Today is the last day of an exceedingly long work week for me. 6 days straight of 8-9 hours at retail chipper levels. It's nauseating, really. My tolerance for customer-brand-stupid is low enough that I've got a headache thinking about going into work today.
I haven't gotten the chance to do much arting lately, however I am in-process of writing the script for my thesis's art component. (I really want to hit the ground running when I get to studio class in the fall.) It's going to be a josei-style story, probably printed in some relation to manga ratio, and I'm thinking of going for a toned / black and white look rather than a colored one. I'm a bit out of practice on coloring things, and my coloring style has veered so far away from what is normally seen in comics I need to nail it down more before I do a book that's colored with it. PLUS, black and white printing is much, MUCH cheaper.
If I do the art component how I want to, I may have to color the pages, but that is going to take some figuring on the part of the script to design pacing. And printing, and cost, and blah... blah... blah...
We'll see, I guess.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Frivilous Purchases
So I was at work today, boxing, stuffing, weighing, and shipping our returns, when I came across a book I'd been meaning to read. Being a bibliophile means that this isn't an altogether uncommon occurance. I find these sorts of books all the time. They hide in corners and under video tapes, on shelves, and sometimes, on the far side of homework. More often than not, they are tucked at the bottom of the budget and simply forgotten about until I have access to a library that will give me them for free.
But today at work, I was reminded that I not only wanted to read the pearl of a book that I was inevitably going to ship away and forget about (there have been dozens of these poor, lost reads that I regret not perusing more deeply before parting with them) but ALSO that I had a credit from our book club waiting for me. So I used part of that credit to pay for the book Horseradish by Lemony Snicket.
I don't normally go for giftbooks, quotebooks, or novelty items... but this book just makes me feel a little bit better about my sense of humor, and the state of the world. The back of the dust jacket reads:
Life is a turbulent journey,
fraught with
confusion,
heartbreak,
and inconvenience.
This book will not help.
(Which isn't true, because it does.)
But today at work, I was reminded that I not only wanted to read the pearl of a book that I was inevitably going to ship away and forget about (there have been dozens of these poor, lost reads that I regret not perusing more deeply before parting with them) but ALSO that I had a credit from our book club waiting for me. So I used part of that credit to pay for the book Horseradish by Lemony Snicket.
I don't normally go for giftbooks, quotebooks, or novelty items... but this book just makes me feel a little bit better about my sense of humor, and the state of the world. The back of the dust jacket reads:
Life is a turbulent journey,
fraught with
confusion,
heartbreak,
and inconvenience.
This book will not help.
(Which isn't true, because it does.)
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Ask not...
what your computer can do for you, but what your peripherals can do for your computer.
Yesterday I acquired a radioSHARK. I opened it this morning after I tripped out of bed and nearly brained the cat. I'm sure this thing went the way of the dinosaur with XFM and streaming radio-casting, but let me tell you, I'm liking it.
You can set up pre-sets, and turn your computer into a radio. (I'm such a little kid about this thing, it's like staring at something shiny when you're little. I guess my Mac peripherals are much like shiny things to children.)
Just one more way I'm extending my techno-arsenal. ^_^
Yesterday I acquired a radioSHARK. I opened it this morning after I tripped out of bed and nearly brained the cat. I'm sure this thing went the way of the dinosaur with XFM and streaming radio-casting, but let me tell you, I'm liking it.
You can set up pre-sets, and turn your computer into a radio. (I'm such a little kid about this thing, it's like staring at something shiny when you're little. I guess my Mac peripherals are much like shiny things to children.)
Just one more way I'm extending my techno-arsenal. ^_^
Ask not...
what your computer can do for you, but what your peripherals can do for your computer.
Yesterday I acquired a radioSHARK. I opened it this morning after I tripped out of bed and nearly brained the cat. I'm sure this thing went the way of the dinosaur with XFM and streaming radio-casting, but let me tell you, I'm liking it.
You can set up pre-sets, and turn your computer into a radio. (I'm such a little kid about this thing, it's like staring at something shiny when you're little. I guess my Mac peripherals are much like shiny things to children.)
Just one more way I'm extending my techno-arsenal. ^_^
Yesterday I acquired a radioSHARK. I opened it this morning after I tripped out of bed and nearly brained the cat. I'm sure this thing went the way of the dinosaur with XFM and streaming radio-casting, but let me tell you, I'm liking it.
You can set up pre-sets, and turn your computer into a radio. (I'm such a little kid about this thing, it's like staring at something shiny when you're little. I guess my Mac peripherals are much like shiny things to children.)
Just one more way I'm extending my techno-arsenal. ^_^
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