Precision Eludes Me

It's true. Precision is not my thing. You can see it in my art. Mine is not the art of someone trying to create an exacting thing. The art term for this is organic. My work is organic. My work is organic in the bullshit sense that anything sloppy is organic, but also in the genuine sense that there is an unpredictable flow in its creation. I set out to make something specificish, and thru my mistakes and whims the piece evolves. The more controlled I hope to be the more frustrated my creations become. A reflection of my life?

I need a team of art minions to make my precision based ideas.

I've started exploring furniture making. Furniture making traditionally requires a great deal of precision. Hopefully I either learn to get it together or learn to create decent looking / functioning organic furniture. No one without a statement looks to make ugly ass furniture.



Soundtrack(start): 311 - Beautiful Disaster
Soundtrack(end): Bran Van 3000 - Speed
Cat(start): On couch
Cat(end): ?

This Is A Lot Like Practicing Writing

So I started this blog to get my groove back in writing, but today you get pictures!

despite the clues, I don't know where this is

it's good to just chill with a friend some times

Lisa took these for me. She's a very talented photographer and kindly adventurer. Hopefully she'll have another show up at Starbucks this year.

I should be staining right now.



Soundtrack: Action Design - City Committee
Cat: Lounging next to me

Adventure Is Important

kb, james, sam, rob, and ben = adventure

Soundtrack: Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Cat: Fishing in his water bowl

Worst Night In Recent Memory?

Yes.



Sountrack: Cat eating
Cat: Eating

Awesomesauce

A customer handed me a fiver "for perfect foam" in his nonfat cappuccino. I added it to the store's tips, but in my head I know it was for me.

It's All Connected

You know?

More On Bulls**t

Talking about it with a valued sounding board and coworker, I realize having a critical thinking class is not really practical. That doesn't mean I don't still occasionally yearn for one to exist. A yearly emphasis in existing classes is more practical.

Emphasis is important. I feel that in the classes I took in high school and college it was assumed I was picking up critical thinking techniques thru my normal course work. We never talked about, but it was assumed I had learned it or would learn it somewhere. That's not enough.
My history classes tested to see if I knew when something happened, but not why. I was never asked to speculate, or to compare similar events from different periods. The same sort of thing from other classes. I was taught how to fill out a scantron.

I'm having trouble articulating my thoughts on this, but I keep drifting back to memories of classmates who, at the time, baffled me with their inability to guess anything. They could repeat back anything taught to them, but there was no synthesis, no pattern recognition. I can still see the faces of teachers desperately trying to get the class to my a logical leap from what we just to learn to what we were about to learn. I'm searching for solution to that desperation.
I want to see more people master "A=B B=C C=?"



Soundtrack(start): Action Design - Connect Disconnect
Soundtrack(end): Bracket - Can't Make Me
Cat(start): Trying to sit on the keyboard
Cat(end): Lying on the back of the couch

Scott Is Awesome

It's true. I was there.


Soundtrack: The breeze
Cat: Starin' down the hallway