2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Group Stage
Date: 10.02.19
Slavia Prague: 0
Borussia Dortmund: 2
Achraf Hakimi (35′, 89′)
VENUE: Sinobo Stadium
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The way to learn to draw is by drawing. People who make art must not merely know about it. For an artist, the important thing is not how much he knows, but how much he can do. A scientist may know all about aeronautics without being able to handle an airplane. It is only by flying that he can develop the senses for flying. If I were asked what one thing more than any other would teach a student how to draw, I should answer, ‘Drawing – incessantly, furiously, painstakingly drawing.’
The Natural Way to Draw, Nicolaïdes, Kimon
An artist must have skin in the game.
The work, the practice of drawing everyday, is the path to improvement.
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This book is proving helpful. It clarified some techniques for practicing contour line drawing.
First you must convince yourself that the pencil point is touching the model instead of the paper.
Place the point of your pencil on the paper. Imagine that your pencil point is touching the model instead of the paper. Without taking your eyes off the model, wait until you are convinced that the pencil is touching that point on the model upon which your eyes are fastened.
The Natural Way to Draw, Nicolaides, Kimon, pg 9
I always wondered, what do you do when the contour leaves the edge of the object and turns inward?
Often you will find that the contour you are drawing will leave the edge of the figure and turn inside, coming eventually to an apparent end. When this happens, glance down at the paper in order to locate a new starting point. This new starting point should pick up at that point on the edge where the contour turned inward.
The Natural Way to Draw, Nicolaides, Kimon, pg.10And contours can lie inside the figure as well:
Not all contours lie along the outer edge of the figure. For example, if you have a front view of the face, you will see definite contours along the nose and the mouth which have no apparent connection with the contours at the edge. As far as the time for your study permits, draw these ‘inside contours’ exactly as you draw the outside ones. Draw anything that your pencil can rest on and be guided along. DEVELOP THE ABSOLUTE CONVICTION THAT YOU ARE TOUCHING THE MODEL.
The Natural Way to Draw, Nicolaides, Kimon, pg 10, 11Helpful reminders. Now, back to drawing.
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Of all things I know to do,
pushing you feels so true.
Because this peace I wish to keep,
I push you for,
10 more minutes of blissful sleep.
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I underline words as I read.
My reasons vary.
A word sounds smooth in my head.
A word sounds crisp when spoken out loud.
It may be a fancy word I want to remember, like say, pretentious. But fancy words are like my Air Jordan 11s – you pull them out only for special occasions.
After underlining a word, I make a silent promise to myself. I promise to return to the page. I promise to grab a real-life dictionary and look up the definition.
I break these promises to myself almost every time.
But today I kept it.
Definitions from a few pages from Dryer’s English:
Ossified v. – cease developing; become inflexible.
Fundament n. – 1 the foundation or basis of something. 2 humorous a person’s buttocks or anus.
Knell n. – the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.
Keeping promises always satisfies.
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Pastor decipher,
an ancient message. Listen.
Truth and lies creep through.
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The Captain, Marco Reus 2019-20 German Bundesliga
Date: 9.28.19
Borussia Dortmund: 2
Mario Götze (9′) Marco Reus (41′)
Werder Bremen: 2
Milot Rashica (7′) Marco Friedl (55′)
VENUE: SIGNAL IDUNA PARK
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Conversations with Tyler is my must listen podcast.
Tyler’s interviews have introduced me to disciplines I’d never consider exploring.
He speaks with urban planners, novelists, economists, tennis players, journalists, doctors – an incredible array of minds.
The final part of his interviews is called the Production Function. It’s where he asks his subject – What’s your productivity secret?
I found journalist Ross Douthat’s response helpful:
But there is a sense in which writing a column is — it’s like you’re a plumber. The toilet has to be fixed, so you fix the toilet. The column has to be written, so you write the column…
On approaching journalism with a tradesman’s mindset:
But journalism is a trade, right? I mean there is obviously an intellectual component. And we wouldn’t have been able to sit here and have this conversation with me babbling at you if I didn’t have intellectual pretensions. But the work of journalism — this is less true in the age of the internet — but it is linked to a very physical thing that comes out every week, or every month, or every day, and it comes out and it has to be filled.
And when there’s space to be filled, you write the column:
There is a place on the New York Times, on the printed New York Times, that would be blank or have an ad stuck on it if I didn’t write my column. And so you write the column. You write the column. And it’s useful for journalists to think about it this way — it’s useful for anyone inclined to over-romanticize or over-admire journalists to think about it this way.
On not sitting around waiting to become the next George R.R. Martin:
Certainly I like to imagine that — or at least something that sold as well as George R. R. Martin. But it also might be the case that if I had spent my life sitting around with my unfinished novels, I never would have produced anything interesting. And so it’s better to be a tradesman, and that’s at least part of how I think about my job.
Listen to the interview in its entirety here
Or read the transcript here
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Summer’s neighbor knocks.
Pennant races, Charlie Brown.
Flannel season glows.
Floodlights and Goalposts 