Another journal

Ah, the last update of the year! I suppose I could make an accounting of what I’ve done over the year. I keep track, because I’d forget and then think I did nothing at all but read possibly too many books. This is a common brain thing, I think, as I see others putting together their art versus artist, or otherwise also looking back over the past 12 months.

(I have a very legit excuse for not posting this yesterday, btw. My laptop decided it did NOT like being charged and just… ran out of juice after I’d typed up the above then gone to have dinner. I had to stay off it while it got back up to speed.)

Anyway, here’s the bodycount of Shit Did, links go all over, will note where. Now, most of this happened in the front half of the year and you might have already seen it in my mid-year roundup, but odds are you also didn’t so! Please have fun counting how many things are for my favourite franchise. A lot of this is documented in blogposts because I started blogging weekly about halfway through the year! (in fact, you are at this moment reading it on the blog, which I’ve crossposted this Patreon/Comradery update to).

The real bulk of it is zines and bookbinding:

– Book gifts I made my family for the holidays (blogpost).
– More book gifts, for the same reason (blogpost).
– A very dorky fanbind of a Locked Tomb short story, that keeps getting hits on tumblr, where the nerds are (blogpost).
– Flash Fiction February 2025 collection, my standard yearly collection of the best ten flash fics from the monthly challenge. (Itchio)
– I laid out my newsletter (which is coming up on its third year?!) as zines, which are available as physical prints or a collection of digital files, and it was really fun. (Bigcartel shop, Itchio)
– I did a paperback fanbinding of a favourite unfinished fic–yes, it is a Fallout: New Vegas fic–which turned out very cool and also gave me a reason to source some classic mass market paperback-style paper. (blogpost)
– A zine of the campfire recipes from Fallout: New Vegas, because I needed a reference sheet so why not. It’s free, also. (Itchio)

Illustrative stuff:

– The finished Labours of the Month calendar was dropped on Itch and I 100% then forgot about it and did not promote it monthly like I should have. That’s a years worth of illustration lol, such is life! (Itchio)
– I did hourly comic day, which is always a fun time. (Tumblr post roundup)
– Made the final card in my nostalgia 3 card draw, which is stickers and really was an indulgent fun thing for me to do. (Bigcartel shop)
– Neil banging out the tunes, which y’all fucking loved, wow. (Bluesky)

Writing stuff:

– When I finish a Flash Fiction February zine, I then also release a handful of my top faves from the previous year’s collection onto my blog with illustrations. (Blog archive)
– For my best friend’s birthday I wrote a fic using his OC ghoul from Fallout: Jammin’ With Junker Val -02.02.75, 16:23, (Archive of Our Own)
– The Fourth Step, a short story from last year’s Ominous October. (blogpost)
– Any Small Town, a short story from last year’s Ominous October. (blogpost)
– Café By-The-Sea, a scary short story that I shopped around to a couple markets then decided to just share on The Blog. (blogpost)
– Continued sending out a monthly newsletter over at Any Tree, Flowering.
– Also nearly forgot: I serialised that old book of mine, The Audacity Gambit, and included extra short stories from the world of it. (blog)

Other stuff:

– Papier-mâché dice tower video, part of the cleanup of old projects thing. (YouTube)
– Unearthed a 1998 video I made of Julius Caesar, because it’s stupid and silly and fun to see old work. (YouTube)
– Otter Pop*Stars Neocities page, which was partly a thing to remember “oh I like coding a little.” (webpage)
– I made a real-life model of a 3D asset from Fallout: New Vegas: A Sierra Madre Casino snow globe, which btw part of it broke inside so now I get to decide if I drain and fix it. (blogpost)
– A monster brainstorming worksheets game, which I made to help me generate some creatures for a project. (blogpost)
– I made a linktree-type page, because I realised that I own my own website and could just *do* that instead of using somebody else’s kit and url. (webpage)
– Dyed yarn for the first time, and did also finish crocheting a sweater, though it needs more work before it’s done-done. (blogpost)

Plus all the stuff that feels incidental, like helping out at an art fair, sewing a pair of shorts, finishing mending my coat, figuring out a cool map-making hack (play a game of Carcassone), made nine different cool prints as part of a challenge with Chase, and whatever other little fun things one does to fill the days. I think? A pretty fruitful year and full of Stuff Did.

Also I managed at least four posts a month here, swapping from private to public updates in early July. I just! Don’t care any more. I like sharing information. There will always be things that I gotta keep behind a paywall like if I start serialising something new and there are early updates, or if I make a short story collection and there’s a free download. But I got nothing going on behind the scenes that is worth paying a dollar for. I just like making things I dunno. My best friend sent me the script for Ricki Hirsch’s latest video (because she knows if I am given a video link I will just never watch it), and then I read the originating blogpost, which has this line at the end that I like a lot:

You can control how you and your work are received just as well as you can control lighting but you can always control whether you’re going to try.

Like, the script has the same line worked more cleanly but for some reason the way it resonated more with me in this form. Anyway, I will keep making things and thank you for looking at them with your eyeballs, whoever does. I have some cool things to show your eyeballs this upcoming year.

I’ve had on my to-do of blog posts to write “old embroidery” for a while. For many years, I had a commute that was a four hour round trip. On the way to work I tried very hard not to fall asleep, and keeping my hands busy with embroidery was a good way to do it (I also tore through so many books thanks to Project Gutenberg and a little Nokia mobile with wifi).

I had a little kit in a mint tin that held my needles and some of the thread or other things I needed. A dear friend made me a sort of soft folio container that I kept my projects and other hanks of thread in. The whole kit fit neatly into my backpack and off I went.

The earliest examples of what I embroidered on my Flickr seem to be a series I did illustrating different states, based on what I knew of them (which was not much). This was around 2008.

I started playing more with embroidery as sketching, “drawing” the other commuters I saw regularly on the train. I wasn’t much for cross-stitch, but I did have the aida fabric from various friend’s destashes and a life of scrounging craft materials and it was fun to approach the pixel-like limitations of the fabric outside of cross stitch.

Now, imagine if you will, an internet where a sassy man doing cross stitch could reach viral heights. Bacon and moustaches were the height of… something. Steampunk was doing things (and I was involved, writing about papier mâché, of course). I was in my twenties and found it all rather annoying. So I did a litle cross stitch series about it.

It was a fun, weird time for embroidery online, actually. A friend kept a blog where each post was embroidered and had a scroll-over effect, which I commented on in kind. Writing was sort of a focus for a bit, like this line from Fanny Hill, or this ranking of movie trilogies that I think got on some pages back in the day (the cleaner scan of it has 6k views, lol).

What my true love, with embroidery though, was sculpture. I loved stumpwork for being a great way to use up thread scraps as stuffing. There’s so much structure and thick texture possible.

In my years of commuting I amassed a nice amount of work. I didn’t just embroider on the train though, I liked taking it on trips, like this freeform cutwork practise I did when we drove to Wyoming. Please enjoy the same muslin ground used for this and the one above–I dyed a true fuckload of muslin for a backdrop in theatre than nobody wanted after the show was done so I’ve been carrying it around since and have almost used it all now, some 20 years later.

Eventually, I stumbled on Opusanglicanum, which introduced me to what has remained one of my favourite surface work approaches–laid and couch work. Its an approach I always enjoy, and it’s been around so long there’s something lovely about doing a stitch people have done for ages and ages.

Looking back it feels like it was a couple-year rush of embroidery but then the practise followed me along like a dog. The embroidery tag here on the blog has stuff as “recent” as 2015. I wonder if, from there I in general stopped blogging and also started focusing on other craft. My commute was mostly walking at that point, then a couple years later we moved states and everything changed.

I may not embroider as much as I used to, there’s just so much craft be doing. But the love and the skills are still there and I pulled them out to fix the worn out old cuffs and pockets on this coat I made nine years ago.

There’s a bag, in all my various craft storage, of what work I still have from this era of embroidery that I realise was close to 15 years ago. Maybe when I’m done with my current craft projects (which include crocheting my first sweater!), I’ll return to the stitching I miss.

Okay listen, I have way to many links open on my devices, and not because I am not dealing with and bookmarking and reading them but because I was like, “Ooooh, I want to share this.” So, let’s get going. Find all these link dumps on the tag “tab cleanout.”

Who drew the comics on the back of Topps baseball cards? from The Fan Files. It’s what it says it is, THAT link though is just a summary and links to the four posts of the actual guy (a Dr. Eric White) who is doing the research, which I repeat here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
status: shared

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are ‘giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away’ over at PC Gamer. This is some interesting talk about procedurally generated story and what it can give us as players, this is the meat of it for me:

“These games force you to have to sit with what you’re seeing. Whether it’s because the graphics are lo-fi or Dwarf Fortress’ feed being very non-descriptive, it allows you to fill in those gaps in an interesting way,” Orlando said. “The heart and soul of it is sitting with your dwarves and figuring out how you see their personalities interact with each other and different situations. That’s where the player stories come from.”

status: moved to WIP/REF: Gamewriting

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies at ESA. The sum of it is: some bearded vulture nests are mega old and when scientists started poking into what they were made of, or what litter from previous meals of generations was there, they found amazing stuff. Like, the expected bone remains and hooves and whatnot (which is a cool way to see the history of other animals in the space) but items made by people from the local esparto grass, cloth, a crossbow bold, a shoe. It’s like a core sample of the history of people and creatures and the world that the nest has existed alongside for hundreds of years. From the study:

More interestingly, the abundant and well-preserved anthropogenic elements brought to the nests, such as the extraordinary historical manufactured items made of esparto grass: such as alpargatas (esparto sandals), ropes, basketry, horse tacks, and slingshots, have an ethnographic interest. These artifacts can gain significance when considered alongside nest altitude, which influences the availability of remains and the type of ecological zone represented.

status: shared

The Spooky House by SPOOKYSOFT on Itch. A very delightfully chunky-pixel looking game that links to a fun soundtrack to listen to while you try to escape said spooky house.
status: saved in Itch.io to my to play list

Word building over at Words and Things. A really easy to understand breakdown of how you can build words that feel right, even if you’re not building a whole fake language for your pretend world. It’s a short piece but one that gets the brain going on why some words in a genre piece work and why they don’t (and why some names scan and others feel like Scrabble tiles spilled out).
status: shared

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter at Azhdarchid. What it says on the tin. This is neat and I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it but I LOVE system-based approaches to writing and crafting so I am going to keep picking at it.
status: moved to WIP/REF: Ref & Writing

And now here are three stories that are perfectly suited to the season, and none of them are in your standard story format:

• A Wayback Machine link to “Crampton”, a spec script for an episode of The X Files by Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz from 1998. It’s good stuff.
• ‘Scrow by Michael Lutz, a forum-formatted creepy story about scarecrow hobbyists.
• Unwindr, also by Michael Lutz, a sequel of sorts. This story is done as reviews for a corn maze.

Whew, okay, my poor old phone can breathe again.

I don’t like emails in the natural, modern, traditional sense of having to answer them. But I do like emails in that I enjoy reading things and writing people and having stuff set aside on my phone (in the inbox) to read is handy when I need basically a reading snack. So, here are some cool newsletters I enjoy “cluttering” my inbox.

I do still follow (only via email, not on the app, yuck, lol) some Substack newsletters even though their practises suck (this is the same thing Patreon did for ages that they finally I think reversed, god) and they do things like cross-promoting full nazi garbage into random newsletters. I honestly never click through because I like the way stuff looks in my inbox and my email client is fine with long messages. Anyway!

From people: these are newsletters that often have some life wrapped in

The Hypothesis from Analee Newitz
Love their writing work so of course I love the newsletter! Often cool learning opportunities and neat link-outs.

Vanburen’s Fitness Tips from Ann Leckie
Another writer I adore with a nice monthly newsletter. I have found SO MANY good book recs from this one.

Ask A Sub (substack)
What it sounds like–sexy stuff and lifestyle stuff and kink and lots of big thoughts about relationships. Fun! 100% a perspective that is not mine (writer is a white lady of a higher income class than me) but that’s kind of fun because she is coming from a different place.

Of Stuff: these are newsletters that are neat collections of things

70’s Sci Fi Art
Truly one of my fave inbox treats, basically weekly. I’ve found good reading recs here too, and there are always cool links and thought branches around some very nice sci-fi illustrations.

Dearest
I think this newsletter is what got me into newsletters. Not any regular release but each one is JAM PACKED with links to more info and lots of nerdery cushioning pictures of pretty jewels, wild antiques and neat finds.

I have some other newsletters and serialised fiction over on my Links page, serialised fiction is a whole other thing and I’m still poking around to find more. I really like it but also I am very picky.

I should also be like, I have a newsletter that drops the first Monday of every month and it’s pretty cool actually.

I continue to have eyes bigger than my stomach when it comes to things to read and engage with so another tab cleanout it is.

Make Up A Guy, by Nora Reed. Also there’s a make up a fantasy guy. Literally just a fun silly little character generator.
status: moved to Absolutely random shit because I can’t find if I have a folder for fun generators

Sounds of North American Frogs, from Smithsonian Folk Ways Recordings. It’s what is says on the tin! I found the link via something nice that went into detail about it but I’m just charmed it exists. From the Bandcamp page: “This classic of both biological fieldwork and natural sound recordings, originally released by Folkways in 1958, presents 57 species of frogs and toads on 92 tracks, digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Compiled and narrated by renowned herpetologist Charles M. Bogert, these sounds were recorded in swamps, lakes, woods, creeks, and road-side ditches all over North America.”
status: added to wishlist on Bandcamp

Profanity Adventures at Monkeon. It’s an archive of what happens when you swear in various text adventures on the Spectrum 48k. A fun range of responses from restarting the game to gentle chiding.
status: added to upcoming newsletter links section

Bird divination text found at Hittite settlement over at The History Blog. Just a little info about a cuneiform tablet about interpreting the flights of birds. What is interesting is that it was maybe worn or hung as display and I like thinking about someone who carried a bird flight path cheat sheet around with them.
status: moved to Absolutely random shit

A look at how fan fiction is changing publishing and reading from NPR. A friend sent me this and the transcript wasn’t showing at the time so I set it aside to listen to later, then when I did look at it like two weeks later the transcript was there so I read it, hooray! I like this quote particularly: “What I would say to you, Scott, is, like, allow whimsy into your life, you know? Allow the idea of connecting with people over something niche and exciting.”
status: read

The Manuscript Cookbooks Survey. It’s a database of pre-1865handwritten cookbooks! How cool!!
status: moved to REF: Food & Cooking

And the following links are just a path I followed from a Bluesky post: “In 1994, Italian artist Marco Patrito released a 3D scifi visual novel called Sinkha on Windows 3.1.” There’s some mention of the “gameplay” (just pressing ‘next’ mostly) and some images. A threaded reply also links to the game’s own worldbuilding website. Poking around about it I learned Sinkha was reprinted in Heavy Metal Magazine (see the issue cover here). I’ve always been interested in Heavy Metal’s habit of reprints, even though Sinkha as a whole seemed cool but just too dense for me to care much about beyond skimming information. Luckily, jumping from that, I found some very thorough analysis and read-throughs of Episode 0 and Episode 1 over at Post Rendered. Neat stuff!

Yeah that’s right another bunch of cool links I’ve come across and need to file or finish reading! I guess these will be living under the so-original tag “tab cleanout.”

The End Times by Benjamin Percy. Man, I missed out on the physical subscription to this, but the digital is still open. I LOVE-love serialised stories and I’m super into what I’ve read about the whys and wherefores of this project (see this interview at Counter Craft). Short novel about a post apocalypse, delivered in a newspaper format monthly? Yes please.
status: subscribed

Curate your own newspaper with RSS from Molly White at Citation Needed. This is just a nice run-down of how to set up RSS feeds for yourself, to make the focus of where you’re getting info somewhere that isn’t centralised social media. I’m currently using Inoreader as my RSS base, which is especially nice as more of my pals get blogs.
status: dropped as a maybe link in September’s newsletter

Company Logo Gallery from VGDensetsu. This is such a rad thing, all sorts of company logos, and crediting the folks who actually designed them! Roger Dean is in there a lot.
status: moved to REF: Assorted

Older LGBT Science Fiction Database, built on Notion by Remnantglow. This is a pretty dope filterable database of “Generally, any novel published before the 21st century that can be called 1. sci-fi, and 2. a queer book in some sense is included.” Very much something I’ll probably pull into a spreadsheet and start marking off what I read at some point.
status: moved to REF/TOOLS: Book Organisation

Linkfest #37 from Clive Thompson. Basically someone doing blogging of links better than me, in newsletter form, though I will admit these posts are partly just for me/soft sharing. I just don’t have it in me to blog to that level! Grateful for others who do it.
status: subscribed to newsletter

A VPS Tutorial For Those Who Want Control from x. This is a pretty rad and comprehensive guide on starting your own server! Probably too complicated for me at the moment, but going into my files for later. I am happy with paying for hosting and servers the same way I (would) pay for an electrician to do some fixes (if I were not a renter).
status: moved to REF: Web & Computer

Peacock feathers can be lasers from Rachel Berkowitz over at Science. It’s what it says on the tin!! Peacock feathers use structural colour (reflecting light to create colour, basically??!!) and apparently that can be laser-fied? It’s neat and it’s neat to think of non-traditional ways to focus lasers.
status: dropped as a maybe link in September’s newsletter

Also now just some links I read and kept open so I could dump ’em here:

“The First Homosexuals” Is a Dazzlingly Overwhelming Chronicle of Queerness in Art at Observer. An article about a show at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, a very nice rundown of the content and intent of the curation.

The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905) A Silent FIlm Review from Movies Silently. A very thorough review of both the silent film in question and the picture postcard world around it. Love it!

A plaintext subject line is all email has ever needed from Buttondown’s Blog. They always have something fun about email history. The whys and wherefores of the email header.

This time the tabs weren’t open necessarily so I could organise them into other, better, folders. They were just open because I wasn’t getting around to reading them. But there was some good stuff here, so sharing again!

la la la more link cleaning

On not being a naturalist – but being one anyway over at Scientist Sees Squirrel, a lovely look at what being a naturalist means and how it is more about interest in the natural world than knowing a lot of IDs.
status: finally read

Preserving the USC Optical Sound Effects Library from The Freesound Blog, a very cool dive into vintage optical sound effects and how they worked and were created. Gosh I love archives and people who archive, and the way we learn when we archive.
status: moved to TO-DO: Sounds

The Animal Photo Reference Repository, a very cool site of loads of reference photos, strong anti-generative AI stance. There’s also a gallery of work created from these reference photos! I collect photo reference libraries then never use them, that’s fine.
status: moved to REF: Draing & Pose Reference

Art of The Great Mouse Detective from Art of Animation. This one has been making the rounds but it’s very fun and cool stuff!
status: looked at and admired

The Terror of Blue John Gap from the ACD Society. I’m no Arthur Conan Doyle-head, I think I got to this via reading about some interesting minerals (oh! it was link jumping from something in a recent newsletter from Failbetter Games), but it’s an interesting site layout and an interesting project, plus scans of Doyle’s manuscript!
status: moved to *absolutely random shit

The archive saving home sewing history from the trash over at The Verge, which talks about sewing pattern archives–notably the Commercial Pattern Archive. I found this via a post somewhere about the big four sewing pattern brands getting sold to a liquidator (more info here), which puts everybody in a pickle, because physical patterns are vital not just to sewists but to smaller pattern makers who use the same large-scale tissue paper printing machines.
status: moved to REF: Fibre & Sewing

E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper over at the Buttondown blog is a delicious little slice of history that I feel will be haunting my back-brain for a bit for several reasons.
status: moved to *absolutely random shit

New Game Series – Art & System: Games for Expanded Play is some very cool archiving happening by Central Michigan University Press with crowdfunding upcoming.
status: signed up to be notified when they launch

We’re Really Just Going Through With All This, Aren’t We by Luke Plunkett is really such a mood (negative). It’s about how game releases etc. are approached, but my job has me looking at TV and film release cycles and it’s just!! Ugh.
status: haunting me

Which is what makes it incredible to behold that this week we are just carrying on through it all, as though nothing has changed. We’ll all be subjected to too many trailers to remember even a fraction of them. We’ll all create and digest the same console launch coverage we always have, with midnight launches, photos of people rushing home with their Nintendo-branded shopping bags, first impressions, review scores of a machine breathing only its first breath. We’re cosplaying as the 2000s, when these things meant something and were built for the occasion, even though literally everything around us–the economy, the industry, the platforms and ways we learn about and experience games–has changed radically.

A Radioactive Pen in Your Pocket? Sure! over at IEEE Spectrum is a fun quick look at some concept pens from the late 1950s. Love a Concept Object (TM). A cool thing that then led me to Parkercollector.com, which is one of those unchanged gems of the internet.
status: moved to *absolutely random shit

Okay so I guess, I am not going to get better at tab and link usage so I am going to do these more often, hmmmmmm, will think of a naming process next time.

I do not keep one million tabs open on my browser. I keep simply several dozen across multiple devices. And, since I also do normal, long-ingrained maintenance things like turning off my computer once a week, I can’t just let them fester in there forever. So what I do is make horrible little bookmark folders. It’s a bad habit! This isn’t even looking at inactive tabs in my mobile browsers! So, as I clean my tabs, let’s look at some cool stuff.

Advanced Marionette Making Techniques over at Storm the Castle. It’s a seven string marionette walk through! Very cool stuff. I am still learning marionettes, I had a couple as I grew up but was not good at manipulating them. I’ve made a couple recently but they were more about aesthetics than function. Function next! Hence having this tab open.
status: moved to Ref: Craft (Paper/Costume/Miniatures)

NBOS Character Sheet Designer. A free and very cool way to design character sheets. I encountered this through a tumblr post that is now somewhere deep in my 400+ item queue about blorbos/OCs, and using a character sheet as a template for understanding your story’s main character is genius. NBOS in general slaps.
status: moved to Ref: Assorted, downloaded and installed

Do You Maze. This is a really cool site with printable mazes, but most importantly, guides on drawing mazes. I’ve been adding mazes to my zines as I lay them out, this is where I am learning!
status: moved to Ref: Art Collab & Drawing Tutorials

In that same vein, Super Teacher Worksheets and Discovery Education Puzzlemaker are both incredibly dope ways to make cryptic puzzles and stuff. Also using those in zines (and for fun).
status: in general TO DO folder for easy access

Basic Sprang Moves at Solrhizaarts. I do NOT need to learn or fall in love with new to me fibre arts but dang I am all :eyes: about sprang. I do not have space for this in my heart or day at this moment, I need to close this tab.
status: moved to Ref: Fibre and Sewing

Skink Zine from BlackMudpuppy. Skinks! Zine! Love pics of these little guys, this looks fun.
status: moved to Want: Books

Queer Palestine from Pinko. A zine curating a “small archive of queer Palestinian life”. Obviously relevant to me.
status: moved to Want: Books

Appalachian Transsexual by Kyrsten Nerys Hodge. I actually already bought this (physical copy) I just need to close the tab.

My Tuesday Author Interview over at Night Beats. This was rad! I love Night Beats and Zilla is a joy.
status: linked from TAG Serialised page

Both The Art of Future War and Pulled From the Deep are articles I have open so I can read/finish reading them. Both incredibly topics I am always curious about.

One link, for https://its-behind-you.com, is no longer working since I had it up. It was some really lovely personal site for a Panto actor who had recently passed. I’d set it aside to go through it more later, there were pictures from shows, and history and all the lovely stuff one finds on that sort of thing. I’m guessing the domain is no longer being paid for. A loss!
status: moved to ARCHIVE: Dead links I want back

Okay, I think that’s it. Whew, thank you for coming along as I cleaned things up. I need to do this (blogging and link cleaning) more often. Oh! Speaking of links, I have added a pal’s blog to the Links page! Go check out Groove Pit! You know you love spreadsheets and TTRPGs.

I grew up in a small town in South-ish, Central-ish Willamette Valley. Then I moved to another small town and lived there for a long time. While Chase and I lived in Forest Grove I documented the places we went and the drives we took. Part of me always wanted for the WPA to happen again, or to figure out a grant for us to just drive and document.

Now, we get to (or, more properly, Chase gets to and I get to assist and document) be part of Project Dayshoot. July 15^th will be the 30^th anniversary of “over 90 photographers spen[ding] 24 hours capturing daily life throughout the state of Oregon.” There’s even a book, One Average Day, full of photos taken by photojounalists on a day when I was a couple of months old.

Nobody shot in the town I grew up in (or, more properly, that I grew up just outside), because it was just a little place with a mill. Not that it super matters, those photojournalists did a fabulous job documenting the “people, places and pastimes” of Oregon in the early 80s. It’s a costumer’s dream, because the smaller towns still dress late 1970s on the edges. But here is Project Dayshoot’s statement:

On July 15, 1983, over 90 photographers spent 24 hours capturing daily life throughout the state of Oregon. Project Dayshoot was the name of this venture, and it produced a book entitled One Average Day.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Project Dayshoot, the original photographers—plus new contributors—are being organized to capture images throughout Oregon on July 15, 2013. This page, in conjunction with the e-mail address below, is the location for all information related to the project.

Any proceeds from the sale of materials relating to this project will benefit the Oregon Historical Society.

Chase, being a professional photojournalist for the past eight (nearly nine) years, was asked to participate. And, because we already do stuff like this for fun, we have a plan. Other than two scheduled-ish places we’re going to hit, the only goals are the little nowhere towns on the way to and along the coast.

A lot of people, after Chase told Dayshoot where he was going, decided to hit the coast, interestingly enough. It doesn’t matter because we’re not going to stay and make love to the popular places, the biologists, or the noble logger. We’ll be on the move all day (starting at midnight tonight), finding and shooting the things we like to shoot.

And then, when the day is done at midnight on July 15^th, we’re on a mini vacation. Not that we’ll stop taking pictures. You can’t break a combined thirty year habit of photographing everything you can.

Fair warning for those following me on social media, I’m cross-linking everything all day tomorrow. So you’ll be able to see what I can upload whenever I get a signal at:

Flickr
Tumblr
Twitter
Instagram

And, if you feel so inclined, document your part of Oregon and hashtag it #dayshoot30. Be part of history and support the Oregon Historical Society! Just remember to note when, what and where you’re shooting.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

So, I saw a sweet little moment at the Medieval Faire in Forest Grove.

And I was like, “I’m gonna paint that all Norman Rockwell stylez.” Because I miss painting. It was fun. I super love using using my Instagram as a documentation of process.

But everything is the Loc-Nar, for me, so. The feeling sort of changed.

I do love how this turned out and I decided that since the original is just getting filed away somewhere I might as well make it available to get as a print at Society 6, if you are a creepy fuck who likes to spend money. Or a wonderful person. You could be a wonderful person who likes to spend money too.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.