I joined The Sketchbook Project Encyclopedia of /
This week the theme is workspaces. Members submit an image of their work space. It will be the first online visual encyclopedia. The worldwide collection of images of work spaces will be like a visual wikipedia. I submitted a photograph of my studio.
This is certainly following a tradition in my family. When My Grandmother met my Grandfather, he was a traveling salesman for Encyclopedia Britannica. He drove up and down the California coast going from door to door selling his books. Growing up in a household with this collection of dark leather bound books, had a large influence on my life. Whenever I had a question my mother would say, ‘go look it up in the encyclopedia.’ Taking out one of the big heavy books, I’d sit on the floor and thumb through it finding my answer. This answer, with it’s images and descriptions would lead me on to a new question. Bringing down another heavy book, I’d wander through book B or book X-Y-Z. These books took me into another world. Now, I get caught up in the internet which takes me on wondrous journeys around the world. I can even ‘talk’ with people around the world.
The tradition hasn’t stopped there. Me, joining this project is very small compared to my son’s accomplishments. My son, a Software Engineer, co-founded Foodista.com, http://www.foodista.com, an online encyclopedia devoted to anything you want to know about food. I highly recommend a visit to Foodista.com. I wander through that website and learn a lot about food, recipes, health, just about anything related to food. Sometimes, when I have a question, I look it up in the Foodista encyclopedia.
check out other projects at http://www.sketchbookproject.com/projects
Tags: California, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopedia, Foodista, Internet encyclopedia project, Open Source, painting studio, photography, The sketchbook Project, Travel, traveling salesman, United States, Wikipedia, workspaces, World Wide Web
January 24, 2013 at 10:51 am |
Enjoyed this! Lovely studio. N.
Sent from my iPad
January 26, 2013 at 6:08 pm |
i’m sure you remember!
January 25, 2013 at 12:18 am |
Love your studio! Shall check out Foodista
January 25, 2013 at 11:50 pm |
what a wonderful workroom you have, so much light and fresh colors! Once I enjoyed to discover (via magazines) the workrooms of Picasso, Mondrian, Max Bill …
January 25, 2013 at 11:56 pm |
maybe you like to compare this workplace:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/2817035446/
a painter’s loft in my hometown …
January 26, 2013 at 8:15 am |
I was once one of those innocent young ‘art chicks’ hanging out in studios like this. I once shared a meat packing (refrigerator? kind of place with huge steel thick sliding doors with the inside open to sunlight and the sky. My studio mate cleaned the toilets to pay his rent.
January 26, 2013 at 12:01 am |
this is my own room – changes monthly …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/5461287380/
you inspired me to write about this topic, Carla!
I’ll set a link to you …
January 26, 2013 at 8:23 am |
You are neat and tidy,. My place usually isn’t so clean but it is here. I do have an amazing wall of light! I have a series of window shots I should pt up somewhere. You have inspired me!
January 26, 2013 at 12:03 am |
my second refugium, if I need silence:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/5695307369/
writer’s corner
January 26, 2013 at 8:21 am |
Aww nice and warm and cozy with music playing or is that distracting?
January 26, 2013 at 11:22 am |
I love it Carla!
XO L & L
January 26, 2013 at 6:09 pm |
Now the 5 year olds just look it up on the little computers whichever they have!
January 27, 2013 at 11:01 am |
Hi Carla, your studio is gorgeous. Love those huge windows.
January 30, 2013 at 6:55 am |
Me too. The windows are coated with an old layer of paint so I get a nice filtered light. I have a nice series of photos taken during a few days of concentrating on that subject.