Not Broken, Just Bent.

I have many thoughts sloshing about in my brain goo.

New cover is up. Not pleased with it, but it's up over on Whitechapel. Not going to link to it from here (parts of that thread are NSFW) and not going to link to it off my site, because setting one's preformance review on fire might be viewed as a career limiting move (or a CLM, as we often say here at the four-letter company of acronyms.) Took about 1 hour of sketching and about 3.5 hours of design - was all I could give it.
If you do go over, realize that the theme this week was "Amazing Adult Fantasy" featuring a character called Spiderman - Mine's at the bottom of page 9 - none of the other art on page 9 should get you in trouble, but I won't speak to the safety of your eyeballs or brain should you hit any of the other pages.


I have many thoughts on self identity, and the difficulty of getting used to contacts after wearing glasses since I was 8.


I have many thoughts on many things, and they are all mooshing around my brain goo -
but it's friday morning, the sun is out, my face is naked, and I have a day of Stupid On Fire in front of me. (Smells a lot like burning tires.)


Crank up the industrial,
break out the Tea of Rebellion,
and let's make some art.



Or whatever passes for art around here.

I get to do one (1) creative job here a year. Where I get to actually be creative.
It's an event. We didn't do said event last year, so I'm really due.

They don't have a theme for the event, so they are going "tropical", since it's being held in FL. That was ALL the direction I was given. "Make it tropical."

Ahhhight.

I pull up this image:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-9687731-blue-tropical-background.php
and figure with a little doing, I can leverage it out to be corporate worthy. Not that it already isn't - trust me, I REALLY wanted to go here:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11890659-palm-in-frame.php
but I knew that would blow their collective little corporate brainz.
So I pull down the greenblue swoosh, and I pull down:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-1935340-floral-bird-background-series.php
and change the colors to match the first.
(There's two sections to this event, and they need to feel slightly different - one part meeting, one part award dinner. Flowers are intended for the award dinner.)

So I'm thinking this might not suck. That is has color, energy, lift - a certian amount of NOT SUCKING.

And I get..

"Don't you think it's too much? I mean, it's so nice. We don't want it to be too interesting."


Desire to throw a Artsy-Pants style temper-tantrum held at bay because I like being paid.

And my eyes are really really annoyed at me.

K, Out.