tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71942082024-02-20T23:45:30.532-08:00Blue Algae CreativeRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.comBlogger484125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-75584408176630679622013-11-09T16:28:00.000-08:002013-11-09T16:28:05.971-08:00Wow... I finally have my new blog up and running, on my new web site, www.bluealgaecreative.com<br />
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Come visit me. I've missed you.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-5818394258852488082012-12-23T18:45:00.001-08:002012-12-23T18:47:56.828-08:00Happy Winter to you all!!<span style="font-size: large;">Blogger is being a little bratty and won't let me upload any more photos. I'm hoping to switch to wordpress soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did make a special little greeting for you all to wish you a very happy holiday, but we'll have to settle with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluealgaecreative/8301599013/in/photostream" target="_blank">a link to Flickr</a> for you to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is my greatest wish that so many of you find yourselves in the loving embrace of families and friends this winter season. I wish for you some peace of mind and heart, a slice of wonder, and grand hopes for well lived moments. With love and gratitude to all of you who stop by here and make my life fuller and bigger because of it, Happy Holidays!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">xo Rachel.</span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-73458049486212246302012-12-09T11:52:00.001-08:002012-12-09T11:52:36.760-08:00People Are Amazing<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-OBgdoAmuwI?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-80586600111357708832012-11-21T20:27:00.000-08:002012-11-21T20:27:35.717-08:00alive<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Twice this week my son, the six-year-old love of my life, picked up trash he saw on the street and took care of it. The first time was in the neighborhood surrounding his school. The second was on the street in front of our home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He didn't make a big deal out of it. It was a wrong that needed to be righted. There was some head shaking and disbelief that anyone would be so careless but that was more about him trying on a new kind of morality than a self-congratulatory, attention seeking endeavor. He's a pretty sensitive kid and has been thinking a lot about actions and consequences lately. And we've been focused on personal responsibility for a while too. But, these are pretty standard things for a child to be figuring out. And, while I'm fairly bursting with pride over him taking it upon himself to pick up after strangers for the betterment of his community, I realize it may just be a phase, and it's not like he's saving the whales or anything...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Except that.... <a href="http://wearewhatwedo.org/" target="_blank">WE ARE WHAT WE DO</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check them out. They are an <span style="color: #cc0000;">AMAZING</span> project that encourages small actions in everyday life that, when combined with others' action, equal change, progress, a dent in issues that overwhelm us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the light they shed, I find myself weak in the knees that my son, my boy, did something for the pure good of it, and that matters. His easy action may have planted a seed in anyone who might have seen him. It planted a seed in me, to support him (instead of wincing at that Gatorade bottle being thrown into the back of my car - jeez, who knows where it's been) and see the pure beauty of one little act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we are what we do, my son is kind, observant, concerned about his world, thoughtful, generous and giving of himself. Even if it's just a phase, or a developmental curiosity, he is all of these beautiful things because of those acts this week. And he may be some not so beautiful things others weeks because of choices he makes. But all in all, I'm willing to bet on his open heart, and I'm looking with eyes wide open at how terribly much the small, good things, add up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This video, which is a history of the world in 2 minutes 10 seconds, was put together by a high school student. There are some culturally biased choices in terms of what was represented, but I still find it amazing that he put this all together so elegantly. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other night I put aside all of the shoulds and todos, and I worked on something just because I wanted to. I followed by muse, my flow, my intution, my desire... whatever it might be called, and I made these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's funny to me that these came out the way they did. They were taken in the dead of winter in 2009, but processed in the summer of 2012, during one of Seattle longest stretches of no rain (40+ days) and I can see the influence of the sun. The whites are brighter, the black and blues crisper. They of course do say winter, but most of my winter influenced pictures are a lot more grungy, less contrasted, and murkier. It will be interesting to see if this is really the influence of the sun and if I go back to murky later as the mist, fog and clouds descend. Or, is this the natural evolution of my style that will persist? Time will tell.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People are Amazing is a new tradition around these parts which I'm really loving. It's keeping me balanced and humble. More about all that <a href="http://www.bluealgaecreative.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-are-amazing_23.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week... it's Jonathan Russell, from one of my favorite bands "<a href="http://www.theheadandtheheart.com/" target="_blank">The Head and The Heart</a>" singing one of their new songs "Chasing A Ghost", who is amazing me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the passion with which he sings this song, the crescendos, the fortepiano <i>(correct me if I get the terms wrong. It's been a long time since high school marching band)</i>, the singular romance the man has with the song. If you hear <a href="http://youtu.be/21MZLhDkNTg" target="_blank">the more album ready version</a>, as always, is clearer and easier to hear... and it has passion, along with layers of voices, layers of other people's passions about the song... but it misses the intense love affair between one man and his poetry <i>(I don't actually know who wrote it but you know what I mean. When someone's poetry inspires something like that kind of singing, it becomes their poetry too)</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was lucky enough to find out about it last year in time to attend the very first one and I have to say I wasn't holding out huge hopes for a stimulating, let alone constructive, experience. It wasn't personal. I didn't know any of the organizers then. I guess it was mostly a knee jerk reaction to the fact that it was something put together by well meaning individuals and low profile groups as opposed to some giant, corporate machine. Old assumptions die hard I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I smile now at myself. I have such tremendous respect for the handmade, small creative business, independent artist, movements. I LOVE the story of creative types of all kinds just doing what they love to do, telling their stories on blogs, and selling their work on once tiny upstart venues like Etsy, all the while unconsciously innovating and paving the way for thousands of other creative types to embrace their passions and gifts. I LOVE the way it all evolved. I LOVE that brilliant minds too introverted to shout from soap boxes have voices and are heard because of blogs, because we need them, their minds, their passions. I LOVE that handmade has strengthened the desires to act more locally, to support artists of all kinds, to see the value in objects made with true care and true quality of time and material. I LOVE that handmade has offered up support, information, instruction, and hand holding that we all sometimes need to brave the doubts in our pasts and try to make something of our own. I LOVE that handmade has reminded us that it is okay, no - it's good, to mend and make due with what we have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That first School House Conference was amazing and it changed my life forever. I know of at least one person who ended up with a book deal as a direct result of attending that conference. Nothing so dramatic happened to me, but as my personal growth style would dictate, the information slowly seeped into my being. I began to take myself more seriously and to use the tools I gained to bolster that seriousness with things I could actually do to go from sitting still into movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started a product photography business. While that is a work in progress and I am paying my dues, learning quickly how to do it better, it has given me a sense of legitimacy as a photographer and creative professional. I'm not making bank. I'd be surprised if I were making any kind of profit right now. But, it feels good to be on that road, to be paid to do what I do. There is a kind of pride in that that's hard get any other way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't given up on my first love, the more artistic photographs that I love to make. I'm gaining confidence there too, in part due to SHC. It's just a more mysterious route to success there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I'm getting excited for this year's conference. There will be many familiar faces and new ones too. The <a href="http://www.schoolhousecraft.com/classes" target="_blank">class schedule</a> seems to hold much promise and my only apprehension this year is in deciding which classes to choose. They all look so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All too often I find myself shaking my head and just really wondering what the hell is wrong with people. Politicians often inspire such as response. Sometimes it's other drivers, other parents, <i>facebookers</i>, etc. If I'm not careful, I begin to see them everywhere, whether they are there or not. I start to shaking my head all the time. My criteria becomes less and less well defined. It all declines into habit, which devolves into a general decline in my view of the world. (I don't enjoy that. It's not the world I want to live in.) And when all of that begins to happen I coincidently start to forget all of the little and big things that people do everyday that make them amazing in a very good way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, in an effort to remind myself just how intensely creative, innovative, generous, talented, ethical, happy, peaceful or just plane good people can be, I've started sharing examples, once a week, here. I hope you like them and see some of what inspires me in them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like I said, I find these people amazing for all kinds of very small and sometimes very big reasons, and <b>you might not agree</b>... and that's okay, because I think diversity of opinion is one of the truly amazing things about us human beings too. Evolutionarily we are all so in the same boat; survive, procreate... but we constantly reach beyond that toward individualism, and then back to communion with each other; recognition of the self as unique and then the rejoining of mutual minds, mutual spirits, to feel part of the whole again. It's all so amazing to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first week I shared <a href="http://www.bluealgaecreative.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-are-amazing.html" target="_blank">a video of Bryson Andres playing electric violin on the streets</a> of Spokane, Washington. Aside from his obvious talent for playing his instrument, I was vastly impressed with his ability to think beyond the traditional use of his talent; to arrange, play, record, and accompany various parts of the score he played without written music before him, while on the street, playing for strangers in the cold. And then there is that beauty that comes from sharing one's gift with equal opportunity, for free, for public consumption, for the joy of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second week I shared a <a href="http://www.bluealgaecreative.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-are-amazing_15.html" target="_blank">video of a boy who can do amazing tricks with a ping pong ball</a>. Theres nothing too terribly meaningful here except that for me, having a son who is only a few years younger than him, it's really hard to imagine the amount of concentration and extent of his understanding of physics that were required to do what he does. I hope he loves doing it (I can't imagine he'd very good at it if he didn't), and if he does how beautiful is it that he found such a thing to love, so early in his life, upon which he may build any number of rich futures. How beautiful it is that he has parents who see the talent and passion he has as a good thing, a thing worth nurturing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week's video is a little bit more straight forward. It's about physical and psychological awareness, about strength, reaction time and the amazing things a body can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">*I don't think these amazing people will always show up here as videos from youtube, but right now I'm going through my reserve of them. </span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-46170212485975783482012-08-19T17:40:00.000-07:002012-08-19T17:41:43.015-07:00make room<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In between product photography clients, I sometimes make room to do something I want to do, although I do feel like I'm loosing contact with that part of myself a little. Not a good thing. </span></div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-79148871459694447892012-08-15T09:13:00.000-07:002012-08-15T09:13:46.379-07:00People are Amazing<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rest are drawing I did a while back, scanned, manipulated in Adobe Illustrator CS5, and assigned several different colorways. These were fun. If I had it my way, I'd spend three straight days scanning drawings and playing in the wonderful world of Illustrator. </span></div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-43592700606006076372012-08-14T10:02:00.000-07:002012-08-24T09:09:57.285-07:00Jen's Gems<span style="font-size: large;">Hello strangers. It's been far too long since I have communed here with you and I have missed you. I never really know ahead of time when a hiatus is needed. It just sort of happens. Kind of typical for me really. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the things I've been doing lately is photographing the stunning work of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/JensGems84" target="_blank">Jennifer Leonard</a> for <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/JensGems84" target="_blank">her Etsy shop. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few highlights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her work is not only beautiful, and I don't really think my photos do it justice, but it is well made, of high quality materials and very solid. So, if you are interested in adding a little sparkle and color to your jewelry box, Jen's shop should not be overlooked. </span><br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-8094197305989282312012-08-08T15:34:00.002-07:002012-08-08T17:06:48.036-07:00People are Amazing<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HrKHAsnkF8A" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I need a break from my brain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">a vacation from my mind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a reprieve from an unwelcome inheritance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">an alternate route from the neural pathways I never chose but have been thrust upon me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to anticipate without dread</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to plan and look forward without fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to feel good things, unencumbered by temperance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just for a day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to sing and work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">laying down all accessories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all shame and doubt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all hesitation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all <span style="background-color: white;">censorship</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to know me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in raw form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wonder who I'd be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to feel completely;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">air</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">water</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">vastness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hardness of stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">prick of grass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">cold sluicing streams </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">warm sunning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">rivers washing detritus away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to be of my body</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">self possessed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">naked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">accepting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to be pure</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to be raw</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to be rid of history,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">naked and new</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">filled with love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and peace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">agression</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and jealousy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if the situation called for it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- not because my mother's</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">mother's mother's mother's mother</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to be a wolf woman,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a mama bear eating berries,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">predator</span>, prey, ruled by need</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by survival, by ingenuity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just want to breathe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">unhampered by resignation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">unconscious of concrete,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">unthinking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">unthinking...</span></div>
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<br /></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-2566178528585702212012-05-15T10:27:00.000-07:002012-05-15T10:29:06.583-07:00Consuming words rather than images<span style="font-size: large;">On a rare occasion I feel like I get overloaded with imagery to the point that I become numb to sights that would have left me sighing and my heart thumping just a week ago. So, I'm trying to take a break, a vacation, from Pinterest, Etsy, Flickr, Blogs, etc. It's not easy. That's a lot of time and room in my brain to fill up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, I have been craving words. Luckily for me, my husband prophetically gave me a book for mother's day which I'm trying hard not to devour in one giant gulp. It's called, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/If-You-Want-Write-Independence/dp/1555972608" target="_blank">If You Want to Write: A book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland</a>. It first appeared on bookshelves in the late 1930s and has inspired generations and while it appears to speak to writing specifically, in truth it's about all kinds of creativity because it's all related.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought I would share a little from the first chapter. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> (paraphrased </span><span style="font-size: large;">except where indicated)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If one speaks from themselves and not who they should be, they are an original. This is important because self-trust is one of the most important ingredient in creativity.</span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"...we let dry obligation take its place; because we don't respect it in ourselves and keep it alive by using it; and because we don't keep it alive in others by listening to them." p.11 </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"...the only way to love a person is by listening to them and seeing and believing...in the poet in them... by doing this, you keep...the poet alive and allow it flourish." p. 11</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>"...all people who try to write </i>[be creative] <i>(and all people long to, which is natural and right) become anxious, timid, contracted become perfectionists, so terribly afraid that they may put something down that is not as good as Shakespeare." p.12</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egoists that survive." p. 13</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...you must practice not perfunctorily, but with all your intelligence and love.... Work freely and rollickingly as though talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at the know-it-alls, jeers, critics, doubters." p. 14</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think what I like most about this book so far is that it is helping to confirm some very basic, deeply originating beliefs that have been part of me since the beginning of time, but which I call into doubt on occasion. Those beliefs are that everyone is original, that we all have something to say, and that we are all creative beings who often forget that fact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I got that email, I had to keep reading it over and over, thinking that maybe I was seeing what I wanted to see and not a reality. But real it was, and as I was waking my husband up to share the excitement that started to sink in heavily. I love and respect Uppercase Magazine very much. I'm so honored to appear on their pages. So so so proud. So so so giddy even now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I dunno what it is. Maybe it's that I was raised with the idea firmly planted in my brain, that bragging is wrong. While I know it's not bragging to share this milestone with you, that it is in fact sharing and celebrating with my fellow creatives, I felt / feel vulnerable in baring this news. It's so important to me that maybe I'm a little bit afraid it will all fade away if I share it, like an elaborate daydream I created. Silly, I know. But that's where my head goes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps that kind of angst come with the territory when what you create feels like such a part of who you are. Perhaps, it's a necessary part of art making that a bit of one's own very being is put on display... and that those very private, very sensitive, so very important parts of ourselves are what we want to share and protect at the same time. I know this is nothing new, this struggle, this push and pull. I'm just kind of endlessly fascinated by it when it erupts in my own skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most important thing to say here is that I am so grateful, so honored, so proud of being included, being chosen, being part of the party at a level that awes me. Thank you Uppercase. There are no words!!</span></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-51371719053059745782012-05-05T20:47:00.000-07:002012-05-14T18:18:14.724-07:00accidental logos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wasn't meaning to make anything like a logo when I started down this path, but that's what it wanted to be. I doubt I would ever use them as such because they are a little (forgive my word usage) ballsy for BAC, but I like them nonetheless. Maybe BAC is going toward the ballsy. I don't know. She doesn't regularly consult with me. </span><br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-90343133729720178342012-05-03T12:12:00.000-07:002012-05-14T18:18:49.471-07:00Monumental<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish I had any kind of words for what happens to me <a href="http://pinterest.com/bluealgaecre8/monumental/" target="_blank">when I see mountains</a>. They are such a monumental symbol of all that I love about nature; both serene and deadly, unmoving and ever changing, home and stranger. I think I'd like to be one someday. </span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-3009837610408369962012-04-25T22:25:00.000-07:002012-05-14T18:19:40.523-07:00In my head<span style="font-size: large;">I've been working on aspects of this piece for a while now...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a crush on square crosses, especially the red ones. I think they harken back to a time when I loved to watch MASH as a child, and had complex, very serious thoughts about war. Such a thinker I was.<br />But, I also think I respond to the harmony of the shape itself... the symmetry, the balance, the simplicity and strength.<br />All that coupled with the idea of care (medical), in a time of insanity and cruelty (war) is an irresistible contradiction who's offspring is called hope... I can't resist that. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had no idea any of that was in my head. I love it when that happens. </span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-52436846615157768792012-04-12T12:31:00.001-07:002012-05-14T18:20:18.919-07:00Thank you technology.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't been visiting Flickr very often over the last year or so. No real reason really.. just part of the ebb and flow of my attention span. But today I uploaded a few things and poked around my contacts gallery for a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With fresh eyes, it suddenly hit me hard and clear, that this is nothing less than an abundant celebration of life. Whether it be tree, rock, child, cloth, graphic, paint, body, sky, light, dark, sad, happy... it's all such a pounding, throbbing, screaming declaration of love for life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Passion is what I love most about creative folks, and I'm astounded at their ability to communicate such deep, rich, profound emotion in pixels and light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband and I were recently discussing the relative merits of the online world for those of us who happen to be introverts (of which he and I are two ripe examples), and it helped to clarify for me why I get so uncomfortable when I hear folks lamenting the dangers of an "artificial" connection to others via the computer. My flickr contact gallery is a prime example of why I think the online, artistic, creative, community is so valuable. There I am inspired not only to own and nurture my own artistic development, but my development as a human being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pretty pictures can be a pitfall of unrealistic expectation for one's life, since life is utterly messy and pretty pictures are not. But, if one can firmly plant one's feet to the ground and realize that pretty pictures are the lens through which to view the world, we find we choices. Divorce, loss, finances, stress can all be real and difficult, and noticing the way light passes through a glass or water, or how beautiful even a weed can be doesn't change that difficulty. It does, however, give us a wider context, a focus on what is right along what is wrong in our lives. Without the online creative community, without Flickr, Etsy, Pinterest, etc., I for one would be missing so much beauty and so many reminders to find the beauty in the "real" world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, thank you technology, for making my life richer, deeper, wider, more passionate, more rooted in the world around me, in the earth and dirt and nature that gradually gave rise to you. Thank you, in all your artificiality, for bringing me closer to the natural, the actual, the literal... for being the lens through which I discovered a world, outside your magic screen, that I never would have known existed.... and a me that I thought quite impossible. Thanks computer, and everyone who ever contributed to you.</span></div>
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194208.post-31861775233601516462012-04-09T12:11:00.000-07:002012-05-14T18:21:39.316-07:00logo<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been playing around with the idea of a bac logo for a few weeks now and I have the first prototypes finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do you think?</span></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04097850722302147567noreply@blogger.com0