December 2011
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winning
I just won nanowrimo* 2011. I finished my 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. That’s all I’m saying. This guy. (points both virtual thumbs at self then shuffles off to bed, tired)
*National Novel Writing Month
November 2011
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nanowrimo writing wisdom
It’s funny how a lot of otherwise improbable events can be made believable by laying an early framework for those events to occur.
Just writing, “I got hit by lightning three times on my way home this morning.” seems improbable on its own. But how about this: “People get struck by lightning all the time in my family. I got hit by lightning three times on my way home this ...
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quick nanowrimo update
And when those days come when I know I will not be able to write and the days after when I should be making up the words which those days missed out on, I am struck by how hard it can be to return to that mode of thinking and writing without editing one’s thoughts and words as if it’s some learned thing and not the thing that it is, which is this: unlearned.
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excerpt from nanowrimo book
Here’s some of my story (rough draft) wherein a madman leaves the small company of survivors who are trying to escape the wilderness of a foreign planet. Hope you find it enjoyable (feel free to encourage me, but I don’t need any corrections or editors or naysayers … not yet anyway).
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Days went by. The four of them...
October 2011
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nanowrimo
I woke up at 3am this morning with the decision to write a novel in a month. Despite my fairly busy schedule next month, I signed up for nanowrimo.org (National Novel Writing Month — which is November, which starts at midnight tonight, which I’ve only just thought of an idea for). Wish me luck!
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Strottenger and the Mousy Fellow →
I published a new short story with the unlikely title, Strottenger and the Mousy Fellow, on smashwords. (it’s free)
September 2011
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August 2011
5 posts
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Coffee Break, diptych →
Check out my newest painting(s).
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Google Art Project →
I just revisited the Metropolitan Museum of Art … virtually.
July 2011
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May 2011
4 posts
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Congregation of Egrets
“Congregation of Egrets,” acrylic painting by me (and available for purchase)
Click here to see larger version on wessforeman.com.
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Artist Reception at Piece'a Work
This Thursday, May 12th from 6pm to 9pm there will be an artist reception at Piece’a Work in New Orleans. I will be there with most of my artwork, and I might try a little live painting while I’m there. Free admission. Stop by. Buy a painting or two. Come on, you know you want to.
Spring Mosaic painting →
A new [BIG] abstract painting by yours truly, and a couple of paragraphs of words on the subject.
April 2011
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duck!
click image to see a larger version along with the blog post on wessforeman.com.
March 2011
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reposted from wessforeman.com/blog—
Thanks to everyone who braved the perfect weather and made it out to the Palmer Park Arts Market today [though it was not exactly ideal for canopies and paintings and small dogs and anything else susceptible to strong gusts of wind]. I gave out a lot of business cards and talked to a lot of new people interested in art. I was even surprised to meet...
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so, it's spring and I'm inside
So, it’s spring and I’m inside typing at my desk (ask me about my standing desk). I can hear an eager mockingbird somewhere in my backyard calling for me to come outside and he won’t stop. Tempting but I’ve got to finish this little blog update — besides, looking out my window, I see a dark cloud passing overhead. So, there’s that.
And besides that,...
February 2011
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[reposted from wessforeman.com/blog]
The design of this painting came fully formed out of my head — it doesn’t usually happen that way but sometimes it does. I’m pretty sure it comes from an image I’ve seen before. Maybe a painting, maybe an illustration, maybe an ancient Chinese watercolor scroll — I don’t know.
I placed all the major elements on the canvas...
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excerpt from a sci-fi story I’m writing…
Pindl stands outside the house of judgment under the easement where it is somewhat dry. It is the rainy season and the streets are slick with the acrid black rain of it. Pindl wonders if the black rain of Rendadt has always been poisonous. People don’t talk about the weather anymore — he knows that much to be true.
A man dressed in...
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DRINK IN DEEP by Brother Gordon
I woke up with a...
"This is the sound of a gavel..." →
Judge John Hodgman Podcast — a delight.
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punctuation
Punctuation in case you are unaware makes better sense of words thrown otherwise haphazardly into an unorganized pile
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shiny things*
cold red passing tail lights make me think about the time in July lost in New York after Miss Saigon was over and we were tired but laughing at everything remotely humorous, wired and worn out at the same time and I’m tired though I don’t know if I’m ready to go to bed and I’m flying though I don’t know how to land this thing
I’ve been to the mountain, looked...
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UNDERDOG by Brother Gordon
you’re stronger...
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interrupted
I wanted to say but didn’t — she interrupted you and I, and I didn’t explain myself well, I’ll give you that, but you were not very understanding, quite rude actually — I’m only human and she’s my little sister and — oh, you thought I and she? I see now the confusion.
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MOVIEBOX by Brother Gordon
T.V. trays stacked in...
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Five Trees painting
[reposted from wessforeman.com/blog]
Five Trees, 18x24” $300
This is a smaller version of my “Seven Trees” painting, which received a lot of positive remarks at various art shows. I had a feeling that a smaller version would work as well and have the added benefit of a lower price tag. I’m sure this won’t be the last of this new series — in fact, I think...
“The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (via happythings.)
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strange to think I'm home
strange to think I’m home — you stepping up the high steps of school bus to sit with [whom you call] your children — I’m here thinking [and you’re probably doing what I was at your age] what it was like for me — day dreaming and running out of breath at recess, people your own age, rush of disorder and it hasn’t become a drag yet — it’s...
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Mason
[reposted from wessforeman.com/blog]
After an off-handed comment the other day from the wife — something about me not painting any new paintings for our own walls for quite some time — I set about painting her an early Valentine’s present. This, a painting of our son Mason, was meant to be a quick paint-sketch, but I kept going with it — perhaps too far, perhaps not. It...
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all I ever wanted
all I ever wanted was a red fire engine, and a fighter jet, a saxophone, a microphone and remind me nothing lasts
all I ever wanted was a Flash Gordon laser show, a rocket pack like Boba Fett’s, a radio the song plays: “ya move too fast”
all I ever wanted was a high speed car chase, and a baseball bat, a video chat, a laser gun and I should be content with that
all I...