How do you prepare for your first-ever “tag” sale (yard sale, gate sale, garage sale etc..)?
By scanning more sketches and posting about it!
Hopefully I sell some merch.
And here’s one from the last show at Lakeshore Theater.
“Ritter” owner of Lakeshore Theater.
As another notebook nears saturation, I scanned some drawings I’ve made in it over the past couple months. The notebook is a Moleskine knockoff, its thin pages reveal traces of the opposite sides. Some of the drawings are of real people I observed, others are from memory or imagination.
I don’t know what prompted this drawing. I think I challenged myself to make a black person. The gun just kind of drew itself. I kept it in for contrast to the suit. I titled this, “Nice black gentleman with gun.”
Another from the imagination. This reminds me a bit of my father. I am not sure what the headgear is. It kind of looks like a captain’s hat. I titled this, “Captain Dad.”
This was from memory of Chicago’s new mayor, Emmanuel Rahm.
I don’t know who this is. I think he is materialistic and Metropolitan. I titled it “Rich Weak Man.”
Here are a couple performers from a comedy open mic. I don’t know their names.
Here’s a raw sketch, quite abstract in its incompleteness.. Normally I don’t draw the ‘big name’ comedians. But I like the essence of this.. call it “Lebo.”
Maybe because baseball season had just started, I drew these 3 pictures. One of them might be a baseball owner.
My softball season ended Friday. I had decided to only bat lefty when a game outcome was not in doubt, so I would not possibly do harm to my team.
I only batted lefty twice and flied out to right field and struck out. But in the on-deck circle I’d swing lefty to try to ‘throw’ off the defense.
I really like throwing lefty, so, doing so is actually helpful sometimes. When I was the pitcher I threw left-handed to the girl hitters and I got one to ground out to second base; the other got an infield hit. The big change over the summer is that I no longer feel the left is weaker than right for throwing. We have stress balls at work and I regularly pick one up and bounce it off the wall lefty.
My ping pong skills continue to develop. I serve as right every once and a while but I just don’t get the quality that I do as a southpaw. I’m able to compete with the best players b/c my return is quick.
My boxing coach is training me as a ‘southpaw.’ It’s working out fine.
I’ve come close to burning my hands because of my new left-hand orientation. ALH has enriched me, giving me added capacity and right-side of the brain insights, but it has its downside. As a right-hander, I developed the habit of reaching for the sink faucet nearest my right hand–the cold faucet. That is all fine and good, as we’ve been told by Public Service Announcements (remember the one with Tweety Bird?) to always start with cold water and ‘warm UP.’
With ALH, I’m unthinkingly using the left hand but still seeking the faucet that lines up with that hand–which is the left, Hot faucet.
When a condition changes, examine the legacy attributes that act on it in new ways. I will have to decide whether to devise a Rule to prevent a possible outcome, or whether to train myself. It’s a decidion process that one must often revisit: when aware of a weakness, do you try to improve it, or manage around it?
There is obvious benefit to thinking about the situation to prevent harm and maximize results. Much in life can be improved by thinking beforehand. But there are costs: if you are thinking about one thing you cannot think about another (“opportunity cost”). Also, say that I do a pre-wash (or shave, brushing) ritual where I ask: “Will I be needing water? What temp? How can I adjust these faucets to derive such water?” If I do that ‘before ‘hand’ than I would be wasting water. Plus, such a low-skill activity like turning on water should be memorized and done instinctively on-demand. The mind must be free to create.
On the other hand, wasting water is far less expensive than scalding water. I think I’ll do an interim solution of enforcing cross-over faucet turning before any sink activity. After all, I already do pre-thinking to arrange for drying my hands.