https://www.fastcompany.com/90502236/8-tips-to-beat-distractions-while-working-from-home
And how many of us are working from home when we’re writing, composing, painting?
Good tips there.
On the door of a local plate lunch place:
At my day job, a bunch of us did a fundraiser for Hawaii Foodbank on Friday. I brought 14 photos in various sizes (8″x8″, 8″x12″, 9″x25″ and a pair of 57″x10″ panoramas).
A coworker did an awesome job of matting 10 of them. We couldn’t matt the big panos, they were bigger than the matt boards.
We sold 10 of them. Including BOTH of the big panoramas.
Do something for charity this holiday season: you’ll both do good and feel good.
So stoked! 🙂
Ahhhh ……
YES!
Photos taken when we recently visited the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Denver, processed using the (perhaps) aptly-named “National Geographic” filter in The GIMP. The originals were much lower in contrast and looked kind of flat.
What lurks at the end of this pier?
This was fascinating: Great images and installations, plus short write ups on how each was made:
Great visual images and other art pieces and how they were created
Another year further from the high school freshman who had discovered writing the summer before and bravely started sending out his poetry and stories. Didn’t sell any stories, but won a couple of cash-paying poetry contests, so he managed a $400 profit that first year.
Yay me.
Advice to musicians, writers, artists and creative people everywhere: Pursue your dreams when you’re young. It’s much easier!
