{"id":305,"date":"2006-04-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2006-04-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T07:00:00","slug":"illustration-friday-spring-2003-flower-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/illustration-friday-spring-2003-flower-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration Friday: Spring — 2003 flower thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2003 flower thing<\/a>
Originally uploaded by royblumenthal<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n

This is my contribution to Illustration Friday: Spring. (You can head for the Illustration Friday website<\/a>, or check out the Flickr Gallery<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This pic came straight out of my subconscious back in 2003, when I was first experimenting with my iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC, running Mobile Atelier drawing software. <\/p>\n

I was really just doodling. I have three plants in my flat. Minimal maintenance ones that require water every week or two. More like two. One of them, a massive fern, lives outside my front door. <\/p>\n

A neighbour of mine noticed my neglect of the thing, and offered to water it for me. So he’s been doing that for the past two or three years.<\/p>\n

One day I got home to find that he’d tied the fern up with black cotton. Which I removed. The next day, the cotton was back. I removed it again.<\/p>\n

When I finally bumped into him and asked what was happening, he explained, ‘There’s a lot of wind, and your fern’s fronds are snapping off. So I just wanted to tie it so the wind wouldn’t damage it.’<\/p>\n

I almost asked him to stop watering the thing, but I knew that would be immeasureably more cruel to the plant than a bit of light bondage.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he stopped tying it up, and it’s flourishing, wind or no wind.
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Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2003 flower thing Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is my contribution to Illustration Friday: Spring. (You can head for the Illustration Friday website, or check out the Flickr Gallery.) This pic came straight out of my subconscious back in 2003, …<\/p>\n

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