long time no write

I've been happily very busy with work and more travel to Austin lately.

Now settling in to the new company and carving time out again for artistic pursuits.

Going on Saturday to sit in on Gary's class and FINALLY get a start on the commission I have for the cat.

Also signed up for a Life Drawing class at Richmond Art Center for Wednesday nights. Body, body, body. It's the word du jour.

Was noodling around checking out artist residency programs and stumbled on a couple of artists web sites that I really liked:

http://www.wuongean.com/about.htm - narrative, soulful, slightly funny and disturbing at the same time

http://www.christinebourdette.com/ - seems to be very aware of physicality, feminity? I love this statement from the artist herself: "I seek to express the familiar, but with undercurrents that are dark, peculiar, elemental, or funny. For me, this expression reflects the ornery illogic of the human condition, its strengths and frailties. It remains a fragile circus, unlikely and charishable."

Kick-@(*#& ad - God Bless the Boomers

http://www.doveproage.com/

They played just a teaser as the television ad and pointed viewers to this URL to see the full imagery. And spicy and lovely it was! Love the message that Dove is not "anti-age" but "PRO age!" It's like I've been thinking for a while: the baby boomers are going to make getting old the best thing yet and just in time for me to get there! I can just hear the Sex Pistols rocking out the cafe in the retirement home now. Although I'm sure they will no longer bear a name like 'retirement', which suggests being supine.

But again, I don't even need to worry about that. The best marketing Boomer minds will figure it out before I even get my first AARP magazine!