Collaboration Chronicles

My tax guy let me know that I have a little slack after paying the government more than necessary for the first 3 quarters of 2008. It seems like a good time to work on a plan I have to animate stuff for a new website. It will have a lake (ho ho, my last name), with a loch ness monster and etc. I felt like doing some field sketch for research. (Also, I always have concrete fatigue living in the Mission.) So I decided to take a few hours for a bike trip.

Googling led to the bay area hydrography wiki, which had a list of aquifers- bays, creeks, springs, and lakes. I wanted a small one that wasn’t landscaped and might have frogs and herons and seclusion. Jewel Lake looked good, and it was a 45-min. BART ride and a 2-mile bike ride into Tilden Park.

2 miles over a mountain- arrgh. Plus I’m slightly sick with a sore throat, so that was murder. Dragging myself out the door late also meant I didn’t get there until after 4pm. There was just an hour of magical sun over the mountain.

I wandered around taking pictures of mossy shit in the woods with my fancy new googleyphone (the 3mp camera is supposed to be good.) Then I sat on a log to have an orange for lunch. A berkeley hippie in all-white was there, and he started chatting. It was amusing at first, until he got into talking about liver cleansing and the alchemical properties of hallucinogens. It was harshing my mellow, man, so I just answered “mmhmm” and after a while he left to berate someone for smoking. I managed to squeeze in 1 sketch (no warm up) at twilight. The air suddenly chilled and I left, last out of the park. Next time I want to spend at least 3 hours drawing.

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