Thursday, April 30, 2020

What Makes Me Happy: Graphic Design + Letterpress

Check these out, they are really cool and perhaps remind me greatly of another letterpress artist from my past.



I accidentally stumbled upon her from a worm farmer's page no less. Hmm... weird, but cool. And have only learned a little bit so far, but I am most excited to learn she was the graphic designer for Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. Which was very eye-pleasing.

This one is also great!

Back in the Saddle

I think Facebook posts may have hi-jacked my blog posts approximately 6 years ago! Wow, 6 years!

I have debated getting off Facebook for a good number of months if not longer but never did, for fear of losing a platform of connection and being out of touch.

Well here we are in the middle of COVID-19 Lockdown and as of a week or so ago I could no longer stomach Facebook. At first, it was an overwhelm of "you should do this to *FILL IN THE BLANK* during COVID. It was too much information and some perhaps tone-deaf if not shaming or fear-inducing. No thank you!

Then it was because it brought me anger and impatience for my fellow human beings for turning everything about COVID into a political stance. Let me back up, political or not, the sentiment that if you don't agree with my amazing after-the-fact hindsight opinions about what should and shouldn't have happened then you are obviously a dumb-ass. *puke emoji*

Finally, today in the once every few days I hop on, it turned into an almost comical copy of the tabloids you find at the grocery store register.

How was I fooled for so long?

I don't want to lose faith in humanity. I want to be able to meet someone and not have any preconceived notions  (outside what kind of bumper stickers they roll up with on their car). I don't want to witness the worst in everyone so freely. I don't want to waste time on what feels like temporary trash for cheap highs or lows.

Yesterday I was still puzzling over how to share the good and avoid the bad... duh! I blogged before I ever social-media'd

So here I am!

I am back to share the things that make me happy and give me energy and perhaps to rant occasionally but not through hastily typed out reactions to the million pin-balling ideas that is Facebook.

Oh and this is what I am looking like these days...