Project March: TBD

It's the last day of February and I'm not sure what I want to work on in March. I feel like I should already have this figured out, you know? Like I should already be excited about what I'm slated to work on.

But not yet, I suppose.

The options include (but are not limited to):

painting (I have a few gesso'ed canvases awaiting my artistry, but is a pile of paintings going to fatigue my desire to paint in general?)
visual art (similar, but like, maybe I'll just make a drawing or a painting or something every day for the month)
music mixing (I have a MIDI keyboard that I'm ready to learn to create electronic beats of my very own... but should I wait to dedicate a month to that once I've learned how to use it better? I don't want to just be frustrated)
story writing (I'm on a writing kick, what with February being humorous essay writing, but do I want to have two months back to back be in the same genre?)

The answer is there are no wrong answers. I need to keep reminding myself that this is an experiment. And no matter what I choose, I'll be creating more than zero.

Maybe that's what this whole project idea in general should be called: More Than Zero. I like that.

Project March: Looney Tunes Paintings

The What To paint a series of Looney Tunes backgrounds. The Why I really enjoy painting, but I don't make the time to do it enough. The last painting I made was just over a year ago. The one before that was the year before. In the spirit of my monthly projects, I threw "painting" on the list of options not really sure what the focus would be. And there are fewer things that terrify me more in this life than the proverbial blank page/canvas. So I needed a focus. Nearly every Saturday afternoon, my man-friend and I frequent a bar in downtown Chicago where we enjoy beers, burgers and heckling our favorite bartender. It's become somewhat of a tradition that the bartender will change the channel on the television at the far end of the bar to show cartoons, simply for our viewing pleasure. So the two of us will sit there for a couple of hours, indulging via our stomachs as well as our eyes. A couple of months ago, man-friend and I were discussing the artwork that goes int...

The Year That Got Away

June was the last blog post that I wrote this year, which might seem like I fell off the face of my own planet, but it's understandable why that was a breakpoint in 2023 for me. June was so different than I could have imagined going into 2023. I spent ~3 weeks on the back side of June in Connecticut, house/cat-sitting for a friend. Things I experienced: the idea of living on the east coast the idea of living in a small town being able to go for a wide variety of hikes solitude homesickness new art experimentation cats The trip wasn't something I knew was on my horizon going into 2023. I had had this daydream during the pandemic that I could just pick up and go live anywhere for a while. My work was fully remote, so the world was legitimately my oyster. The part where I got stuck and never took the leap is the fact that I'd be paying rent at home, and also at whatever romantic location I chose to relocate to temporarily. So when I was asked by a friend if I wanted to stay in...

Project January: Personal Website Re-Build

The Thing Rebuild my personal website, from scratch. I'll get more into what "from scratch" actually means later. (Spoiler alert: I did it .) The Why I completed a coding bootcamp in 2017. Since then I've had the practical idea to create my own website. This means that I would code the whole thing, and not pick a plug-and-play/drag-and-drop solution, such as SquareSpace (which is the service I used for years). There's legitimately nothing wrong with that kind of solution, but I was like, "I know how to code. Why aren't I using it for my own practical use?" Beyond that, I'd be free to explore with my own designs, learn some new technologies and likely find a way to host the site for free. (I think I was paying something like $13/month for SquareSpace.) The Work Why Hadn't I Just Done it Before? As with many things in life, getting started was the hardest part. I knew that I wanted the site to have a sexy frontend (AKA, I wanted it to look goo...

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