Why did you change my blog to your stupid new block editor?
I was happy with the classic one.
Why would you replace it with something so unintuitive?
This sucks.
Aug19
Dear WordPress
Tag Archives: Technology
Mar22
Creative Juice #132
Twelve inspiring articles:
- This is why I need grandchildren.
- “Then and Now” photos of celebrities.
- Don’t just take notes. Take sketchnotes.
- A specially designed torch for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
- Muralist Drew Young talks about his childhood, his influences, his process.
- Clever mixed media.
- Simple innovations.
- The best advice to a young writer might not sound very encouraging at all.
- An Assyrian basin and its history.
- I haven’t taken any MasterClasses yet, but I’m a big fan of the commercials for them. Here is David Lynch talking about his MasterClass on creativity and film.
- As global temperatures rise, we will need more of this anti-surge technology from Holland all over the world.
- Polar vortex storm photos.
Feb22
Creative Juice #127
Somehow I got out of sequence. This should have been last week’s collection. Somehow I misplaced it after I found the Grant Snider piece. . .
- Gorgeous wedding photography.
- This artwork is a little difficult to look at.
- Beautiful tangles. You can click on the images to enlarge them.
- Living at an artist’s residence.
- Cartoonist Grant Snider’s tribute to poet Mary Oliver.
- Excellent books for kids (and some are even good for adults).
- Some DIY projects for the exterior of your home.
- If you’re ever in Romania, you can visit this amusement park in an old salt mine.
- If you’ve ever thought of playing guitar, keyboard, or drums, here are some suggestions for you (and also some surprising stuff).
- In praise of endpapers.
- Free star quilt patterns.
- Lovely chapel in South Africa.
Dec28
Video of the Week #130: Amazing Antiquity
Oct12
Guest Post: The Apprehension Engine
Thanks to Donna at MyOBT for this guest post. I usually avoid horror movies, but I am so intrigued by this instrument, I may just go see The Witch. Or maybe I’ll just watch these videos again.
Mark Korven Jan27
Creative Juice #26
Sixteen juicy articles to tickle your creativity bone:
- Just looking at these snowy illustrations makes me cold.
- Whatever your art form, what will it say about you to a future generation, or the present one?
- A reading list for quilters who like to make scrap quilts.
- Combining nature with 3D printing.
- Why you want me to move next door to you.
- Don’t you wish you could take a peek inside Frida Kahlo’s house?
- Street art.
- Gorgeous embroidery.
- Are you writing a story that needs more tension? Have your characters fight dirty.
- Why creative cross-training is important for writers, artists, and musicians.
- Why laughter is important for your health.
- Oooo…I want to do this quilt-along.
- Teeny tiny creatures.
- The director of Incredibles, Iron Giant, and Ratatouille talks about animation.
- You could take these photographs if you had a good eye and your camera ready.
- Portraits made from flowers and leaves.
Sep27
My Apologies
If you are one of my subscribers, I am so sorry–for the past couple of days, every time I schedule a future post, I get an email saying there’s a new post on ARHtistic License. And if I click to link to see the post, I get a 404 error message–the requested page does not exist. Because it doesn’t. Yet.
If you are getting these email alerts, too, please don’t hate me. Please don’t unsubscribe. I tried to contact the WordPress people, but I keep getting thrown into the support forum, where other people facing my problem write in technical terms I don’t understand. I am sure this is just a temporary glitch. Please bear with me.
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Technology. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.
Speaking of glitches, in 1998, Salon, the online magazine, asked readers to submit creative error messages. They circulated through forwarded emails for years. Here are some of the best entries:
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third.
Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity — the essence of Zen:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
“My Novel” not found.The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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