Notes and links from 19 Oct

Journal The last few days of computer action have been spent on the big blog archive project. I’ve been knocking the Art Pete blog into shape, fixing image links and reminding myself what happened during a transformative period. I spun this blog off around 2009 when I started selling my weird photos at market stalls and it’s a nice accounting of how my idea of what “an artist” is changed over subsequent years. So much of my learning was done in public back then, which lends to a fair amount of cringe as I publicly get things wrong, but it’s all learning that got me where I am today, and that’s good! I’m not sure when all this is going to go public possibly sometime early December at this rate. Otherwise I feel like my mood and energies have been in a bit of a holding pattern. I’ve not felt bad but I’d struggle to say I’ve felt good. I turned down some work which would have involved doing some training to a small room of people, something I did last year and enjoyed but it cost me 10…