i was flipping through CP+B's employee handbook, and noticed that on page 5, they have a list of things they'd like you not to do: WE ASK THAT YOU DON’T: Throw sand.... Play the busy card.... Make promises you don't keep.
Read Moreold school faire
am i the only one who gets nostalgic for the cry, 'the glove is up!' that signals the start of the faire? or the ram's skull, that used to be the emblem of the living history center?
sigh.
Bell Expansion sign
IMG_2715.JPG Originally uploaded by culfinglin. a shot of the sign i referenced in the earlier post, taken around midnight, as it was drying.
Read Moreself-induced feature creep, portraits, and whores
it's something that should be simple: paint some stained 2x4s that the client supplied, to make a sign for the Bell, the whorehouse at the southern california renaissance pleasure faire (RPFS), with the words: "Bell Expansion courtesy of the Earl of Southampton / your tax coin at work!"... but because i know i'm not good at this type of work, i try to think of how i can use my other skills to make this sign look cool, as a few thousand people will see it once it's up; maybe even tens of thousands.... after getting the obvious visual puns out of the way (the letters 'o', 'p', 'and 'x' all had some very entertaining modifications to them), i settle on making the B from a whore standing; her left arm curves to her hip and forms the top loop of the B; her skirt, which she's pulling up, forms the larger bottom ellipse of the B.
Read Moredratted dampness
it would be damp the day i need to finish an oil painting by tomorrow. of course it would be. even busting out the blowdryer hasn't helped. liquin hasn't helped.
is it bad that the one blowdryer in my house resides in the studio instead of the bathroom?