I find my response to multiple pics of the same person both odd and quite possibly shallow. In some of the pics, various people are really hot/attractive. And yet, in other pics they're "run screaming the other way" unattractive. And I'm not talking about Before/After pics or other diametrically opposed situations ( Read more... )

Happiness is not a finite commodity. Someone being happy does not mean there is less for you to be happy about ( Read more... )

On my way in to work I was listening to a podcast that I'd never caught before. It ended up having the net effect of leaving me fairly disillusioned about some things. Nothing terribly major, but I got to work feeling kinda lost. After some conversation to try and identify exactly what was going on, I felt a little better or at least a little more ( Read more... )

This is not news to anyone who knows me. I want to draw. I have awesome pictures in my head that I really want to become reality, but it won't be my hand that makes it happen. Perhaps that's why I was a fairly successful art director - I can communicate fairly clearly what I want in language familiar to the skilled artisan who can do something ( Read more... )

First draft of part of the steamtech novel (Gilded Steam):


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So behind the cut is the current version of what may eb the logo. I found a title page embellishment from the late 1800s and used that as inspiration to draw my own as a vector graphic.
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So I wanted to get some opinions on a few logotypes I put together for my novel. Some have only minor differences (E & F are mainly changes in the "G" and lower-case letter height). I'll do some texture and embossing techniques later, but I wanted to get some feedback to narrow down the list ( Read more... )

So - a guy at work shared some gossip about someone. Interesting stuff, just in an "I'm bored - what's on the Dish Network" kind of way. But, he did it with the air of "I know everything that goes on" that made me raise a metaphorical eyebrow (since I can't do it in real life ( Read more... )

The problem with super awesome weekends, is that they end. And then almost everything's just the same as it was before. However, I am reminded of a lyric from "Into the Woods." I know, me, reminded of a broadway musical... who would've thought ( Read more... )

These are the lyrics to Mary Chapin Charpenter's song, The Hard Way. Holly Lisle reccomends them as a blueprint for writing a novel. Sort of what my Muse would tell me - "Get off your butt and do it." I'm gonna go look for it on iTunes, I seem to remember it from the 6 month period I actually liked line dancing ( Read more... )