What I Read This Week: September 6, 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.
Goodness, I’m apparently back to my old ways although not nearly as read-y. More watch-y. And considering that one of the things was an almost 30-minute tutorial on color correcting in Photoshop, I think that’s pretty OK.
Real, Actual Books
- Didn’t quite get to: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Bite by bite: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Yep, still going: Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
- Finished: Barry McGee by Alex Baker
On the Internet
- Watched: Color Correcting Photos: Photoshop CS3!
- Watched: Basics of Smart Objects :: Photoshop Tutorial
- 50 ways to be ridiculously, shockingly generous — and feel ridiculously, shockingly good. by Alexandra Franzen
- How to Rebuild an Attention Span – only got part way through (oh the irony.)
- Feisty Sheep Tries to Teach a Young Bull How to Headbutt
- Watched: Oh Joy Studio, Before and After
- Watched Roast of James Franco – Franco’s Rebuttal, Jeff Ross’ Research Project, The Franco Philosophy, Aziz and James’ Great Career Choices, Natasha the Chihuahua, The Roast Gets Dark, Time Travel and the Secret to Being Straight
- Mean Girls, Age 4 on Medium
- These young SF professionals choose to live in RVs
- Dear Khary (An Autobiography of Gentrification)
- Watched: RuPaul Drives…Henry Rollins
- PAX Controversy: Nice Guys Finishing Last on MightyGirl
- Duck “Doug” Silverman obituary by Sarah Silverman
- No Pill? No Prob. Meet the Pullout Generation by Ann Friedman
- Pullout outtakes from Ann Friedman
- Stop Eating your Virtual Lunch Alone: The Quick Start Guide to Making Friends on the Internet by Tiffany Han
- Absence by Heather Armstrong
- Why artists & illustrators should get a job on Pikaland
- Why I’m not a professional illustrator on Pikaland
- What do you do, exactly? on Pikaland
- Watched: The Innovation of Loneliness
- On flakiness + devotion … by ALexandra Franzen, “With a modicum of self-inquiry + honesty (“Can I really devote to this? Do I really want this? Can I really afford this?”) we can avoid 99.9% of eventual flakedom.”
- Collaborating with a 4-year Old on the busy mockingbird
- What Do You Use To…? by Paul Hornschemeier
- 25 Celebrities When They Were Young
- 40 Days of Dating catch-up!
- 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask on The Washington Post
On Television
- Project Runway
- Murder, She Wrote
- Comedy Bang! Bang! – yep, whole first season
