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Who's Looking at this Website?

Okay, so I don't know how to analyze data. I don't even know how  to look at data before not analyzing it.I tend to get stuck on useless metaphysical questions like: Who from Singapore is looking at this website?

One feature that provides hours of fun and entertainment is the projected monthly number of unique (come on, you're all unique) visitors and the number of pages viewed. For example in May there were 24 unique oddballs that looked at the site and they viewed 260 pages. The projection for June, based on visits so far is 67 unique visitors and--get this--1,182 pages viewed. Wow. This is exciting. If only I knew what a 'page' is. Anyway, I've been fooled by these projections in the past. Twice I handed in my notice on my day-job only to find out that the projection was made by Litlle Miss Mary Sunshine and that, furthermore, the visitors in June-so-far, have all donned saffron robes, shaved their heads and are living in the mountains of Tibet.

That's what a website like this can do to a person. Perhaps it is I who should robe up and get onto a mountain.
But where, really are these folks, past visitors, located. 51% in the United States. Okay. But the rest live in 'Other'. These must be the newly ordained monks with access to the internet.

Most intriguing is that the person from someplace called Medway, MA who had been visiting my site 108 times a day, has dropped back to a mere 40 or 50 visits a day. I take great pride in how long it took my stuff to get old for this person. I guess not that old, though.
 
A couple of times a year I try to figure out what all of this means. I've got a better chance at coming up with The Meaning of Life.

I guess my goals for the next period are clear. Come up with enough new stuff to keep the person from Medway interested.

But really, thanks to all of you who have visited my website.

Tulane

Hey, you know that wierd painting called "Nadine"? I think it's under "Oddities". You have to enlarge it a bunch to see the words to "Nadine" written in with India Ink. Well, I've been wanting to do a companion piece to it called "Tulane". Both songs by Chuck Berry. I think I found my subject matter in a way-old(1980) charcoal drawing of tulips. (see previous post about discovering how you can use your old drawings. I'm using the Chris Smither version of the lyrics to "Tulane". Also working on a portrait of Joey Ramone. No one could write a love song like Joey Ramone. It makes me cry just writing this so the portrait may take a while and a box of Kleenex.

I'll see about posting the way-old charcoal drawing here soon.(Here it is) Then you can decide when I'm done if "Tulane, the painting" works or not.


First Pass

I wrote about working on mixing terrific grays from the three primary colors. This is the first pass. The challenge: to mix a perfectly neutral gray and use it to cover all the parts of three white objects that will not end up being completely white once the picture is finished. The gray here is of a very watery consistency.It took me more than an hour to get this right. Lots of muttering and growling.

Part II of this exercise will be to mix a darker gray, less watery and define the darker areas.

This is an exercise from "Watercolor Class" by Michael Crespo. My teacher, Janet Hobbs, showed me this book and it has become the place I return to when I get too far out there for my skill level.