Time to travel again ...

.. I found one of these "ever-popping-up-where-I-have-been-to-maps" and finally tried out one for myself:

create your own visited countries map

And I finally saw: yes, it's been a while since. You definetely should earn more money in less time, to have a money and time to take a round trip to some of the grey places in that map.

"I am a deeheentiist ..."

... Steve Martin and several others sang in the musical "Little Shop of Horrors". I did not, but I had some deeper insights into the dent-business, as I drew some illustrations for a prophylactic dent-learning-course. No, not for the dents - stupid - for children, who should learn about it.

This on above was a sketch not to be taken - chew gum after you eat and the dent-devils stay away. In fact they STAY away, 'cause the cannot move ...

reacting - creating

Enrico posted Walt Stanchfield's notes on taking notes. Talking about it he came up with a simile between the one who does takes notes or sketches and the one who doesn't. Saying the note taker is more active, whereas the others just react instead of acting and changing the world.

So just after having closed the blog it came to my mind, to shuffle the letters in those words,
so that passiv becomes activ,
reactors become creators,
and
reaction becomes creation.

Maybe that's why I feel better and powerful and acting when sketching - maybe in those moments I am acting instead of waiting for the things to come by - maybe I am creator (<-reactor) ...

I.O.U. - Illness Over You

Well it's been a while since, I have been here. Due to some kind of illness my plans unraveled kind of hard ...

"... I'm back iiin the saaaddle agaiiiin!" Country everywhere (Brokeback Mountain, Johnny Cash, and over here: Texas Lightning with their beautiful version of "Like a virgin" - the rest isn't that good really):