How creative have you been today?

~riette Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (01:57) seed

This is our Art Diary.

~riette Mon, Sep 28, 1998 (01:29) #1

At the moment I don't feel particularly creative.

~autumn Thu, Oct 1, 1998 (16:21) #2

Me neither.

~riette Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (05:17) #3

So bugger it. Let's go for a drink instead.

~autumn Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (23:34) #4

Sounds good. What'll you have?

~riette Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (05:06) #5

Something terribly alcoholic - like Kirsch. You?

~autumn Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (15:43) #6

Car bomb! (Guinness w/shot of Irish creme)

~wolf Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (22:17) #7

hmmm, i tacked up a bunch of animal pics on my cubey---does that count?

~terry Thu, Oct 8, 1998 (13:23) #8

You bet it does!

~sonja Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:53) #9

LOL! (the laughing thing, that is) Sorry I'm not much use here - I really know nothing, nothing about art.

~riette Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (01:15) #10

That doesn't matter, girl.

~KitchenManager Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (12:51) #11

*sigh*

~stacey Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (23:50) #12

missing Ree-head? Or your creativity? (or both?)

~KitchenManager Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (00:22) #13

missing Ree... (it is more of a missing drive on the other...)

~stacey Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (19:00) #14

have you heard from her?

~KitchenManager Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (23:19) #15

nope...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 22, 1999 (00:41) #16

have now...

~wolf Mon, May 24, 1999 (13:49) #17

my creativity has been limited to doodles on a sheet of paper while attending a meeting......hey, i heard that's how monet got started *grin*

~KJArt Sat, May 29, 1999 (17:44) #18

I would like to visit and read this much more WITHOUT the garish color stripes as background! Sorry! ;-). (Just being honest!)

~KitchenManager Sun, May 30, 1999 (12:56) #19

they do grow on you after awhile, and we do appreciate your honesty (and your visit)!

~aschuth Mon, May 31, 1999 (03:15) #20

Hi, have you ever tried one of the other flavors around here? I would like to point you to the food and restaurant-conferences (it's 10:00 am over here, no breakfast yet ;=} ), also the movies and music confs are fun... I guess. Collecting and Cultures both start with "c", so does "cool". No "c"oincidence...

~wolf Mon, May 31, 1999 (10:16) #21

i've gotten used to the stripes KJArt....so don't let them keep you from visiting!

~riette Mon, May 31, 1999 (11:22) #22

Stripes and colours is what art is all about. And with reading over the stripes, the art lies in the challenge - it challenges your perception.

~aschuth Mon, Aug 30, 1999 (15:34) #23

And as I said somewhere else, all is just perception. The whole thing. Communication. Emotions. Urges. All perceptions, and interpretations of perceptions. That why we all make so many mistakes all the time; our perceptions are not standardized. And more - we're not even sure about them...

~MarciaH Mon, Aug 30, 1999 (17:29) #24

Alexander what do we have to do to jump-start this place again. Art is not my talent...I appreciate it and buy it and look at it, but do not actually 'do' it. What can I do besides getting a kid's art program and letting the world know I have no talent and that a 4 yr old can draw circles around me...sheesh!

~riette Tue, Aug 31, 1999 (08:14) #25

It's okay, I got the message, I got the message. And, in keeping with the topic, today I've been working on a painting called, 'Firebird'.

~terry Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (09:22) #26

What size is it?

~riette Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (11:29) #27

Not too big, but mega colourful. 80cm x 100cm Maybe another week's work.

~terry Fri, Sep 3, 1999 (08:03) #28

Uh, can you (or someone) put that in feet and inches for the metrically challenged among us?

~riette Fri, Sep 3, 1999 (13:35) #29

SOMEONE, where ARE you??? 'cos I really don't know, Terry-guy

~aschuth Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (10:26) #30

Two-and-a-halfa feet wide by three feety tall? Depends on shoe size, of course! (Alternatively, go for "lotsa inch by lots-n-a-bit-more inches", maybe like 26 x 33''.)

~aschuth Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (10:29) #31

(I always work with approximating it - three centimeters somehow relate to an inch, as does one meter to three feet or one yard. Stricly nonscientifical. Oh, and the centimeters-to-inch exchange rate will always be favorable for us, so there is some consolation as the Euro keeps going down.)

~riette Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (16:01) #32

!!!! If I hadn't had it withing sight, I wouldn't have a clue about the size of the painting now! No offense! Terry, the painting is as big as a quarter of a door. There ya have it.

~riette Sun, Sep 5, 1999 (08:28) #33

'Firebird' is now nearly completed. Have just done the next design. It's going to be a good one! Imagine a river scene, frogs, birds, bees, flowers ... and a wild fat lady in a brightly coloured dress, on the back of a ferocious crocodile. The title: 'The Wild Taming The Ferocious'.

~wolf Sun, Sep 5, 1999 (19:12) #34

and when do i get to post them for you?

~riette Mon, Sep 6, 1999 (01:11) #35

When I've photographed one, and DONE the other! You little pusher, you!

~MarciaH Mon, Sep 6, 1999 (20:53) #36

See, I did not push you...I just waited for them to appear in my email inbox

~riette Tue, Sep 7, 1999 (01:02) #37

ha-ha!! Get a load of this girl! Marcia is guilt-tripping me!

~MarciaH Tue, Sep 7, 1999 (19:56) #38

Not true! Honest. That is what I did. How fun to find them in my morning when I logged in. (bowing out before I wear these stripes horizontally)

~riette Wed, Sep 8, 1999 (02:35) #39

ha-ha! You know what my mum always does? When I don't e-mail every day, she sends me a mail asking if she's going to hear from me at all again this year! She's a real brat, and the most childish 50 year-old I know, but GREAT to have as a mother.

~terry Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (00:19) #40

That's so great that y'all talk to each other daily.

~riette Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (03:39) #41

It's nice. Mum's friends always call us the triplets when we're together!

~terry Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (08:02) #42

Female bonding, women are so great at this.

~riette Fri, Sep 10, 1999 (01:12) #43

And sometimes at the exact opposite! But males have that big bonding thing as well though, don't they? That 'Yo, mah M��n!!!'-thing.

~terry Fri, Sep 10, 1999 (08:05) #44

Yep, we sure have that Yo, mah M��n!!! thing. Yo, bro.

~riette Sat, Sep 11, 1999 (13:03) #45

Yes, EXACTLY! ha-ha! Yo bro! That's so funny. Female bonding doesn't come with the vocabulary or cool handshakes.

~terry Sat, Sep 11, 1999 (15:55) #46

Make something up! How about a friendly pat on the ar$e?

~MarciaH Sat, Sep 11, 1999 (16:38) #47

don't think that'd do it, somehow...

~riette Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (03:52) #48

No - that's how we bond with males!

~terry Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (11:42) #49

Well, think up some kind of female bonding gesture, maybe you could start a new social custom?

~MarciaH Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (16:03) #50

I would have to be subtle...no fingering genetalia as the natives do in New Guinea (men only, as I recall) or funny handshake as in the FreeMasons. Not sure I am aware of women bonding gestures in my studies on similar subjects. Further study is needed (dashing off to the search engine of choice...)

~wolf Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (18:33) #51

i think woman-bonding is a matter of intuition. we are beyond the handshake and other physical gestures. *grin*

~MarciaH Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (20:22) #52

Indeed, it is! It is a gut feeling of some intangible nature which usually involves more of our emotional giving than to other women with whom we do not bond. Thus, misunderstandings between bonded females requires remedies, not just letting it goand ignoring it, hoping it will go away. I cannot rest until I have undone whatever damage I might have incurred in such situations.

~wolf Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (20:51) #53

yup, and breaking up after bonding is just as hard, if not harder, than breaking up a romantic relationship with a dude!

~MarciaH Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (21:08) #54

It tears away part of what you are inside...The same thing happens with the rare male with whom a woman has managed to bond. it is wrenching and painful. It leaves scars which never quite go away.

~riette Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (01:40) #55

You're right. When a friendship with a guy is made of the same stuff as with a real girl friend, then it's REALLY good. But otherwise it is harder to break up with a good girl friend than it is with a romantic guy involvement. When Chris and I had a hard time I missed the bonding thing rather than the sex. It was unbearable to think we might never sit by the lake, eating hotdogs and drinking Coke anymore. Weird, isn't it?

~terry Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (07:47) #56

"Beyond the handshake and other physical gestures" eh? So, you're making fun of my puerile notion of female bonding? Sidestepping the issue? So y'all can't come up with a simple physical gesture like the guys have? Like a high five or the double fist? Come on, we have some of the best female minds on the net, just something subtle and low key? But seriously, these are some cogent thoughts on the nature of female/female, femaile/male bonding. It is hard when one of these relationships breaks up. Wow, it's a two of coffee mMonday and I think my mind went into warp drive about an hour ago. Can you tell?

~MarciaH Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (11:32) #57

No one is making fun of your notion of female bonding. It is just that your suggesting for bonding occurred while some heavy stuff was happening in some lives at Spring, and we ran with the idea into some deep and serious thoughts. I am ready to high-five and get on with another cup of coffee and join you in warp drive. It is too much for my groggy awakening mind can handle right now. I am right behind you...lead me!

~wolf Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (19:51) #58

i think my all time best bonding experience was when my daughter was born. they put her right on my stomach, still yuck, still attached. it was the most wonderful, moving, heavenly thing i have ever been blessed with experiencing. and the day i touched a living breathing wild dolphin. that comes in a close second. and i feel that the best relationship i could ever expect to have is with my dogs. of whom i love dearly. only animal lovers can understand this bonding. others think animals are flea-bitten poopin pains in the arses. and i feel terribly sorry for them. (and none of this is to say that i don't have wonderful relationships with humans, because i do.)

~riette Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (02:35) #59

I agree with you, Wolfie. Animals and one's own babies - that's the ultimate bonding, because it is the most innocent and unconditional kind of love. It is virtually impossible to feel that even for one's closest friends.

~MarciaH Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (13:00) #60

...this is true, and I am allergic to animals. *sob* Doomed to solitary existance or a perpetually runny nose...!

~stacey Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (15:40) #61

I'll stick with kitties for awhile and trust you both on the kids...

~riette Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (05:27) #62

Oh yeah!! I forgot! Any ideas about when THAT'll happen yet?????

~terry Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (06:42) #63

Notice the 3 dots after the word kids? Stacey is good at dropping subtle hints.

~stacey Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (12:01) #64

ideas are: great expanses of time will pass before I pop out a child!

~aschuth Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (12:24) #65

Yo, mah folks! How's y'all doin'? Ahn' whazz da poppin' sound aroun', good people? Lemme hear yer jive, ahn' gimme five! (Female bonding - isn't there some going on in How Do You Forgive right now? Complete w/ secret backslaps and molto special vocabulary! Cool, I didn't know that'd work on the web, too!)

~riette Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (13:23) #66

Stacey, 9 months IS a long time! Alexander, WHAT female bonding?...

~stacey Thu, Sep 16, 1999 (13:07) #67

I think he's talking about the bonding glue we're gona need to put some people back together after you're done with em! *grin*

~riette Thu, Sep 16, 1999 (13:29) #68

You mean there's a kind of glue that can glue mince meat together??? �sweet smile�

~wolf Thu, Sep 16, 1999 (18:01) #69

gross!!

~riette Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (09:44) #70

Yes. But is it Art?

~stacey Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (11:51) #71

*laugh* probably...

~riette Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (13:37) #72

TALK ta me, Francis BACON!