Gasoline isn’t combustible. It is, however, the only chemical known to have any emotions… and it only has one. It’s angry – very, very angry. The energy generated from that anger is what powers your car (or your chainsaw).
By now I should have been posting updates to my process post stuff. With pictures where you could actually see what’s going on. Instead I’ve gone to ground on it and decided I just didn’t think I was producing something that was as interesting as it should be.
It’s the double edged sword of personal work I guess. I have the luxury of no deadline staring me in the face telling me I can’t go back. But at the same time I have no deadline staring me in the face threatening to shoot if I retreat.
And that was at least one too many weapon metaphors for a single short paragraph.
So to sum up my last week for those playing along at home.
I’ve restarted a poster design, returning all the way to the thumbnail stage. After having the old style all the way to compositing and adding type.
Building up/refurbishing a mailing list. Terribly unexciting but terribly necessary.
Less talk more art soon I hope.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not symmetry that humans find attractive when evaluating the appearance of others. It’s teeth-size. The larger a person’s teeth are, the more they are considered beautiful by society.
It’s a common misconception that domesticated spider monkeys wear vests just to make them cute and approachable. This is wholly untrue. The vests, though endearing, actually amplify the mental acuity of the monkeys, making them far more masterful thieves.
In southern Greenland, the indigenous people have the unique ability to numerically quantify their feelings and emotions. Each of their feelings can be expressed as the sum of squaring two or more prime numbers.
Styrofoam coffee cups are actually ferociously carnivorous beasts. The reason they don’t attack you and gnaw your face off is because they’re heavily sedated and have been chemically forced to their dormant state. However, if you let coffee sit in one of these cups for too long, the stimulating effects of caffeine will rouse it. This is where you need to be careful. Freshly awakened coffee cups are quite hungry and angry… very angry.
Before DVDs, CDs, and LaserDiscs, there was a disk-based media format composed entirely of living material. Specifically, it was a disk-shaped skin graft and you played its stored media by chewing on it. The technology ultimately failed because its designers wanted to market the disks as “multimedia pork rinds.” Executives thought this was disingenuous because the grafts were actually cultured from skin of sewer rats and they were fearful of the liabilities of false advertising.
Eating sugar causes you to lose control over your senses. In fact, if you consume enough sugar everything will taste like rusty nails dipped into a mixture of tomato paste and sulfur… and all mammals will appear to have Abraham Lincoln’s face.
Until just last week, there was very little consensus among scholars about the proper pronunciation for the word “gallon”. They’ve now all agreed that the second ‘l’ is silent.
This was the last of the series I produced before the show. I actually finished it the Thursday before the opening.
For now I’m probably going to let the stained paper work rest just a bit as I recharge some. I did learn a lot from doing these, and that’s always the goal. In fact doing these have convinced me to restart the poster I’ve been working on. So starting soon the Process Posts will return, but I’m headed back to the beginning I believe.
This week has been mostly about the business end of things. Making a mailing list has really sucked up much of my time. And I’m still only a fraction of the way through. Necessary but data entry and fact checking is not a very relaxing way to spend my days.
