What I’m up to! Updated 2025, November 11.
I live, play, and work in Springfield, MO.
Call to Action!
Invite me out for picnics, cooking, hiking, bicycle outings, archery practice, life drawing and art meetups, workshops, infoshops, and needful solidarity actions.
Hire me for artwork, animation, design, health and environmental propaganda, writing documentation, odd jobs, driving, and elder care temporary gigs. W-2 jobs must have variety, health insurance, and pay bills. Creative work and a financial trajectory necessary for multi-year commitments.
Active Projects
New this fall I’m doing a pop-up vendor booth at area festivals with Birdy of Birdy and the Beads where you can make and we can help you make custom Do-it-yourself custom beadable pens, keychains, tools, and accessories. Check out the calendar for dates and locations!
My vining watermelon surface design / tiling pattern is coming along. On the pop-up vendor circuit I recently made contact with several bag makers and machine embroiderers from whom I may order some durable merchandise after I finalize a design and print some fabric online at Spoonflower for them to sew. Also, Check out my tutorial for layered tiling in Inkscape.
The weather’s freeze has mostly halted outdoor garden work but I am still processing seeds and making seed packets out of squares of paper. I think I’ll make a donation to the Springfield Greene County Library’s heirloom seed lending library. I have Small Jadu’i Watermelon, Grandpa McKay’s Cream Pea African Pea, and Palestinian Kousa to share if anybody asks or wants any.
I dug up my struggling Battiri Bitinjan aubergines to overwinter in pots, hopefully they’ll keep as well as my ghost peppers did in the past. With their repeat leaf loss to flea beetles and now to some transplant upset, they’re hilariously tall for their current placement. I would like to trim them shorter if possible when the transplant stabilizes and root the cuttings. They ought to bud lower on the stems.
I’m learning Markdown as needed to document processes for my own reference as I revisit old tasks, work through software tutorials, and publish content here on WebPress. For Example, I’m presently learning to install WebPress from scratch without the prebuilds that Digital Ocean stopped releasing.
To keeping my thoughts, tasks, and projects organized and on track, there is a pressing need for me to finish the reunification of my file system and get a network file server setup.
Queued and Low Burner Projects
I have a wall calendar print design project in the works with Christine of Mosaica Rose Studio where I sometimes help around the studio and with mosaic prep & install.
- Really this is waiting on me to finish the Scribus tutorials and script/add-on tests so I can go ahead and solicit the featured rough works, vs waiting for reworked pieces.
I have a cluster of separate projects for Big Brutus and the museum, getting site photo panoramas onto the website and working on an extended visioning pitch for site electrification / vehicle charging as well as adding an Electrification of SouthEast Kansas history module to the excellent mining history and miner’s union content.
- Waiting on me to stabilize the website to do the first round of uploads and tidying up.
- waiting on me to do a ton of different research.
Blender 360° panoramas with Grease Pencil I have most of the technical papercut workarounds figured out but by the time I really have a body of work going they’ll probably release Sticky GP as seen in this demo, which will itself be a learning process but should obviate a lot of the problems I have.
- Waiting on excuses and uninterrupted time to review my notes and possibly wade through the sticky GP writeup / files to see if it’s worth reconstructing their hacky script.
Archery Practice at the Springfield-Greene County Park Board Archery Complex
- Waiting on reliably reccuring income to budget for facility fees so I can commit calendar time to the extended family who also need to be practicing. While less social, I do miss having the family farm’s spacious hay barn to practice in.
Learn to replace bicycle chain
- Waiting on $ for chain tool and replacement chain
Respirators, SARS2 pathology, airborne transmission), and actionable air filtration are areas of great interest in which I’ve read a good deal. I’d like to translate that to a direct aid Mask Bloc effort. I find Mask Bloc Los Angeles and other direct aid / mutual aid organizations in that area inspirational. They have been essential during the last round of fires as the federal, state, city, and county governments in these eugenics-infested, anosognosiatic times arrested people whose homes just burned down for camping, planned to leave incarcerated children locked up to die inside active wildfire zones, and generally withheld lifesaving capacity.
- Waiting on $ to afford supplies like fit-testing equipment, discounted wholesale respirator boxes, and for time to organize something in the community. There is not an extant effort to glom onto here locally to my knowledge.
Recent Reading and Media
I’ll come back and update this another time after I figure out how I want to populate suggested media, evergreen reading and art links on the site vs what memorable work I encountered most recently. So many Scientific papers, articles, videos, podcasts episodes, novels, etc to mention. I’m currently reading Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment.