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What's Happening:
1. There are new freebies to include 3 more wings and 3 things.
2. I've completed more remixes for Mankind Is Obsolete and Encoder. You can check out my Myspace: Music page or Myspace: Personal page if you want to know what's going on with me as I seem to update them more than my own page. Sad huh?
3. Upcoming shows include: MarCon (Attending),Con On The Cob (Attending), Necronomicon, DucKon,and WindyCon. I've got more new prints so check them out. Attend a con, have loads of fun, and say hi!
4. I've redone my Zazzle products and added new items as well as deleted a bunch. Check them out.
Thanks for visiting, don't forget to grab some free stuff, and be creative!
Lots still going on:
1. Finally, and as promised, there are new freebies to include 5 wings, 4 things, and a new Bryce Mat (6.0 or above).
2. I completed some remixes for James D. Stark and Signius as well as remixed a few of the tracks from the last two albums of mine. The remixes of my songs are available in the free section.
3. I decided not to do InConJunction because they charge a "mail in" fee. It's not that much but I'm opposed to such things for a convention that already costs in shipping, space, and a percentage of sales. Unless you have phenominal sales the cost is just prohibitive. So it's a matter of "principle". I don't mind paying for space, even though a lot of shows still give you free space to display your art, because, realistically, it's kind of like renting your area and I think that's acceptable and fair. A "mail in" fee doesn't make sense to me or seem fair when there are plenty of shows that pay for such things, as "gas" and "handling" of art by their volunteer, via the other fees and percent of sales they charge.
Upcoming shows include: Con On The Cob (Attending), Necronomicon and WindyCon. I've got more new prints so check them out, attend a con with me, and say hi!
Thanks for stopping by and remember to be creative!
Almost two years since an update. Bet you thought I was dead eh? Not so! Here's what's been going on....
1. First, and most important, I've been busy being a dad and, like most parents, the art fell along the wayside for a while in the name of trying to be a good parent. Our daughter Ember Kaylee was born 05-10-06 and is a year old now. She's a real handful, on most days, and that keeps me pretty busy. Busy is defined as teaching her things, keeping the inquisitive little genius out of things, feeding and changing diapers, playing with her, and most other things a parent should do with a child. Of course there's also the husband/housewife duties of cooking, cleaning, and whatnot. Still I'm not complaining and I have found time to work on music and graphics. Life is better than ever but then a child will do that to ya :)
2. "The Move" didn't happen. Let's just say that too many things kept going wrong and we decided that they were "signs" and telling us we shouldn't move to Portland. I'm pretty glad we didn't now.
3. I took a break from conventions and such as mentioned. There were a few reasons for this; aside from the baby girl. The biggest, I would have to say, was my DragonCon experience in 2005. Marcon and DucKon had been such GREAT shows that year, even being smaller, but DragonCon, even being my best year in sales and third year attending/showing, ended up being a major negative for me because of the Art Director Patrick Roberts. I haven't mentioned anything before now and I'm not prone to being melodramatic but here are the simple facts. Another artist and I had suggested the idea of a "Digital Iron Artist" program to Patrick one night in the yahoo chats. Being digital artists, primarily, and seeing as digital art wasn't a medium in the normal "Iron Artist" competition we thought it would be a great addition; so did Pat. We pitched details on how it could be accomplished and so forth. Anyway, Patrick was "kind" enough to let us know, AFTER we were setup at the con, that we wouldn't have any part in the "Digital Iron Artist". He claimed that Adobe got "involved" and wanted "bigger names" to do the competition. He kept putting me off when I expressed my unhappiness with this situation and went so far as to see if we could be "compensated" with some products or whatnot from Adobe for our "troubles". Needless to say nothing ever came of that. In fact he wouldn't ever discuss it with me again and attempts I made to discuss it in the yahoo chat forums were blocked by Patrick (the moderator). This wasn't the first time I, or other artists, had been censored and controlled by Patrick in the name of his saving face. Several artists have left that group because of him and his tactics and that was the last straw for me. He'd done it to me once before and I was just fed up. I also wasn't the only artist he pissed off that year. In fact there were quite a few. I'm told in 2006's show he completely cut Brandy out of the program she'd created and maintained for years at DragonCon and gave it to his wife. But that wasn't all with the "Digital Iron Artist" issue. Patrick also had the nerve to give complete credit to Audre for the program when she had absolutely NOTHING to do with it ever. What nerve!
So, needless to say, I was done with DragonCon and it's two faced, back-stabbing, Art Director Patrick Roberts even though it was a show I enjoyed and was doing better with each year. I simply cannot be around such people. It was completely uncalled for, underhanded, dishonest, and dirty. Sure, I thought about seeking some legal retribution but I decided it just wasn't worth my time. Besides karmic justice is cheaper. I'm told he's OUT as the Art Director and that two people who are known for their hard work, passion for the art show, and honesty are taking over. I can't say that I'm going to do DragonCon anytime in the near future but that, at least, is a change I believe is better for the show and artists. Patrick was simply unworthy. GOOD RIDDANCE!
This year, however, I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things and display at even more conventions; even attend a few. So far this year I'll be attending Marcon and sending art to DucKon and InConJunction. I also plan on attending our local Con On The Cob and sending to other shows throughout the US. I'll post updates as I finalize the works. I've got new prints so check them out, attend a con with me, and say hi!
4. As you can see I have finally finished the new layout. It's taken a lot of work as I'm not any kind of code genius and I have only the most basic HTML skills to work with. I had hoped for some help with a better cart system/layout for the shop but I've found people rather unreliable so I was most delayed on my struggle with that but it's up now and should be working fine. If you have any problems please let me know.
I've changed the available artworks of mine and scaled things down a bit to "tighten" the site up a little I hope. There are some new works, works that haven't been displayed before, as well as new prints and a new originals for sale section in the shop. I may also be changing my designs with zazzle and offering up some works on various objects. I haven't decided yet :)
5. The new album "Everweaving" is done and available for download. There are some other music ventures in the works that I'll post about when/if they occur. I've also done more remixes for bands like Imperative Reaction (2), Diverje (4), Reincarnationfish (3), and V38 (2). I may even do some remixes of my own works in the near future if time allows.
Sadly, with all that's been going on, the new music is all the freebies I've been able to come up with. I hope to have more stuff soon; again, time willing. Take care and create something!