XOXO, ScrantonMade: An Evening of Gifts, Sips and Local Love will be held GreenBeing on Adam’s Avenue in conjunction with the Scranton’s First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 1.
In addition to gift items by more than 11 local artisans and crafters, the event will offer live music, a window installation by ThePop Up Studio, and a photo booth courtesy of Ash Lyn Rose Photography.
via ScrantonMade: Announcing… XOXO, ScrantonMade: An Evening of Gifts, Sips and Local Love.
I was the world’s shittiest writer when I was an infant. I was only slightly better at 25. But while I was failing miserably at my career, I wrote in my spare time for eight straight years, an article a week, before I ever made real money off it. It took 13 years for me to get good enough to make the New York Times best-seller list. It took me probably 20,000 hours of practice to sand the edges off my sucking.
-David Wong
via 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com.
my photo published in this week’s issue of electric city, page 53.
-ag
To follow literary fashion, to write for money, to censor your true feelings and thoughts or adopt ideas because they’re popular requires a writer to suppress the very promptings that got him or her writing in the first place. When you started writing, in high school or college, it wasn’t out of a wish to be published, or to be successful, or even to win a lovely award like the one you’re receiving tonight. It was in response to the wondrousness and humiliation of being alive. Remember?
via Jeffrey Eugenidess Advice to Young Writers : The New Yorker.
another etsy.com treasury…
smoky spicy burnt orange zing crackle toast to late autumn… (paprika is my favorite; smoked paprika is the bomb).
Really loving this original polymer clay piece I threw on at the last minute today.
I made the leaves with summer beach scenes in mind but the bleached colors look sweet in winter light as well, methinks.
Seems like the front page of Etsy gets “whiter” every time I look at it.
Inspired by the white modernist sculpture I featured, I decided to literally create a collection of white on white, focusing on texture, with a holiday gift theme.
Whiskers on Kittens:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTYwMjc3M3wyNzIxMDY4Mjc3/whiskers-on-kittens
I’m listening to the audio book of Donald Barthleme’s Sixty Stories collection. As I walked into “the news factory” where I work today I was tickled by the following line and felt compelled to look it up to perhaps tweet it.
“And when the sculptor Aristide Maillol went into the printing business he made the paper by chewing the fibers himself. That’s dedication.”
Searching as many of the words as I could remember in the above quote, I found an entire .pdf of a collection titled “Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts,” that contains this plus a bunch of the other stories I’ve been trying to wrap my head around while walking about town or riding the bus or laying in bed or making cookies and listening to the audiobook.
Some writing can just be listened to casually; other writing needs to be seen with the eyes. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to see what I have heard.
But first… the other kind of work.
-ag
Gregarious Expressions 