We’re back from the beach. One more week in Cleveland, then it’s off to Texas.
THE BIRDS WOKE ME WITH SINGING
At my in-laws’ place, the birds start singing about 15 minutes before the sun comes up. I drew this sketch without any light, and when I went downstairs for breakfast, was startled to realize it was in red ink.
I spent the rest of the morning listening to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch. I found the last Animal Collective album pretty much unlistenable (my favorite is Sung Tongs), but Person Pitch is great. Like a DJ singing Beach Boys over weird dub music. Here is the first song, “Comfy In Nautica.”
MIRROR, MIRROR
Here’s something that will cost you 50 cents and might save you that $1,000,000 idea: keep a dry-erase marker in your bathroom so you can make notes on your bathroom mirror. That way, the next time the muse visits in the shower or on the commode, you won’t lose her!
(The above is by no means a $1,000,000 idea. Merely a doodle, which can be just as nice.)
Also, if you are an artiste like Miranda July, people will call you a genius for doing stuff like this.
ANGEL IN A POLKA DOT BIKINI
POST-ITS: PAPER IS NOT DEAD
random post-its from my sketchbook
NYTimes article on Post-It notes:
In 1980, when the 3M company introduced the Post-it, no one could have foreseen the effect the 3-by-5-inch Valium-colored rectangle would have on domestic life. Its beginnings were folkloric: 40 years ago, Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M, discovered the imperfect adhesive that would adorn the Post-it; it took another six years for Art Fry, another 3M scientist, to find the application for this half glue, which came in a flash of inspiration after the bookmarks for his church hymnal kept falling out.
Nothing is more of a blessing at work than an inexhaustible supply of Post-It notes, especially when you don’t have your sketchbook handy.
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