Author name: jade

New linens were delivered! A knock came at a non-food delivery time. OOH excitement! A new set of sheets and towels in large garbage bags were sitting outside the door. High drama for the day. For my stop-gap animation explorations, I conceded that I needed to learn Adobe Lightroom. It is different enough from Photoshop […]

We can’t go into the hallway although I have opened the door to peer into the hall even though I’m not even supposed to do that. The window is the an important connection to the real world during quarantine. A view Throughout the day, I aimlessly wander to the window and survey the world beyond

This was Sunday in AU and Saturday in CA so I had no work as diversion from the very long day that stretches out during quarantine. I buckled down and tried a stop-gap animation by using only Adobe products. Spoiler: this took 6+ hours for an 8-second video. No background, no lighting, no tripod These

Something you probably don’t know about me: I love hair braiding and nail polish videos. Around 2016, I was totally obsessed and followed various Facebook pages that had these types of videos. There’s an ASMR quality to them that is calming yet exciting. Weird, I know. I had to ween myself away only allowing an

This was a pretty good day considering I’m in a closed environment. It’s been raining on and off so the sound of rain against the window is a nice diversion. When BF was motivated to do the 30-day abs challenge exercises, we discovered it was a rest day. Why? He still wanted to do something