When I was freshly unemployed from Cypress I went to Flatstock at South by Southwest as I am wont to do. It was fun as per usual and I found some things to buy from a studio called Cricket Press. I didn’t know what I was going to do with them but after a while I got my new bedroom put together and decided that they would look good in there. Michael’s had a 70% off sale on framing a couple of weeks ago which is lower than they usually have sales so I had the prints framed.
I picked them up yesterday after I got home (more on that in a bit) and tonight I hung them up. I think they look pretty good.
Anyway, about getting home yesterday. It was a gorgeous spring day (February 23rd. You know, spring) and I need to put some miles on the bike so I decided to ride to work. That went fine. The ride home is a bit tougher it being more uphill than down and me having done 25 miles into work and a full day at the office already. So I’m going up the hill towards Kenai on Parmer and traffic is passing me but slowing as the light is red. A Suburban goes by and there’s a teenage girl, probably not more than 15, in the back seat with the window down, both hands on the window, head poking out barking at me. Like bark bark, arf arf barking. They go on past and stop at the light and I pedal by them and she’s still barking at me and then the light turns green and we cross for a third time, girl still barking. It’s been stuck in my head for the last day as it’s definitely the strangest thing to happen to me in a while. I got some mileage out of it on the bookface though so that’s good I guess.
The prints are here:
The Rabbits
The Foxes
The Cicadas
Lightning Bugs