Tuesday, September 30, 2003

New painting listed at eBay:  Here's a photo of the new listing, an 8x10" painting on canvas called "Begin Now!" Hmm. This listing didn't take 1,000 hours. Not long at all. This is definitely getting better. Also, one thing I'm very happy about is that all this time that I've been working on learning how to list paintings on eBay, I've still gone to the studio to make art every morning. Today was day 17. So I'm over half way to my goal of 28 days in a row, to establish this habit. I've been working in the studio all morning and sometimes into the afternoon. Only then have I started on computer work - for eBay and for computer clients. I got pretty anxious about the eBay project. But I kept going to the studio every morning. When someone suggested I work on it in the morning, I was shocked. That seems like progress. 9:25:00 PM    comment []

DVD Review: The Dancer Upstairs - 2 stars We just watched the first half or so of The Dancer Upstairs. It's an interesting drama about a fictional country in Latin America. Two policemen try to track down and stop a terrorist revolutionary group, not so much because they admire their current government, as to prevent soldiers in the street and to preserve at least a step toward democracy. What made us stop watching was that it seems convoluted and depressing - basically not worth all the scenes of violence. I guess that's one way I judge a movie with a lot of horrible scenes in it. Is the value of the film worth seeing those? For me, The Pianist was well worth seeing despite the many horrors it portrays. The Dancer Upstairs - at least for the first half - was not. Someone else might judge this differently. I have two friends who said, separately, that The Pianist was absolutely the last World War II movie they were willing to see. Enough already! I didn't have that reaction. Anyway, since we stopped halfway through, I'll give The Dancer Upstairs only two stars. 2:27:57 PM    comment []