Inked. Round 1. Ding! Ding!
I was given a great gift this year for my birthday and my one year presents, I am getting a tat! I have been wanting to finish my half sleeve(?) for 2 reasons. One, i wanted to tone down the dead sister vibe my other tattoo was giving off. Which is funny to me because it was until recently when the vibe switch from, “Wow! You must have an awesome sister!” (which I do, hence the tattoo.) to, “Oh my, do you mind if I ask what happened to your sister?”. The second reason is, it was time. I have had a rough idea in my head of what I wanted to do for sometime.
Well here is me signing my life away before I go under the needle.
And here is the result of the first round of getting inked.
All the work being done on my arm is being done by Steven Anderson of Stay True Tattoo in Dublin, CA. IF you are looking to get some ink check those guys out! Round 2 is in two weeks folks, so say tuned!
Well I have been out for a bit getting life reorganized and set up in Mountain House. Oh yeah. I live in Mountain House now, cause I moved. All that is left of my home in Livermore is a house to clean to pass off to someone else. To be honest I missed this place, and I am glad to be back as this is one of my attempts at a creative outlet and web presence. There are a couple of post coming down the pipe. An update, some possible deep thoughts, a blog about BBQ, ect.
For now enjoy some wonderful Christian media that has come across my desk. If you all out there in cyber space find stuff like this send it to me, I will post it and share it here. First up is from a friend who’s son found this on a church’s website. It was actually for there sunday service. When I saw it I was speechless. I did modify is a little, leave a comment with your guess.
This is one I stumbled upon on a blog that I was reading about how lame Christian marketing can be, lets face it they are probably right.
I saved the best for last. It is a biblical track about Illegal aliens in our country. This was given to me by a co-worker, she found it on a bench in Tahoe. Wow. Click the links to view.
Any designer, well most designers: web, print and/or fashion, have elements in their trade that they do not like. Web designers probably hate IE6; Fashion designers hate anything that does not have the words “skinny fit” in the title (I assume); and graphic designers have several to choose from as well – like, for example, Curlz MT: the classic default “girly” font. Curlz Mt comes standard on every computer out there, why? I have no idea. If you don’t have it, be grateful. If you do, throw out your PC and go buy a Mac. Curlz MT is still on there but, Macs are just cooler.
Why bring up this font and my utter contempt for it? A. it is a lame excuse for a “girly” font. and B. I recently had to create a mothers day card using this font. I work at a church as one of two full time graphic designers, serving over 40 different ministries. It was shortly after the first of April when I get assigned a media request [side bar, we have an online request system that ministries can fill out a form and submit a request for postcards, posters, slides ect.] this media request is labeled “JH-LV Mother’s Day cards”. I open it and read this description of the project:
Last year you designed a Mother’s Day bi fold card for us that we inserted into envelopes and sent out to mother’s of our junior high students inviting them to our Mother’s Day special service in Junior High. This year we are doing the same event. We would like a different graphic for this year.
We were thinking a white card. The front would have the words “Mother” centered. We would like a fun decorative border on the outside edge. We want all the wording on the card in a dark pink color with Curlz MT font.
Inside, on the top portion, we would like it to say “For all that you are to me, do for me and share with me…I would like to honor you.”
On the bottom portion
You are invited to: A Mother’s Day Special Event
Details: Breakfast will be provided. Debbie Alsdorf, our Women’s Ministry Director, will be speaking.
Date: Sunday, May 9th
Time: 9am
Location: Cornerstone Fellowship, Event Center
I laughed, and cried a little. Now being so close to Aprils Fools Day I thought it was a joke, so I sat on it for a couple of days. No emails. No phone calls. No nothing. It’s real… I have to do this. After staring at the request for about 5 minutes I decided to create their Mothers Day card and then create my interpretation of a Mothers Day card. I serve 40+ ministries, and I really appreciated that a ministry would think through a design idea, providing me with specifics in regards to the look of their product. And even though I appreciated their suggestions, I could not give them a proof for this project with out any other options.
Here is their card.
Here is my card.
I left it up to them to decide and they chose mine. After a sigh of relief I happily printed them off.
There are so many fonts that I would love to get rid of like: the girly Curlz MT, the child like Comic Sans and the rustic Papyrus and the romantic love novel title font Zaphino… but I can’t. Are there any you would get rid of? Share your thoughts and leave a comment. (If you are reading this on Facebook, please click through and leave a comment on my blog rather then commenting on the note. Thanks.)
Well I have not been posting too much lately and I figure I would update the 3 people who might actually read this thing. I have been hard at work developing the freelance side gig that I will be adding to this blog. I will formally announce it when things are up but it will all show up at the top of this blog as new pages. What new pages are you adding to your blog you might be silently mouthing to your computer screen or a random person in a coffee shop. I am glad you kind of asked…
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