Brushes and filters
Well, December is nigh, looking at three months where it’s cold, nothing grows outside except evergreens and swiss chard, and the heater is running somewhere. Three months of figuring out whether to have Thursday Jam in the barn or the house.
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The tomato vines got stripped yesterday before last night’s freeze. We have one tray of vine ripened and three trays of green tomatoes. May have to learn Guy Clark’s song Fried Green Tomatoes for the jam, as we’re likely to be having some.
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Business card I designed for Bottomland Blooms. Bottomland is the music venue, Blooms is the horticultural side. Not only am I the graphic designer, I’m also the house band and sound man too.
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I’ve restored download links to the 2D and 3D of the CGI section. I had suspended the links in the section en masse (changed the folder name) because of hot linking. The hot link referrals have finally quit showing up in the error log, so the downloads have been restored.
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It came at the time when I was departing the forums and other Poser haunts, so it may have appeared to be taking my toys home with me. It wasn’t that. It was the hot linkers who added cause to my departure.
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They’ll be online until they start getting hot links again. Now that referral blocking is in effect, it probably won’t be any time soon.
Just an idea for a custom plate.
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April is almost half over, and my head is in a spin. Been a string of engagements, parties, etc. mixed with work. Lots of fun, but also lots of grit. And it’s deep spring with everything abloom. Motivation can be hard to find.
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Back from Houston and the private screening of For the Sake of the Song. I have to say that it exceeded my expectations considerably. I had a great time watching it both times, and there were parties at the Fair afterward each night. What a great time, and what a feeling of contentment and justification for my past associations with the Fair.
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And seeing photos of mine projected over 30 feet tall was a real hoot.
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I also learned that Lyle Lovett got his first stage experience at the same campus coffee house where I was the first person to ever draw an SRO crowd (Mance Lipscomb was the second).
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There is so much to tell that I could never cover it all here, so I won’t even try. I’ll just say that I’m much too pleased with having been a part of the film, and that it was a true honor to attend the private screening with so many household names. People say that I’m still glowing from the experience.
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There are times when being a visual artist really pays off. It might not be immensely rewarding al the time, but there are times when the esteem issues simply can not be dismissed.
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If you get a chance to view the film, do. It is hands down one of the best documentaries and a pure labor of love that can not be denied.
Been nose down in 2D and 3D work I can’t show in public yet. They’ll make it onto my freebie pages in January, once they’ve gone public and the self-imposed NDA has been lifted.
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Also going to miss the clean up party (emphasis on party) this coming weekend. House sitting through Tuesday or Wednesday, which gives me a great window for production that I can’t express at this point. But I’ll be at the main event the following expanded weekend, which is the important thing.
Here’s an adaptation of a vector that I did back a few months ago. It will probably end up being a logo for a vegetation supply.
Well, at the golf course again, and the lack of shingles definitely made its mark yesterday as a major storm-front passed through in the wee hours of the morning.
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It started with the day before, putting aside a day of Photoshop touchup and climbing up on the roof to tack down the dislodged felt paper that the brisk southerly winds before the front had torn loose. I corrected some of the chronic problems that had plagued the previous rains.
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But the storm itself ripped up more of the felt paper (from the other direction) after I had finished up, and there was some major leakage. Buckets, rags, towels, coolers, mops, and brooms all came into play during the downpour on insufficient sleep and a strained ankel tendon from the roof work prior.
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So after the storm, it was cleaning up as much as possible, including laundry of the rags and towels. I ended the day feeling less than optimum.
This morning, still with insufficient sleep, I climbed up on the roof and restapled the felt paper that the storm had dislodged, at least until the stapler jammed. I managed to correct, at least superficially, all the big leaks. It probably won’t survive another big blow, but it should withstand a sprinkle.
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I just wish that I could get some sleep now. I have other priorities with which to deal.
Rolled back west to a nice snug air conditioned hole, commonly called The Pool, which also got an hour of my time this afternoon. It can be 100°F or better, it’s 76° inside. Been sorting lots of files, many related to the accidental data loss. (My sort pile has grown considerably since then, and I have a number of disks to burn when I get done sorting. But I backed it all up on the external drive until it gets burned.)
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Until I get it all sorted, I will probably adhere to the theory that heat prevents 3D from taking place in the human mind.
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But it doesn’t entirely defeat efforts at 2D.
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Removed all freebie posts from Renderosity. It was the last of the big listings to fall, and it’s because they butchered the freebie section. You have to go to cgi.fringewood.com for those now. They’re not available anywhere else. But they’ll stay here.