Today I’m posting a two-fer from 10 years ago. I’ve been doing a lot of this sort of thing myself lately, thinking of ways to expand my studio, which is a small downstairs room in my house that is overflowing with, well… I’m not sure what all this crap is, but suffice to say it’s “overflowing.” In 30 years of drawing Arlo & Janis I have had only one perfect studio space, the entire upstairs of a small Tudor-style house I lived in briefly in the 90s. Of course, this situation is my own doing. My lack of organizational skills and my relative indifference to clutter have turned many an adequate room into a dysfunctional fire trap. Well, if I say so myself, this year’s resolutions are holding strong, and I’m determined to transform my current workspace, albeit small. Maybe I’ll post pictures as I go!
Rearranged Marriage
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141 responses to “Rearranged Marriage”
pictures are good š
OF due 1031-1051 CST. Right now I have a different URL that I need to hang onto, one that you may find interesting. To find my favorite open cluster, take binocs [(%&&#@ speelczech] somewhere with no/little light pollution, find Jupiter high in the S. It’s in the dim constellation Cancer [the Crab], a ‘sign’ of the zodiac with no bright stars, but with a ‘smudge’ just a bit NW of Jupiter in the direction of the two bright stars, Castor and Pollux [%%*##$*] in the next ‘sign’, Gemini. Binocs resolve the smudge into a jewel box of stars, M44, the ‘Beehive’ cluster. The Wiki site is pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster
You can find the OF URL in one of my posts yesterday. Peace, emb
I have a hall closet I’m going to dejunkify, rearrange and organize, just as soon as I can get a round tuit. For some reason, every time I’ve walked by it in the past year, the name “Fibber McGee” has come to mind.
Everyone needs to live in a series of small rooms with low ceilings and crooked walls. You get a new prospective on scale. This house rambles but it is all small spaces.
If you should have a small slice of real estate, we could all show up for a “Studio for Jimmy” build session. A great reason for a gathering, plenty of home cooking, and a great new studio built by A&J fans. If we do this, does it mean we have become an Amish Village?
Actually a good idea, Sand. like Habitat houses. You and I would fit in, that’s for sure I think. It might be like those 200 bearded men in my back yard and the porta potty guy asking if it was an Amish family reunion?
Jimmy’s studio should have no closets and no horizontal flat surfaces. Experience tells me so.
Large open area. Lots of natural light. North facing windows with a garden – wildlife area outside. Interior separated into drawing space, business space, and storage areas. Small outdoor patio with two chairs and a small table to support contemplation and idea fermentation.
sand, the only problem with that plan of the Village-sourced studio is that the Amish actually know how to build things. š
Wow! Can I relate to that, Jimmy. I am a keeper and saver. My Auburn Room was presentable about 5 years ago but I have cluttered it up so much that Wifey keeps the door shut most of the time for fear someone will look in on it and be horrified. I make the same New Year’s resolution every year, but can’t seem to find that round tuit either. Maybe this year for Lent or something. A blessed Ash Wednesday to everyone.
Has anyone lost a cat in the clutter? I have a round tuit Mardi Gras coin somewhere I think.
pictures are nice, Jimmy….but not required. š Word pictures work just fine and you are great with those!
Or work it into the strip, since Arlo goes through this periodically. Just look at it as research for some really good humor.
OF due 1324-1344 CST. Peace, emb.
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GR6, me thinketh ye under estimate the talent represented in the Village.
Eh, thanks domaucan. As me ole friend Will Shakespeare was fond of saying, “Tis Ash Wednesday, eat like an acting seeking employment.”
After the dumping of snow that we got a couple of weeks ago (not as bad as New England) all the clutter near my shed magically disappeared…. That is truly the only positive thing that I have said all month.
“If you’ve ever mowed the grass in your front yard and found a car…you may be a redneck.”
Ghost, speak for yourself on building. While I would not frame a building, I can actually mix and pour concrete, put up siding, sheet rock and plaster, paint, install tile and wallpaper rooms.Decked porches. I have put in drop ceilings and insulation, do I want to do this again for myself. We will find out!I have a lot of repairs pending. I lost the electrician, plumber and builder.
Ghost, this one’s for you: http://www.zeff.us/rgeek.html Several of them have fit me at various times and two of them fit my hardware geek. Now, try to figure out which ones.
sideburns, now I am scared, someone other than JJ has been peeking on our house.
Number 2 is sandcastlerā¢! Number 2 is sandcastlerā¢!
LOL @ GR6, Leroy Jethro Gibbs Rule #9. And guilty of number 9 too.
JJ your studio sounds like my computer room. We have a 900 sq foot house with 2 bedrooms, one which has been turned into a computer room. I have to have my better half move her chair for me to get to and from my computer. I got the good spot I sit over the heater duct, she sits next to the litter box.
About rooms that require that the door be kept shut – reminds me of a college friend who claimed her dad would look into her room, shake his head, and ask, “Was anybody hurt?”
OF: Last prediction above is still posted at the OF site above. emb