balance, upset

Had one of those days yesterday in which I got so much done, it was almost absurd. But today I just couldn't wake up! Slept incredibly late, and I need to have another getting so much done day! (I will). I don't seem to have gotten back on a sensible schedule since my return from Upstate, the farm.

Today (what's left of it) is for animation and for resin jewelry. I will make up for late-sleeping.
I will work into the night.


l a t e r :
I have been working at the Tara Lynne Band materials all day. They have now a blog, and an updated MySpace page. Web site will (hopefully) be finished by the end of next week. I have also to update the KE Haas Salon site, on top of about 8 or 9 other projects which will be ongoing for a few weeks at least. Whew! Busy.

l i s t m a k i n g

Today I did a drawing of a rutabega (see above). A magic rutabega. (More on why later...) Oh. Oops-- turns out I've been spelling it wrong, according to Mirriam-Webster. It's rutabaga!

There is a mighty thunderstorm occurring RIGHT NOW! A beautiful summer storm, following several hours of that tinged purple sky and flashes of heat lightning. Gorgeous. (And I left the wine bar just in time so as to enjoy this storm from my front room, and not have to walk through the downpour!)

Ben is in Philadelphia for some meetings, he left this morning. I shall wake early tomorrow to catch a plane up to Rochester. Looking forward to seeing the family! And: meeting the new pup, Wolf; seeing the new barn, the redecorated kitchen, and the farm in green in general. I hope it doesn't really rain all weekend, as I'd like to swim and go riding (horse and bike!). We'll see. Will take lots of photos. Meantime there are a few from Fire Island up on Flickr now.

recent readings
* The Places that Scare You, Pema Chodron
* The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
* Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
* The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
* The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever

recent viewings
* The Dark Ages (The History Channel)
* The Spiderwick Chronicles
* Mary Tyler Moore, (eason one)
* Moonlighting (pilot- oof!)
* A Picture of England (wonderful series, with David Dimbleby)
* Barbarians (series, with Terry Jones)

lately listening
* Girls and Boys, Ingrid Michaelson
* Music for Airports, Brian Eno
* LOTR Complete, Howard Shore
* s h u f f l e

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs"

Now that's a fantastic subject line.
The body of the email was pretty mundane, although its closing lines are equally poetic, in their way. To wit:

"Find me there and tell me a bit about your dreams.
Waiting for your answer"

Who writes this stuff? It makes you wonder how many among us (perhaps they give their job description as Internet Marketer?) are making their living in the industry of SPAM?

out of the fire..

Fire Island, that is.

One full week out there and you completely forget that feeling in your lower back that arises from being in front of the computer machine all day! Alas, after a single work day, it begins to creep back up the spine. I feel fairly certain I've caught up with everything, but some emails from last week and weekend seem to have disappeared into the ether, so if you sent on e to me and haven't yet heard back, send another post haste!

Hmmm. I thought a bit of typing might be cathartic, but it appears I'm not ready.
More later.

shelter, swelter or soak.

Those were the primary options over the weekend, but we had a good one of it anyway. A roving wander took us through Vinegar Hill , DUMBO and into the Heights on Saturday, finally trapped in air conditioning with beer and a Mets game as the torrents began in earnest. Tasted and bought some delicious things at the New Amsterdam Market on Sunday before being caught in another downpour on Mott street.

I've been missing Pi lately. Being a cold water fish, he never did care much for summer (I sometimes put ice cubes in his tank to melt and give him some relief from fish soup conditions). Oddly enough, he's still in the freezer, awaiting a proper burial. At Coney, later in the year, I think-- where Tres was also ceremonially laid to rest.

the Solstice has come and gone

Thanks to all who made their way out to Red Hook last week, whether for the opening or since. The collection from the opening (minus the pieces that have sold, of course) are still at Metal and Thread, along with myriad other lovely things, so do stop by if you haven't yet.

It's dark dark dark in Brooklyn today, and it puts me in mind of Winter days. This year, I shall be looking forward to the month of November, if for only one reason: a strange thing called NaNoWriMo. I've signed up already and it certainly sounds like heady fun.

digital

The problem of email (how or if it will be manipulated back into Pandora's box, or at least made to fit in one's Inbox); Texting; the omnipresence and simultaneous nonexistence of Blogs; IKEA: "if you build it and provide transport, they will come"; an hallucinatory human-sized bird cage; horse-porn as a tool in an Election year;

Moreover:
(from previous asides)
Were the Hulk's pants similarly affected by radiation, for there is otherwise no passable reason for "suspension of disbelief" (an ongoing problem still not tackled in 2008)--
and
How, in the future (read: now) everything is affordable, excepting the cost of living (eg: furniture; air conditioners; hi-def anything; iPhones; and external hard drives-- nearly free).

electroweb

The new electrofork site is launched.
Photos and Fine art missing, but soon to re-emerge (with much more than was on electrofork) at elizabethdaggar.com

In other news, some of my artwork may be appearing in the apartment of the young and the Real on a cable network near you before long, so keep an eye here for further details. See you at Metal and Thread in Red Hook this Thursday!

Of summer and a small island off the coast

A quick mid-morning missive, from an air conditioned perch in a small office building in Manhattan; I'm covering for a friend while he takes a long weekend. I woke later than planned, and had to rush but caught the N just as i descended the staircase at Atlantic, so I arrived on time.

I woke late on account, mainly, of having been up late working. Not working on what I should have been, but working (as I have been, obsessively) on the new electrofork site. It's nearly finished! The jewelry section is proving time-consuming, but nearly there, nearly there. (Honestly, it has been stealing time from other projects!) It's so close that it's just killing me to have to take time away from it lately to do "real" work.

I'm sure this is all very exciting to read. Back to work.

Electrofork at Metal & Thread

Selected new works in sterling and silverplate featuring my photographs will be featured at a wine reception on the evening of June 19th, at a lovely shop/gallery in Red Hook. Come on down after work and say hello, maybe see the sun set over the harbor or show off your new art-bling at one of the local bars or eateries...

Thursday June 19th 6pm-8pm
Metal and Thread
398 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

Art and things that start with A

Amsterdam III (above) was a selected piece in Artlog's studio for this past weekend's Atlantic Avenue Artwalk, in Brooklyn. It has now been selected to go on to the Affordable Art Fair in Manhattan.

new site

I am an artist and my name is elizabethdaggar.com

This will be the future home of my more art-oriented, less design-oriented works.
paintings : drawings : photographs : perhaps, jewelry...

we'll see. For now,

t r e e s .

TIME IS A LOAN SHARK™

Other than that:
- Working
- Not exercising enough, but some, and enjoyably, as it's no longer winter.
- New mobile-- Alias™ with QWERTY. (have to get used to typing straight keyboard with thumbs!)
-Jewelry sales have been great for wholesale market! (nil on Etsy, but I've been remiss...) Met the owner of Fuego 718 over the weekend and he is wonderful, as are the owners of Metal & Thread. (If all my future wholesale customers follow suit, it will be an ongoing pleasure, honestly.)
- I have finally put all the business cards I've collected over the past year and a half into my Rolodex™ (so old school with the paper).
Hmmm...
- Benn doing some work in Flash again; realizing why I missed animation. (Although I still vastly prefer After Effects for it)
- I enjoyed some sun today, running errands and also running into some friends. The time of iced coffee has returned!
- Have notions for a 2009 calendar. I know I said it would happen last year, but this year, I mean it. I've realized, in the years without one, that it really was a wonderful way to stay in touch and reach out.
- I am loving springtime (even the rainy bits)
- Currently reading "The Mysterious Benedict Society"- a book after my own heart, as it covers some themes I've begun in a chapter or two of beginnings of a book... Besides, it's illustrated by Carson Ellis who is, as far as I'm concerned, an Edward Gorey for a new generation.

Alright, finished for now.

Mainly, I just wanted to point out that TIME is a LOAN SHARK. That is to say- it's a thief! and you can't ever hope to catch up.

Center for Contemporary Arts

Electrofork joins the Mad Framer in donating a piece to the Center for Contemporary Art's 7th Annual Photography Auction in Santa Fe this June. The above photo (24" x 18" print from an edition of 13) will be treated to a custom, archival frame by The Mad Framer for the auction. Check out the CCA web site for more details.