Updates (7/12/2009)
Several months ago, there was an accident involving a set of stairs in the subway and my MacBook. I took a fall but had a soft landing…on top of my bag with the computer in it. The initial damage wasn’t very bad. Just a crack at the corner of the screen and the casing got a little bent. The actual performance of the computer wasn’t affected at all.
Then, a few months later (in May), it went into sleep mode and never woke up. It still starts up and makes normal sounds (startup sound, volume buttons, ect.), but it refuses to show anything on the monitor, even the external monitor. And it doesn’t go into sleep if I shut the lid.
That’s about the point where I’ll break down and admit that it’s time for some repairs.
So, I’ve been back on my old (and still aging!) PC, which doesn’t have any of my recent artwork, site files, or editing softwares that my Mac does. And it’s much pickier about staying connected to the Internet than my Mac. I’m thinking about investing into a new PC. Maybe I’ll just get a notebook or something and move over all of the important things from my current PC…
Anyway, before my Mac went down for the count, I had already gotten the front page fixed up with a new layout. I’ve been able to use that to help piece the rest of the site together with the new layout. Everything should be cleaned up by sometime soon, but as far as actually updating content goes, it depends on what I can get a hold of and how quickly. I’ll see how that goes.
(I’m still not entirely sure who it is that I’m addressing with this thing, since I’m almost 100% certain that no one except my family bothers to look at this stuff. But I’m sure it’ll come in handy some day. And it’s one more thing to do and then be embarrassed by it about a month down the line.)
Outside of the site, I’m working on cleaning out my room (which has been a project at least 14 years in the making…) and putting together a series of short films to Neil Gaiman’s short story ’15 Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot’. Fans of Vampire: The Masquerade will probably know this one. The story was written for and published in one of the art books, I think.
There’s also another story I’ve been working on about a woman who gets framed for stealing a supernatural bell, and has her name and face taken away from her. If she can find who did it, then she gets her life back. If she can’t, or if she gives up and confesses anyway, then she’ll have to spend eternity acting as a servant for the demon she supposedly stole from. In the mean time, she’s not allowed to sleep. At all. Not even if she attempts to knock herself unconscious.
I’m still not entirely sure how this one’s going to finish up, but I like the idea, I like the characters, and it’s a rough start. It’ll be like a supernatural Sherlock Holmes!
It’s also been a while since I’ve done an artist plug, so if you can, check out Ben Templesmith at http://www.templesmith.com/faze3/ and Dave McKean at http://davemckean.com/ . Comic book fans will recognize some of their work.
Also check out Ruth Marshall (last year’s Drawing teacher) at http://www.ruthmarshall.com/ . She does some really awesome work with resins and sculpture. If you’ve ever been to the Bronx Zoo, you might’ve seen one of her models as a prop in the animal habitats.
