Window-shopping for Creatives

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One of the many things I love about this place is that it gets me to meet all these wonderful, inspiring people, who seed ideas into my head, and move me to chase beauty. A conversation the other day with my lovely friend millycf1976@millycf1976 inspired me to go cloud-gazing. I've been neck-deep in preparations for the book launch, on top of the move, and much of my day has become... mechanic.

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I realized I'd begun shifting into auto-pilot, measuring some of my art in terms of what I can use for marketing. It's an entire thing. My drawing, for instance, has been a little hijacked of late, as I've been drawing each of my characters to put on social media. It's great fun, but it's also easy to slip into a mentality of "Okay, I've only got this much to draw, I'd better do something productive, rather than doodle". And I love to doodle.

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Same with photography. So Saturday night, I'd come home from shopping homeware, and was intending to hit the pool to get in a few laps, but when I saw the sky, and inspired by my conversation with Milly about clouds, I said fuck it, grabbed my camera, and set out.

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I'm someone who loves looking at the sky, to the point of frequently tripping over myself when I walk.

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This one above has got to be one of my favorite buildings in this city, and it's only a few streets from my house. It's so elegant, and tasteful. I think some lawyers own it now, and I'm glad they haven't modernized it. It would be a terrible shame.

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Fugue.

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Who needs TV, when you've got Hitchcock?

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Everyone says pink skies are beautiful...

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Except for me.

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'Cause they feel like an ending,

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And smell like blood on the horizon.

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Or worse,

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Feel like cotton-candy world

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Which means you and I ain't real.

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Not too keen on how this last moon shot turned out. Should've been clearer. I need a bigger zoom. Nevertheless, it was such a creative, fun evening. So I'm thankful for the results, whichever way they've come out.

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Here's a cat saying 'hi' for some levity.

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