The Sartorialist Blog

I'm getting ready to go to NYC for a few days, so I had to visit the Sartorialist to see what is going on fashion-wise down there. I lucked out because there is a great little YouYube film just up today on how the Sartorialist films his subjects. He talks about leading a visual life and the pleasures of getting to relate to things visually every day. I love fashion as the fluid, immediate art form of the streets. It turns out that my basic uniform of jeans, sweater, scarf, and clogs is worthy of this blog. Not that I look like this in my uniform.

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Sketchbook Project Countdown

Anyone who is involved in the Sketchbook Project is probably doing exactly what I am doing right now. Dashing to the deadline. Here are some of the latest I've done. I am having fun too. I do work well under (moderate) pressure. I've just let each day's feelings and happenings guide me on subject matter. Some images have come from songs or dreams, or waking dreams. 

A Brand New Year

There is something so uniquely human about New Year's resolutions. I love them because they are so full of the optimism of humans. That we believe there is always hope and always a way we can grow and learn and do something new, and better. The Wall Street Journal article of December 30, 2010 "Cultural Resolutions" states that 2011 is the year of the rabbit in the Chinese calendar. This signifies that 2011, among other things, is "conducive to artistic pursuits". Yay! I'll take that as the year of the artist, and run with it. The article has 57 artists, from all different disciplines, resolving to do everything from "drink more whiskey" to "looking for the meaning of art", and just about everything else in between. I have lots of resolutions too. From the sublime (be a kinder human being), to the ridiculous (clean out that attic for once and for all). In some very important way resolutions do guide and help me to manifest growth, so I make them, and accomplish some of them, too!