I’m so annoyed! First reason: I’m totally broke.
Second reason: my entire neighborhood is having one ginormous stoop sale and I love stoop sales but I can’t buy anything!
Third reason: I had enough money to buy some “Delft”( in quotes because one dollar Delft isn’t very likely) pottery marked for 1 dollar and 3 dollars. I got the vase which was a dollar and wanted these little elephant salt and pepper shakers those were 3 dollars. I paid for the vase 1st then gave madam a ten for the shakers.She asked if I had something smaller.So I scrounged in my wallet for it.While I was scrounging, this really pushy and annoying girl was waving a purse about that she wanted to buy.The thing was that purse was from madam’s neighbours’ table which madam was minding for her and this sudden rush of business caused her to be distracted with my purchase. Long story short:she didn’t actually hand me the shakers and I walked all the way home thinking I had them. I was also distracted and ditzey it seems. I blame the fact that I had my dog with me at the time. He is annoying during financial transactions because he always wants to jump on everybody which makes it hard to open my wallet and restrain him at the same time.
Fourth reason:I found an absolutely perfect and solid butcher block style table about 3 and a half feet tall with shelves.For 20 bucks! A pittance! If I had money,that is.
Except I do not. So I called the man who does,A. and asked to borrow 20 from him. I got a long lecture on why we didn’t even need this gorgeous thing in our lives instead. Oh well.
Glass of white wine to settle the nerves.
Month: May 2007
Can’t Disable Right Click(not really)
A lot of people want to protect their images(of their artwork,photography and etc)from evil right-clickers. So there’s the silly no-right-click script in javascript on the spot to allay their fears.
The problem with this no-right-click doohickey is that it will only protect your images from people who don’t really want them,anyway.Because people who do can extend their browsers to have multi-faceted toolbar functions.And some of these functions are “view frame source” or “view source” or “view generated source”….So yes,while right clicking on the image itself won’t do much besides make a clever alert box appear, clicking view source will show the image in question’s url.Copy and paste that into the address bar and there it is: unprotected and downloadable.
The only way to really protect your stuff is to keep it in a box under yer bed.
Don’t put it on the internet if you don’t want folks to have it.This goes for everything,not just photos.
If you have created something you have the absolute right to protect it…especially if your intent is to sell it and I’m not condoning theft of any kind. I’m simply stating the fact that people who want to take a photo from a place as easy to get to like from your web site,will.
On my website I have put up all my pictures of artwork I drew or painted myself. I did so never once fearing someone might download one. I knew if they did I should feel complimented. Anyone is welcome to save a picture of mine to their harddrive. I am relaxed and happy with the real thing on my walls!
So there
Drawing again,slowly
I recently began to draw again after a really long time.In my past life I drew for hours every day.Then I graduated school and had to get a job. As each year went by I drew less and painted not at all. I did have a 2 year burst of drawing and painting energy and output after I quit my retail job and decided to work under the table for my dad after a summer’s long stint trying to sell my art on the street didn’t pan out.But this ground to a halt, not surprisingly, when I moved in with my boyfriend and his brother and another roommate. Living alone affords all kinds of privacy and no needing to adhere to anyone else’s ideas of what a proper bedtime should be. Mine is never. My boyfriend can’t stay up after 10 pm if he’s home. If he’s in the studio he can stay awake until 3am. I was lucky to find a large dining room table perfect for drawing. I didn’t get going,though and so this table became a dumping ground for all kinds of crap.
Something told me I needed to start up again. I hadn’t drawn a single thing in almost 7 months and the more time that went by the more I was afraid to start.What if I ‘d lost it? Use it or lose it is kind of true. My drawing has always been about confidence. This confidence is bolstered up the more I draw. The more I draw the more sure I am and the less fearful of the big white blank piece of paper.
I assigned myself some drawing lessons and said I would draw an hour a day at the least. I haven’t really stuck to this because I did get about 4 new clients all at the same time. But the table is cleared of the crap and my tools are laid out and on it there is new drawing started just an hour ago. I feel better already.