No, I'm not lost in blog world...

I mean... let's just say... I've been busy. It's summer time... July just got away from me. I've spent the summer printing photographs for a show I'm putting together in September and I've been sketching, making photo transfers and all sorts of other stuff as well. Images of those later...

Dusting off

After a great conversation with two students today I dusted off my 4x5 and took some Type 52 Polaroids. It's been too long... I have 4 boxes of Type 52 (positive only film) and two partial boxes of Type 55 (positive and negative film)... so I feel the need to ration it. However, the film is already expired and it will only keep deteriorating so I have to use it.

I took two photographs of Joe and Bean, one of me and Bean and two of myself alone. It was just the beginning... a reorientation to what I love and need to do all the time.

I also processed 4 rolls of 35mm this morning (some rolls are a year old!). Darkroom + Me = mental stability.

not gonna happen

Alright, so there is no way that I can keep up with a picture a day blog... it's stressing me out more than helping me be creative. So, from now on... I will keep posting pictures but I can't deal with one a day...

Support your local! Sally listens to her balloon.

I fall asleep like this too... usually in front of the TV.

Country drive

Bean party... crazy aunties... deeelicious cupcakes = recipe for fun

But how does it work, Dada?

SCOUT DOG!

Booneville

Or your car will rust...

Memorial Day weekend and more

At the playground... Playing with a giant ball!

Crazy shadows

Cousins play with balls

Our little family goes for a walk in extreme sun

Cousins make pirate masks out of Lincoln Logs

I don't know what the sign said...

We slept in a crazy location and this picture seems to be the only way to really describe how random it was... Talk about a collaged image... Joe's disembodied head, the white plane beneath him... disembodied hand (mine) and a monkey... it's like a German Expressionist film. Okay, that doesn't actually mean anything...

Nana's gazebo... or as Charlie calls it, the Carposey.

Work pic

Desk stuff... you know a lot is going on when I have post it's on everything...

This is me on an orange... check out an earlier post of this same doll with blonde hair... I made her more me (complete with tattoos).

Old stuff

Look... posting every day is just not possible... and taking a new picture every day that is worth looking at, posting and commenting on is even harder. Here's some old stuff... (again, probably good that no one reads this blog, eh?).

at home

Joe finished his finals and we lay around watching Lord of the Rings.

More

Ankylosaurus checks out the latest gallery show

Signs for aliens?

Dino gets hungry for magnets and destroys them ALL!

Bean was in the garage and said: oh a bird. I looked up to the ceiling and hunched my shoulders prepared for a trapped and scared bird flying overhead... Nothing. I looked at Bean and she was pointing to the floor- at this leaf... in the shape of an abstract bird.

Playing with Ruby

We spent the afternoon at Ruby's house hanging out, playing with modes of transportation and little plastic animals. Bean loves the resident large brown bunny.

finally more pictures

Bone Halo

Flowers from Joe for mother's day

The crazy sink area at the studio

Sneaking up...

A big bowl of pudding

It's hard to keep up with this photo a day thing. I'm a big whining baby, though...

catch up

Bean's backpack had a colorful explosion!

In case you didn't know what Bean's real name was...

Oh the egg...

Paint by numbers

Lindsay coordinated the most awesome craft today... a giant paint by numbers. It was delightfully fun to put together (harder than I thought!) and really strange and creative. All the things we love about working at an art studio.

New... camera!

Ooooh it's a new fangled polaroid... only made by Fuji and has INSTAX in the title. So excited! There's something about this ridiculous waste of money that just makes me so happy. Did I mention that it has a close up lens?! It's so cute.

Sigh. I'm a freak.

Catching up

The Bean calls her rings, cookies. She serves them on plates, pretends to eat the and then throws them on the floor with gusto.

I don't condone taking pictures while driving... but sometimes they can turn out pretty nicely.

Awesome crazy Bean foot!