One of my challenges is that every time I see someone else’s work, I think “I’d like to do that.”

I’ve been reading Planet Karen today, which makes me think “Gee, I could learn how to draw and put up my own webcomic about my life. It’d be fun!”

Yesterday, it was a webcast on the Apple site about a young man in Japan who makes movies by turning footage into art. Beautiful stuff. Again, I thought “Gee, with a little bit of time to learn the tools, I bet I could do that!”

I haven’t been doing as much photography as I’d like recently. I’ve been working on my PC mostly, either cleaning up my music files or playing Morrowind. It’s a fun game, but it has the irritation of needing days to really see any progress. It’s designed for hard-core gamers, people who don’t want to create all of these other things. And some part of me wants to be that, too.

And then there’s this site – I got some work done this weekend, so I don’t feel too badly. I’m really trying to build something right the first time around instead of doing it halfway and giving up. Luckily, parts of it are just editing existing design and logos. The hard part is going to come when I need to do some more serious edits – understanding Agora well enough to build the product pages in the store the way I’d like them to look is going to be an undertaking of itself.

I got the third picture for the fair entry today, so as of now, all three pictures are mounted and waiting for address labels. Not too shabby for an entry that was half a week late, and hopefully this year’s batch of pictures will do better than last year’s did. Not that the headless goose wasn’t funny and all.

One of my challenges is that every time I see someone else’s work, I think “I’d like to do that.”

I’ve been reading Planet Karen today, which makes me think “Gee, I could learn how to draw and put up my own webcomic about my life. It’d be fun!”

Yesterday, it was a webcast on the Apple site about a young man in Japan who makes movies by turning footage into art. Beautiful stuff. Again, I thought “Gee, with a little bit of time to learn the tools, I bet I could do that!”

I haven’t been doing as much photography as I’d like recently. I’ve been working on my PC mostly, either cleaning up my music files or playing Morrowind. It’s a fun game, but it has the irritation of needing days to really see any progress. It’s designed for hard-core gamers, people who don’t want to create all of these other things. And some part of me wants to be that, too.

And then there’s this site – I got some work done this weekend, so I don’t feel too badly. I’m really trying to build something right the first time around instead of doing it halfway and giving up. Luckily, parts of it are just editing existing design and logos. The hard part is going to come when I need to do some more serious edits – understanding Agora well enough to build the product pages in the store the way I’d like them to look is going to be an undertaking of itself.

I got the third picture for the fair entry today, so as of now, all three pictures are mounted and waiting for address labels. Not too shabby for an entry that was half a week late, and hopefully this year’s batch of pictures will do better than last year’s did. Not that the headless goose wasn’t funny and all.