made it to NH 2004-03-08 - By Kris Krieger
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At 02:04 PM 06-03-04, Jason Lechak wrote:
>Hey Kris. We made it, all in one piece! We have a boatload of boxes to
>unpack. Going from a 3 BR, 2 bath, first floor, washer/dryer hookups to a 2
>br, 3rd floor, 1 bath, washer/dryer on the ground floor is a major change!
Ouch, hopefully you can get into a more appropriate space. I don't know
how rents are in NH, but "way down here" in MA (I have to keep reminding
myself that MA is *not* the same size as CA =:-o ), it turned out that
buying really was cheaper-to-equivalent, much to my surprise. I guess
because things in the NE are generally more crowded-together than in the SW
=:-( .
I hope things go well with the new job, and that you get some enjoyment out
of it. I know you'd hoped to do something more right-brain-oriented, but
don't give up totally on your creative side, because you never know when
the economy might pick up again. Meanwhile, I'm just glad for you that you
got something reasonable :) .
Re: tS (keeping with TSML content <g!>), I hope you'll have time to keep up
with it. I'd be interested in knowing whether you find that the tremendous
difference in the light here (due to both latitude and humidity) alters the
way you perceive/set up lighting in your tS scenes.
I noticed yesterday: I've been working on a model of the house and yard
here (I want to call in some landscapers to get estimates on some work, but
need to gell my thoughts re: what I want so that I can tell them all the
samething - so the modeling helps me do that), but I realized that I'm
still using a very bright overhead lighting scheme, i.e. still "seeing" in
CA-type light - so the scene doesn't look like here. Guess I have to fix
that....!
Anyway, I just wonder how climate affects/effects (both apply) perception,
therefore perception, and from that, how one lights one's scenes (or
chooses a style of art/work in general). I suppose it's an almost
Anthropological question. But climate certainly affects culture in various
ways, so it's interesting to ponder its effect on one's aesthetics.
>PS someone once said war is hell. Apparently they never relocated cross
>country.
Heh, tell me about it. In the past 25 yrs, went from NJ to SC to WI to MD
to the Toronto ON area, to Vancouver, to CA, and now here to MA (city of
Lowell). And that doesn't include incedentals like temporary work
assignments. In a way it's good, because I'd otherwise prob. end up being
crushed to death by the stacks of my own "collections" (I've powerful
pack-rat tendencies), but it's bad because I still hang on to too much
stuff (most of which is admittedly just, well, junk...) and it is truely
awful to get the stuff packed and hauled around - tho' I've been
jettisoning more and more along the way.
Worst part is the packers. Always pack your own valuables!!! And realize
that, no matter how hard you try to anticipate and prevent various sorts of
damage due to stupidity, the benthic depths of their idiocy will **always**
far exceed your ability to forsee such things. Next time, I'm going to
*personally* pack my few art objects and other such things and ship them
ahead via Fed Ex or UPS or some such thing - I've never had anything,
including houseplants, get destroyed when shipped that way, unlike the
wrecks wrought by moving co. packers, so it's worth a try.
Heh, now THAT would be a tS scene - "Unpacking Day", surrounded by boxes
and whatnot, and pulling broken shards of art pottery out of a box
otherwise full of books, or looking at dumbells piled into a box on top of
one's computer. ((Not a joke.))
Well, for now, back to my tS house model. Also, nearly finished
(*finally*!!) with the Dragonfly image. A couple more building scenes to
touch up and re-render, and then....I can tie up the phone lines for three
days while I upload my new Website =8-0 ...
I hope all goes well with the new situation!
- Kris
- Kris M. Krieger
http://www.pterochromics.com
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