exhibition

I'm definitely on for the exhibit, now. August 29 will be the opening if you want to make plans to visit Boston around then to see my first gallery show!

If all goes well, it will be a solo show; 78 pieces do a pretty good job of filling up a gallery! I've been poking at the cards with the occasional bit of Absinthe; right now I have three different cards open in AI in varying states of unfinishedness. I need to sit down with my reference and my sketchbook soon and generate a big chunk of roughs.

I also finally resolved the problem of labeling the court cards. I'm going with playing-card style numbers in the corner, which means all four of them have to have different titles. Given that the traditional court is King, Queen, Knight/Prince, and Princess/Page, there's a bit of a problem with that. I took a sidestep through loanwords and have ended up with King, Queen, Cavalier, and Princess.

Rik is helping me out with figuring out how the hell to get all this stuff on the walls, so I don't have to waste time and money printing and framing stuff that turns out to overfill the gallery. Now I need to, well, quit spending so damn much time moodily staring at the Internet, and start cranking out the roughs and the paths...

(ps: not an april fools post.)

just sayin'

Wow. As April Fools Days on the Internet go, this one's been pretty pathetic. Nothing but people trying to get me to click on links to a video of a particular song. No stories of joke mergers, no almost-plausible discoveries, just HA HA RICKROLLED. I mean, the most clever thing I saw was DA replacing everyone's icons with one worshipping mudkips. For half the day. Not even the whole day. It kinda made me smirk. Kinda. The fake announcements from Google and Blizzard were at least smirk-inducing, as well.

It's not even a notably bad song. It's just generic. I guess it's better than a day of HA HA GOATSE.CX. I guess. Geeze, don't people have somewhere better to get their funny from than propagating the endless teen idiocy of *chan boards, though?

I guess there's just not much joy in Mudville this year.