Archive for September 2009
talking about creativity, in an attempt to appear non-procrastinating
I’m fascinated by the creative process and how people approach it. Me, I’ve always visualized every project I’ve developed as a big, soft, block, ready to be carved down until I find my end result. Rarely do I imagine it as something I build, or add to. It’s in me, it’s already there — I…
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Gloria (sophomore year roommate at Berkeley, not her real name) and I went to either the Alameda Island Drive-In or the Oakland Coliseum Drive-In one warm weekend night in 1984. We saw either Beat Street or Breakin’. We may or may not have had other friends with us. I may or may not have partaken…
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Nice moments from Summer 2009: While waiting for a lunch order, I looked outside to the sidewalk to see a lady staggering to her car. I was nervous that she was impaired and about to get behind the wheel. Then I realized she was walking barefoot, balancing on her heels, trying to maintain her brand-new…
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A compendium of creative crap, quilt-wise, I’ve been doing… QUILT ONE I remade the Science Quilt into a wee size (about 38″ x 38″). Well, almost. Even though all instincts were telling me to stop! on Saturday, after a long and hot day, I hurriedly sewed the binding and royally screwed it up. I’m a…
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