The New SummerChilde.com
I‘ve been so busy lately building websites for others that I’ve been neglecting my own. So I thought I’d spend the day restyling my site and updating some of the content and layout. The biggest change is the site name and address. As most of you know, SummerChilde is my real middle name and since ...
Autumnal prose
Fall is here. The leaves are changing. The houses in our neighborhood are decked out in Halloween decorations. The scent of wood fire fills the evening air. The ground is slightly damp from last night’s thunderstorm.
It’s quiet tonight and we’re busy creating here at the Mauran Avenue pad. Keri’s working on her latest series of ...
Font Fun
I was on reddit the other day and discovered this great FREE font creation site, Fontcapture. I thought it would be fun to take one of my carved rubberstamp alphabets and turn it into a font. Click here to download the font I made, TimesNewStamper. This font only has lowercase letters, numbers, and basic punctuation. ...
Garden Sign update and news
We finally installed the garden sign today. It looks great! I need to go back tomorrow for some regular photos. The battery on the camera died near the end of installation.
I love living here. Keri and I live on one of the nicer streets just south of the Downtown. Two blocks over and it gets ...
Journaling and Blogging
Ok, I’ve been seriously lagging on the blog but mainly because of all kinds of projects Keri and I have going on around here. So I’m beginning anew.
What has suffered more than Coffee Stains is my regular paper journaling habit. There was a time when I wrote daily in my paper journal but over the ...
Barton Street Community Garden
This is a picture of the sign Keri and I designed for the community garden that we’re helping out at. I actually finished hammering it all together a couple days ago. The sign will be installed next Tuesday.
Secret Project #1
The project: this is actually the work of Megan and Murray McMillan, both from California but now living here in Lil’ Rhody. They’re a husband and wife artist partnership who create beautifully done installations and films. Check out their blog and their site. The blog will show more of what this video is about. Keri ...
more on the artificial life…
Check this out. It’s only been a week or so and they’re already branding the “artificial” life.
In “real” life, today was a busy day. Top secret tho! Heheh. I’ve mentioned this before in a previous post but I swear in the next couple weeks I’ll be able to reveal top secret numero uno. I can ...
Experiments
I‘ve spent the last couple days experimenting with Photoshop to get my mad skillz up to par. Heh. Anyway, I’ve been making brushes to use in the program. The pic above is made entirely with brush NOT pictures. Cool eh?
Floating art in my beer
Keri and I walked down to the Hope Artiste Village about a mile from here to an art opening we were invited to by the guy who runs The Floating Art Project. Keri will be participating in the project soon. Anyway, The show was pretty cool with a nice turn out considering the weather. It ...
Apprentice!
Well well, I asked Steven today at the end of a long and very productive day about the other two people who tried out for the apprenticeship. He said, “Well, there was this French guy…but I don’t like French guys. (Steven’s a brit)Then there was this woman but she was too pushy.” So that makes ...
woo what a day!
I…am…beat! I worked with Steven today from 9 this morning until 545 this evening and didn’t look at my watch once the whole time (not counting lunch of course). I’m pretty sure the apprenticeship is mine. He said in February I’ll get to go up with him to Berkeley to see the sculptures cast in ...