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darkemeralds) wrote2005-07-03 10:57 am
darkemeralds) wrote2005-07-03 10:57 am
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Q: "How do you do that?" A: "One bead at a time."
Some signs that I was done with beadwork--that the artform was, for me, no more:
The design was easy. Stolen, in fact. Lifted right off of Can't Stop The Signal. Totally unoriginal. I'm not proud of myself.
Then I needed new software. Selecting it took a couple of days. Figuring it out took some more time.
The software hasn't been invented yet that works the way I do, so rendering an image into a workable pattern was more than several hours' intensive computer work. Man, was my ass tired of this chair!
Next problem: printing the pattern. I haven't owned a printer in several years, but this is one of those rare instances where I actually need something on paper. My sister saved the day on that one. Flash drives are great!
Then there's finding beads in that many shades of brown, gold, amber, copper, bronze, orange. See, color is one thing. Then there's reflectivity, translucence, opacity--all of which change the final effect--sometimes very unexpectedly. And all of which make ordering the right beads online kind of tricky.
Some signs that maybe beadwork lives again:
- I took my old beadwork website down
- No one in the beadwork world talks to me anymore
- I recently came thisclose to giving away all my beads and tools
- My beadwork software is so old that it won't install on this computer
The design was easy. Stolen, in fact. Lifted right off of Can't Stop The Signal. Totally unoriginal. I'm not proud of myself.
Then I needed new software. Selecting it took a couple of days. Figuring it out took some more time.
The software hasn't been invented yet that works the way I do, so rendering an image into a workable pattern was more than several hours' intensive computer work. Man, was my ass tired of this chair!
Next problem: printing the pattern. I haven't owned a printer in several years, but this is one of those rare instances where I actually need something on paper. My sister saved the day on that one. Flash drives are great!
Then there's finding beads in that many shades of brown, gold, amber, copper, bronze, orange. See, color is one thing. Then there's reflectivity, translucence, opacity--all of which change the final effect--sometimes very unexpectedly. And all of which make ordering the right beads online kind of tricky.
Some signs that maybe beadwork lives again:
- This icon
- I just added "beads" and "beadwork" to my interests
- I'm going to the actual local bead store now.
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Tim Winton is my favourite Australian author but I don't know how well he will translate. I actually haven't read Dirt Music - I bought the audio book for a long car trip (9 hours) and that is the only way I have experienced this book. I enjoyed it enough to listen mostly right through.
The Edgar Allen Poe has some creepy gems in it - The Pit and the Pendulum etc. It is read by Vincent Price (yes, he of creep movie fame) and Basil Rathbone.
They are both 5 cd sets, 6 hours of listeniing time, which would take forever via yousendit - apart from my current lack of conversion software.
The other CD is something I got at a conference - it is in MP3 format and apparrently has 16 hours of listening time. A few beads there. I haven't listened to it so it may be boring as batshit but the blurb on the back sounded ok.
Enjoy. Have good beads.
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Did I mention that one of Monsoon's nicknames is Spazil Rathbone, because he's such a spaz?
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♥Spazil Rathbone♥