Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Our mantle.

Featuring one of our Mark Traughber stencil paintings.

Daily photo: 11/11/08

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A mountain of blankets.

It's getting cold out there.

Daily photo: 11/10/08

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Dusk.

Daily photo: 11/9/08

11/8/08

Spent most of Saturday shopping with N. at Beechwood Mall in Cleveland. Got some good bargains, including a shirt N. found for $2.97, plus 20% off of that! Hard to beat.

Daily photo: 11/8/08

Friday, November 7, 2008

It may not look like much,

but this is a (sort of) homemade chocolate lava cake and it is delicious! It's from a mix by Dr. Oetker, who makes organic baking mixes. I've tried (obviously) the lava cake and the brownies and they've both been really good, and really easy. I recommend them.

Daily photo: 11/7/08

Thursday, November 6, 2008

New student work.


Guess what I'll be doing this weekend? I'll give you a hint: grading, and grading, and grading....

Daily photo: 11/6/08

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I was a little distracted yesterday,

what with history being made and all, so I forgot to take my photo. Here's the special edition of the Akron Beacon Journal I got today.

Daily photo: 11/5/08

Monday, November 3, 2008

For those of you who don't know


Sarah Vowell is one of my favorite authors. She has a new book out, The Wordy Shipmates, and was recently in St. Louis doing a reading and book signing, which my mother and best friend attended.
I was silently indignant when my mom told me she did not have Sarah sign a book for me (I did, after all, introduce her to the fabulous Ms. Vowell) but I soon discovered the reason why.
My dear friend Lacy and her husband Anthony bought us a copy for our anniversary, which they had signed.
How great of a present is that!?!Here's a listing of all her works.
And if you've never heard her speak, you should check her out here. Or on the David Letterman show here.

Daily photo: 11/3/08

New retractable powder brush.

From Sephora. Love it. I'm a little obsessed with mineral makeup and new brushes right now. It'll pass...soon I hope...

Daily photo: 11/2/08

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Color Everywhere.

Daily photo: 11/01/08

Headed to Cleveland on Saturday to celebrate our anniversary. We stayed at the Radisson downtown and ate at Michael Symon's restaurant, Lola. It was delicious!

Friday coffee break.


Daily photo: 10/31/08

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Final Brian Photo.

Taken above Kent State University's Downtown Gallery. Evidently the Obama folks are renting the space above the gallery.

Don't forget to vote!


Daily photo: 10/30/08

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Here it is!

My new beauty. It's a Canon PowerShot SD 790 IS. It's nice. I like it.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Today's Brian photo.

I wonder if this is Brian's way of telling me that he's having trouble coming up with photos to take? No worries, Brian, my new camera should arrive tomorrow!

Anyway, this image is of a work in our School of Art Gallery, where the current show is "Call and Response", curated by painting professor Gianna Commito. It is titled, not surprisingly, "Drawing a Blank", from 2008, by Columbus artist and professor Suzanne Silver.

Daily photo: 10/29/08

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Donut Carnage.

Another contribution by visiting photo blogger Brian Sullivan. Stay tuned for his continued offerings.

Daily photo: 10/28/08

Monday, October 27, 2008

Thanks to Brian,

our fantastic School of Art tech, I have a picture today. I spent the day mixing/cleaning/pulling my hair out in Kent's large scale enameling facility which was in need of a little TLC. I'm not super confident about all that goes on down there, because I am the utter opposite of a 2-D artist (large scale enameling is generally used for large, 2-D painterly enameled works) so I'm a little behind the 8-ball in preparing to teach it to my class, but I'm getting there.

Daily photo: 10/27/08

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Technical Difficulties




So "Daily Photo" will be experiencing a temporary outage, as my camera was stolen yesterday and I have not purchased a new one yet. Here's hoping that that renter's insurance we've been payin' is gonna pay-up!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

Spoon Rest.

Because spoons get tired.

Newest acquisition in my quest to transition my kitchen to shades of light green and aqua, with red touches. From StudioElan on Etsy.

Daily photo: 10/20/08

He hates that I do this.

N. had to submit a photo of himself in his studio to the faculty show at the University of Akron, which I took, and since I forgot to take any other photos yesterday, guess what yesterday's daily photo is!

Daily photo: 10/19/08