Category: Let chats

City Kitty

Someone named City Kitty stumbled across my blog and sent me some of his kitty pastes and stickers.  He’s based out of NYC but says he gets over to Europe once a year to put up stuff, most recently London, Glasgow, Dublin, Galway, and Paris.  Here’s City Kitty on a Label 228. This other kitty sticker uses iridescent paints.  Difficult to read here but very nice in person! The larger piece below didn’t all fit on my scanner.  If you call the phone number 1-855-3-CTY-KTY, you’ll hear a rap song about kittehs…. meow, meow, meow.

Happy new year 2012!

All roads have been leading me to read up on the Situationists in relation to theorizing stickers, including a new book I picked up last week at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge entitled Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape.  (Waugh, I’m not a theorist….) However, in the spirit of the new year, here’s a picture of me at the Pictoplasma character design art conference in Berlin in 2009!  Happy happy!

WTF!

New blog category: the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Today = -679.95 points.  They call them points, right?  All I know is that my TIAA-CREF is going somewhere fast in a hand basket.

A Brief Update

Carole and I (and Arline) met with Library folks today to have a conference call with Rice from iii about the new Encore discovery tool that the Library is implementing.  It has caused us Gallery folk to re-map certain CONTENTdm fields to Dublin Core, and I liked how Rice called it “dumbing down” a field.  How true.  Plus Dublin Core omits several fields that would be important in a museum/gallery context.  There were several other issues to discuss, inc. which fields to include in the Encore record, etc.  It’s really super-fascinating (i.e., NOT!). Kevin, I still need to resolve your…

MoveOn.org

I didn’t think I’d use this blog for politics, but as I’m reading Jane Mayer’s new book, “The Dark Side,” I’m increasingly nervous about the upcoming election for US President.  Check out this list from MoveOn.org with a list of 10 things to know about John McCain.

Ordered sticker #2 yesterday from The Sticker Guy!

OK, something VERY WEIRD is going on in Stickerkitty. I have tried five times, yesterday and today, to load a small .jpg of my new sticker #2 to show everyone, and it won’t load! This happy smiley loaded, no problem! Hmm, strange. Every time I try to load it, I get the html to show up, but no picture. Here, I’ll show you. See the narrow rectangle below? That’s supposed to be sticker #2. Boo.