Convergence 13

I'm pleased that Portland won. Not as pleased as I would be if Seattle had won. It does, however, please me a great deal that Detroit was trounced to the tune of 4 votes to 1.

Dark Canada Cybergoth, take #3

I finally got word back on the "more cartoony" version of the illustration. They liked the level of abstraction and colour in the character, but wanted the background darker for more contrast with the character. That's easily done since the background is a different layer. They also suggested losing the glow-stick and putting her left arm on her hip as well. That's not going to happen. For one, I'm not redrawing this again because I have to move on to make their deadline, and secondly (and more importantly), there is a point where "art by committee" has to end.

An (in)auspicious milestone

Behold the 10,000th picture made with my Big Black Camera of Doom™ I bought the thing February 18th, 2005. This 10,000th trip of the shutter occurred April 16th, 2006. That's an average of just short of 24 images a day (23.7) in that time. Hooray for digital. No way I would have blown through a roll of film every day for 14 months. This image is from the photo-booth I had set up at Sanctuary at the Red Room on Sunday. It wasn't exactly a successful endeavour - I sold all of  two prints. Considering materials that just covers the cab ride to the club, excluding tip. At Sin City it works well because people aren't allowed to bring in their own cameras and I'm the only way they can go home with a souvenir. At ordinary club nights like Sanctuary everybody and their dog has a digital camera these days (take note, third year girl, because the same is true of Blender). Nonetheless, I think I'll give it a few more tries before I give up since I did get a few pictures that I quite like. The next long weekend isn't until Victoria Day now and until my hours change, setting up on regular Sundays isn't really an option (although I do want to get out with the stereo camera again). And, as an aside, the aforementioned obnoxious "third year girl" chose to rear her ugly head full of sophistry again last Thursday at Blender. I wonder if she will be confronting partianskeey (DJ Herr Doktor) next week seeing as he posted more pictures to Gothic BC than I did?