several years ago i had the opportunity to see teesha’s fabric journals in person at artfest, and wanted to make one of my own. i didn’t know exactly how she created hers, but i gave it a shot anyway. below are a couple pics of my teesha inspired journal.
teesha moore, in case you’re not familiar, is an amazing mixed media artist and organizer of several cool art retreats. this description barely scratches the surface of all of her talents and accomplishments, so to see more of who she is and what she has accomplished check out her website.
a few months ago i discovered that teesha had posted 7 videos on youtube. teesha shows how to make a 16 page journal, then she shares how she creates her gorgeous and quirky journal pages. anyhow, the reason for my post is to tell you that teesha has now posted videos that show how she makes her fabric journals. we are so lucky to have these videos. it’s just like being in class, but without the travel expense! here’s the first one, if you like what you see you can go to youtube to check out the rest. what a great way to use up some of my fabric stash!
the beauty of an 8 gig memory card is that i can store a lot of pictures on it and i don’t have to worry about running out of space while i’m shooting pictures. the bad thing is that i don’t download them right away cause i’ve got lots of space. can you see where this is going? so i had an 8 gig sd memory card that had lots of pictures and videos of daily life, my family, family vacations etc. i was able to view the pictures just fine on my camera but when i put the card into my computer i received this dreaded message, “card is not formatted, format now?” now speaking of memory… since i didn’t post this right away, like i said i was going to, i have forgotten the order of and all of the actions that took place after seeing that message. but the gist of it is, a variety of desperate attempts were made until it became clear that there was no way to get my computer and later my camera to see the contents of the memory card, it was corrupted. but, as always google to the rescue. i entered in something about my memory card not reading and i found several posts that referenced, photorec, a free program for digital picture recovery. here’s their description:
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. AMAZING!
they provide clear, step by step directions. it looks like you are working in dos mode if i remember right but just do what it says. photorec recovered all of my photos and videos! most importantly, if you have accidentally deleted a file you want to retrieve or you are having a problem with a disk or card, do NOT add any more files, pictures etc. because you may overwrite the files making it impossible to retrieve them.
that’s my tip for the day, now i’m off to download a 2 months of pics from my 16 gig card. will i never learn?!
i’ve been taking several online classes and each class uses flickr to create a “group” where we can show our photos and communicate with one another. i’m not on facebook because it seems too invasive, so i’m hoping flickr will be a good alternative that i’ll have more control over. since i’ve just started using flickr i’m learning new features every time i log on. i like that i can upload all my photos as private and then decide who gets to see what. it’s fun to see the comments that people leave. i have to admit that i check to see how many views my pictures have had too. even if viewers don’t leave a comment i get an idea of what type of photo or artwork makes people want to click for a better look. i just found out today that i can leave a note on a picture to describe a certain part of it and viewers can highlight a portion of the photo and leave a note relating to that particular area. very cool!
so in my google travels to learn more about flickr i found spell flickr and here’s what i made, with their help:
this may be old news to everyone else but it’s new to me so if you have any other fun flickr facts let me know. oh here’s my flickr photostream
later this week i’ll tell you about a lifesaving free program i found while googling. ok… it didn’t save my life but it did save some tears
and now for something totally different. i just spent about 2 hours laughing at videos of people who had gone down the proverbial rabbit hole. the more i watched the curiouser and curiouser they became. all of the characters in this wonderland were videotaped after having their wisdom teeth removed. unicorns seem to be a common bi-product of whatever is in the “drink me” bottle at the dentist office. thankfully, i had my wisdom teeth taken out many years ago, before youtube. my experience was more like alice when she cried her pool of tears. they told my husband i was just fine and already to go, and he could pick me up at the back door. we figured out pretty quickly why we saw the patients go in to get their procedure done…but they never came back out. i was bawling when my husband came to get me in the “back room” and i cried pretty much non-stop for the next 5 hours. they neglected to tell me that crying or laughing is a side effect of the drugs they use. i didn’t know what was the matter with me! a friend of ours had his wisdom teeth removed and on the way home his 4 year old son asked his mom, “did they take daddy’s brains out too?” so if you’ve got some time…and you’ve already had your wisdom teeth taken out, enjoy!
there’s one more you shouldn’t miss, it was on ellen today. go to youtube and type in “unicorn after wisdom teeth”
so the next time you have a procedure be careful who you take with you!
did you see jerry seinfeld’s new show, the marriage ref? i’m not married to jerry seinfeld, and yet the title to my post is still true!
approximately 20 years ago whenever my husband and i would have a discussion, oh let’s call it what it was a fight, and we couldn’t come to a resolution we would take it to “court.” court was in session during lunchtime at our business. to spice up the conversation we would present our cases to the 8 to 10 people that we ate lunch with and they would offer up the verdict on who was the winner in the case. there wasn’t a ref with final decision making authority, but there was a jury of our peers who had fun asking us questions and delivering the verdict. of course, whoever won would have bragging rights and the other/loser would go into another tirade about how they were robbed! i wouldn’t recommend this for everyone, and certainly not for the BIG arguments. it was fun for our group and i think people looked forward to seeing a snippet of our behind the scenes life. it was definitely fun to prepare our cases and present our evidence.
but for the BIG arguments, here’s my suggestions to you. don’t air your disagreements in public or in private to your friends. when we add others to the mix it’s much harder for us to keep our egos out of the picture. our friend is gonna want to know what happened, or at the very least they’re going to ramp us up to continue the fight if it wasn’t settled to their satisfaction.
maybe you can’t relate to this fighting stuff at all. some of our friends, 2 people to be exact, say they never fight or even have a disagreement. this i cannot understand. my husband and i can have a pretty healthy debate over what restaurant we’re going to eat dinner at that night!
what i discovered in our BIG arguments though was that there was a lot of walking/stomping around, flailing of the arms and finger pointing. i found that the more we argued the more animated we became, and then the hurt feelings increased.
the solution??? ready? pen and paper handy?
OK, first make sure the kids are not going accidentally see this, i’m serious…kids shouldn’t see you fight.
walk to your closet if it’s big enough to fit the two of you, if not maybe the bathroom will do. shut the door, sit down. here comes the hard part, hold hands and look at each other and have your fight. i know it’s radical, but we’re talking about saving a marriage here! it works! it keeps you on track and it’s pretty hard to say the things you will regret later if you are looking into each others eyes and touching them. touching them is key, so remember to follow the rules. it’s also a little uncomfortable to be that close to your nemesis when you’re revved up, so you’re not going to want to drag the fight out.
let’s face it sometimes you just need to let off steam and a fight is a way to do it. only me?? so before you have that fight make sure it’s really worth it. try to figure out if it’s just been a bad day for you or your partner. maybe it’s really about something from your past and something happens to trigger you and then you decide you’re just not going to take it any more. usually the BIG fights are about a lot more than what you seem to be arguing about at the time.
my husband and i haven’t had to go to the closet for quite a long time now. the stress level is less and i think we may have figured out what’s important enough to fight about and we also know when to let things lie. saying you’re going to the closet is kind of like when your parents said they were going to pull the car over if you didn’t straighten up, it snaps you out of it cause the fun part is over and now the serious business starts.
Music video for Tanya Davis’ song Art by Andrea Dorfman be sure to check out her other videos. btw i am not andrea dorfman
this sweet little video says exactly how i feel about art and blogging. i want to share my thoughts and my art with others, but then i think…does anyone care? would it make a difference if i did…or didn’t? i know from experience that what we do, say and think does make a difference. there’s been many times that i’ve said something that i didn’t think was all that important but someone else heard it and because it was important for them, at that moment, it made an impact. same goes for me, something that someone says will inspire me and they’ll never know that they were the force behind something that i did. i also know that creating this blog is something that i really want to do, in fact this website has been sitting here waiting for me for 2 years! there’s got to be a reason for that…right? if i don’t follow through and create the site i’ve dreamed about, no one else will know or care, but i’ll always know. as the song says, i want to plant seeds, i want to inspire. maybe what i have to understand is that it’s ok to plant seeds just for me, to inspire just me and that’s ok. because even if i do just that, it will make a difference.
can the concept of time be introduced into a photograph?
that’s the question douglas gayeton asked and answered…YES!
in his book slow life in a tuscan town gayeton documents his life in italy. i would call it a photo diary. but…it’s not like any diary i’ve seen before.
i happened upon a video describing the book and that was it for me, i ordered it straight away. there’s lots of information in the body of the book and on the pictures. douglas writes all kinds of information in white on the sepia photos. the text becomes a design element just as important as the photo.
a photo is not just a photo either. some of the pages are made up of many photos taken at the same event, such as a shared meal. douglas takes over a thousand photos at a the meal, for example, and then he chooses the photos that he feels best represent what he remembers of the event. he places them together in a vignette that actually looks like it could be a normal picture. sometimes the writing on the picture documents the food being eaten or the conversation that took place or the bloodline of the people at the table. a recipe might be included, a summary of what a tool is used for or a mini description of the person’s life up to that point. each flat film, as he calls it, has a title with italian to english translation. something for everyone!
the book is 13 inches wide by 11 1/2 tall and quite a few of the pages open up to 25 inches! i love the book and the concept. my plan is to try this with some of my photos, because even though i think “i’ll never forget this or that moment” i might…and all the information will give the viewer of the photo a more complete representation of that point in time. what a great way to keep a complete memory of the day. i’ll post them here. wanna play?
grab a pair of scissors, a glue stick and a piece of poster board…that’s right you’re gonna dream BIG!
go through magazines, junk mail, catalogs, travel guides and don’t forget the internet, what you’re looking for are images and words you are drawn to. don’t judge what you’re cutting out, if you like it cut it out. you may learn something about yourself.
now go through your stash and play around with them by laying them on your poster board. are you seeing a trend in the things you have chosen? if there is something you really Know you want, find a picture of it, or take a picture of it and include it on your vision board. take a picture of yourself with the item you desire. if you can’t find the words you like, print them out or cut out individual letters and make the word you need.
don’t have a preconceived notion of what your vision board “should” look like. let your inner spirit guide you.
look at your vision board everyday. be available!
i’ve been making vision boards since i was teen, i just didn’t know they were called vision boards. a couple years ago i had a get together with a bunch of friends and we all made vision boards. one girl put an engagement ring and a wedding dress on her board. she and her boyfriend had planned to get engaged in 6 to 8 months. two weeks after she sent her vision out to the universe her boyfriend proposed to her, with the ring that was on her vision board! and no, she had not shared her vision board with him. cool, huh! even if you don’t “believe” in the concept i’m presenting, at the very least, a vision board helps to guide and focus you on your goals or interests.
Here’s a representation of my dreams desires and interests.
so there you have it GO! play…have fun…dream big…when you were young, really young, i bet you had big dreams. do that again…who knows what you might learn about yourself.
…to begin: take the first step in performing an action: to start to come into being…
this blog has been percolating for quite some time, and now finally in 2010 it will come into being. my hope is that as i begin this process cafevisionquest’s voice will become clear.
525,600 minutes, 525,600 moments so dear 525,600 minutes how do you measure a year
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife
In 525,600 minutes-how do you measure a year in the life
hi and thanks for stopping by the cafe!
my name is andrea and i am a grown ass woman and i’m still finding my way. i am curious about so many things and one of my favorite past-times to do is google any question that comes up. if only the internet had been around when i was newly married and having children. in lieu of the internet i loved the library…that’s all we had back then! read more here
so if you have any other fun flickr facts let me know. oh here’s my 
