![]() ![]() I went to London three times in 2019, but zero in 2020. I did approximately half the amount of drawing in the past twelve months as in the previous, but then 2019 was a bumper year for sketching and travelling. Or maybe not, I don’t care that much.īut will 2021 be that different from 2020? 2020 was definitely different to 2019 for example. (Tottenham won the FA Cup in both of those years too, so maybe 2021 is our year?) Let’s just say that sounds about right, 19 are closer to each other than 19. The internet, mobile phones (and not the big brick ones carried by yuppies in 1991), plus lots of other things I’m too lazy to think of. Is 1991 closer to 1961 than 2021 is to 1991? I mean, it kind of is. And when you think about it, it’s really even further. Wait no the point is, what seemed like ancient prehistory to us in the 80s and 90s is as far away from us then as the 80s and 90s is to us now. Anyway the point I’m making is that we now live in the future and we used to live in the past when it was the present. When Marty walks into a 1990s cafe wearing his 2021 clothing, someone would say “hey what’s with the face mask?” And when Marty travelled 30 years into the future to the far-off year of 2051 there would be a news report about Tottenham winning the Premier League (as well as all the usual flying cars. There would be payphones and cassette players. ![]() 1991! There would be loads of references to jokes about the ridiculous idea of Donald Trump being president some day, and Doc Brown would be asking if Bryan Adams was still number 1. I saw online that if Back to the Future was made now, Marty McFly would be travelling back to 1991. What a year! I don’t know about you, but I thought 2020 was a little bit shit.Īnd now it is 2021. Still, whether it was a crow or a tree that pooped onto the page, I welcomed it as the last hurrah of twenty-twenty. Unfortunately I did such a good job at cleaning it up (I didn’t want to leave too much of it on there, in case it was diseased, if it was from a crow and I got sick it would be ironic after avoiding covid to get ill from a corvid), that it looks like a brownish smudge now. Also, if the sketch didn’t turn out to be all that, I’d have a ready-made get-out-of-hard-drawing card, plus the actual effect of the black poop (which splattered bluish grey poop artistically across the spread) would make it look really interesting. This will be something to talk about! I thought, happy to have a conversation starter. I wiped it off but was also a little delighted. But it was a direct hit, missing my clothing completely, and leaving thick muck across the page. It was really dark black as well, which makes me think maybe it wasn’t a bird but one of those oily things that trees occasionally plop onto the sidewalk, there are trees here that do that, lots of sticky paths. ![]() I was standing underneath a tree, and then plop a big black splat across the page. And in the spirit of 2020, a bird pooped on the page while I was sketching, as if to say, you know what, this year is not done with you yet. This was the last sketch of 2020, outside Cloud Forest Cafe on D Street, Davis. ![]()
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