maybe not today. . .

Kate
www.atypicalgamer.com

Even though I do calligraphy

DegenerateLyre — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:16:23 -0400

Even though I do calligraphy as a sideline (since that's how I made it through college), writing on walls was more difficult than expected. The transparency idea works great, especially since everything looks perfect while you're up on the ladder painting it, but it might look strange from a different angle. One of the most fun time's I had was painting the ceiling in a bar. It's an Irish pub, and they wanted "The Song of Amergin" painted on the ceiling in Uncial script, but they also wanted it in a celtic knotwork format. The lines of the poem ended up being the ribbons of the knotwork, and whenever I got to an architectural change like a post, column, vent, or fixture, the ribbons of writing over- or under-lapped. It was beautiful.

In my apartment (which I rented with two good friends before moving and buying a house), we loved pictures, photos, and posters far too much, so the only 'open' spaces in the apartment were our bedroom doors. We purposefully left the plain, flat, white doors unadorned, and simply hung baskets of colored Sharpie markers beside the doors and encouraged people to write whatever they wanted. A lot of the best quotes I've heard about myself were written on the doors. We had artist friends sketch little doodles of us on our individual doors (I was a very cute bunny-girl nurse, in fact), we had writer friends leave us little poems or bits of random dialogue, and one co-worker wrote this fantastic quote about the complexities of knowing me: "Trying to figure you out is a lot like someone who speaks Swahili trying to learn Arabic with a Greek-to-Russian dictionary." When we moved out of the apartment, we had paint over the doors, but we took plenty of photos. Currently, in my house, I have whiteboard and chalkboard around at random places, with chalk and markers, and I encourage people to write on them. One is a magnetic whiteboard full of magnetic poetry, and my son insists that guests make poems up before they leave. It's a lot of fun, but not as much as writing directly on the walls.

Well I was thinking of your house

steves — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:24:58 -0400

but the 3d is cool too:)

"No wonder we're not picking up any radio signals from alien species. They're not sending any! They're too afraid we'll answer." - George Carlin

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

Stencils

Starthys — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:39:41 -0400

I have found when stencilling old walls (plaster) that latex craft (and stencil)paints tend to bleed. I use the tube latex and can apply it thickly to get the color intensity I want. I use it more as an oil paint then a water color. Mix white to lighten color instead of water. You can still apply it lightly or with the background showing thru (dry brush). I just don't get the bleed and it stays more where it is put on vertical surfaces. Also the colors can be more intense if you want and you can water them down to make the craft style paint. Versatile and economical, too.
Have lots of fun, Star

Good to know

innowen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:51:04 -0400

WireWoman,

Thank you for letting me know this. We've been having some wonkiness on DVDs with our player so I was not sure if it was a silent thing or something my machine was doing.

I agree tho, I did enjoy watching the DVD and seeing how another brought their work to life.

/innowen

pictures?

innowen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:47:23 -0400

Pictures? Of what... his doodles on the wall (there was an 3d moving image in the article, last I saw earlier) or what I'm doing to my walls?

My domain has old pictures of the house, if you're curious to see what paint jobs I've done so far. I do need to update many of those old images tho.

/innowen

So

steves — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:29 -0400

do we get to see any pictures?

"No wonder we're not picking up any radio signals from alien species. They're not sending any! They're too afraid we'll answer." - George Carlin

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

Here's a tip.

shris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:04:29 -0400

Hi.

I have experience both stenciling and cartooning on the walls of my (former) home. A tip from me to you--use an overhead projector before you paint/mark on the walls.

We had fabulous results when I doodled the design I wanted on paper, then traced it onto a transparency and projected it on the wall. We were able to change the size, height, and angle of the items before committing to anything. You can even use colored transparency markers to get a clue how that vivid red is going to look next to the blue background color..

My kids had hand-painted bugs on their bedroom walls--two sets of bugs, one set over and around each crib--in all sorts of festive colors. We just painted with craft acrylics right over the latex (it took a couple of coats, you might want to get latex wall paint instead).

The other method I tried, which seemed like it was going to be so cool but left me lukewarm at the end, was using a plastic stencil and stencil brushes to apply craft paint in a flower vine pattern in the kitchen. Maybe it's because I'm not as good at realistic flowers as I am at circles and ovals and lines. If it had been cool, I would have done more--as it was, I only did two bits of stencil, one on either side of the stove. It was a morning glories pattern in blue and green.

Anyway, I highly recommend the overhead projector method--we got a junky old one like they used to use in schools--the brown and ivory kind with the long metal arm, where the ivory is discolored with age.. I used to have one of the art tracer things, but those aren't bright enough to really project anything well, especially if you want the room light on at the same time.

Be bold. It's only paint. If you don't like it, you can always paint a contrasting color over it and try again. :)

shris

That Sharpie-decorated room

Jenn — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:47:31 -0400

That Sharpie-decorated room is amazing. Thanks for sharing it!

another quote or 3

Katrina — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:10:53 -0400

Perhaps these quotes may also make you feel happier about your writing...

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper." ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure." ~Henry David Thoreau

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:)

Been Missing You

thanks for your comments

This is idiotic

Current work setup?

Great quote

Even though I do calligraphy

Well I was thinking of your house

Stencils

Good to know

pictures?

So

Here's a tip.

That Sharpie-decorated room

another quote or 3

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