Do you ever get the feeling that your actions or representations of yourself are not fully evident to yourself until you realize that you are in the prescense of others? Like, picking your nose or swearing in public, for instance. When you are by yourself, you don’t think twice about it but then when I’m driving in my car and feel like I’m alone, I’ll go to pick my nose and suddenly realize that the many cars and people around me are totally seeing what I’m doing. Well, the same goes for my crowded desktop. Without ever having taken the time to direct my downloads to a specific folder, my settings are defaulted to download to my desktop. (Except for music downloads, these are directed to the My Music folder, as they should be).
I took my laptop to the dance studio last week so that I could show some dance clips from “Newsies” to my students who are dancing the opening number from this musical in our show this year. Before staging the dance and setting the choreography, I wanted them to see the original film, understand the era and the overall flavor of New York news boys running ragged through the streets selling papers for a nickel. Priceless. It was my sister who took notice to my unusually crowded desktop, and exclaimed, “Whoa, Christina you have so many icons on your desktop!” Shamefully, I replied, “I know, I have to take care of that.”
It was one of those picking-your-nose-in-the-car moments where suddenly I was exposed. My laziness, my disorganization, and complete lack of respect for my computer’s processing power on start-up were out in the open! Well, tonight I decided to clean up my desktop. And not in the, put-all-the-files-in-a-folder-called-”desktop” kind of way…no, I was going to put the files where they should be.
Alot of these files are images, and looking at them I realized that the last month of my life can be summed up by sequencing these images in a chronological and narrative way. These are all from my desktop, it’s like looking through a photo album. It all started with the new design for my root site, Cbear.
The start of developing the resdesign of my resume website. (Launch Date: TBA)
The search for respectable images that reflect Jewish Learning. This was for the Adult Education workshop at Rainbow By the Sea. I ended up using a different image, but I’m really fond of the message that this one sends, filling in the blanks.
The never-ending quest for cool robot pictures. Originally, this was meant for a recent post here on my blog about robots. All in all, I thought the image was too juvenile to portray the true measures of the development of humanoid robots.
The first in a series of Summer Dance Camp logos intended for the 2006 season, our 4th annual SDC. Note the ballerina in the picture….segway to next….
Ahh, yes the sharp ballerina as I like to call her. Originally, my co-director Jaclyn made the first public Summer Dance Camp flier. She had used this dancer as an image for the top of the flier. When she sent me the draft, I emailed her back and said that I would like to find a nicer dancer image, because that one looks “sharp” and I didn’t think it was really fun at all. Well, on came the first of the battle of the co-directors/friends/control freaks of the SDC ‘06 season. We’ve recovered, and are growing as people.
Pretty rad, huh? This reminds of my waking up in the morning. Queried and summoned during one late night in the ever-lasting quest for a new Ok Public design.
Think inverted.
What did you have for dinner tonight? Actually, this one is out of order because I used this just today for a link on the Shebrew page.
Alright, let’s be real. Am I really going to go through 40 more images when there is still an entire desktop to be cleaned? No, the answer is no. So I’m going to leave you with these lovely pictures of some time Eliot and I spent in Connecticut at his parent’s house where he and Ari grew up. One night, I was feeling ambitious and decided to make a Boston Creme Pie! Actually, I was inspired by the cooking channel that afternoon. Anyway, here’s the shots…..
