Vermont Bound!
Yikes, I blinked and another month has gone by! Claire and I are starting to feel pretty well settled in to our new place here in Santa Fe. We've done a few fun end-of-summer things which are specific to Santa Fe, including a visit to the SWAIA Indian Market and the annual burning of Zozobra. I've started a Santa Fe Flickr set where I am documenting a lot of this stuff, if anyone wants to check some of it out.
One of my little projects while we have been unpacking all our boxes was to organize my record collection. When my grandfather died, I inherited all of his old jazz records, and when I cleaned all my stuff out of my parents' house a few months ago, they gave me most of their old records, plus I dug up the records from my childhood. So many of these albums have such amazing cover art that, on a whim, I decided to start a Flickr set documenting this collection. Every time I listen to an album (to check for scratches/skips) I'll take a photo of the cover and write a little bit about it. Check it out if you're into that kind of thing!
Now that we're feeling settled, it's time for me to hit the road again! Tonight I head to Vermont for ten days so that I can teach my first two Professional Practices classes in person at The Center for Cartoon Studies. I'm bouncing around to give lectures in a few other classes while I am there, so it should be a fun, if not busy, trip. I'm also hoping to get a lot of cartooning and coloring done while in the distraction-free setting of White River Junction, VT.
My CCA teaching is also in full swing - I'm advising six MFA thesis students and running an online cartooning course - so my schedule is splattered with a plethora of meetings and deadlines. Hopefully I'll be able to keep my time zones straight (out here in Santa Fe we're on "MOUNTAIN TIME" which sounds very rugged). I've got students scattered all over the USA and even one in Korea this semester, so it's a lot to stay on top of.
Alright, well, here's hoping for some uneventful traveling. See you soon, Vermont!
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I love how detailed and on top of your blogging you are, Alec. Hope the teaching in VT goes well and enjoy your time with the second year CCA kids :D
Maia wrote: "I love how detailed and on top of your blogging you are, Alec. Hope the teaching in VT goes well and enjoy your time with the second year CCA kids :D"Thanks Maia! I think I mostly blog so that years later when I'm like, "What was I doing back in 2015?" I'm able to look it up and go "oh yeah!" :P I hope you're enjoying being out of school and that you're putting all that free time to good use ;) Can't wait to see some new comics from your corner!
I used to keep a paper journal for that same purpose- to go back and see what the heck I'd been doing in the past, because I can't seem to remember anything past 6 months ago when life gets busy. I am enjoying being out of school, and I have been drawing like crazy! I just started posting a 24 page comic (a side project) on my tumblr which you can see here: http://redgoldsparks.tumblr.com/tagge...I'm also going to start posting The Thief's Tale chapter two really soon on this new tumblr page I made: thethiefstale.com
I also wanted to say I started following your Isle of Elsi tumblr and I enjoy your comments about status updates. I actually found your "Reassessing my original goal" post really encouraging. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be, but it was!
Alec wrote: "Maia wrote: "I love how detailed and on top of your blogging you are, Alec. Hope the teaching in VT goes well and enjoy your time with the second year CCA kids :D"
Thanks Maia! I think I mostly bl..."
Wow, Maia, you've built a really nice home for The Thief's Tale! That site looks fantastic. It's cool to see your adaptation of Tom O'Bedlam too - I've found that bouncing between two projects can sometimes keep you more productive on BOTH because you don't get burned out.Thanks for checking out the Isle of Elsi tumblr - I'm glad the reassessment of my goals was encouraging - sometimes you gotta just face the facts that your past-self didn't have all the answers! :) I'm working on the real Isle of Elsi site with my website designer friend and it should launch in the next month or two... I'm pretty excited for everyone to check it out!
