Since I started taking Jon Morrow’s Guestblogging course I have stopped reading newspapers. I have stopped reading novels, too. And picking up the bedrooms. Actually, I have stopped doing nearly anything. Except sit at my computer and write. I am pretty smitten. Jon sent out an email recently, apologizing to all of us, students, [...]
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Artist and illustrator with a background in journalism
You. Yes, you. I want you to unsubscribe…
Yes. Your eyes are fine. And I still love you. Yet.. I want you to unsubscribe from my mailing list, if you hate the changes I am going to make. (What? you shout in agony, Changes Again?) Again. If I, at 51, have finally learned one thing it is
On perfect mothers
Kitty Kilian, Perfect Mother, Mixed media, 17 x 24 cm, 2011 I am sure you expected to be one, too. A perfect mother. Why else have kids? To make them just as miserable as you yourself were when you were 8, 12, 16? Sure, I am exaggerating. But only just a little Of [...]
How to Write so Fuckin’ Good your Readers Will Beg for More (copy from Blogstylers.nl)
Hey Friends, Since I am still spending all my time working on the new website (see last post) I thought I might as well translate my first post for you, my English speaking pals. Just this once. Here it is: To be honest, you have sort of had it. With blogging. [...]
…And yet another website: The Blog Salon
My arms are a lot better, thanks, but still no new art from me. The reason is: two friends and I have started a new blog here in Holland (De Blogsalon.nl) since we realised, after doing some research, that Holland hardly knows the phenomenon of guestblogging. Even worse: there are hardly any blogs that [...]
Oliebollen and an update
Oliebollen van at the Neude, town center. Picture by KK. Oliebollen: balls of dough the size of meatballs, fried and served hot with icing sugar. Traditionally a New Years dish You know the year is drawing to a close in Holland when oliebollen vans arrive, all over the country. Well, they have arrived. Made me [...]
Guestpost (in Dutch): Hoe heurt het eigenlijk op Social Media?
Vandaag staat mijn eerste gastpost op Papaver Communicatie: lees hier.
Francis Kilian: Oil paintings of women
Francis Kilian, Maria met de anjer, oil painting 2011, 1.40 x 1 m Featuring artists I admire every month without featuring my sister Francis Kilian seemed unnatural. For all through my life Francis has been my shining example of an artist who lives and breathes her own art. The women she has been [...]
On Ignoring Everybody, throwing Cube Grenades and Why Hugh McLeod is wrong about marketing your art online
By Hugh McLeod This cartoon is not a cartoon. It is a ‘social object’. Says Hugh MacLeod, a successful American copywriter, cartoonist, blogger and book author. A social object, he says, is something that causes people to talk, share and connect on social media. In short: a conversation piece. Or, since we live [...]
10 unwritten blog posts I yearn to read
How to write a blog that is so witty it makes Sonia Simone smile Why social networks are not a waste of time after all How to become a better cook in five minutes Why content sucks The most important thing about life – that everyone is keeping from you The secret to becoming a [...]
Can you lift a jar of peanut butter?
Jan van Kampenhout, click image for link Can you lift a jar of peanut butter? Ten years ago, I couldn’t. I could not lift a pot full of soup either. Let alone my then two-year-old son. Around the year 2000 I had been working on my computer non-stop for about fifteen years, while I [...]
A Shakespearean sonnet for a bitch
Here’s the sonnet. (Shakespearean,: 10 syllables to each line, 3 quatrains followed by a couplet of two lines with volta). And for those of you who missed the blog post in which I mention Ming-Zhu and her use of language, click here. A sonnet for a bitch who says fuck One day I [...]
Kathryn Clark: a politically motivated fiber artist
Kathryn Clark is a fiber artist from San Francisco, CA. I met her online, in 2010, and we have been digital friends ever since. We did a fun project together last summer, after which she took off doing very interesting, intelligent and politically inspired things with textile. Her recent series of pretty abstract quilts deals [...]
To hell with anything unrefined
Kitty Kilian, To hell with anything unrefined, 10 x 15 cm/ 4 x 6 in, mixed media Don Marquis was an American writer/columnist who in 1916 the introduced the poetic cockroach Archy in his column in The New York Sun. Archy types poems on Don Marquis’s typewriter, at night. He has a friend called [...]
I finally earned the respect of my youngest son
I finally earned the respect of my youngest son. I put a QR-code on my new business cards, something he did NOT YET HAVE AN APP FOR. He put one on his Iphone, scanned the code, checked it out and it works. (Of course it does!) You can get your own free QR-code here.
Prints framed
Small version of ‘She had decided she did not like sex’ My arms were aching yesterday so I took a day off of the computer. I finally got round to framing some of my latest prints. And to photograph them, while the sun was out. I had two frame sizes made, one for the small [...]
How to grow your email list quickly and another look at them darned stats
Letterpress card by Creativity Today is the Second Day of Reckoning. How have my stats done in the third month of my blog growing campaign? How I am trying to grow my traffic (just like you) I promised on August 20 that I would keep you informed of my stats. I talked a [...]
Hilarious picture of a curious cat
A Japanese friend – Katsuhito Yagi – just sent us pictures from his stay with us. On one of his walks he took this hilarious picture of a Dutch cat.
10 things I expected out of life when I was 10 but did not get
Kitty Kilian, ‘And you think YOUR family’s dysfunctional?’, mixed media, 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 When I was ten I expected lots of things to happen when I grew up – these are the things that didn’t: I would be smashingly beautiful I would be very, very sensible I would marry [...]
Women who blog and say fuck
Kitty Kilian, At times she felt like she was living someone else’s life, mixed media on paper 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 in Women who blog What is it with women who blog? So many women have blogs, yet so few of them WRITE. Most seem happy to post embroidery, freshly [...]
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