i got into sewing and knitting when i was 11 or 12. i used to skip school some afternoons to cut up old shower curtains or whatever i could find to make clothes, which i would end up wearing only once, because most of the ideas were a bit crazy.

a long time later, when I was doing a master's degree, i got into a nocturnal schedule -- sleeping all day, and staying up all night watching documentaries about zebras on PBS -- because I had come to loathe and dread the thought of going to school to face my unfinished master's thesis. I picked up the knitting needles again, and basically knitted my way out of this hole.

one of my other chief diversions during the "dark period" of graduate school was learning web design and fiddling with my web pages. deadpan designs is the happy marriage of these two procrastination techniques.

then web development became my "real" job, and this website got horribly out of date, because nobody was paying me to keep it up. that's the state it's in now. i've got plans for redevelopment, but it could take a while before i get to it. although now i'm back in grad school, so it might happen soon, if i have a really big paper due.

the redevelopment plan involves making the site about more than just buying stuff. there will be things just to look at too. as a little preview of what some of that stuff might be, here are a few links to other things I do or think about:
strange drawings
the soft city
philosophy of science
mutant flies

some websites i've worked on:
videoart.virtualmuseum.ca
communicationstudies.ca
democracynow.org
contactphoto.com
ucycle.com
splicethis.com
mammalian.ca

if you want to say hi, write to me: <catherine at deadpan dot ca>
Catherine Stinson