Phew!!

O.K.     Close call.

I found the main project file for the site and I’m quite relieved that I don’t have to start from scratch again. I’ve made around 6 copies in various backup locations on my computers and external HD’s. With that aside I can focus on my new freelance projects that involve a 4 frame comic strip that people will start seeing inside the Marshalls flyers in the greater Boston area newspapers.

   The series started back in June as a trial run to see if the big guys at TJX felt that it was a marketable thing to do. I guess it’s all working out considering we’re having another go at it. In all honesty I think it breathes a little more life into the everyday newspaper flyer that just wants to sell you something. At least humor people a little.

 The second one is a music video that I’ve been hacking away at that is still in the pre-production stage. I’m still fiddling around with some character designs and writing the end part of the video so I can storyboard the rest of it. Time to whip that one in a little more shape. I plan on making a trip up to New York or Boston to check out Oppenheimer and meet up with the guys and show them my progress… I’ll post some character concepts when I get the permission from the band members.

     Cool backstage meet and greet pics to come!

Missing the main .fla for my site!!

Well I’m uber flipping pissed off at the moment. I have made some new creations that I wanted to update in my news section only to find that the main .fla that I created my Flash site in is no longer present in the back up section of my external drive.

  Needless to say I have no way of updating the content or creating anything new for the site that took me the better half of 6 months to plan out. So now I’m forced to create some kind of sloppy second site just to get my stuff out there.

  Time to break open the bottle of Grey Goose in the back of my freezer….. Ugh.
Does anyone know a way around this?

    I would hate to start from scratch again.

WordPress converter

So I made the switch from blogger to WordPress and I have to say that this place is quite impressive. Before I switched the first thing that I thought of was, ” man I wish there were some way that I could transfer all of my blogger info into wordpress cause this place looks pretty sweet. And there was. The whole CSS tweaking capabilites are also a nice bonus.

I still have quite a few tweaks to go before I can say that this is officially my new home. But it’s a damn good start i think.

Threadless is Compless :(

Well, 60 days have passed and still no word on the Moby Threadless comp. Those guys need to get their heads out of their arses and judge that contest.

Anyways, aside from contest delays and metaphysical turmoil, freelancing has been significantly nice to me. So nice in fact a new toy showed up at my front door compliments of Fed-Ex. This bad boy smokes my main workstation tower at home and it fits in an incase backpack designed for 17″ MacBook Pros.

I can say beyond the shadow of doubt that this operating system and the build is far superior to a windows based machine. In fact, new intel core based macs come with a program named Boot Camp. Basically it’s a utility in macs that allows you to install a Windows OS and run them side by side. But guess what? As I was doing the basic updates for windows, I aquired a really pesky virus that opened the explorer window all by itself and takes me to this debt site. Only on a Windows right?

Pretty much…..

I’m not going to go into some pissing match about Windows VS. Macs though. I’ve used Windows much of time as a digital artist and there are still programs that are not too Mac friendly which is why I installed a windows OS. But all I can tell you is that Windows should be taking some serious notes.

Last Night in the Dark V.2

Thanks to a couple of forum buddies for pointing this out. Clearly I could’ve used the blue from his eyes to make our planet a little more appealing to look at. It’s funny to, when I was making this I thought to myself “there’s something just not right about the way that planet’s looking. *Smacks obvious details in the face*

I think it makes things a bit tighter…. aye?

Thanks to everyone for their generous votes and stay tuned in for the next t-shirt design already in progress the involves a play on words……

Moby Threadless Competition

Ooops…. sorry for being hasty. For those who took the time to go to the Threadless site to judge my t-shirt design for The Moby Threadless comp and couldn’t; It’s pending approval which may take up to 4 days. (yuk!) So I’ll update the ol’ blogger when the darn design is sitting pretty next to the other fine artists which you should check out as well. Some really great entries in this one.

EDIT- The entry is now up and running. I received some cool feedback which is always encouraging. I even got a shot out from my aunt Mike…. Yes I have an aunt Mike. :O

Threadless Competition Underway

I just submitted my first T-shirt design over at Threadless. I’m happy with it. Although I wish that I knew ahead of time that there was a limit of 8 colors. I spent about 4 hours on the whole thing and ended up with a color cast of 25. I narrowed it down to 6 and think I acheived the same result that I wanted.

Here’s the 25 (err 27) color version

For the final 6 color version click on the little thumbnail and give me a 5 will ya?

Chess Record now on itunes!

Our record is now on itunes. Show a brotha some love and buy a track or two. From what I hear the whole record is neat. Some remixes are in the process as well. Get ready for the maxy single!

Peas!

Plagerism a foot.

On the subject on copyright infringement, another group of tools with no imagination just ripped off a handful of illustrators by plagerizing their work then releasing the book online for 100.00. There are 350 beautiful illustrations that these tools mocked up because the files are extremely low res making the artists that worked on them look bad which is even worse.

Pass the word along to make sure these guys get their balls placed in a slingshot to be hurled 200 MPH into a brick wall. You know…. as to not make little baby plagerizers.

DO NOT BUT THIS BOOK!!!

Orphan works to destroy the artist.

Say “NO!” to the Orphan Works Act

This just chaps my ass. Another way for companies to control the creativity of the individual by undersigning every artist to a corporate copyright industry instead of having a means to copyright it soly.