Walldren’s World

I’ve not been posting nearly as much as I would like to be lately. One of the many reasons for this is profoundly positive: work is busy. Lots of new business coming in the door and pitches underway. I’m proud to say that I work with an amazing group of people who do amazing work and to have the degree of job satisfaction I have at the moment feels almost criminal.

That said, “why come you no blog much more, Scottee?” some of my more illiterate readers write me. To which I must say that the commitments of work and being a family man (who is soon about to move) lately are too great to warrant a great degree of time spent on this blog masterpiece.

With that said, here are some quick updates.

• Nathan is unbearably cute, though I think he is becoming quite the needy boy. He gets what he wants when he wants it. We are getting sleep, but he’s not quite sleeping through the night.
• Christina and I are both very well and are starting to try to eat healthier.
• I have recently discovered the writings of Jasper Fforde, whose latest book “Shades of Grey” is quite possibly my new favorite book.  I’m currently reading his satire of mysteries and nursery rhymes) called “The Big Over Easy” in which somebody has snuffed Humpty Dumpty. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty back together again. But Detective Jack Sprat is on the case.

Ever since I was a ‘wee lad, I loved to sketch and draw. My grandmother was largely responsible for instilling this love of “art” in me.  My Dad’s irreverence and back-of-the-napkin and doodles and verbal characatures also played a role. And who could forget the Bruce Blitz video my Mom bought me when I was in elementary school?

I would draw on everything. About everything. Up until recently, I had kept my notebooks since middle school that were lined with cartoonish lampoons of whatever subject matter my teachers were trying to impart. To this day I often find myself doodling on scratch paper during meetings – usually incorporating cartoon versions of the problems at hand – or a sketch of an abstract of the business problem. Or sometimes just a really funny thing somebody said.

Lately, as you can probably tell by reading this blog, I have taken to trying to draw something every day. While I don’t have the personal time to post a “Sketch a Day” as much as I’d like to, I make the effort to doodle something – anything – each day, and tuck it away into a folder for later review.

Once done, I think I will collect my favorites, scan them into the computer in  higher quality (than is posted here) and create a 5×7″ photobook on Shutterfly for posterity.  Just a thought.

Another classic cult film in need of a Lego franchise: Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”