I watched the movie “Clerks III” last night. The original “Clerks” came out back in 1994 when I was 27 years old. I didn’t see it in the theaters but watched in on video with some friends when it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It was back in the winter of 2019-2020 that I started looking to buy a new compact super zoom camera. I had been commuting into NYC a couple of days a week and when I did that I liked to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my favorite pieces of drawing equipment is the Haff Hatching Machine. I’ve mentioned it before but since no one I know but me has ever used one I’ll describe it. It’s a straight edge (like a ruler) that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I have to stop and take stock of what art I’ve made over the last year or so. I’m generally pretty good at getting things done but part of the process is examining what I’ve done. If art is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I did it. I dropped $600 on a new film scanner. It’s a Plustek 8300i. The last film scanner I bought was my Minolta Dimage Scan III and I bought that one back in 2008. If that one were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I spent my Saturday this week cleaning up a couple of photo scans in Photoshop. Really one was a photo scan and the other was a negative scan. It amounts to about the same thing except I used two different[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some tasks I like to do because they’ve a bit mindless. They usually have a right way to do them too. Take washing the dishes for example. The whole point of the task is to get the dishes clean. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nostalgia is a funny thing. It’s supposed to be a longing for the past when things are remembered as better for you but sometimes it can be weirder than that. First of all over this summer (2022) I found myself[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m on social media. That’s not exactly news since a whole lot of people are there these days but I have a mildly amusing story about it today. On most social media you have to pick a name to go[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m feeling nostalgic this morning so I decided to pull out an old painting and write about it. I’ve written a few pieces on my 8×10 inch acrylic on canvas paintings from the first decade of the 2000s but this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…