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New Year’s Eve confessional

31 December 2009

Oh my poor website, how I have neglected you! Never mind, darling, you know you are always in my thoughts. But it’s New Year’s Eve, and I have some things to confess. First, let’s get this out of the way: I really hate New Year’s Eve. It is almost the silliest excuse for fake celebration [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Days 4 & 5: The Voice

5 November 2009

It’s been a couple of less-than-creative days, I’m afraid. I’ve had two days in a row working down the coal mine (aka at my old day job) and it’s really wiped me out. Long story, but there are health reasons – as well as my artistic dream – that I don’t usually work there more [...]

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How to break an artistic funk in three easy steps

1 November 2009

So I’ll come clean. I’ve been in a bit of a funk. It’s true. Oh yes. For most of October, despite it being my favouritest month ever, I’ve been feeling pretty much paralysed by doubt and fear. Were I living in a war zone, or Neanderthal times, or I don’t know, amongst brain-eating zombies or [...]

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Danger: low flying shoes ahead

14 August 2009

Earlier this week, someone threw a shoe at me. “WTF?” you’re thinking.* “What sort of person throws shoes at people?” Of course, it wasn’t a real shoe. It was that kind of shoe throwing described by the wonderful, wacky, wise Havi Brooks. It was “a particularly condescending remark about something” I did, and at the [...]

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