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25.03.08
I wonder if shooting photos satisfies the same creative urge as painting or drawing. Sure, you're making images, but less directly and without the tactile sensation of pencil on paper, or brush on canvas, or pen on tablet. Still, I can see the same visual parts of the brain being activated.
I mention this because I've done a day of work and have no motivation at all to do a commissioned illustration.
Or it could just be the exhaustion.
23.03.08
Frak. I managed to spill some tea on my laptop this morning. An unfamiliar mug, the handle shifted in my hand and I lost maybe a quarter of the fluid. Clear chrysanthemum tea containing a miniscule amount of sugar; could be worse. Most ended up on the desk, but some hit the very corner of the keyboard. I shut the laptop down without any problems (other than the sound of some liquid on the fan) and I've got it standing vertically drying. Some liquid came out when I tipped it, but nothing alarming. All the places I googled had horror stories of frying circuitry and irreparable damage. I checked some of the compartments, and everything came out dry. They recommend anywhere from a couple hours of drying time to two full days. There's also conflicting advice over the benefits of hair dryers and heat sources, most places seem to agree with airflow without too much heat. Anyway, I'm on my desktop unit at the moment, but all my work is on the laptop. Nothing's super-urgent, so I can afford a longer drying time, and if it means saving the computer, it's worth it. I've been meaning to back up those files since Christmas, but they were never in an adequate state of organization, and it was something I could have done today. Oh the regrets. I won't freak out yet, but I'm not exactly relaxed at the moment.
And we're back on the laptop, other than a slight crunchiness with some of the keys, everything seems to be fine. I've moved a few critical files onto a removable drive so I have a bit of a safety net. Ten hours of drying or so and I've changed my tea placement so as not to go over the keyboard anymore. We have survived.
09.03.08
Well, one thing over with. The museum announced the whale acquisition this past Monday. The news went out over the main science
department website, a major update to our website, and a press release from public affairs. The story was picked up by local media, it was on the CBC website (which was syndicated to MSN), the Sun did an article, a newspaper in PEI covered it, the evening news on Global ran a
story, and I woke up to news about it on the radio the next morning. Several outlets also used the image I modified. We received a rendering of what the
finished building would look like from the architects, and they had put other whale and dinosaur skeletons in the atrium. I painted these out and
put in a skeleton of the blue whale:
I'd never seen one of my (collaborative) images on TV, so hey. The image was created here and sent out over the internet only to be sent back
over the airwaves. Such is the trafficking of images.
And I'm already drawing the next thing...
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