The Fallow Path

There’s a feeling I get when I’ve been at a task for too long. It’s like I’m pulling a cart along a dirt road and the wheels have worn grooves into the earth so deep that there’s no deviating from the journey. And no matter how happily I pull that little cart, I end up yearning for the wilder trail the path used to be. Overgrown with vegetation, tiny rocks catching against the spokes and wild animals cutting across my path.

Times like that, I have to take a little mental break. The trail has to go fallow. But I can’t afford to let it rest for long. That cart must get down the road. But on occasion, I pause to toss some water on the weeds.

Beam Paints and graphite sketches

Inevitably, some Lackadaisy stuff gets thrown into the experiment pile. Here’s a Zib painted with BeamPaints with some Photoshop tweaking to harmonize the colors a little better.

Inevitable Lackadaisy art, which you can watch a vod of the making of here

Sarcastic answers only

And if you feel like trolling me, do drop a question on my Tumblr.

He thought he bought a fanclub

If it wasn’t obvious, I’m fond of a certain flavor of moral tale telling.

The present implosion of one of the larger social media sites might normally generate some anxiety in me. But I feel strangely calm. Like I finally have some freedom to decide and evaluate where I want my digital imprint without having one service suck up all my mental and emotional energy. Given I’ve been wanting my own website for a while, it’s finally given me the impetus to focus on that instead.

I suppose that’s one silver lining to this whole mess.