GRIZZLY PEAR
The girl was an awful sleeper as a baby.
This lullaby emerged over hours of trying to walk her to sleep.
小宝宝去睡觉
(little precious, go to sleep)
It never worked.
Not for her.
Not for him.
It just riles them up.
So I sing it at every opportunity.
Last year, I transcribed it into Flat.io so you can now hear it as a round, because I doubt I’ll ever convince anyone in the family to sing along with me.
We walked by a Chevrolet.
He pointed at the golden skewed cross.
医生车! (doctor car!)
He said our Odyssey is a 女的车 (girl car).
Headlights with long curved eyelashes,
Like his sister’s cartoons.
䷆䷜
chase the pheasant
grab the illusion
I’m part of a small group on Post.news who posts old work under the hashtag #SundayShare. This was going to be my suggestion for a “lunar new years resolution”…until the tragedy at Monterey park. I still think it’s worth sharing, so I posted it today.
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In 2008, I planted a flag on the interwebs with www.grizzlypear.com. (We came up with the name as a twist on our bunnies Badger and Peppercorn.)
I quickly lost interest in the webcomic, but now I had a domain to build upon. It morphed into the repository of my random contributions scattered across various forums.
Even though #PostCreative / #CreativeCollective is going strong right now, who knows how things will go?
Let this new-new year will be the one when you start your own site. Build a library that stands apart from these social media bazaars that come and go.
Your place might have few visitors, but you’re the only one that counts. Maybe you be digging into for next week’s #SundayShare in 2033.
If you don’t know where to start, I recommend getting the domain name on Hover.com which I’ve really enjoyed using. I don’t know which web-host is best, but I’ve been using the cheapest plan on Hostgator for a decade with WordPress for my blog engine.
This is what I shared last week in the face of that tragedy.
A simple #SundayShare diptych of Badger and Peppercorn ferociously consuming Bok Choy in our old apartment in Houston.
Taken with a Nikon D40 with the 18-35mm kit lens. Fifteen years later, the gear doesn’t matter all that much. Glass and metal tubes sit in the a box while the heart is warmed by the glow of bygone days, occasionally rekindled by pixels on a screen.
Here’s to the New Year!
Let’s make many great memories and maybe some photos too.
…and my first meeting is on Microsoft Teams, even though the three of us are within fifty feet of each other.
(screen sharing > face to face!)
Sure is nice chatting in person after almost three years apart. I’m very blessed to enjoy the company of my colleagues.
At the end of the day, I realized that I’ve forgotten where the light switches are scattered around the building.
The delighted squeals of the kids when I came back home was a nice bonus.
Solutioning.
This meeting is only for updates, we will address solutioning at future meetings.
an ignoramus tips the Tarot
Black ink (Flair Pen) drawing on a yellow steno pad. Colored in Pixlr. Collaboration with the kids. She did some of the coloring this time.
15 years ago, I presented my thesis project, so let’s relive the past!
It started in the Spring of 2007 when I was studying abroad in Rice’s Paris exchange program. For thesis prep, I explored the idea of increasing density in Southern California which suffers a simultaneous lack of housing and paucity of public parks. Looking back, I suspect my brain was a mix of wonder at living in a real metropolis and a nostalgia for home.
I focused on the suburban city of Alhambra when I visited my grandfather that summer. I sited the project on a parking lot in front of Ralph’s Supermarket, proposing a big new structure along the street. I added new shops at grade level, moved all retail parking below-ground, and built a multi-story suburban landscape of apartments on the upper floors of the parking garage (the gimmick is that you get to park next to your apartment!). The remainder of the old asphalt parking lot was converted into a large public park, daylighting the buried storm culvert and connecting the adjacent school and church.
I’ve always been a luddite as an architect, so I finally learned Rhino and rendering for this project, only to never use these skills again. This was also the last time I made a physical model in my career. And as with most other architecture students, this thesis got me a degree and hasn’t seen the light of day outside of the occasional job interview.
There are more images and the thesis book for download on my online portfolio.
PS. After writing this, I texted some old classmates who I haven’t contacted in years, it was fun catching up!
an ignoramus tickles the Tarot
Black ink (Flair Pen) drawing in a yellow steno pad. Collaboration with with the kids. Colored in Pixlr.
Chasing her brother,
she slipped on the tile,
and chipped her tooth.
She came home with a tiny unicorn eraser.
The boy asked about the “vet”.
He threatened to brush his teeth —
Badly!
He wants to visit the dentist.
䷥䷁
honest
non-action
hidden effort
no end
Black ink (Flair Pen) drawing in a yellow steno pad. Collaboration with with the kids. Colored in Pixlr.
I’ve got a few too many projects in my mind, and one of them is to draw my own tarot deck as part of the #weekendweirdness hashtag on Post (someone else started it, but I’m the lone torchbearer at the moment).