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crafty night

It's amazing what a night of conversation, craft and wine will do for you: Give you rules of speed scrabble Help you figure out whether to rent or buy Get…

Written on the hand

  woth_2007-01 The backstory is too long on this one. But for kicks, here is what I felt strongly enough about to write on my hand: "So, you have a…

from the sketchbook : mapping stories

Mapping Cloud Atlas Some books just have a visual structure to the flow. When I read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, the interwindings of the plotlines and the step-structure of…

Psychonaut, my new word

    Psychonaut Ryan introduced me to this lovely word. I don't think the meaning was what I originally thought, but that's fine. I kinda like mis-using terms anyway. One of…

Written on the hand

I write things on my hand. A lot. I carry a pen in the collar of my shirt, so I'm always armed. But I don't always have paper. The fix?…

some things with paper should be illegal.

And this is probably one of them: jenstark.com. Seriously, this blew my mind. It's incredibly beautiful and conceptually rich. Jen went to MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) which is…

from the sketchbook

November 2006 I cut out interesting patterns to use in other creative works. Also, snippets from magazines that have relevance to what I'm thinking about...or what I want to think…

Roll your own…anything

I subscribe to 2 Google alerts: "prime numbers" and "slime mold". Both are hobbies of mine. When this gem came in, I realized that slime mold is more than a…

pointless but not meaningless

Math is fun. Math mechanics are yukky. It's the paradox of my brain that while the concepts and patterns of math rule much of my creative thinking, I seriously can't add…

from the sketchbook

December, 2006 Sometimes pages look fun. I'm partial to sticking things in the book and integrating them into the page. Maps and diagrams are the most common things that result. This…