Yesterday, after a busy morning of running errands, I came home and crashed for most of the afternoon. When I woke up, I was dazed, confused…and starving.
As soon as I got my belly full, I fell back asleep again.
Why all the sleep? Well, I’m an insomniac—and I also had my first pneumonia vaccine on Monday. The nurse practitioner warned me it might knock me on my butt. And she wasn’t wrong. The extra rest was lovely, but by the time night rolled around, my mind was bouncing like an over-caffeinated bunny.
Not only had I napped most of the day away…I was also buzzing with excitement.
Today I’m heading down to Anaheim to see a dear friend who’s in town on business. We don’t have a chance to see each other very often—the last time was four years ago—so I’m beyond thrilled. And my brain decided to throw a little all-night party.
Instead of tossing and turning, I decided to make the video above to help coax my mind into slowing down and (hopefully) drifting off. I know video art isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I love making it.
For me, finger-painting with moving light—right on my iPad—is a good way to turn my restless energy into something both beautiful and relaxing.
Keep calm and carry on!
Clint 🌈✌️
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FOR YOUR (SUBSTACK) CONSIDERATION
ON THIS DAY = AUGUST 13
BIRTHDAYS
1860 = Annie Oakley = American target shooter
1866 = Giovanni Agnelli = Italian businessman and Fiat founder
1867 = George Luks = American painter and illustrator
1895 = Bert Lahr = American actor
1895 = Gluck = English painter 🌈
1899 = Alfred Hitchcock = English-American filmmaker
1904 = Buddy Rogers = American actor and musician
1919 = George Shearing = English jazz pianist and bandleader
1920 = Neville Brand = American actor
1929 = Pat Harrington, Jr. = American actor
1930 = Don Ho = American singer
1944 = Kevin Tighe = American actor
1948 = Kathleen Battle = American operatic soprano
1950 = Jennifer Pritzker = American investor and philanthropist 🌈
1951 = Dan Fogelberg = American singer-songwriter
1952 = Herb Ritts = American photographer 🌈
1955 = Paul Greengrass = English director and screenwriter
1958 = Domenico Dolce = Italian fashion designer 🌈
1959 = Danny Bonaduce = American actor
1961 = Dawnn Lewis = American actor
1961 = Sam Champion = American tv personality and weather anchor 🌈
1961 = Tom Perrotta = American novelist and screenwriter
1962 = John Slattery = American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 = Debi Mazar = American actor
1974 = Karine Jean-Pierre = French-American political advisor 🌈
1975 = Andrea Gibson = American spoken word poet 🌈
1982 = Christopher Raeburn = English fashion designer
1982 = Sebastian Stan = Romanian-American actor
1984 = James Morrison = English singer-songwriter
EVENTS
1889 = William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
1918 = Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company.
1918 = Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps.
1967 = Bonnie and Clyde is released in theaters.
1969 = The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1982 = Fast Times at Ridgemont High is released in theaters.
1997 = South Park premieres on Comedy Central.
1998 = San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter, a gay and lesbian newspaper, published its first issue in seventeen years with no AIDS-related obituaries.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Many people who excel are self-taught.”
Herb Ritts
“I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.”
Herb Ritts
