As I was cycling to work the other day I noticed that someone had thrown out a rather nice carrom board. I remember how I loved playing this game at a house party a few years ago but was put off from buying one myself as a decent board is quite expensive.
I decided that should it be there when I finish work then I will fish it out of the rubbish and take it home. As luck would have it, it was still there and I really struggled to carry it whilst riding my fold up bike but I managed it and now my arms are hurting as it’s a little on the big and heavy side.
Now that last year’s project to draw a comic is complete it’s time to release it into the big bad world. Free copies are going out to my newsletter subscribers, of which there were 67 which is amazing but also a lot of printing, cutting and folding. It is certainly keeping me busy. I’m currently printing them in small batches to spread the load. Afterwards I intend to start trading them with other artists, cartoonists and zinesters which should be fun.
I’m not really sure where I go from here though it is something I still want to pursue, so watch this space.
I started photographing my face once a day back then and this is the result of it so far. I think it’s rather interesting to watch and I’ve spotted a couple of trends. As I get progressively tired for example, the spots start to appear, so I’m guessing a good night’s sleep is a cure all for most things including spots.
There’s a site out there called Made by Joel and it is full of handmade arty projects to make with your children. I especially love his cut out cities. Anyway, seeing as though Charlie was determined to make some mess today, I gave one of the projects a go - making a mobile. Charlie even picked the Space theme. It was a lot of messy fun.
I tend to avoid sites like Instagram as I think it makes you lazy. Now don’t get me wrong, their app is really rather good but it’s all too easy to hook the thing up to social media sites allowing you to kill two, three maybe four birds with just one stone. I think this concept has stopped a lot of people from properly blogging.
Never the less though it is interesting to see people’s take on the world through their own photographs. I’m going to use it in an attempt to complete a 365 (or 366 in this case) project where a photograph is taken every day for a year. You may remember I tried this a few years ago and although I succeeded I won’t forget how much of a pain it was to crop and upload the photographs I took. This should make it a great deal easier and quicker.
