Half Full!

So I figured out this trick: If I have three glasses, all about 1/3 full, that's three pretty disappointing servings (practically just one big gulp). Now, if I take one glass and pour it's remains into the other two glasses I've got two that are half-full! Since I'm an optimist, that's starting to look pretty good...

So why the trick?

Screen printing, Graphic Design and Pottery are a Pseudo-Holy Trinity in a perfect world. The reality is somewhat different, and until we all succeed in adding that 25th hour to the day, there just ain't enough time!

So, farewell Potter Seth, perhaps we'll meet again, but for now you are a third wheel on the Artistic Bicycle (built for two of course)...

And to my vast and loyal band of followers: expect more design, better design. And maybe this bike will outpace that outgrown trike!

Cheers!
To Scraping Frost off the Windshield & the return of Stew Season!

Big Cheeks aka Biting Off More than One can Chew aka (Storing) Nuts for Winter

So, to follow up on the Mid-Year Resolution I declare here the following:
Sobriety through July was a success, and happily distant in the rear-view mirror! phew!
I have been renewed in my appreciation of a clear conscience, and reaffirmed in my love for sensible inebriation!

And in more relevant news: Working towards self-employment is a nutty though incomparably rewarding venture. The design and pottery work steadily trickles in, the cloth diaper service is solid (not a diaper-related pun) and the four-day work week is making a French Socialist Sympathizer out of me (not that i wasn't already).

The ability to have a full week day to accomplish errands, chores, be with my children and wife and spend some time outside is the Ultimate Carrot that looms just beyond my persistent grasp! However, it shall be mine! When the thick snows recede, this bulb that is our entrepreneurial spirit will be first into bloom. With a little help from hearty wholesome cooking and some full-spectrum bulbs, we may yet thrive while others concede to the cold!

So hear this 2010! You may open while my self-employment still lie dormant, but you shall not close without sight of my W-4 framed upon my wall in requiem to the clock-punching, absentee father that once was and never again shall be!

A MidYear Resolution?

These are legit right? I figure anything we hadn't quite gotten around to by Summer Solstice could be re-logged under MidYear Resolutions and given a 6-month handicap, fair enough...

So the Resolution at hand is the "Becoming-A-Work-From-Home-Dad" Resolution #2009-3B [following behind #1:maintain my oath of sobriety through july, #2:maintain a daily meditation practice, and #3A: strive for financial independence via our cloth diaper service and freelance artwork] truth be told, i definitely just itemized my resolutions and sort of made up the first two in retrospect, though they do exist intact.

Regardless, the goal remains in view. And a big part of it becoming a reality has been the steady support of friends, family, and friends of friends, acquaintances and friends of family of acquaintances, in the form of design work, pottery commissions and the like. I deeply appreciate everyone keeping me in the Rolodex...thought it may be in the attic

semi-almost-self-employed and loving it!
seth

Twist Craft Bazaar!

On May FIRST & SECOND the craft universe descends upon the Northampton Center para los Artes! Come for EATS, come for BEATS...and leave with crafty TREATS! I'll be bringing my pottery and small ceramic trinkets along, busting this recession one authentically-handcrafted-locally-artisan-conceived wonder at a time!

Greetings!

in an effort to hold true to my resolution, here's my artistic offering...my xmas card for family & friends and one a la carte for my employers/good friends (yes it is possible to have your cake and eat it too...yum) enjoy!

This Design Thing

So you've waded through the depths of the intraweb, or more likely you're someone i know, otherwise it's near impossible to trip across this site's feeble frame...either way, here you are, and you're probably here for one of two reasons, to seek out design assistance, or to give me a virtual cheek-pinch of adoration....both are more than welcome...with an "actual" site in the works this blog will serve hopefully as an up-to-date, news breaking, edge of my seat forum for all things art in the universe of Seth: sharing my latest work, corresponding about projects, and practicing this fine fine art of blabbering, i mean blogging...so feel free to paruse (sp?, what a great word) and check back in semi-often, i don't have that much extra time after all, i cashed it in for kids! peace to webland and beyond!

Blog's Away!

"Blog" is one of those words that has yet to make it's way into my life...i'm still quite in disbelief that it made it's way through the immensely sophisticated clearing house we call the English Language...words such as isometropia, pachouli, bismuthous, (yes, i am flipping through the dictionary) dude, cram, murmur, and fizzle...all survived eons of scrutiny and academic analysis before their throne within the lexicon was preserved...and now "blog"...??...for now i'm content to embrace it, for the sake of social cohesion...but sweet mary, i hope it's time is brief!

oh yeah, by the way, i have a healthy obsession with graphic design work...have a look-see at my work and let me know if you have a project i could spruce up for you...

you can get in touch with me through email at

adaptdesigns4u@gmail.com

viva la blog!

seth