December 2024
Merry Christmas
December 25, 2024
Thank you everyone for your wonderful support and encouragement in taking my creative weirdness to the internet. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and all the best for the new year.
Now here's some tacky Christmas gifs because I recently discovered gifcities.org :D
Keep breathing in stardust.
xoxox
~Nadette
Small Talk
The first snow fell over night. I guess I am getting a white christmas if is stays around.
Art?
I Came across this cool piece in one of my Bread and Puppets zines. I have to share here.
Small Talk
December 12,2024
Good morning everyone. My god buying this new coffee maker has been the best gift for myself, along side of paying off my mortgage.
Just going to show this awesome machine off:
My majestic coffee machine isn't the reason that I thought to post this morning. As I was looking for a nice quote for the daily quote off to the side there, I came across this one, which was too long to put in the side section, but wanted to share it. A few other writers, I've noticed, are out there checking this place out, so I would like to share it with us all, though I feel it could be any passion you love to do.
Myself, I've been writing little things since a teenager. If I didn't have the feeling to write (and music) I would have went too far into myself back then after my mother passed. In fact, I've been writing even as a little girl. I remember my grandfather (big tattooed up burley Navy guy) being a lover of poetry and always encouraged me to keep writing. I never did anything big with it, other than getting it in local zines around the city, years ago, but I just have to do it regardless. I always pictured writing to be like taking a piss. You have to do it when it's what you love. Anyway, enjoy the quote below.
Have a wonderful day and keep breathing in stardust.
xoxoxo
~Nadette
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...
...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Small Talk
December 9,2024
Good morning!
I thought to come in with a little update now I've settled into this new area, which is a lot cleaner than my last one. Yay for me learning how to make a kind of proper website now. I like the less chaotic look to this one than the old one I was learning on through a template. Anyway, just like to give a heads up that I've been on a crazy creative streak last night, and finished a couple new animations. As you may tell that most of these animations, (and anything that I do basically) is just all from a flow of consciousness that I just let it take me without question. I usually get an idea for an animated thing once a week or couple of weeks. However, last night it was back to back. Here are a couple of stills from them.
Hopefully I can get the time to sit down and do a couple more things I have on my mind for this place. My work has been busy lately (I run my own business, everything I do here is just a fun hobby) but I should be able to get around to it soon. So be sure to check back, or keep a watch out on Blue Sky for some stuff I have going up. I have some comics I need to convert to be put up. Scan some of my collage work among some interesting zines I'd like to share.
Also, another update: RSS is not working right for me. I think I still don't quite get how to do it, so just keep the page bookmarked and check back. There's always a daily poem in the morning, and a writing exercise posted in the evenings, along with a song of the day, creative quote, and a feature video every morning as well. So there's always something going on here each day. Also I make the updates when things go up on the Blue Sky account.
To others who have just scoped out this place because of Blue Sky, thank you for dropping in and enjoying what you see.
Have a great Monday everyone.
Keep breathing in stardust
Xoxoxo
~Nadette
Apocolypse Ram collage made in GIMP. Is he perfect? No, but was fun learning how to do collge work in GIMP.
November 2024
Here's a little thing I doddled last night on the kindle scribe.
It started out as a spur of the momment poem that I just drew some doodles with.
This little piece of doodle/comic came about one day when I was thinking on a tape I wish I still had. Years ago (talking early 2000s) my friend Drock gave me a cool mix tape full of awesome punk songs. We would sit in the park after seeing a show together and me, him would split a bottle of wine and pay this tape he made me (it was my job to bring The Cassette) and he had this battery operated tape player that would fit in his pocket. About the size of a walkman but had a speaker on it. It gave shit sound but it was good enough for us. We would play this tape and split the bottle of wine and would sing along to it. My favorite on there for the longest time was a song by the band called The Violators (he got me into them) and the song Summer of '81.
I then moved from an old apartment, not thinking much of it, threw in a box marked Free/Libre à prendre on the box of random stuff I didn't want to take and moved. We would make a lot of mixed tapes for eachother, but sadly none seemed as special as that one as the years went on. I guess you get older and nostalgic for the oddest things. Even though I do have that song on lots of things and listen to it on the regular, I still wish I had that old park drinking tape.
Bravo à toi Drock. C'est pour vous. \m/