An Interesting Last Couple of Days

[quasigeostrophy]

I picked the day of the year with the highest (so far - 11.5 on a scale that only goes up to 12) pollen count to cut the grass on Thursday afternoon. It took me just slightly over an hour to cut our very three-dimensional slightly under one half-acre lawn, even with two massive sneezing fits. I did notice both of my sneezing fits came when I was in close proximity to the Roses of Sharon bushes. Maybe I'll just mow over them next time - I don't think Toni's particularly fond of them anymore, and they aren't doing too well anyway. :-) They were a gift from her mother.

Thursday evening we rushed up to Muncie for the opening reception at the Mitchell Place Gallery. Mono Lake Winter Moonrise didn't win anything, but I wasn't too terribly put down. I'm still adjusting to the art world being completely subjective, and given the judge for this contest (an art professor at some Catholic university in northern Indiana whose favourite artists include Bosch and a couple of other, shall I say interesting painters), I wasn't too surprised. I did think it was rather rude of said judge that zie was not even in attendance for the opening. Looking around at most of the other entries, my unretouched landscape was out of place - there was a lot more of what I would just call digital art rather than photography. Oh well, it's on display there for a month and has a price tag on it.

Yesterday I awoke later than planned and drove for three hours to Columbus, Ohio for an all-day Adobe Photoshop seminar, through annoying scattered light/heavy rain all the way. The seminar was excellent. I picked up a lot of ideas and time-saving hints - I'm cooking some ideas for digital photo-based art of my own. I also won a door prize of Photoshop training DVDs! I have to say, too, IMHO, that whoever designed the Columbus Convention Center must have been on drugs. There are no right angles in the building, it is decorated with bright, clashing colors, and (more importantly) one cannot seem to get from one end to the other without going up and down escalators at least twice. Got home about 7:30pm last night, very tired.

And while I'm rambling, this is for aliciar:

Comments

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

Columbus Convention Center

Ah, yes. The height of the deconstructionist phase...
The clients for the Columbus Convention Center seem to have gotten what they paid for when they commissioned Eisenman -- notoriety

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

you guys are only three hours from columbus? that's only two hours from me, making you about five hours away. For some reason I thought you ere further, although I know where you are. huh. cool!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Interesting article. Thanks for the link! :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I always thought it was more like six hours, but for a one-hour difference I guess that depends on traffic and how fast we're going. I could also have it in my head that the other hour is from the time difference in summer (we don't do DST). :-)

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

But usually the coffee pot does get used. It's that whole decaffeination process....;)