Moving

Almost done moving from crappy old apt. to a nicer house. Yeah, a house. I'll have a lot more work-space, and an actual bed, rather than sleeping on the couch/floor. A vast improvement!

I've got some more content to put up, but the hard drives, chips, and disks containing it are in the new house. We're trying to get the internet hooked up right now.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see any photographs of the sculpture that I designed. This is pretty dissappointing. I may have to drive up to South Carolina soon and take photographs, myself. The main thing stopping me has been finances - it's not a cheap trip, but the cost of airfare is about equal to the cost of gas, and if I drive then I don't have to deal with the TSA. My brother is "randomly" pulled out of line at the airport EVERY SINGLE TIME we fly, and it's a huge hassle. It's not his fault that he looks so suspiciously "Eastern European" - it's just our ancestry.

I recently quit my job working graveyard shift at a local store because of the increasing crime rate in the area. It's not that Venice itself isn't incredibly safe, so much as that the surrounding cities lately are getting to be sort of... not. It means I'll be working on art full-time and piecing together an income from several different art-related sources - however, lately, it's been more and more feasible for me to actually DO that. The new house also has a tiled area in the garage where I can put down a drop-cloth and easel - so I will actually be able to paint.

The comic series I've been plugging away at is nearing completion, and starting to resemble something like an actual comic-book rather than a pile of scribbles. I'll be printing it in the conventional manner - however, I may also offer it digitally, mainly because I know that if it gains any sort of readership somebody is just going to scan it and put up a torrent anyway. Issue 1 won't be available for a month or two, as I've still got some issues to work out with the FontForge software and its immense hatred of Windows. FontForge wasn't originally meant to run on Windows, so this is understandable. It requires me to use Cygwin and do some command-line mumbo jumbo, which drives me up the wall, so I may cave and just letter the comic on my Linux machine, saving myself a bit of grief. I may capitalize on the situation and do a tutorial on using FontForge in Windows, but this all depends on whether or not I toss the computer out the window first.