A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ~Shelby Foote

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Caledonia: Journey to a Village

That is the title of my forthcoming book on the history of the area in which I currently live. Not great, but not awful. Not my first choice, but not my last either-- it'll do, pig, it'll do. MOVIE REFERENCE!

Seems I might be a bit loopy tonight. Lucky you guys (guy? gal? Bueller? Bueller? MOVIE REFERENCE!)

Focus. Focus. Clearly a bit rusty here. Okay, so, a book about Caledonia, from 1835 to the present. Should be around 375 pages, altogether, with roughly a third of that being pictures, maps and other non-written bits. Fun? Yes, but also very time consuming and right now, at the moment of final crunching, rather tedious. I love the broad strokes-- it's the finishing touches that drive me nuts. Takes just as long, but it d/n feel like you're getting much accomplished relative to the time invested.

But the finishing touches are important. Otherwise the project/item/creation looks... unfinished. Not so good. So, a wrasslin' with the syntax, grammar and punctuation I will go. Do go. Have gone. Errr... yeah.

I think it turned out really, really well. I have to say I am proud of the work I did on it. And having an actual, bound book with my name on it will be most awesomely excellent.

Hopefully by this July or August.

Sweet!

Totally!

MOVIE REFERENCE!

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Posted by: Nick W. / 4:57 PM
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I love the broad strokes-- it's the finishing touches that drive me nuts. Takes just as long, but it d/n feel like you're getting much accomplished relative to the time invested.

I was just discussing this in terms of painting today. In the beginning, a painting is wide open, you have a few defining strokes, but it's full of possibility. Slowly, you narrow it down and choose your direction until you come to the finish where you do a few final touches... Did you stay true to what you had wanted in the beginning or are you now led by something more sublime... or something more base such as pleasing… In the end, you have nothing left but the end and hopefully, if you are lucky and skilled, you have something that will stand up even though you turned your head to so many options along the way.

And sometimes you just say, "It'll do pig, it'll do."
# posted by Blogger Jennifer : 5:42 PM
 
Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for the commentary. The hardest part for me is bridging the gap between the broad strokes and the finished product. I love the broad strokes and I love stepping back and being able to see a completed project.

Those niggly middle bits are the killers. Niggle, niggle, niggle.

So, how many of the MOVIE REFERENCES did you get?
# posted by Blogger Nick W. : 9:58 AM
 
I believe I got them all... I read somewhere recently that the average American will spend 15 years of their life in front of a TV or movie screen... :(
# posted by Blogger Jennifer : 10:46 AM
 
I suppose they aren't all that difficult. Most people have seen Babe and Ferris Bueller. The last one is a little trickier-- and may actually occur in more than one movie.

My personal reference was to Crush the Turtle in Finding Nemo.

Which is another topic to rif off of-- is Pixar the best studio evah?
# posted by Blogger Nick W. : 3:14 PM
 
I've seen Nemo at least 1,000 times. It was the only thing that would calm one of my lamblets for awhile.

First you were all like "whoa", and we were like "whoa", and you were like "whoa...”
# posted by Blogger Jennifer : 4:36 PM
 
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