This post started with me recalling the second time I lived in Austin, Texas. The first time was I got into a car accident Thanksgiving-time 2009. I was driving across the country and I didn’t make it, so I moved there. It’s a long story. I was sober and lived with 14 people in a co-op. The second time, the last member of my nuclear family had just passed away and I was usually intoxicated. That time I lived with a friend in a McMansion and we had some homeless graffiti artist shooting meth and basically squatting there. It’s a long story. Austin was fun both times. I remember the sober-stay much better. Both residencies ended with Medical Emergencies. Come to think of it, both started that way too. 🤔

I digress.

For a period of time during the second stint, I became very interested in streaming live video. periscope and Meerkat were both new and it was fascinating new technology. Several times I streamed myself sleeping and I would have several hundred views/night. There’s some photo and video of me painting in my studio during this time. This is a sped up video of me starting a new painting before work.

That was an entirely-too-long description of an 18 second video. ✌🏼

first step of a new painting