Check out this sweet sketchbook I found while checking out YouTube, great stuff.
YouTube find: lossennedlorwen’s sketchbook
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Observations on the iPod Touch
I've been shooting some new videos with my iPod touch. Using eht regualr camera on it led to some really pretty decent videos. I was estatic. It also made uploading a breeze. One of the issues that I've had with my Everio is trying to figure out which video format do I save in? I really don't want to mess around with that, I want to add a few titles, trim the crap off and upload it. Easy.
The iPod with out iMovie won't let me edit or add titles. It's a one shot video and then upload. I could upload to yutube and use their editor. But I don't want to put stuff up love and then worry that I'll have an embarassing moment of picking my nose or swearing visible. iMovie was $4.99 and well worth the $5.
One thing that I noticed is that it takes more than double the amount of time to load to YouTube as the plain uploader. So what I've learned to do is export to the "camera roll" on my iPod and then upload to YouTube. Much faster. The iCamera app will also let you load directly to vimeo as well, which is nice.
Anyway, check out my videos on youtube:
Art Journal Flip- NaNoJouMo 2009
I used this journal for NaNoJouMo 2009. You'll recognize a lot of the images from my other YouTube videos.
Art Journal Flip- Caution Funeral
I worked on this journal through the winter of 2010. It was where I decided I really needed to record my daily life. The journal itself was a college admissions catalog from years ago that was designed to look like the standard black sketchbook of the time. I glued together pages and slapped in a lot of personal ephemera and layers a great deal of pain over the top of that. It was a lot of fun. I did a lot of Ustream videos featuring this journal.
It’s Been Awhile
I took a break from a lot of online stuff ove rhte last 6 months or so. I realized I hadn't done a video in over a year. Holy smokes that's a long time. So I did a quick flip through of ONE of my current art journals and I'm loading a few more now. See it below.
Wondering what it is?
I've gotten a lot of quesions on my new video asking "What is the cult of stuff?" The best explanation is to direct you to the rant here, start on part 1 and work your way through. I'm planning a series of posts about how I've integrated the CoS philosophy into my art journaling habit.
Travel Watercolor Sets- Homebrew!
Eveline pointed this little video out to me this AM, and it's a good video showing the WIDE range of techniques one can use to customize cases to make watercolor travel sets. Now… I need to get my hands on some empty pans…
The Very First Cult of Stuff
Was written in my big red miquelrius gridded journal with a fountain pen, a Pelikan Go! With red noodler’s ink. It was a transformative moment for me.
The Reveal
I've been having that feeling lately that I'm not doing it right, whatever "it" may be. I have that feeling that everything I've done should have been different. I just don't care about SEO and SMO and everything everyone else seems to be obessesed with. I simply want to write blog posts about things that I care about; art, craft, photos and all that fun stuff.
All the people I enjoy reading and they are writing about this workshop or another that is designed to turn them into a super blogger/business-person/artist/whatever and I realize I'm just not that into that. Yeah, I want to be the best damn artist and writer I can be but i also don't have the desire to sit through meetings and vlogs and podcasts and skypes with all of the well-intentioned people who claim they can make me a super something-or-the-other.
I'm fighting to leave corporate life and all that stuff brings it back in. Sure I want to use the skills and knowledge I've acquired over the years but the real goal is to leave the corporate stuff behind.
Over the last year I realized that I has to make a few changes or suffer burnout. So, I made those changes and not surprisingly my life has been better. Balance, it a good part of what life is about, the rest of life is about the pursuit of happiness in whatever form it is you seek.
In all this deep introspective bullshit I've found my new project. I've looked at what I enjoy: art and writing. Then I spent some time looking back at my life and recognizing patterns. Overwhelmingly I see a pattern of exploration and learning of new ideas. I am a compendium of thoroughly useless knowledge that I've learned over the years in a fashion with little rhyme or reason.
My personal project will combine all of this but add some structure to the whole thing. Instead of willy nilly exploring a concept I'm going to work an art journal around the concept and see what the results are. From there I hope to self publish the results via blurb or lulu.
Call it a zine. Call it something else. I'm nor sure what exactly this is all I know is that I have to pursue the combined projects.
For awhile now I've felt like everything I do is fighting with what I really want to do and that I need to give into my interests in some manner. Giving myself the space to make art, take pictures, and tell stories is exactly what my brain has been telling me to do since I first folded and stapled together my first "newspaper" when I was in 4th grade.(on pirated software and laid out on an Apple IIc printed on an Oki dot matrix.)
Apps, the iPoo, and a shock
I’ve been testing out some apps to see how useful they are for composing posts and zine blurbs and so far the one I like the most is, believe it or not, Microsoft OneNote. Shocking. But it let’s me add photos to my writing with ease and it auto backs up to an online folder as well as my computer if I want. Unlike the stupid typepad app that won’t autorotate the onscreen keyboard for entries OneNote let’s me do that. (and then I can copy and paste into typepad.)
Go figure, Microsoft does something right!
So, I suppose now would be a good time to tell you about my latest project…. But Imma leave you hanging for another few days. A hint though, it involves the iPoo, writing, photos, and art journaling.
Also the photo in the post was taken with the iPoo and edited with instagram and camera+.
