New wall progress. Added graffiti. Photo taken without flashlight. Not too satisfied with the decal result however this wall part with this graffiti painting does look fine. Overthinking to replace all other wall parts graffiti by more colorfull decals, what do you think? By the way, the wall is still not fasten and still not finished, for example the layers on top of the wall still have to be made.

Lately I'm having fun with new projects like this one, I'm feeling inspired so we'll see how it goes.

I've probably been overthinking this one.

4 track lengths long.

2021. I normally do not include any context for my work but I felt as if I had to make an exception for this series. These are my thoughts put on paper: truths, half-truths, lies, and intrusions. This is overthinking that's been given the treatment of being fleshed out in the most raw. This is documented catharsis.

this is sort of an unfinished preview of what i plan on working on this week - '60s & '70s aircooled porsches. look at those wheels! and the color - a stock fw ink color - i had a lot of fun with this one, with mixed results.

i'm not sure where i'm going with these little illustrations. i took a week or two between this one and my last so that i could get myself all amped up and overthink what i'm doing. i'm back to the original idea - little drawings where I get to mix medias - in this case technical pens, fw & bombay inks (¡which will NOT mix together!) and copics and pitt pens on marker paper. I went larger on this one, too...it's not done, and i've got 3 hours into it already.

My 5-year-old iBook died last week, rather inconveniently right before classes started (I'm a part-time econ lecturer at SJSU now -- the rest of the time I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with my life). I'm not a fan of lecturing with PowerPoint, but there were some videos I wanted to show, so I quickly replaced Miss iBooky Fantastico (named after Willow and Tara's cat from "Buffy") with a Macbook, which I've named Winifred after the character in "Angel". This is a theme, as you'll recall the Digital Rebel was named Kaylee.

I never put a single sticker upon Miss iBooky Fantastico's pristine surface in her five years on this Earth. I don't really know why, but prolly cuz I overthink such things. Trying to rectify that with Winifred, and I think this is a decent start.

Yeah, I've been neglecting Flickr, abandoning it midway through that last set. Hopefully the stickr partially makes up for that.

blissful fun...no overthinking it...just let the material speak, and my hands do their thing...

Two 5 minute poses. My favourites pose time. Just long enough to capture the gesture and add some washes to show basic form .... and no time to overthink, overanalyse and overwork. Brush pen and watercolour on cheap cartridge paper.

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I think I am overthinking minimalism, I thought I knew minimalism but now I am so confused.

Jynx dropped by to say "Hi."

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Me and my Mum went to the local fireworks on July 4th and met up with my sister and her friend who brought her son along to see the fireworks. Naturally I brought my camera along to get some shots of the pyrotechnics but the shot of the night ended up being this great candid shot of a boy simply enjoying himself by playing in the grass and indulging in the freedom of youth.

I don't often get many chances to take photos of kids, in fact I don't take many portraits at all. I guess it's the fact that a flower or a landscape won't be able to tell you if it doesn't like a shot like a person can. It was interesting to see his reaction to me and my camera, most of the time he was oblivious to both while playing around, but every so often he would take notice of the lens and myself and show flashes of mild apprehension and curiosity about what I was doing.

I took this shot about 20-30 minutes after the sun had gone down with only a bit of remaining natural light and some artificial light from the parking lot nearby for illumination. I didn't want to use my pop-up flash because I knew what kind of shot it would give me, so instead I amped up the ISO to 1000 with an aperture of F/2.2 to let me use the available light. I knew that with the mixed light sources that the white balance would be tough to get right so I just elimanated the problem by changing it to B&W. Even though there is quite a bit of noise and the focus isn't perfect, I think those supposed flaws actually add to the shot by infusing it with something akin to nostalgia... or maybe just a bit of character. Perhaps I'm overthinking it or putting more into the shot than what is actually there. Either way I'm glad I was able to capture something different than the norm.....at least for me.

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My thoughts are too loud for me to hear them clearly anymore. I just want to shut them out. Shut it all out.

- Marie-Pier Chayer Demers

2 November 2013

Eh, not such a good day.

I woke up and spent more time worrying about whether the sign was in reference to me. Sometimes I use my hair dryer at night, and sometimes I listen to music, but I didn't ever think I was so loud to disturb other people.

I'm sure I was overthinking it, but I really don't want to be disrespectful or a nuisance. So I was almost afraid to make noises all morning. And I felt very homesick--I guess I felt discouraged and lonely, overall. I was not in a very happy mood.

So I forced myself to go for a run. I haven't been running here, but I know that exercise is good for you, it releases endorphins, relieves stress, and would get me outside instead of sitting inside being sad. I ran along some streets, then to the park, did some laps around the park, and ran home. I was shooting for thirty minutes, but didn't time myself, so I'm not sure how exact it was.

On the plus side, I read the sign in the elevator more carefully and took a photo to look up the exact translations. It roughly translates to, "It is requested that all residents respect the rules of cohabitation (no smoking in communal areas or the elevator, no making noise at late hours, no moving furniture at night, etc) to avoid bothering the other neighbors. Thanks in advance for your cooperation."

Well, I don't smoke anywhere in the building, and I've never moved furniture at night… so I'm thinking the sign COULD apply to me, or it could be that there are several people causing annoyances and so it's just a general reminder. Either way, I'll try to be more conscious about drying my hair earlier...

I came home from the run and showered, and decided I needed to go get groceries since stores are closed on Sundays. I decided I'd both feel better and manage to distract myself if I cooked something good. So I looked up recipes online, and settled on a lemon chicken stir fry, with a bunch of vegetables and a tangy sauce.

I went to Mercadona and bought lots of things, but I couldn't find some of the vegetables I wanted in the stir-fry (mushrooms, green onions, red peppers… not sure why they weren't there) and I also wanted to get more gluten-free bread. So I dropped off those groceries, and then went to the other store, Dia, to get the rest of what I needed.

I came back and put everything away, and decided to wait until closer to dinnertime (9ish) to start cooking. In the meantime, I caught up on these photo descriptions as best as I could, and finished the puzzle I'd been doing.

When I realized it was late, I also realized how many ingredients I needed to cut up (green onions, red pepper, carrots, green beans, lemon, chicken, garlic) and decided I would just cut up a lot of them tonight, and then cook the actual meal tomorrow. Also, I'd just bought fresh jamón serrano, so… I wasn't worried about going hungry.

I cut up vegetables and skyped with my parents AND MY CAT! And then I finished Freaks and Geeks and fell asleep on the couch, as is my way.

“I work with people in recovery, predominantly substance misuse. I remember having to educate my mum when I first started the job. I had to explain to her that people don’t grow up wanting to be addicted to substances. Often it’s a direct response to something traumatic which has happened in their life. There are some who choose to use substances of course, but there are others who use it as a coping mechanism, learnt behaviour, and sometimes not a choice. Some of the stories I hear make me question whether I would have the strength to deal with some of the issues people have to endure on a daily basis. Humans are so resilient. Everyone has a secret world inside them. Doing the job that I do has made me appreciate that we are all magnificent and sometimes we overthink basic compassion and human kindness as a starting point. The power of a smile, a kind word, a compliment or a listening ear. After all, we are all deserving of love. Did you know that if you make one person happy each day then in 40 years time you will have made 14,600 humans happy!”

Day 29 (Jan.29.2014)

OVERTHINKING.

Before I explain myself, I will do at least 1 creative photograph per month such as this one. Anywho, I need to stop overthinking many situations in my life and about every person I talk to. I always do this to myself and end up hurting my own feelings...... It sucks. I wish I had someone to speak to when I really need to vent. Everyone is just so busy with their own lives, why would they bother with me? Even if people say they're willing to listen to me I just don't want to annoy them with my problems. Most of my problems are stupid as fuck anyways. WHATEVER. See? Overthinking.

I think...maybe I'm overthinking it and it is a simple sandpiper.. Lovely beach walk this morning, while taking a break from Vancouver Island's wet weather.

He said, "Why why, what a terrible time to be alive

If you're prone to overthinking".

George Ezra, Pretty Shiny People

I have come to the conclusion that I have a major personality defect.I am a horrible over-er-er...

I overshare ( no shit sherlock)

I overthink ( fighting overwhelming urge to research;) question from last night,LOL)

I overdo

I am over the top way too often

I try and overcompensate for other people

(I guess I do believe you are my responsibility if you are in my life)

I overlook the obvious when I do not want to see it (fingers in my ears, "lalala, I can't hear you")

I have been know to overeat

I overprepare ( just ask my profs from last semester...it amused them, and then they felt sorry for me)

I am an overachiever ( yep...competitive too, even though I try and squelch it)

I even eat my marshmellows overdone

I am kind of over being this over-everything...it is tiring...and annoying!

I want to be the under-er-er for awhile.

NEGATlVE NACY

I accept the fact that being messy isn't the best thing in the world. Hey, for my own selfish interests I'll accept that it's a sign of genius!

But a lot of people think that I'm just lazy about organization or that I'm just trying to rebel. Honestly, it's neither of those things, nor is it how I was taught. It's just the way I developed. I'm a very abstract person. I tend to overthink things and change my opinions quite frequently because of that. I'm terrible at all forms of organization which is manifested here for your viewing pleasure. I do try to stay organized and for the most part, I keep things at the barely usable level.

This is actually an extreme. I was cleaning out my closet (looking for a long lost CD from three years ago). This was actually taken back in September. it looks somewhat better now. At least you can walk through it.

The distortion is caused my by my lens being set at a funky setting (23mm or something) and me standing on a chair in addition to my already large height.

Angle hunting and embrace the subject as its original self if you can’t find a good one.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s just me, or someone else also feel the same way that the architectures in Taiwan usually aren’t proper designed and planed, which makes it hard to find the artistic angle to take a city snap.

A few days ago I was talking to an Italian friend, we were discussing about why people always satisfied with their own mediocre artwork so easily, is it because the lack of view? We used techno music as an example in our discussion, in this case I argue if a person wants to make a revolutionary techno track, then he’ll probably need to go to Berlin, in order to expand his view, not only to find out what kind of sounds and music are the top DJs and producers creating, but to be there, to experience the culture and the environment, to feel the atmosphere, only then, he’ll has his view expanded, to know what’s good and what’s bad, the whole point is about view expansion.

I don’t know if my friend agrees with my point or not, he simply told me to embrace the fact that I’m a Taiwanese, which I can’t agree more. We constantly envy things we don’t currently have, without realizing we also have things others don’t have. It’s just like the angle hunting, when we sees the imperfect skyline through the camera, there’s really nothing we can do about it at the moment, we can only try hard to find the perfect angle to represent the imperfection, but no need to despise it. After all, it’s what photographers suppose to do in the first place, so maybe I'm just being overthinking here.

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So my friend Lisa sent me this message the other day (I hope she doesn't mind I'm sharing)

"Here's the soup I want you to ponder on..... from my childhood. Italian Meatball Soup. Simple, basic. My grandmother's recipe was very "Italian" (you just add it until it looks right). So here's what it has in it.... chicken stock, chicken, carrots, parsley, celery, onions .... then add the tiny meatballs (I can expound on these if you need me too) and just before you serve you scramble eggs in a bowl with parm. cheese and drop them in slowly. Season with parm cheese to serve."

I like this. Cook by feel. Don't overthink it. Simple and basic always appeals to me.

But I've never had Italian meatball soup. Not quite sure how it's supposed to end up. At first read I thought the egg and parmesan were a dredge for the meatballs, but Lisa explained the dizzle with the drizzle. She also adds that escarole is sometimes added to this soup. I'm in.

I mention this soup to soup fan Stephanie later in the day and she is shocked I'm not familiar with this soup and questions my heritage. Accurately.

Stephanie makes this soup using spinach instead of escarole and with the addition of pasta. Family favorite, so easy, and so forth.

My inclination at this point is usually to recipe surf to find something I like or sharpen the focus of my vision a little.

I didn't do that. I embraced the oral tradition and proceed given the information at hand.

I have some ground lamb in the fridge I'm anxious to use, I have some arugula that I"m sure will step in for the spinach or escarole. This should be good, right? Can't miss.

Welcome to the classic double misdirect, my friends. I know this tale sounded like my train would certainly derail. It did not.

This soup turned out super. Are there things I might do differently next time? Sure. I think I'd blend some ground beef with that lamb. I'd probably wait until the end to throw in the arugula, A little more parmesan in the egg maybe. Would I start with a tried and true, measured ingredients recipe? Nah. Not sorry to have taken the less marked trail, although I suspect Lisa's grandmother would say I put too much stuff in here. Would I avoid the "posing questions to myself" format in my flickr entry? Probably.

Now the soup.

INGREDIENTS

1 pound ground lamb

1/4 cup grated parmesan

1/4 cup parsley, well chopped

1 egg

2 tbsp olive oil

1 onion, diced

2 stalks celery, chopped

3 cloves garlic

3 carrots, peeled and chopped

2 bay leaves

2 tsp kosher salt

2 tsp worcestershire

1 cup chicken, cooked and shredded

1 cup arugula, chopped

4 c chicken broth

1 egg

1/4 c grated parmesan

Mix lamb, parmesan, and egg and form tiny meatballs (I got 43). Set aside.

In same pot, saute onions, celery and garlic 5 minutes.

Add carrots, bay leaves, salt, worcestershire and broth and bring to a boil.

Add meatballs, chicken, and arugula and reduce to simmer 20 minutes.

Whisk egg and parmesan together.

Raise heat to meadium. Drizzle egg/parmesan mix slowly into soup.

Once egg firms, ladle into bowls and serve. Sprinkle with parmesan

Sarah Salmon, an air cadet with 713 Thunderbolt Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron (Stoney Creek, Ont.), completes pre-flight checks before conducting her first solo flight on Monday, 15 July. "I did not think it would happen right away. It was nice to be thrown in; I didn't have a chance to overthink it."

Photo by: Lt(N) Bettina McCulloch-Drake

Wow, she's a ten out of ten, across the board. I love her pose, too.

She was part of an excellent group cosplay as Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland characters. I wish I could have taken her aside for a solo photo of her full costume. It would have been awkward...there were a few others who wanted their photo and I felt it would have been disruptive to pull her out of the group like that.

(Also, wouldn't that be a diss against the others? Or am I just overthinking it? Well.)

Here's a sketch of this cosplayer I did on my iPad Pro, with the Apple Pencil and Procreate app.

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I was commissioned by one of the bookers at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard for a last-minute poster for Stuporhero's CD release party, considering I'd designed the CD in the first place.

When I was first concepting the Stuporhero CD, I ran through various sketches that went nowhere due to design restrictions. I pulled out the base image of this poster, of Chuckles the mannequin drummer in a car-crash, from one of those pages.

I was overthinking the poster right up until deadline; was having trouble finishing up the paint-job. In frustration I turned to Layer adjustments in Photoshop and found something I liked.

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Lonely

// I got lonely one night and needed comforting and holding. This is my corner, the Amy corner where I have my own time and reflect on everything way too much, I overthink. I always need someone by my side. Trying to get stronger - so make your wish and be happy.

I was surprised about the journey this quilt took me on! I thought I was deciding the outcome but it had other plans.

This quilt was an exercise in letting go from the cutting (just grab a piece and sew, don't overthink it!) to piecing together all the sections to sew the top together. The pieces could be trimmed and adjusted as the top came together.

It was a very freeing experience and I loved how all the pieces came together like a puzzle.

I really didn't have anything I was dissatisfied with but when I make my next one I would like to hand quilt it with pearl cotton because I like the little bit of color it adds.

A few of my sections ended up looking like flowers so I went with that idea. I also added a few polka dot fabrics to enhance the flower sections.

I want to explore leaves and using different color palettes.

Honestly had trouble finding inspiration and motivation for this assignment. Not sure if it was the assignment itself, my own lack of motivation (shout out to Rocky for taking his photo and then letting me take one of him), or overthinking it. Eventually I was able to get two photos I was somewhat happy with, but I know there were much better photos that could have been taken.

also, shipping on the fabric i purchased is taking longer than usual and i'm worried it won't be at the PO to pick up before my oral surgery on friday, if i used one of these i could do the charm cutting tomorrow.

so what do you think of these ones? i know i can get more of the two larger ones, and i'm pretty sure i have enough of the yellow/white seed print in my stash. i'd fussy cut the sampler style one a bit, to make sure all of the charms are texty.

I'm usually a perfectionist, but I let that go while doing this piece. The Tangle Pattern is creditied to Margaret Bremner and it is called 'Moving Day'. She specifically said not to overthink the pattern....lol. I used a Sharpie pen that was running out of ink, so it's not very contrasty, but I'm liking it well enough.

Here is a link to her page if you are interested in learning it.

Moving Day by Margaret Bremner

Daisy Yellow - ICAD 2015

I've photographed this before, but here it is again! It's from when I jumped on the Scrappy Trips bandwagon;) Man, did I ever overthink this quilt...My relationship to the finished quilt is sometimes ambivalent, but it is nice to see almost my whole stash in one place!

On nearly every single upload recently, there's some way beer in it. Hm. Have to overthink my lifestyle ;-) (just kiddin')

Press "L" (or click on the picture) for a bigger view on black.

This was taken almost a year ago, but I never posted it. I don't know why. Maybe I was thinking, there's no real focal point here. It's not the Golden Gate bridge in the distance, not the pier to the left, nor the cityscape behind the pier. It's not the reflections, and the water was not glassy smooth (couldn't do "bulb") like I wanted. Maybe it's the horizon that is placed right smack in the middle.

I don't know, but I did not like this picture when I processed it last year.

So when I recently stumbled on this from my archives, I'm thinking, "Why didn't I post this? I like this picture!" Maybe it's the colors. Maybe it's the natural vignette. Maybe it's texture in the sky, or the emptiness of the foreground. After almost a year, I may have figured out why I did not like it back then, and why it's almost pushing me to not upload it again this year.

Maybe, I'm overthinking it.

Thanks for dropping by!

Horace Rumpole

New wall progress. Added graffiti. Photo taken with flashlight. Not too satisfied with the decal result. Overthinking to replace by more colorfull graffiti, what do you think? By the way, the wall is still not fasten and still not finished, for example the layers on top of the wall still have to be made.

After far too much overthinking and no progress, I decided just to sew something simple with my fave shape (flying geese). Not a traditional medallion, but asymmetry is all good.

My quilt for this challenge came about from my love of everything autumn and my recent yearning for simplicity and sparseness in my life. No need for anything overly complicated or overthinking the design. Just an "ahhhh ... those colors look so perfect together." Like looking over a grey and brown field into a brilliant woods.

More on my entry: baileygirl5.blogspot.com/2012/10/old-red-bard-quilt-chall...

This is a lap quilt entry.

One of our cats has developed some kidney trouble so the vet gave us some food samples to try on him. In standard geek fashion, we had enough food for 3 random samples to figure out which ones he liked and whether position mattered (it did). We assumed that he can't read the labels. Perhaps that was a mistake. Unfortunately, the ANOVA wasn't conclusive. Hills and Waltham were interchangeable.

old photo.

description and tags later. (x

i'm quite busy watching becoming jane and working on physics.

i think i should catch up on the tags i've been tagged in:

1. i've been obsessed with writing emails lately. (x

2. i can't present anything in front of people, i have huge stage fright!

3. i love love love a british or an australian accent, and i try myself, but it fails. ):

4. i watched 'Atonement' just last weekend, and it was such a good movie, but i cried and it was sad.

5. i'm watching becoming jane right now for the second time, and i get it...finally after so much confusion. xD

6. i have a bad cold of some sort and my nose are stuffy, it's really annoying.

7. i have to charge my camera so i can get more updated photos.

8. i feel like my stream is failing right now.

9. stuff are happening, and i think i may be overthinking it, but i don't know.

10. on a happier note, thank you guys all for supporting me! :D

now i'm gonna tag a whole bunch of peopleee.

oh and if you haven't watched atonement or becoming jane, you should watch it! (:

Brattle Theatre Movie Watch-A-Thon 2013.

THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN!

Not a bad setup for a Western. A cattle rustler arranges to get the town sheriff in the pocket, all the while setting the two richest ranchers against one another. Features a short bit of ingenious duck cinematography, teamed up with a comic relief ranch cook character.

Unfortunately, stature was apparently more of a factor than acting ability when it came to being cast. Still, a lot of spectacle value: midget (the term owned by the marketing) fisticuffs, sultry saloon entertainment, a few wonderfully awful puns/size jokes (unless that was just me rudely overthinking the dialogue).

A slight puzzle… Going in I knew that the cowboys were matched with shetland ponies. I was surprised to find that they inhabited a standard scale Western town, however. Implying, if one were to try to logic it out, that little people had taken over this town for themselves.

I explained the premise of this film to someone before the 'thon and they couldn't understand how or why it would ever get made. Me, I imagined nickelodeons full of kids on a Saturday afternoon or evening eating this up. And once the film was actually rolling, I had a bit of Ground Round deja vu. Does anyone know if this movie was actually in GR's standard entertainment rotation?

Week 39/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Ups and Downs"

So I find myself at the very end of the week still wondering about ups and downs. I have been thinking about it all week. Ups and downs of life, Up and Down an elevator goes, Ups and Downs of weight (my personal favorite LOL). But I just couldn't come up with anything. Maybe I was just overthinking it? Probably. I tend to overthink things a bit too much. Ok....so I am rambling. On the the photo...........

Sorry Daphne, I couldn't pick just one, so I did both. There are roads that take us up and roads that take us down. That's it.....the end. LOL Well, fine, there was more in my mind when I took and edited this image. The bright and clear road lifting me up or the depressing dark road taking me down. We all have to make choices......... which road will you take?

BTW, these are the ramps leading up to the crossover to the Daytona International Speedway.

BIG HUGE hugs for each and every one of you FABULOUS photographers. Have yourselves a pleasant and blessed weekend!!

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Hugs

Irela

xoxoxo

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10 minute pose .... so used the time to draw bigger rather than to overthink etc. Not sure about the proportions (e.g. between top and bottom halves) but at least it's fresh looking rather than overworked. Brush pen and watercolour on cheap cartridge paper.