Good morning, New Day trippers. It’s Caturdai.
Welcome to the New Day Cafe open thread.
Please, have cuppa coffee,
or tea.
Zucchini fritters with herbs, feta, and with an egg on top sounds delish. I like to use panko instead of flour, and I prefer to bake it.
How about something sweet to start the day.
Because it’s been that kind of week, here’s a viddie flashback to some reactions we’ve all had—
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There will be a few surprises along the way, all good ones, we hope.
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Pie fights will be met with outrageous ridicule and insults. Trolls will be incinerated and served at the next group BBQ. As briquettes
Do you doodle?
I’m thinking everyone does. But then again, I may be overestimating.
I’ve been doodling for decades.
In fact, there are always a few moments during the day when I’ll doodle.
I always have a diary sized sketch pad and a packet of Micron pens with me in my satchel, along with some crayon pens. A regular number 2 pencil and scrap paper works too. I find that doodling helps me when I’m waiting for someone or something, and it helps me focus and also keeps my hands busy. Of course, now there’s a fancy term for the kind of doodling I’ve been doing since I was in my late teens. Now, it has a formal name and it’s called Zentangle.
There are all kinds of coloring books out, with doodles people can color to manage their stress, find calmness, and occupy their hands and minds. When I began doodling, I did it because it helped me combat anxiety and/or boredom. And doodling was a way to focus my hands and eyes, as my mind continued to focus on something else. It’s still what I do when I’m trying to resolve something.
A few years ago, a friend sent me a cell phone photo of a doodle filled block, from outside the London Illustration Fair. Inside the fair, one artist had doodled over an entire room. Of course, I loved it and wanted to know whose work it was. The artist is a man named Sam Cox, from Tenterden, UK. He likes to doodle over public spaces, rooms, clothes, artifacts etc. Here’s his artful immersive corridor at Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London:
Yeah, that would not be me going out there to do something like that. I’d also not want to doodle over every bit o living space I have. However, I still do admire his work. He likes to create an “immersive experience.” Also, Sam Cox, the Doodle Man will allow you to color in his doodles, if you show up to his formal art floor shows and exhibits.
During an interview, when asked what inspired his doodling he said:
How did you first get into doodling and is it something you would encourage everybody to do?
My love and obsession with doodling has grown since I can remember. I use to love copying the cartoon characters on cereal boxes, TV animations and video games. Some of my favourites were Crash Bandicoot and Wacky Racers. I would initially copy these characters and then twist them to becoming my own creations. Eventually I'd begin making comics about teachers at school and share them with my friends. I was also very much influenced by graffiti, hip hop and hieroglyphics as I grew older. This all built in to creating my Doodle Man style!
SNIP
What's your inspiration behind the work you create?
My inspiration behind my work visually stems from early cartoons, hieroglyphics, myan art and graffiti. Also, busy scenes such as the 'Where's Wally' books by Martin Handford as well as artists such as Hieronymus Bosch. I take other inspiration from things like supermarkets as I like seeing all the products mashed up next to each other, it's visually exciting. I also listen to video game soundtracks while I work as they can inform my character expressions.
Here’s the artist doodling on the walls and furniture of his room.