Morning pour (after an hour and a half cleaning the kitchen)
#coffee
Woke up on time, meditated, remembered breakfast, got to work early, opened up shop super fast, and poured a perfect first cup of coffee. Today’s gonna be good!
Podcasts should have intermissions every half hour. I don’t want to pause in the middle of a narrative beat but the dishes are done and I’ve got other things to do
Drawing practice. Emphasis on organizing light with five values
#drawing #artpractice
In other news: Viola
Me in the planning stage of the new piece: I can’t wait to get the actual writing!
Me in the writing stage: oh no
Crossposting from micro.blog is very satisfying, in that I can write without being sucked into the social media platform. But I haven’t figured out a good solution for reading posts off-platform. RSS works great for me for articles, but I don’t want to clutter my reader with short posts. Ideas?
As the weather turns darker, it’s the perfect time to listen to a favorite album of queer anticapitalist klezmer. Ferocious and beautifully recorded. #nowplaying
Breathe in, breathe out. Just once. Take a sip of the space you are in.
Some very helpful, grounded business advice in here.
How to start an email list, for artists: https://open.substack.com/pub/madrecords/p/how-to-start-an-email-list-for-artists?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
When I’m feeling down the way I do today, I come back to Richter playing BWV 582.
It’s always an option to restart from wherever you are now.
Plan for after work:
- kitchen tasks
- composing session: continuing to plan the tempo map for this project
- drawing session: more practice with Reilly heads
Some photos from the fair:
- This bunny named ‘With Intent’
- A prize-winning flower
- A beautiful large bonsai (some type of Japanese juniper, as I recall)
- ‘Gnome, Gnome on the Grange’ - a display made out of produce
Every year at the state fair I relearn that draft horses are absolutely HUGE animals
Off to the state fair for the day!
Planning the proportions of a new track is hard. For filmed media, some fenceposts are already in place—total length and the major emotional beats. But when it’s just ‘write the main theme for our game’ (my current practice project), drawing that map from nothing can be intimidating. #composerdiary
The thing I love about three cats, that I couldn’t anticipate when we adopted the third, is the ‘energy field’ you get to sit in. As in: two cats in the room is a line segment; three cats in the room is a triangle, with all this cat-energized space that feels very comforting to be in and around.
The smell of a fresh bag of coffee beans #littlethings
Buying dinner for a friend then heading to Street Fighter locals. A nice evening off =)