Today, I scanned. I have accumulated just over 30 Polaroids since January. Usually I scan them the same day, but I haven’t been doing that.
This is probably going to take me a while—particularly if I am to keep plugging away at the book.
Why will it take me a while? Well, it all comes down to the vagaries of scanning film, with Polaroids adding their own peculiar brand of fun to the mix. Continue reading
Continuing my verbless journey through May…
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Dear Tuesday,
I knew that heat yesterday wasn’t going to last…
Love,
Kevin
(3 May 2016)
(I changed the title of this series of posts—finally!—because Working on the new book sounds really lame. Anyway…)
Today, I began raiding a past project for some layout ideas. From July 2009 through June 2010, I worked on creating one new layout for each day. For the most part, I succeeded (though there were a few days I had to play catch-up). Not all of the layouts were great, but I gave myself a new set of constraints each month to force myself to try a bunch of different stuff. Continue reading
With so many versions of what we hear on the news these days, it can be hard sometimes to suss out the truth…
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Dear Monday,
You’re looking awfully bright and chipper today. This may be a good day for a walk.
Love,
Kevin
(2 May 2016)
With National Poetry Writing Month ended, and a new month begun, it’s time for a new challenge. After looking at a few possibilities, I have decided to give verbless poems a shot. Yup—poems with no verbs. Here is my first entry:
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Dear Sunday,
Happy May Day!
Love,
Kevin
(1 May 2016)
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. My Day #30 poem can be found here. I wanted to fix it up a bit more, however, as it felt incomplete. So—bonus round!—here is a somewhat more polished version, in which I worry less about preserving the exact meaning of the original. It’s not an out-and-out rewrite (even though I added an extra verse/stanza), so I am choosing to think of it more as a brief elaboration…
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. Seeing as how the closest thing I have to poetry in a foreign language is my small-ish collection of Japanese albums, and I do have experience translating Japanese, I chose as my poem a song by Nav Katze.
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 