tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342004862024-02-08T03:14:51.163-08:00ArtofAli<a href="http://www.artofali.com">www.artofali.com</a>ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-79065009983716815402015-10-26T21:36:00.002-07:002015-10-26T21:36:36.331-07:00Farewell!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Farewell!<br />
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I started a new blog over at: www.artofali.com/blog<br />
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I ported over the most interesting posts from this blog, for anyone who is tired of trudging through the noise on this blog to get to the good stuff. All new posts will be on the other blog leaving this blog to languish into obscurity. <br />
<br />ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-76610782939618422662014-05-18T19:19:00.002-07:002014-05-18T19:19:27.632-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>2013 Tasks</b></span><br />
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The completed items on my to-do lists from the year.<br />
Most recently completed tasks towards at the top:<br />
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add yes to 6msticks<br />lonely doll book<br />cold press watercolor block<br />gouache, illustration board, sandpaper, bigger brush,<br />check to make sure old paycheck is processed on 11/11<br />buy golden fine pumice gel for sketchbook painting<br />check missing edo image<br />paint Anthony portrait<br />buy marker paper/tracing paper<br />Monday 4th DMV 8:10<br />check check deposits<br />scan passport<br />email Danny for coffee<br />fry render amphitheater<br />find color ref for painting<br />game show off event, 507 lab c Sunday : 11:00<br />the fire theft, yo la tengo fade, crystal castles 3, brian eno lux, bat for lashes the haunted man, my bloody valentine mbv, grouper the man who died his boat, godspeed Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, sigur ross kiveikur<br />felt, momus, eyeless in gaza, the clientele, louis philippe, paul roland, david sylvian, jacques a robin, the go betweens, dory previn, jacques brel<br />the wisdom of lao tsu from modern library, has other Chinese philosopher that's funny, juangsa<br />Nancy riding bear with hair flowing into fur<br />write parents check<br />Yucatan short<br />nick cave warren ellis<br />phosphorescent<br />tom waits<br />bonnie<br />bob dylan<br />unwound<br />Alabama shakes<br />ramones<br />bring snes to work<br />buy marker paper<br />bring replacement pen to work<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed<br />check paycheck deposits<br />archive bluearc<br />bring razor pen, hitec-c, to work<br />check for matte painting<br />blog ca super 8<br />ask Kevin about German magazine<br />learn about silver-point drawing<br />Nancy low mix<br />blog Mike Tyson punch-out<br />6 month stickies<br />wondrous bughouse<br />haim<br />adblock<br />bring hd to work<br />tomorrow night, the fly, bluestreak, new jack city, nurse betty, chloe in the afternoon, 48 hours<br />5:00 p.m. The Man Who Knew Too Much<br />pscs6<br />Friday: Kixeye 14:30 Sean<br />Kixeye 12:30<br />add depth ques to spaceships<br />wand_timecard<br />KIXEYE material gather, insight website, istock icons,<br />dylan: buckets of rain, the ballad of frankie lee, highway 61 revisted, i shall be free,blood on the tracks album<br />blog little nemo<br />Climb Ingmar 21:00<br />beat little nemo<br />stuccotexture.zip<br />let Ian know when shading<br />nott year end wrap up<br />43% tax?<br />Insight at nine<br />ink stone scanning<br />rider song lyrics<br />post columbo girl<br />blog tasks<br />gather Isaiah tracks to send Jeff<br />parking ticket<br />Jeff mix<br />catch up on nott<br />return netflix, get the proposition<br />check insight monkey, + grado<br />gather anyafox materials-classArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-69478927050941522482014-05-18T15:42:00.004-07:002014-05-18T15:42:54.429-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>2014 New Years Resolutions</b></span><br />
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Which also double as my "Hey man you turned 30, time to get it together resolutions."<br />
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I forgot to post this months ago when I wrote them, but here they are:<br />
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■Become proficient in oil painting<br /> Paint portraits at least 5<br /> Paint plein air environments at least 10<br /> Focus on correct color matching for an optical retina effect with values/colors<br /> Do at least two nema painting in oil<br /><br />■Paint at least 3 full size guache imaginative paintings (probably nema images)<br /><br />■Have an outfitted art space<br /> Consider getting drafting table, easil, pochade box, large paper cabinet<br /><br /><strike>■Move</strike><br /><br />■Get a nice job.<br /><br /><strike>■Change website design<br /> Look into template website companies<br /> Look into html 5</strike><br /><br />■Sculpt maquettes<br /> Nema<br /> Eel monster<br /><br />■Animate 2d nema cycles, run, walk, playful<br /><br /><strike>■Become capable in the fundamentals of Brazilian Jujitsu </strike><br /><br />■No platues.<br /><br /><strike>Climb v5’s</strike><br /><br />Get chess rating to 1600<br /><br /><strike>■Plant garden (even if herb only)</strike><br /><br />■Update reel<br /> Learn vray and recreate fry scenes<br /> Finish dilapidated building scene and render<br /> Create a rigged 3d character<br /><br />■Story board two stories<br /><br />■Write out in long form all stories<br /><br />■Finish formatting and copying lifetime notes<br /><br />■Go snowboarding at least once<br /><br />■Sail at least once<br /><br />■Don’t convince people rule<br /><br />■Cube diet<br /><br />■Don’t come off cynical/negative<br /><br /><strike>■Learn the fundamentals of Japanese joinery</strike><br />
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I striked through the ones I've completed already. A few words about those:<br />
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I moved a few months ago to a beautiful spot at the top of the Berkeley hills. I've filled my place with potted plants (The ones from the <a href="http://www.zone10.com/nasa-study-house-plants-clean-air.html">Nasa list</a> of top air producers/cleaners), fireplace, an elaborate new lighting rig I made, art space, vegetable garden I've planted, hammock, roaming deers, cats, squirrels, and the fattest birds you'll ever see. I'll eventually post some photos. <br />
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I also finally updated <a href="http://www.artofali.com/">my website</a>. Though in the process of using squarespace and pointing my url to it, i've broken all the links to my various uploaded content/picutures that I used to use to inject images etc. into html code here and elsewhere on the internet, so I still need to figure out a way around that.<br />
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I've been taking Brazilian Jujitsu classes since the start of the year, and am loving it. I'll post about it separately, but suffice to say I've been shocked at how rewarding it is, and how much it's transformed my body and diet. <br />
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I've begin bouldering V5s at the gym and hope to be pretty consistant with them by the end of the year.<br />
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I planted my first garden! It was great, I don't know why I waited so long. Hopefully in another couple months i'll have lots of great produce from it.<br />
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I took a class in Japanese joinery, from a real master of the craft. I'll post about it in full later, but it was so incredibly rewarding to learn the tools and to make the basic joints. ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-76253943543557813522014-05-15T00:44:00.008-07:002014-05-15T00:45:37.064-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 346</b></span><br />
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<b>May 13th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-32451551736186574962014-05-15T00:44:00.005-07:002014-05-15T00:45:27.848-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 345</b></span><br />
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<b>May 6tht 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-39093226662944413262014-05-15T00:44:00.002-07:002014-05-15T00:45:18.008-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 344</b></span><br />
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<b>April 29th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-26956059313497623692014-05-15T00:43:00.005-07:002014-05-15T00:43:47.994-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 343</b></span><br />
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<b>April 22nd 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-46051784914833094212014-05-15T00:43:00.000-07:002014-05-15T00:43:07.024-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 342</b></span><br />
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<b>April 15th 2014</b><br />
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Since I've moved to my new spot up in the mountains and spend days on end in my own head not talking out-loud, I forgot to keep my whits about me when something out of the ordinary happened at the end of the night. I had a video call and unthinkingly said <b>"What a perve! And here I was expecting an innocent video chat."</b><br />
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Obviously the less said about this the better, the call didn't last long and was awkward all around. Let us never speak of this again. ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-84072395868443114412014-05-15T00:39:00.001-07:002014-05-15T00:39:17.432-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 341</b></span><br />
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<b>April 8th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-62435322711711420542014-05-15T00:38:00.002-07:002014-05-15T00:38:12.824-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 340</b></span><br />
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<b>April 1st 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-12145636688735707022014-05-15T00:36:00.006-07:002014-05-15T00:36:38.823-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 339</b></span><br />
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<b>March 25th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-61874522719029991242014-05-15T00:36:00.002-07:002014-05-15T00:36:17.629-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 338</b></span><br />
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<b>March 18th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-62515322146475828672014-05-15T00:35:00.004-07:002014-05-15T00:35:53.363-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 337</b></span><br />
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<b>March 11th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-28192689093510234292014-05-15T00:34:00.002-07:002014-05-15T00:35:08.472-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 336</b></span><br />
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<b>March 4th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-36042667696092756032014-05-15T00:06:00.002-07:002014-05-15T00:06:15.055-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 335</b></span><br />
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<b>February 25th 2014</b><br />
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Lost in my own head space during a long shower, when I got out I responded to some playful teasing with "<b>Excuse me. Take that back."</b> We were both shocked at my stupid mistake, guh. ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-73601677298962329872014-05-15T00:04:00.004-07:002014-05-15T00:04:22.370-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 334</b></span><br />
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<b>February 18th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-713579482210701162014-05-15T00:04:00.000-07:002014-05-15T00:04:00.869-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 333</b></span><br />
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<b>February 11th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-55584910977134745772014-05-15T00:03:00.001-07:002014-05-15T00:03:13.779-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 332</b></span><br />
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<b>February 4th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-83878321042215861502014-05-15T00:02:00.003-07:002014-05-15T00:02:38.619-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 331</b></span><br />
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<b>January 28th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-36051695749230255062014-05-15T00:00:00.004-07:002014-05-15T00:00:29.968-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 330</b></span><br />
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<b>January 21st 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-91741905588374498352014-05-14T23:58:00.003-07:002014-05-15T00:01:52.596-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 329</b></span><br />
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<b>January 14th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-32296253672676918892014-05-14T23:52:00.000-07:002014-05-14T23:59:00.920-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 328</b></span><br />
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<b>January 7th 2014</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-76573494185427902802014-05-14T23:43:00.003-07:002014-05-14T23:43:53.671-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 327</b></span><br />
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<b>December 31st 2013</b><br />
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No list.<br />
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This new year the stroke of midnight was on a Tuesday night instead of a Monday night. Which meant technically I could have shouted "Happy new year!", but my OCD anxiety of giving a five minute safety buffer of no talking, mixed with my soft rule of not talking when I stay up late Tuesday night kept me from doing so..<br />
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ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-63882883033333372772014-05-14T23:40:00.004-07:002014-05-14T23:40:58.430-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 326</b></span><br />
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<b>December 24th 2013</b><br />
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Christmas eve Santa Barbara. Staying at my parents. I got lost in a long piano improvisation, and when I came out of it <b>I unthinkingly blurted out "Do you want to go on a walk?"</b>.<br />
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Amateur hour, get it together Ali. ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34200486.post-63196875162894221042014-05-14T23:38:00.002-07:002014-05-14T23:38:14.984-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Talking Tuesday # 325</b></span><br />
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<b>December 12th 2013</b><br />
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No list. Nothing special to report.ArtofAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943116003237105982noreply@blogger.com0