cobaltika

abandoned school : nortonville KS : march 2008
(a few more on flickr, upon clicking image, if you like)

more images from the little nortonville excursion. these are of course, tricked up a little in photoshop, using a texture layer, as i have seen many people doing lately to “vintagize” images. ok, i just wanted to play with it, too. these are the first images, that it seems like it really works. for me, anyway. for fun, i just printed some, on nice photo paper, and they look awesome, if i do say. sometimes i forget to print things, just view them on screen, and am so delighted to see Real Images.

not very much artishness going on this week, although i did work on my new book a little last night. i like it, but it seems to look like everything i do lately, which isn’t *bad* exactly, it is just i keep wanting to try to grow, try new things, and it seems so easy to slip right back into a comfort zone. grrrrrrrrrr. i’ll be fucking thomas kincade if i don’t look out. although i guess if i could rake it in like that, for doing the same thing over and over, i wouldn’t whine for long.

i realize i have been doing this online journal thing for seven years, as of this month. i have a seven-year itch, that is for sure. i have simplified it down to the point where it is rather boring, even to me. perhaps i need to throw in more bizarre personal events and/or thoughts. or naked pictures again? (snicker!) i don’t know! i don’t think i will be dumping my journal, but i might restructure. i will probably stay on livejournal, because there are so many people i like and have “known” for so long. even though so many of them seem to have disappeared (sniff). the community thing is nice. comments are easy, so that a conversation can occur almost. and i like being able to filter personal posts, though i don’t do it very often. but i like my *real* journal on my site, too. i keep resisting making it more bloggish, with everything on the front page. everyone’s blogs look alike now, it seems. i would like to do something outrageous and rebellious. and i wonder about opening comments up? would anyone speak? or just spammers? even though i do this for me, as a personal documentation, and a creative work, too, interaction is pretty nice.

i even have a blogspot, which i like, but only use for posting cheapcam shots and for linking to all the blogspot people i like to read. but i don’t think i will turn that into my real journal, even though it is handy as hell.

mostly i just do NOT want my journal to turn into a walking advertisement for my etsy, ebay or stuff i’m selling online. sometimes it starts to feel like that. kick me! sometimes i long to just write and write, like i used to, but funny, it doesn’t Look Right without an image any more? yes, maybe some rebellion might be in order …