moreover

so today is better.

i'm presently listening to the history of the english language, focusing now, in lectures 18&19, on shakespeare. aye, there's the point. interesting bit, the quarto vs. folio versions of his plays, like hamlet's to be on not to be speech - more "grammatically" correct in the quarto version, and seemingly less flowery - an actor's version? a less perfect version? why was it changed? interesting.

anyhow, i think i'll start my new art project tonight. or maybe right now. hrm, there's an idea, the present. but not a lot of time, since i'm at work right now. maybe i'll map out some other ideas. i'm not sure that i like the yin-yang idea, but i do like the circle motif, because it's going to be hanging in the neonatal icu, where laura works. the circle is a symbol of life and eternity, so i like that, but they do have to watch out for death, since it is, after all the icu, so i do like the idea of the yin-yang, with the light in the dark, etc. hrm. a bit worth pondering.

i mapped it out in 4x6 (a little smaller actually) rectangles, because i'll have to print them out in pieces and then stitch it afterward, kind of like the piece i did for laura. i mapped it and thought about maybe trying to find photos that will fit the shapes for each grid, but the shapes aren't really that complex and i'm not sure how to represent properly areas that would be all white or all black, since there's no detail at all... maybe i could make it into two different colors - purple and yellow, perhaps. i don't want to do a cross or an ankh - the cross is a tired motif for me and the ankh, well, people just won't get it.

the only thing i could think to do otherwise would be to create pieces for each one, but that's about 16 separate items.

i could also take smaller close-up pictures of things and stitch those together. maybe some flowers, but i don't have any that i'd like to shoot, since the roses are all dead. hrm. that's not a bad idea though. or maybe a face stitched together from other people's faces, but who to use? laura would not appreciate being in it - maybe a bunch of babies? that might be a little too ann geddes or whatever her name is - i hate that baby shit. unless i use full-sized paper and then it's four pieces, rather than 16, since it's 17.5x22.5, so it's twice the length and width of a standard page... it bears some consideration.

i also have to work on my song and get it recorded so that keith and jason and john can come up with their parts. i want to keep a feel in the song. only thing i noted when we practiced it was that jason needed to slow down the drums in the chorus, maybe half-time, compared to what he's doing now - try to get it to open up a little, because the song needs to breath in that part... but the bridge really needs some work. i had a rhythm that i thought would've worked, using triplets instead of standard 4/4 type rhythm. oh well, i'm off for now.