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Words as words

Things to make and do / Words as words — 1 Comment
28
Apr 09

Strangely silent

I should write something, shouldn’t I? But strangely, for maybe the first time in my life, I find myself with nothing to say. I’ve been…

making badges and cupcakes with the kids…

Sorry, cupcakes all gone

Sorry, cupcakes all gone

buying alphabet stamps (and if anybody sees any good sets around, pls don’t hesitate to let me know!)…

alphabet soup is yum

alphabet soup is yum

taking photos with my Diana (more as soon as the photo shop gets the scanning right)…

hey diana, i\'ve really got to learn to take a tip from you

hey diana, i've really got to learn to take a tip from you

drinking morning coffee from my local caffeine dealer (what a blessing to have them set up shop right across the street from the kids’ school!)

going to the Melbourne aquarium to see the penguins, forgetting to bring a good camera but perhaps enjoying myself more because of it…

penguins!

penguins!

enjoying lots of tea…

too much tea, must drink

too much tea, must drink

cooking more (un petit cookbook projet might perhaps be on the burner, oui), and…

spending too much time on Facebook.

(Ah, the truth will out.)

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15
Mar 09

Artistspeak

Got an invite today to a lecture that is part of a long-running series in which different artists talk about their work. The opening line is:

“M—- Y—’s work encompasses a plurality of media.”

Crikey. Language like this brings to mind a multitude of many things I’d like to say, and a myriad of most of them are snarky.

I think we can safely rule out the possibility that this particular artist’s work really is made up almost entirely of all media. We might need to consider the fact that the artist’s first language may not be English. But even allowing for both of those things, personally, I’d have gone for  “M—- Y— is a multimedia artist.”

Then there’s the title of the lecture series, which is Artistspeak. That’s just too handy for me. I keep wondering who came up with it. Was it a deliberate reference to Orwell’s Newspeak or just ‘hey, here’s a hip phrase the kids’ll like!’ Or both?

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12
Jan 08

Still working

I keep waiting for the work to slow down. People keep asking me, ‘What are you going to do with all that spare time you’ll have now that you’re not publishing Yarn Yarn [Title, use ital—Ed.] anymore?’ but spare time is not eventuating.

Don’t you hate that word, eventuating? eventuating? [Italics applied; words as words—Ed.]

Who are you anyway? Why do I blog? Who’s out there? [Cut, a bit maudlin, doesn't really contribute anything to overall piece—Ed.]

I’m realising, slowly, that now that I am not a Publisher [Not a proper noun, capital not req'd here—Ed.] publisher anymore, my blog can be just that, my blog, and doesn’t have to be about knitting or fibre, [ins. and—Ed.] [stet, writer's license, anyway, it's just a frickin blog—LRH] can be written slowly or quickly, now or never, with images, without, cause who cares?

I mean, I guess I do or I wouldn’t write the thingo, but what I’m sayin’ is, I’m not a corporate lackey anymore! Inasmuch as Yarn was corporate, hey. I never did incorporate, much to my accountant’s dismay. [What accountant?—Ed.][You're not on payroll anymore (unlike the accountant), rack off already!—LRH]

Anyway, here I am blogging instead of working on one of many freelance projects that has backed up horribly in the last six 6 [spell out one to nine in text—Ed.] months. Want to know why?

Micro- [Del hyphen, ins space—Ed] X-ray diffraction (Micro-XRD) offers many opportunities for non-destructivenondestructive[compounding prefix—Ed], in-situ crystalline phase composition analysis of varied artworks. This paper discusses the application …

Aw stuff it I’m going to watch Iron Chef Iron Chef and Rockwiz RocKwiz with some knitting in hand… [Wait, wait, take me with you!!!—Ed.] [No, that's too many !s so you have to stay here you pedant, you—LRH]