Category Archives: Thoughts

🏊 🥅 👟 I live in Paris. When I heard the Olympics were coming, I was horrified. The commercialism. The congestion. The crowds. I meant to leave for the month, but I was not the only rat fleeing the ship. The normal August vacation spots where booked years in advance. So I stayed. Leased myContinue reading “Faces In The Crowd At The Olympics, Fiction Fragments”

Photography of the outside world. The Hollywood Reporter: Olympics Photographers on What It Takes to Shoot the Paris Games — and That Viral Snoop Dogg Pic, Phillips August 6, 2024. ~~~ Technical Details Phone camera. Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Olympics.com: Olympic Funding. ~~~ From TV screen. Laura Kraut, riding Baloutine, NBC Olympic: Equestrian recap, Aug. 1: U.S. soars as Sweden stumbles in team jumping, Gomes, Aug. 1, 2024. Click over for good view of vest at start of video. In other news, I found myself cheering for horses havingContinue reading “Vest Watch, Olympics”

Awareness of the outside world. WWF: Bittersweet: chocolate’s impact on the environment, 2017. ~~~ Dark Horse, Saratoga Chocolate Co. “Despite its name, this special reserve dark chocolate bar is one of our finest entries in the field and an all-out lock across the board.” SCC: Dark Horse Bar. Given the location, I assume those areContinue reading “Horse Food, Saratoga Chocolate”

Awareness of the outside world. CISION: Milton’s Craft Bakers Partners With The Birthday Party Project To Help Bring Joy To Kids In Need. 12 Sep, 2023. ~~~ Milton’s Crackers, Milton’s Craft Bakers. Did I buy a box of crackers specifically for the name? Perhaps. Other Milton food. Cidrerie Milton. Repost [Milton in Montreal] Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Let the future begin. I am blue. This is known. Politics aside, I think this is brilliant messaging. It emphasizes the pivot from a contest between two old men. [Life in Alabama, Being a Bad Blue Dot In A Really Red State] ~~~ In the end, we came to the sameContinue reading “Hay Update”

Awareness of the outside world. Museum of Bad Art. A repeat, but how could I not? [Sad Clock] ~~~ How to Make Bad Art: Crash CourseLauren BeagleMake Bham24 July 2024 The idea was to draw fast and by the pageful in order to shut down the internal critic. As with the Art Journal class, IContinue reading “In Which I Make Bad Art”