October 2008

Using creativity to heal from addictions

The Arts & Healing network has an interesting interview with Eric Maisel and Susan Raeburn about their new book Creative Recovery: A Complete Addiction Treatment That Uses Your Natural Creativity

"Mary Daniel Hobson: How is the creative person's recovery from addiction a unique path? 

she's off on a jet plane

Yes I'm desperately packing trying to find my passport, writing notes for the cat sitter and last minute cleaning.

I've bought my film fixed my lomo and got new underwear. I'll be travelling to LA,SF, Sydney Australia and back via NY. Hopefully I'll blog along the way when I can get to an internet cafe. I'm unlikely to be able to upload photoies until I get back on the 15th Dec.

 

Jacaranda for Harry

jacaranda tree

From here - a Jacaranda picture for Harry  my internet friend after some discussion of the light of South Africa versus other places (though this tree being Australian is the wrong nationality).

all those moments in time

tears in rain

From this blog and here as an animated gif and the film that inspired it

Wonderland

I was at the hairdesser last Friday - due to feeling somewhat stressed I managed to arrive and hour and a half early. No problem I went up the road and had breakfast out. One of my favourite treats. I picked up Wonderland magazine to read. I wasn't very hopeful of reading anything interesting it looked too hip with many pale cheekboned models in black and white. But ! I found a great article on Chris Doyle the cinematographer.

Living Small

care near portland st london holga 2008

Living Small is a blog by a writer to moved to a small town and she oftern writes about sustainble living, local foods and growing your own.

A love note to you from

Kirsty O' Connor's bookmaking classes

Introduction to Case Binding

We will learn to make a single section A5 size half-cloth hardcover note or sketchbook using decorative papers for cover and endpapers and finishing with a ribbon tie. Interested students may go on to learn multi-section bookbinding on a further course.

Sunday 16th November 10.30am-4.30pm £45

change your size

"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while, and was quite lost, actually, and I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — Solve it!" The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional", this whole list of adjectives, and then, at the bottom, it said: "and it must be 3¼ seconds long".