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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2004-03-02
rondak homepage updates | Finally made the effort at updating the home page to my personal site | Along with it I've begun to update the pages with paintings and pen + ink sketches | This is long over due | first starting with samples of landscape and waterscape illustrations | there is more, much more, that has to be updated | hope you like the results |
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transferring pictures | One of the tasks getting done today is to combine the photo files of two separate computers | I'm finding lots of things I'd forgotten I'd even taken | One such gem, to the right, was taken during last winter's march in London protesting the war in Iraq |
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getting organized | The funny looking tool you see here is known as a pica gauge | Back in the days of hand-set typography everything set was arranged and organized into six or seven lines of type at a time | It took awhile to get things done that way |
Sometimes staying at home is a good thing | While the work I'll have to do when returning to my job doesn't decrease during my absence, I get the opportunity to do things around the house I ordinarily don't have time to get to | Specifically, I'm moving cyber files from my old computer to the "new" one (bought last summer) | No heavy lifting involved | ¶ 08:17 0 comments
2004-03-01
looking for vera cais If anybody knows how to contact Czech/French film director Vera Cais, have them send the contact information to her brother Milan Cais/Gauguin at milancais2@operamail.com | Thank you
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In wilderness is preservation of the world | This is a picture of a small cabin I lived in for a couple of years | No running water or electricity | Heated with wood and a couple of miles from any public roads | To me, it was serene | A good retreat from urban culture and clutter (though sometimes I wonder if they aren't the same thing) yet it remained close enough to access all of that when I wanted to |
I don't really want to go back there | I like having at least a well as a watersource | Further, as you may discern by the fact that I am posting this online, I'm hardly a Luddite | But it also seems ludicrious to rely to the complex fragile system we know of as the grid to obtain electrical power | A combination of solar, wind or water generation seem perfectly acceptable to me | Furthermore, that seems to be in closer step with Nature than the concentrated accretion of population Earth's citizenry increasingly runs to |
Using our planet's resources in a manner that is sustainable done in such a way that there is some equity in sharing the planet's wealth is preferable the conditions under which we all live now | And I believe everyone would benefit from so living | ¶ 12:31 0 comments
sketching | I get a great deal of pleasure from drawing and sketching | No false modesty here | The quality of the work I do is marketable, I know this | Could I do it for a living? Practically speak, probably not | I'm not prolific enough | But maybe I need to work at changing this | Only yesterday, one of the folks at the gym where I work out said they'd like to buy one of my paintings | While negotiable on the price, the questioner didn't balk | What do I do? | Landscapes, mostly | But as is shown by the sketch to the right, I'm comforatble with people, too | Watercolor and pen+ink the preferred media in which I work | I have done oils, and I like the fluidity of the medium | Acrylics, on the other hand, I find difficult, thick and dense | I've got trouble mixing to get the colors I want | With oil and watercolor/goauche I don't have that problem | True, I realize that part of this has as much to do with practice with the medium and this can be worked on | But my first true loves are what I described |
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