watch what you consume -- or sketch it

One of my favorite Portland bloggers and radtastic Creatives, Kate Bingaman-Burt of Obsessive Consumption, gave an adorable talk today during lunch about her work. Kate makes sketches of all things consumption -- things she buys, receipts, bills, coupons. I really enjoyed seeing her in person and remembering that all these amazing people I covet out in the blog world are indeed just people like us. Kate had little to no artist aspirations growing up, but found herself happily in the midst of projects after she started exploring her interests in peoples' consumption patterns. You sketch, you think, you blog, you talk, you smile -- and thus a good life of projects is born.