It’s that time again!
So how did I do with last year’s New Year’s resolutions?
1) Put massively controlling tendencies to better use. Start making art again, stop worrying about laundry so much.
Well, I started something. All the other photos I want are in Florida at the moment. I am not in Florida. I haven’t done anything since.
2) Focus blog posts to narrower field of interest (i.e. limit videos of cats in exchange for more posts about inspiring work)
Well, rather than focusing the posts, I’ve just started posting in different places. I post inspiring work on tumblr (in addition to plenty of junk), and the videos of cats go to my gmail status. Not to mention that you’ve just heard about Pinterest, so there you have it. I’m also on Flickr, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and probably some other social things I’ve completely forgotten about. Hmm.
3) Take a class in anything at all, just for the fun of learning something new.
I took a quilting class right at the beginning of the year, but I can safely say I won’t be touching quilting any time soon. It’s too precise, and we all know I don’t have the patience for that.
New resolutions!
1) Write more on blog, and complain less in blog posts—especially about lack of writing.
2) Explore more of Brooklyn.
3) See more art.
Ta-da! See you next year…
triangles
grey
foxes
chevron patterns
seed stitched knits
white
gold
and probably more. That’s all that’s coming to mind right now.
Have I told you about my new hobby? I collect the internet, thanks to Pinterest.
It also seems like some of my favorite ladies are enjoying Pinterest an awful lot too. I’m not sure why Pinterest is such a predominantly lady-centric tool. Perhaps it speaks to our inner scrapbookers (which I’d just like to point out I’ve never enjoyed). It’s a fun tool, and it makes it easier than ever to bookmark all the pretty pictures on the wonderful world wide web into neatly packaged mood boards. It’s particularly useful if you intend to do something with those mood boards (like plan a wedding), but otherwise I haven’t really figured out what it’s for or why I love it so much. Does hoarding digital images have the same psychological implications as hoarding real objects? Let’s hope not.
Pinterest is still in beta, so you’ll need to request an invite or have a friend send you one. Apart from the bug-ridden interface, it’s the best thing since Tumblr. Follow my pins here: http://pinterest.com/joanawithonen
I need a goal for this blog.
Oh my god, you guys, let me just tidy up a little, okay? The place is a mess…
They say live like every day is your last. Or is it dress like every day is your last? Anyway, my design crush, the Swiss Miss, linked to this very blog when I suggested via Twitter she might like these Pantone Christmas baubles, which I found via Curiosity Counts.
Obvious Advice: Blog like you might be re-blogged.
Woah there, I guess I went on hiatus. What I thought would be a small tantrum in which I would ignore the internet for a little while has turned simply into full-on laziness. Post that thing that I think is pretty interesting? Yeah, I’ll just give it a star on my RSS reader and look at it later… Yowza.
Okay, so here’s where we are.
1) I have a new job, and it is excellent. In addition to a lot of other stuff (more important stuff, really), I have learned that professional design is not my thing (this is completely okay and very good to know). Good thing I wasn’t hired as a designer, heh.
2) I am working on a project, but I’m doing so very slowly. I have learned that small bursts of artistic activity will satiate me for a long time until I suddenly become annoyed with myself for not being more prolific. Whether being annoyed will result in anything other than this very blog post, I have yet to see.
3) I miss school. I still don’t have a favorite color. I never have enough shoes. I am utterly in love.
And so on.
Speaking of projects, I’m working on an alter-ego thing. I’ll leave it at that.
Actually no, let me leave you with this:
Eglingham Hall and Balloons—Tim Walker, 2000.
Oh hey there, notice something different? Yeah, yeah, I’m working on it.
The blog is getting a face lift, but not without some fighting with css and WordPress themes. FUN! (Actually it really is fun.)
In the meantime, I’ve put together a portfolio, currently living here: cargocollective.joanakelly.com.
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(via The Disciples of Design)
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If you’ll excuse the self-indulgent whining, I must say that I’m starting to feel a little aimless. Is design my thing? Do I just need to spend more time with other designers? I don’t know.* I do know, however, that I was blown away by the sheer driving ambition of Swiss-Miss.com founder Tina Roth Eisenberg when I attended her awesome talk last week (two weeks ago?) at SVA. Despite feeling like a tumble weed at the moment, at least I had the good sense to go hear Tina speak. She is incredibly inspiring, and her projects have been helping me daily (TeuxDeux is one of her various side projects, and it rules). Now if only I could heed her advice and start DOING things…
Speaking of doing things, a website redesign is due. It looks like my tumblr is where all the image action is, although this space is a good one for me to post ramblings. It’s rare that I want to write though, and I don’t want to blend this blog with the mood-board-based tumblr. Whatever—details. I just need a good place to put everything, and I need to organize it accordingly, hence the upcoming overhaul. Keep your eyes peeled…
*Editor’s note: upon reflection, this seems like a silly question. I know I’m a designer. Whether or not I want that on my business cards is another matter entirely, but would I require the business cards in question to be expertly designed? Of course I would!
Call it boredom, call it fickle behavior, call it what you want. I’ve started yet another blog, and this time it’s on Tumblr. I was spending some time messing around on Tumblr for work, and it just made sense to me to start posting all the goofy stuff I would normally want to post here (and not bother because it’s a pain). Plus that fits right in my New Year’s resolutions.
Speaking of which:
I haven’t made anything yet (apart from obsessively knitting scarves, as usual), but I’m at least contemplating some new projects over on the work blog.
Also: I took a class, just for kicks. I took the quilting by hand class at Purl Soho. I think it’ll be a good while before I take the plunge and start making a proper quilt, but I really enjoyed the class. It was small, instructive, not too intense, and it was only 4 sessions (which is just long enough). I am now armed with the skills to practice making squares for a quilt top and practice the stitches for the actual quilting process. Who knows in which future project these new skills will turn up?
In other news, playing around with Tumblr has reminded me that I really like playing around with css. I must train myself to become its unforgiving master…