Showing posts with label pirate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pirate. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2009

Welcome to the Pirate Art Institute


"Aaarh, Ye be welcome to the Pirate Art Institute"
How many ways can you COPY this pirate?


When wewere kids we would see this art school ad in the back of magazines. "Can you draw this pirate?" or some other bit of cutesy art. "Then enroll today  and have a future as
a commercial artist, bla-bla-bla..."

When my brother and I had a print shop back in the late '80's, it became a running joke early on. Customers would bring us totally crappedout art, or ask for art that we didn't
have, or to infringe on copyrights in a questionable manner.
The Pirate Art Institute to the rescue!
We would clip, photocopy, photograph, trace, or redraw,  then shoot a transparency, use it to expose a screen, and finally silkscreen  print it in [hopefully] vast quantities.
Whatever it took to make a buck.

Anything but FAX!
We refused to install fax service because at least one customer a week would want to fax their art to us.  No, nope, nu-uh, don't do it!  Most fax looks terrible on a good day.  Imagine what it would do to the aforementioned already crapped out art.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

2 Steampunk Novellas


The above pic is from The Brass Griffin.

I just finished reading; The Flight of the Calliope! by W.D.Nagel.
I'm also in the middle of the 2nd story from; Tales of the Brass
Griffin by C.B.Ash. These are online Steampunk novellas.
They're both full of airships, steam power, odd uses for electricity,
strange weapons, monsters, air pirates, and the occasional robot
by any other name. In The Flight of the Calliope! they're collectively
called Brassbugs.
I don't much like the idea of reading books online. I spend way too
much time in front of the computer as it is, and I still prefer paper
reading materials that I can carry around and fold the page to save
my place.
It was nice being able to edit the occasional annoying typo though.

http://flightofthecalliope.wordpress.com/

http://www.brassgriffin.net/

BTW; I haven't been suffering from writers block lately, it's actually
posters block. I have plenty of material typed, I'm just having trouble
declaring stuff finished, and deciding what order to post it in.