Wednesday . . .

(left) This is the beginning of my brainstorming process for an assignment involving color.

I'll be working on this for the next couple of weeks.  I always feel a mixture of excitement and dread when working on an assignment.  To me, assignments feel fraught with someone else's expectations which is enough stress and pressure to make me want to run and hide and trade in all the fancy art supplies for a box of crayons and a Hello Kitty coloring book (ahem).  But, I know if I keep going and work in spite of the perceived pressure, it all works out.

Discoveries made on my Wednesday wanderings on the web:

Oh how much do I love this project!  I reeeeaaalllly want to do this!  I enjoy talking to people (I inherited this trait from my Dad.  We both like to talk to people, thus you are likely to find us yakking with cashiers, waitresses, doctors ... anyone we interact with as part of our day.  I'm sure we are both quite annoying).  Still, there is something about asking to take a stranger's photograph that is intimidating to me. 

In the "File Under Year-Long Project" category, here is another interesting one from 2007.  Post-It Notes elevated to art.  So cool!

If you keep a blog or share your photographs or artwork in any public way, read this post from Inkygirl, linking to interesting articles about copyright. Using your work illegally isn't just limited to the hacker down the street, apparently.

It seems obvious if you don't want to risk your work being ganked and used without your permission, you probably shouldn't post it publicly, but I can't quite bring myself to do that even though I have had people take my photos from my blog.  I try to believe in the best natures of people, but it does pay to be cautious.  I'm not sure what the middle ground solution might be.