What I Read This Week Archive

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.

Well, well, well. Two weeks of near-to-no reading. My sister stayed with us for a few days, so if there was an area here for visiting museums, I’d list the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the de Young.

Real, Actual Books

• Yes: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Double yes: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Finished: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
• Did exercises from: Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
• Slow but present: Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam
• Pre-bed read: Barry McGee by Alex Baker
• Only the first page: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
• Dabbled: Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media Paperback by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare
• Continued: Daring Adventures in Paint: Find Your Flow, Trust Your Path, and Discover Your Authentic Voice-Techniques by Mati Rose McDonough

On the Internet

• Make Art That Sells + Global Talent Search + Lilla Rogers by Jenean Morrison
• review :: lilla rogers’ make art that sells by Tammie C Bennet
• Lawyers, Goons & Money
• Dump’s murder link
• US cold-case ‘millionaire murderer’ found after 30 years – in New Zealand
• In Dogged Pursuit / New science may have solved a decades-old case, but it took old-fashioned digging to get it done
• The Ice Maiden and the Genius, a guest post on True Crime Diary

On Television

• Rosemary & Thyme – uh, almost done with season 2
• Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter – 1 episode
• Orange is the New Black (had to introduce my sister to it!)

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.

It happened. I read only two handfuls of links this week. Here’s a theory—I quit social media on Monday for a week sabbatical. That and I’m focused on an Etsy shop update deadline, took two classes, and cooked quite a bit. What a welcome break for my brain! New for you—there’s a list of tv watched too, all compliments of Netflix.

Real, Actual Books

• Love: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Finished: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
• Savoring: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Stalled and back to the library: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
• Truckin’: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
• Fantastico: Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
• Quick and fun: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Marching on: Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam
• For Art + Books club: Barry McGee by Alex Baker

On the Internet

• Anyone know how to scan in a watercolor? from a Deviant Art forum
• TUTORIAL 6// ESSENTIALS + SCANNING by Paper Fashion
• Photoshop Tip: Quick Method to Color Correct Scanned Art and Photographs
• 90% Method of Color Correction by Eddie Tapp
• Exceedingly White Postal Service Fans Are Confused By Big Freedia Serving As The Band’s Opening Act
• what i’ll be doing during the august break by Tammie C Bennett
• showing work vs. hoarding it by Tammie C Bennett, “i spent a lot of time yesterday reading jessica swift’s ebook (for like the third for fourth time) and she says over and over again how she put her work everywhere when she was just starting out. it inspired me to start showing my work again.”
• Watched: Guy On A Buffalo – Episode 1 (Bears, Indians & Such)
• SkyMall’s SkyFall on priceonomics.com
• ‘Marie Celeste’ yacht adrift hundreds of miles from home on BBC News
• There’s something about ‘Orange is the New Black’
• How to Tell People What You Do—and Be Remembered by Alexandra Franzen, “Nobody in the room knew exactly what I did, or exactly what kinds of clients and companies I serve, or exactly how I structure my services, or any of the “essential details” that we’re supposed to pin down in our “job descriptions.” But I made them feel something. And it worked.”

On Television

• Rosemary and Thyme – Season 1
• Orange is the New Black finale
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan (“The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” and “One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue”)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

UPDATE: I forgot two links, now added. That changes the two handfuls of links to two handfuls with the assist of two toes.

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.

Finally, it’s here! A week I didn’t over-read. I get very tired. And this was a reaction to having one week to myself after much disruption over the month. Also all that extra reading time went into watching the bear cam. Amazing nature!

Real, Actual Books

• Learning from: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Forgot this at camp and missing: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
• Fantastico: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Slow going: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
• Makes for bleak dreams: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

On The Internets

• Analog Desk Inspiration from The Note Passer
• In Their Words: Edna Glaze
• Part 2: There Will Be A Space by Jillian West
• Honey, It’s America. You Can Do Whatever the Fuck You Want by Jillian West
• On hamtini – quote from Rick Webb
• JUROR SAYS SHE OWES MARTIN’S PARENTS APOLOGY
• Grim Sleeper Returns: He’s Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA
• Contemplating Friday: Your office, the café
• Forty Days of Dating (a handful of the entries)
• Netflix’s No-Name Show Beating “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development”
• Watched: Natasha Lyonne Opens Up About Her Heroin Use – The Rosie Show
• NYT Reporter’s Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue
• Trainwreck trailblazer Natasha Lyonne’s new shot at the spotlight
• Raster graphics on Wikipedia
• Vectorization (image tracing) on Wikipedia
• Listened: Girl Talk mashes Daft Punk & Michael Jackson, Kanye West & Marilyn Manson
• Snoopy’s Wikipedia page – Doghouse, “One strip ascribed Snoopy’s ability to sleep there to his ears, which—like the feet of a perching bird – “lock” him to the top so that he doesn’t fall. How his typewriter balances there (let alone other neighbourhood kids) is never explained.”
• When Bigotry Came to My Book Reading: A Muslim Feminist’s Love Letter to Cambridge
• Cartoonist Wendy MacNaughton has a Sunny Outlook on Never Under Dressed
• Travis Morrison’s Favorite Things To Sing At Choir
• The Dismemberment Plan Open Up on New Album ‘Uncanney Valley’ on Rolling Stone, “”I hate to say it, but it’s like that line from Tropic Thunder about ‘Never go full retard.’ That segment is amazing – they should show it in every art school and in Julliard. You just want to do it; you want to be so ‘this’ and so ‘that.’ So much so that the end product is over-thought.”
• Watched: VHS, This Woman Really Loves Sponges
• Watched (for way too long): brooks falls – brown bear & salmon cam
• It’s Rare That The Daily Show Slips Out Of Satire And Into Anger. This Is One Of Those Times.
• Watched: Obama: ‘Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago’

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.

You’d think that having no internet for two days might cut down on reading. Wrong! I obsessed a little bit this week, obviously about the upsetting George Zimmerman verdict in my home state, and then again with the watching of Gasland. Oh, and rock candy. Sweet politics!

Real, Actual Books

• So helpful: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Completely fascinating: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
• Love more with every chapter: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Re-started: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

On The Internet

• Toby meets Anton for the first time on A Cup of Jo
• The objectively best things that have ever been on the Web by Mat Honan
• Why New Experiences Are Important, and How They Positively Affect Your Perception of Time on Lifehacker, “ If we perceive time more slowly when we’re processing the unfamiliar, than the frequent introduction of the unfamiliar could help our perception of time from rapidly shrinking.”
• Beat Procrastination More Easily by Treating It Like an Involuntary Bad Habit on Lifehacker, “In reality, Libet found that the brain was getting instructions to carry out an action about 200ms before the person was aware of their choice. This brought up a debate of whether or not free will actually existed, and Dr. Pychyl suggests that free will as we know it is essentially our ability to override actions that occur involuntarily, rather than the other way around.”
• Make Art That Sells with Lilla Rogers: The Full Scoop by Sara Franklin Design
• Emails That Land Jobs: The Best Way to Shine in a Follow-Up Note by Alexandra Franzen
• How I decide what to charge for {everything} I create. by Alexandra Franzen, “Always consider what your customer is actually receiving — results, tangible takeaways, the ability to finally do {fill-in-the-blank} — not just how much ‘time’ and ‘energy’ you’re putting into the equation.”
• Wheezing and Squealing by Laurie Wagner, “…when that was gone, he could make out a much more clear shot of death. Of course it had been there all along, but he’d been too distracted, too busy to notice.”
• State never proved its case, legal analysts say on the Miami Herald
• Chefs+Tech 7.16.2013
• An email that mentions Barack Obama. We Think Alone, Week 3
• EPA decides peer review of fracking study not such a good idea
• Fracking foes push California governor for ban
• California officials wrestle with handling trade secrets on fracking
• Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium
• Gas drillers cancel lease with NE Pa. landowners
• The Top 5 Lies About Fracking – Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered by Ronald Bailey
• Watched: Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus
• Watched: On Chain Smoking by Austin Kleon, “Instead of taking a break in between projects or worrying about what’s next, use the end of one project to light up the next one.”
• Law and Justice and George Zimmerman
• Man Convicted for Shooting Teenager in the New York Times
• White Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman, “When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasn’t because he’s a so-called white Hispanic. He’s not. It’s because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense team—and a swath of society—that supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe.”
• A Tale of Two Best Friends by Aura Bogado
• Animating Black Bodies on The Nation
• Open season on black boys after a verdict like this by Gary Younge, “Since it was Zimmerman who stalked Martin, the question remains: what ground is a young black man entitled to and on what grounds may he defend himself? What version of events is there for that night in which Martin gets away with his life? Or is it open season on black boys after dark?”
• Food in Dirty Sheds Served to Bay Area Restaurants from NBC Bay Area
• The ludicrousness of embarrassed by Seth Godin, “Has being embarrassed ever helped you accomplish anything useful? We can (and should) work to eliminate it from our emotional vocabulary. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth not being embarrassed about. And if it’s not worth doing, don’t do it.”
• My Family, Our Cancer, and the Murderous Cruelty of Conservatives by Kurt Eichenwald
• ART IN REVIEW; Tracey Emin — ‘Every Part of Me’s Bleeding’
• Watched: Rock Candy Big Sugar Crystals HOW TO COOK THAT Ann Reardon
• Watched: Rock Candy Edible Geode HOW TO cook that Rock Candy Recipe Ann Reardon
• What’s in Your Toolbox: Rachel Castle on design*sponge, “The best piece of advice is never what anyone else tells you but what you tell yourself. You can hear lots of things from lots of different people, but I have discovered that when you really “learn” what you need to know, this is the best advice of all.”
• Watched: How to Make Rock Candy and How to make your own rock candy (sugar crystal candy)
• ‘Happy Break-Up to Us!’ How I’m Learning to End My Relationship on a High Note by Alexandra Franzen
• How Google is Killing Organic Search on the Tutorspree blog
• Infinite Rainbow: Alicia McCarthy at Rare
• GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, NOT GUILTY: BLOOD ON THE LEAVES by Jelani Cobb
• Zimmerman Is Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Killing
• The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What We Already Knew on Gawker
• Rachel Jeantel and society’s views of black women
• Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots
• Trayvon Martin Told Friend About Man Following Him in Final Moments
• George Zimmerman found not guilty of murder in Trayvon Martin’s death on cnn.com

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