drive, also known as a Superdisk drive. It's backwards-compatible with your typical 3.5" floppy, but will also use disks which will store up to 120 megabytes on one disk, or about 80 regular floppies worth. Doodah. Well, i don't know if you're someone who gets tunes in their head from time to time, but i am. The trouble i've always had was writing them down before they were gone. i've been wanting a MIDI piano keyboard ever since i first had my own computer, and i finally have one. i'm thrilled to pieces about this; now maybe i'll be able to preserve these melodic fragments that come upon me from time to time.
Cofiants--- my Art Nouveau.
i'm just about ready to unleash my drawings ---which i've called "cofiants"---
upon the world. (Obligatory word of explanation: the word "cofiant" comes
from the Latin word which means "they become together". All cofiants are
based on Chaos theory, the basic tenet of which is that small elements
consistently following a few simple rules can give rise to large, extremely
complex designs. They are loosely related to fractals.)
One day earlier this summer in my amateur artistic naïveté, i wandered into
an art gallery on Carson St. and started stammering to the curator that i
had some truly unique art to showcase. After i awkwardly halted my
stuttering, he asked, "So you're looking for gallery representation?" i
replied, "That's the word, yeah, that's it! i haven't ever done anything
like this before." Then he said i should assemble an art resume or portfolio
which contains photos of my work and a letter of introduction stating the
extent of my art education (oh, great...) and what my art is about.
In accomplishing these tasks, i am half done: i have established a way of
obtaining photos of my work, but i have as yet not written the letter of
introduction. Here's where the Renaissance Machine comes in: i have simply
scanned my pictures in using my flatbed scanner, arranged them all onto a
total of two pages, and then printed them out on special photographic paper
with my new printer. Voila! After i get around to writing the introductory
letter, i'll just send it out with the two photo sheets to as many art
galleries as i can find, and then i'll see what happens next. Stay tuned,
art fans!
Leisure Reading
Riding on a bus for one and a half hours every day gives one a good excuse
to read, if nothing else. For anyone who cares to know, i've been continuing
to read any mystery novels by Dorothy Sayers i can get my hands on, and
there's now only one or two i haven't read. i'm right in the middle of "The
Five Red Herrings", which is also known as "Suspicious Characters" here in
the States.
Also, a few weeks ago, i also read my first book by P. G. Wodehouse (Thanks
for the recommendation, Mrs. Jenkins!), and it was a hoot. The British
bantering in these books, the genre of which i believe is called "a comedy
of manners", is priceless. To explain, Wodehouse's books are about a
somewhat dim-witted yet well-meaning English nobleman named Bertram Wooster,
and how his Butler, Jeeves, gets him out of the scrapes he's always getting
into. If you're into dry humor, i highly recommend this author.
To relax just before i go to sleep at night, i've been reading Leo Tolstoy.
i started out at the beginning of the summer by buying a compilation of his
short stories from a used-book store. liked these, so i dove into Anna
Karenina. Oy, it's long! i've been reading a few chapters a night for
probably about a month now, and i've hardly finished a third of it!
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