2) creation

(last few days) Resuming work on The Great Falling Away , having plotted out the end for years and now facing the climb down.  Months of various treatments, notebook entries, and voice memos to work out the structure and overall placement in ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...

2) creation, 3) community

(last few weeks)  Contact with Naquin and setting plans for him to create new cover for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... - creating shared on-line dropbox and selecting illustrations and photos as a reference pool. Some illustration work for children and copying old notebook.

2) creation

(last few days) Copying old journal into new, calling Naquin about possibility of him doing version of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., beginning a new illustration but stalling out.

2) creation

(last few days) Hours of work-focused writing.  Illustration work and reading.

1) identification, 2) creation

(last few weeks) Hours of writing everyday, mostly at night to midnight, 1:00 or later.  Work related efforts of communication, correspondence, public relations, efforts to maintain and generate extra income for family, and standard papers for school.  Watching film, Beauty is Embarrassing.  Some illustrative work for kids.

1) identification, 2) creation

(during the last week)  Hours on work related websites, pleased to have daily efforts have immediate audience; frustration this artifact log charts the efforts but not the content.  Thoughts to stop this or change it and post an actual piece each day, without reference/correlation to placement within ...fence posts rotting in the acreage....  Illustration work and reading, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick - I had started it once before but had not found momentum, now I have my own copy.

2) creation

(today) Writing the last chapter of The Great Falling Away, which will be a transitional piece between the rowing columns of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and what comes next.

2) creation

(today) Slight editing and work on ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...

2) creation

(Last two days) Tracking long and pervasive dream.  Illustration work nearly finished on fowl in rippling water, seeing the effect of color pencil to pull it together.

2) creation

• (today) Illustration work, refining feathering, ripples in water, and light on water.

2) creation

• (today) Copying old journal into new one.

1) identification, 2) creation

• (today) Finished Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.  Copying an old journal into current journal.

1) identification

• (past two days) Fully invested in Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

1) identification

• (today) Listening to Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  I've heard for years about his work and of course identified with the themes we worked within as represented by Blade Runner.  Please to finally be setting off.

1) identification, 2) creation, 3) community

• (today) Watching Side by Side by Chris Kenneally, especially interested in comments on taking digital manipulation too far and the issues of archiving.  From the film, writing a few notebook quotes relevant to my efforts.  Adding links to three books on this website.  
• (last few weeks) Creating and polishing several websites for work.

1) identification, 2) creation

• (today) Pages of journal entries, most reflective.  Plans to copy old journal fragments in steno graph journal into current journal and to create easy digital copy by photographing pages.  Watching Swans: The Seer video (sent by Teeple), always kicking me into working on artifacts, especially the scenes of opening vinyl, signing the sleeves, and repackaging - the handling of completed artifacts.

2) creation

• (today) Journal entry on possible accidental poisoning of the boys by melting nine pounds of dry-ice, fun in closed in kitchen.

4) housekeeping

• (today) Backing up phone to primary computer, hundreds of voice memos of conversations, routines, environmental sounds, dreams, et cetera.

2) creation, 3) community

• (today) Split ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... on-line version back into the two books I originally intended.  Added back in link to book 2 on website and did slight revision on www.timcoalman.com.

4) housekeeping

• (today) Cleaning and organizing garage to create space for piano that has been precariously balanced atop a horizontal furniture dolly.  Placed and playing, especially vivid moment with my oldest, playing off of each other in note progressions and rhythmic patterns.