[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-today-is-one-long-to-do-list":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/to_do_list-241d8c0409.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLots of exciting things happening, lots of work on, but I have such a bad memory that things always seem to get left out. So apologies if I was supposed to send you an e-mail or promised to do something; just keep reminding me, I'm being totally lame that way right now. I'm like that Dylan guy in \u003Ci>Black Books\u003C/i> who makes a jacket out of his receipts instead of filing his taxes.\\r\n\\r\nThis morning I was passing through Deptford market and spotted an old hardback Miffy book by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dickbrunahuis.com/index.phtml?MenuLink=Home&Language=EN\">Dick Bruna\u003C/a> sitting on the top of one of the piles on a table and snatched it up for 50p. It sold that cheap because somone had gone in with a green marker and inked over the characters' eyes, but I kind of liked it, it's like a goth Miffy. I was admiring a Miffy postcard in the upstairs animators' studio the other day, and I couldn't decide what to draw, so I just did a Bruna tribute piece. The beauty in Bruna's stuff has a lot to do with its simplicity, so me adding stuff to the picture probably isn't helping things.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bruna1-ba0287b4ed.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/todolist-4a8ac1133d.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>original Bruna page from \u003C/i>I can count, \u003Ci>and some of this lists on my studio wall\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI've been listening to Aaron Copeland's \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring\">\u003Ci>Appalachian Spring\u003C/i>\u003C/a> on Spotify a lot these days. It's such a lovely piece and it has that Shaker \u003Ci>Simple Gifts\u003C/i> tune running through it that reminds me not to make my life too compicated. I remember going to hear it when I was a kid with my dad and a family friend at the Seattle Symphony, with the orchestra accompanied by a photographer's slide show of Appalachian farmlands. I was really young and kind of bored, but then I looked over at my dad's friend sitting with us and he was crying because it was so beautiful and I'll never forget that.","2009-10-02T10:26:00.000Z","today-is-one-long-to-do-list",[],"today is one long to-do list",1776628733367]