Sunset on Lake Travis

Calories

So today I splurged and got a spiffy distance app for my iphone ($2.99). It even does a map of your walk... with 4 variations. Unfortunately I messed with my 128 calorie walk before I had a chance to download it for my blog. But tomorrow, I promise, I'll give you a visual.

Tonight going to have a big dinner... so I was super good all day. Salad for lunch. 10 almonds for a snack. Etc.

In the meantime, I've been thinking about an article, "Do Libertarians Believe their own Hype?" (http://tinyurl.com/ydm66fl) and disagreeing with the author believing that they do. Let me know what you think.

Austin Cactuses for Lease

Correction

Make that 16 lbs., or else the gravitational pull on earth increased today.

Fat

I've gotten fat... in my eyes... added 15 lbs. Yikes. Time to shed.

Shadows in Austin

Variation 7 of Single Head

My Walking Neighbor

asked how I can be both in the moment, and thinking about the moment. Thinking about the moment in the moment does seem to be a contradiction, almost as if thinking is outside of the life game. So "I think therefore I am" might be "I think therefore (for the moment) I am not."

Variation 6 of Single Head

Posterized: Variation 5 of Single Head

Variation 4 of Single Head

She asked how she could read my pieces without a quote. When I hear questions like that, my impulse is to never "illustrate" another quote because I want my pictures to speak for themselves. Then I think of what Robert Frost said when asked what one of his poems said, "do you want me to tell you in other and worse language?"

Variation 3 of Single Head

Woman Crossing Street

Yesterday at a stop sign I watched a woman walk across the street. I saw the dance between the street and the woman as they separated and then came back together. And yet I was surprised that I couldn't sense any weight to her.

We don't see weight. We don't see anything beyond what is there. Then we start adding what we know and we are suddenly not seeing anymore, but caught in our preconceptions.

No More Swelled Head?

I thought I had a swelled head so I tried a compress. See yesterday's drawing if you are confused.

Variation 2 of Single Head

Another version, painting with white throughout the piece.

Matt's in Austin

Back at It

So I finished the 90 or so drawings for a book and want to take a break before I go back to make them better.

Ego?

I had a strange experience the other day. I was in a small town in Texas... one that I had never been to. There were recognizable things all around (human beings, cars, stores, streets). I never had imagined that this town existed. Nor that it existed without me! It was such a shock that it had been operating without me, or any knowledge of me, and then I wondered what else existed without me. The idea of my world changed as I realized that similar worlds existed outside of me and my consciousness.

...he had stood before the Lord.

"Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the lord." —Genesis 19:27

Almost Done

Josh gets Austin Punkcut

Flea Market in Austin

Last shot before dark

Rust at Sunset

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