This is why designers are craftspeople, are artisans, are necessary (despite this being weak evidence).
I have been sitting at my computer for roughly six hours trying to work through, in parallel:
an Inkscape comp of a site design, including creating a vaguely floral centerpiece;
looking for this one particular vector file from iStockphoto that I bought, but [...]
The other day the family went to a charity walk. We braved largely indifferent, slightly cool weather to enter an event purporting to help sick children. Like many other charity events, the event itself is a honeypot for altruistic leanings, and is not itself endemic to the aid effort. That is, we [...]
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
The First Step
I’ve developed a crude toolbox of gimmicks and half-formed heuristics for my interaction with the world. I’ve raised my hands at some firmamental ghost(s); I’ve wondered if the trees weren’t telling me secrets they’ve kept in the deepest of their sweaty roots; [...]
Would that there were a curious boogie man of convenient construction, vile enough to be a lightning rod of our fears and angry rebukes, sweet enough to offer safe haven for the friends we won’t see anymore. A creature, in short, onto whose shoulders we can heap the vast coldness of reality in whatever [...]
Happy birthday, Ella.
A year ago today, my youngest arrived from the womb screaming like something from a Clive Barker novel. It’s among the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. I cried. That scream told me that Ella was strong, resilient, and I knew she’d need to be. Ella’s heart wasn’t healthy, [...]
I probably won’t be going to see United 93 at the theaters. I’m not sure with how many folks who’ve made a similar decision I share my reasons, though. One of the blogs I read irregularly (given that I irregularly interact with the blogosphere in general anymore) included a post discussing how inappropriately [...]
This is a bittersweet time of year anyway, what with all the festive machinery grinding away, making us all happy whether or not we want to be. Still, it’s unavoidable, principally because there’s a warmth in gathering with people you care for that can’t be matched in any other way, and so we’ll bear [...]
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