What I Read This Week: July 12, 2013
About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.
As you might tell by browsing the list, there was not as much reading this week so much as video watching. I had a backlog to clear out, ya’ll! I also spent some of the time (and didn’t record it) catching up with a few classes I took online—Hand-Drawn Typography and Mati Rose’s Daring Adventures in Life and Paint. Learning and fun, fun and learning! Where does a lady stop?
Real, Actual Books
- Finished: Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco
- Re-started and loving: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Finished: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky
- Adore: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
- Still smart: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Ignoring: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
- Started: Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors by Betty Edwards
- Just received and cannot wait to start: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach and Mastering Layout: On the Art of Eye Appeal by Mike Stevens
On the Internet
- Blurring the Lines: How to Enjoy Maybe-Sexist Music by Ann Friedman (and watched both Blurred Lines music videos, naturally)
- Watched: bear safety video
- Watched: A Second a Day from Birth.
- I spent the day with a personal stylist! (Here’s what I learned about lookin’ super-foxy, on camera & off) by Alexandra Franzen, “Why wait? Because when you postpone a particular purchase for a pivotal moment (“my book launch handbag,” “my single-again sundress,” “my 100th client cardigan”) it becomes imbued with more meaning, more emotion, more intention. It’s no longer just a piece of clothing — it’s a symbol, a token, a charm.”
- A Serial Killer in Common in New York Magazine
- What It’s Like to Leave the City of Your Dreams on 7×7.com
- thoughts on routine, structure, organization by Kelly Rae Roberts, “work hours are broken down to specific times for painting, internet, to-do lists, running errands and so on. i’m learning that the more specific i am on this front, the better (for me).”
- Sodium Citrate Creates Silky Smooth Macaroni and Cheese on the Modernist Cuisine blog
- Success + Greenwich Village by Tanya Geisler, “It’s an expression we’ve oft used since then. “Feeling like you’re ‘Greenwich Village-ing”” has become synonymous with the feeling that you’re JUUUUUUST this side of something wonderful…like, say, success. … Define success for yourself. On your terms. …Get your success story in order…Knowing how YOU roll is tantamount to success. … Try not to be too attached to ONE outcome. Leave room for the dessert of serendipity. Appreciate what you have.”
- AP calls Sex Trafficking of a Child a “Career”
- The New New Naturalism in the Era of ‘Processed’ Relationships by Alexis C. Magrigal, “The whole rhetoric, though, requires a retreat from the frontlines of the battle to define tomorrow’s systems. These technologies need real critiques. Our social networks and smartphones are not “neutral” tools. We may be able to manage our relationships with them, but we need to know what they are trying to do, technically, culturally, and financially.”
- Glass Teepee built by Big Sur architect Mickey Muennig. on Cabin Porn
- Chefs + Tech for 7-9-13
- We Think Alone email about Advice
- 3 Clever Marketing Strategies to Promote Your Business on the Etsy blog, “The closer you get to your “why,” the more distinct your position in the marketplace and the more memorable you become.”
- Pilot in deadly plane crash had no experience landing 777 in San Francisco
- Polishing junk by Seth Godin, “The time you’re spending polishing might be better spent building.”
- More reports of poisoned meatballs found on SF streets from KTVU
- Painting with Gouache, “Although there is a palette of over one hundred and twenty colors on the market, approximately one third of these are fugitive, meaning that the dyes have a propensity to fade (sometimes radically)over time.”
- Watched: Geometric Drawing w/ Gouache PART 1 by Clint Fulkerson
- Watched: How to Paint with Goauche Tree Demonstration
- We’ve Been Robbed by Rachel W. Cole, “The truth, it turns out, is that food, sex, and body movement are about pleasure. They are about our own, rightful pleasure. They are about connecting to our own bodies, feeling our sensations, and following the thread of pleasure where it leads.”
- Who Murdered UCLA Medical Center Nurse Melanie Howell?
- Watched: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse – Ice Cream Soup
- MAGAZINES WE LOVE: CHERRY BOMBE on the Warby Parker Blog
- How Does a Caring Father Respond When a TSA Agent Tells His Daughter to ‘Cover Up’? “The idea that men are so weak that they can be driven to distraction – or violence – by what a woman wears is at the heart of rape culture. The suggestion to “cover up” implies that those who don’t are at least partly responsible for their own abuse at the hands of naturally predatory men.”
- hannah waldron interview on designboom
- Watched: Gummy Bears Bratwurst
- Watched: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Sarah Silverman
- Watched: David A Smith – Sign Artist and The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Artwork
- Subject of book on CHA complex aims to turn life around after drug conviction, author says
- Interview with author Robert Kolker on True Crime Diary
- My Friendship with Charles Manson (did not finish)
- week 5 in lilla rogers’ make art that sells class :: gift market by Tammie C Bennett
