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8468. judithathome - 9/6/2007 7:04:29 PM Very good..seems you are also a master at rendering thought as well as one of rendering the Tuscan sky. 8469. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/6/2007 8:19:57 PM Thanks for responding, Judith. For a dyslexic who is confounded by words, it's always a struggle. When my passion, however, takes over, it gets easier and I focus better. I'm a very sloppy reader who scans and misses a lot. In college, "a friend" gave me LSD and I became catatonic for seven hours because my mind raced too fast for me to speak. I think the verbal part of my brain is tangled up somehowÐwhich may account for my painting skills.
(Btw, something weird happens with apostrophe’s and dashes when I paste text from a Word document.) 8470. jexster - 9/6/2007 8:24:40 PM Ave Maria
Schubert
RIP
8471. wabbit - 9/6/2007 9:06:22 PM Well said, WoW.
fwiw, the weirdness is Word's doing, not yours. It has to do with the way punctuation marks, or anything other than standard upper/lower case letters, are encoded. In a Word document, there is always formatting involved, so when you copy something from Word, you copy the encoded text, not plain text. 8472. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/6/2007 10:06:10 PM Thanks wabb, but I also think the MAC has a glitch as well.
The following is what happens when I input a dash (which is an option-shift underline on a MAC) — — Ñ
Those were three attempts and the third one worked so 'splain to me Lucy? 8473. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/6/2007 10:07:53 PM Ha! The third on work in my preview but not in the actual post. 8474. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/6/2007 10:08:34 PM The Third onE workED . . . 8475. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/6/2007 10:09:18 PM I'm confused! 8476. wabbit - 9/6/2007 10:34:36 PM Nope, it's the same problem. Ever get those empty boxes instead of spaces when you copy/paste from a Mac to a Windows PC? It's all to do with ASCII and Unicode/Western-ISO/Western-Windows etc. and various styles used in Word. It's most often a problem with so-called smart characters, like curly quotes and em dashes.
Third one didn't work for me. I see two em dashes (the wide ones) and one N with a tilde (¥ - that should be the N with tilde, but probably won't be for everyone). Now, if I change my browser character encoding to Western (MacRoman), I see your essay perfectly, but the em dashes in your 2-out-of-3 example aren't right.
Try it. I'm using Firefox on a PC, but you should be able to do this with any browser regardless of platform. In Firefox, go to View > Character Encoding > More Encodings > West European > Western (MacRoman). 8477. judithathome - 9/6/2007 11:36:01 PM It's all Sanskrit to me....ha! 8478. judithathome - 9/6/2007 11:37:31 PM By the way, Wiz...when we were in Arkansas, Arky had your posters up, framed very nicely, and they looked fabulous. 8479. jexster - 9/6/2007 11:42:30 PM Sooey pig Wizzer! 8480. wabbit - 9/7/2007 12:06:05 AM JaH (everyone else too),
You should see them in person, it's worth the trip. The colors and textures are really something, very tactile and evocative and emotional, and his portrayal of light is exquisite. I know I say his work is gorgeous all the time, but it really is something to experience the originals. 8481. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/7/2007 1:16:52 AM Wabb you'll always be the go-to-gal for heavy liftin'.
And I guess it's BlushOrama time.
Thanks again!
. . . except for jexster, whose code I never understand.
8482. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/7/2007 3:23:23 AM 
8483. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/17/2007 10:05:39 PM I'm hoping for some input on the monograph for my next show. Any and all thoughts would be most welcomed--as well as spotting typos, miscommunication errors, bad grammar, etc.. Many thanks!
INK STAINS
[A free catalog to anyone responding. It's a 1.5 meg download if you want it on your hard drive, btw--but I think you can view it in html.]
8484. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/17/2007 10:07:17 PM Opps!
INK STAINS 8485. judithathome - 9/17/2007 10:16:13 PM Wiz, I think this sentence "It's such an enticing form of joy that we readily recognize, and eagerly share in for its restorative power." is a little awkward...maybe dropping the comma after "recognize"? And maybe change "such" to "very much"...don't listen to me, however, because I'm in awe of the entire thing! 8486. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/17/2007 10:34:26 PM Not at all Judith, that's good advice--thanks! 8487. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/17/2007 11:14:44 PM INK STAINS [revised]
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