Every now and then, I need to indulge in one of these quick online drawing games.
Click & drag backgrounds, stencils (easy to re-size), colors, patterns … to place your graffiti on to various surfaces, like a wall, a floor, a skateboard ramp, etc.
In one scenario, I designed a tattoo on someone’s arm. Never thought I’d ever do that!
Have a try… at The Refreshing Wall. Click on the basketball to get started. It may take one or two tries, but you’ll get there.
Enjoy!
If you’re in the New York City area, and love World Music…read on…
From the web site:
Fourth Annual globalFEST Moves to Bigger Venue & Announces 2007 Line-Up – Roots revival, surf rock, classical ouds, Brazilian and Afro-Portuguese songs.
Expect these and many more styles on 3 diverse stages of the fourth annual globalFEST 2007 (www.globalfest-ny.org), which takes place Sunday, January 21, 2007, starting at 7 pm.
This year the event moves to Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street, NYC) to better accommodate crowds that packed previous venues.
The event, which has sold out three years in a row, has become one of America’s leading showcases of global sounds, demonstrating the multiplicity of sounds and performance contexts that fall under the ‘world music’ label.
Tickets available at TicketWeb.com, 1-866-468-7619.
Enjoy!
For your calendar:
John and JoAnn Braheny will be judges at the upcoming
West Coast Songwriters Association‘s Hollywood Songwriters Showcase.
Date: Sunday evening, Jan. 21, 2007
Time: Sign-up is at: 7:30 pm and the event begins at 8:00 pm.
Location: The Pig’n’ Whistle (pic)
6714 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
(Between Highland & Caheunga on the south side of the street)
How much: $5 for everyone.
To find out more about this and other West Coast Songwriters events, contact
the L.A. Coordinator, Mike Rof© (ro-fay) mike@sluggardy.com.
Enjoy!
If you’re in or around Hollywood, California, and you love great photography…read on.
Gilbert B. Weingourt, photographer for 40 years, was THERE — back in the day — in the late ’60s when social and political activists were changing the world as we knew it. He worked for the East Village Other and as a bartender at The Scene in Greenwich Village. He also spent time in Los Angeles in those days where he met and photographed well-known singers, musicians, and actors as well.
We went to see the FREE exhibit of his photos at:
ArcLight Cinema (photos located on all 3 lobby levels)
6360 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028
Showing until February 15, 2007.
Includes photos of: Don Adams, Candy Barr, Tony Bennett, Cesar Chavez, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Darin, Angela Davis, Buddy Ebsen, Jane Fonda, “Squeaky” Fromme, Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Gossett Jr., Dick Gregory, Fred Hampton, Stanley Myron Handelman, Tom Hayden, Jimi Hendrix, Abbie Hoffman, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Burt Lancaster, Timothy Leary, John Lennon, Jerry Lewis, Totie Fields, Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi, Tony Martin, Paul McCartney, Moondog, Bess Myerson, Phil Ochs, Floyd Patterson, Richard Pryor, Kenny Rankin Ronald Reagan, Donna Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Jerry Rubin, Bob Rudnick, Frank Sinatra, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tiny Tim, Charlie Watts, Haskell Wexler.
If you’re not able to come to Hollywood … check out Weingourt’s web site, especially the Up Close and Personal section where you’ll see some of the above images…
www.exposedinblackand white.com
A few days ago, I posted Part One from lifehacker.com …
Here’s the link to Part Two – Turn Your Blog into a Book.
It certainly looks like a lot of work, organizing a system like this, as I know some of us are not that anal, but hey … it will get you to think about some kind of structure, won’t it? (Personally, I’m a fan of 3-ring notebooks with dividers for chapters … but whatever works.)
Congrats to Gina Trapani for putting this together…and thanks for sharing your process with us.
I find myself feeling more and more like a giant sheet of elastic, being pulled in all directions at once … should I read this article or watch this video or listen to this podcast series or read this great new book … all in an effort to satisfy my hunger to know more about what’s going on in the field of creativity. As frustrating as it is (I mean, there only so many hours in a day, right?) I’m grateful for all the choices.
People often ask me if/how I’m enjoying my iPod … and I tell them I wish I had time to listen more to my favorite songs, but I really use it more often for things like this … a brand new series addressing the creative process from various points of view:
Enjoy!
Sorry I didn’t get this one to you before the holidays, however I’m sure it will come in handy for other special occasions … especially if you go to a good art store to buy some of those jazzy hand-made papers? (See that they don’t scratch the CD.)
Step-by-Step …
How to Make a Folded-Paper CD Case!
Better for the environment too!
Enjoy!
Having been an avid writer ever since I learned to type at age 14, (mostly long letters, stories, and some non-fiction)…I’ve always identified with others who are as passionate about writing as I am…
My curiosity drove me to research some evidence of man’s earliest writing and, of course, I found a book about it (probably one of many):
“Archaic Bookkeeping brings together the most current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium B.C., this script, called proto-cuneiform…”
Just think if the Babylonians knew about blogs!
And if you haven’t heard, there are publishers today who are searching through our blogs to see who might qualify to turn their blog into a book. Talk about win-win!
Take a look at this excellent article from Lifehacker.com, Turn Your Blog into a Book to help demystify the process…
Good luck!
Here’s a quick one for you … it’s not as easy as it looks.
Place the States in their rightful spots on the map.
Great exercise for your right/left brain(s) and all parts inbetween.
sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
So many of you have sent us wonderfully CREATIVE hand-made cards and letters — thank you!
We’ve had such a busy season that we haven’t had much time to tell you all the good things that have been going on…lots of traveling, lots of Goosing Your Muse seminars and workshops also for The Craft and Business of Songwriting…and more coming. We’ll try to keep you updated as we go.
In the meanwhile, check out these excellent Photography Tips for Christmas.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
JoAnn & John Braheny