I just deleted 71 spam posts since my last post. Really people get a hobby. Does anybody actually buy “male enhanceements sold through comments on some artists back of the net web page? That’s even if the post makes it through the filter settings. Which I just upgraded.
But heres a more imposrtant question, if you were doing something of value, do you think you would need to post in that way? I think we both know what that means, so maybe the greatest thing of value you can post on my page is nothing at all. Thereby allowing me to use it as intended, as a means of connecting with others and informing people of how to incorporate creativity into a life that is maybe a bit more difficult than the standard hand of cards dealt to others.
Those wishing to legitimately contact me about a post of one of my appearances in the conventions or community, feel free to post a comment with an ID in it that I can follow back and connect to.
and boy am I tired.
Fun was had, while sitting next to perky pony button girl. The girl made mad money selling button, me thinks I may have to invest in a button maker. Though My buttons are liable to be snarky and Pun-ish-ing.
For those of you who bought from me Much thanks for your patronage, for those that attended the creators and destroyers panel, thanks and I hope to tinker with ideas that maybe we could share in the creating of a strange story universe with gods and monsters.
and for those with potential commisions for me feel free to look at my links below especially my deviant art page and flip through my galleries there to see what I have already done, I assure you I can do much more given time tools and the dreaded $.
I’m going to veg out in my spiffy new pirate pants before bed. Hope to see you around.
I’m in the process of reorganising my web presence. I have gotten scattered and sporatic. I’m thinking blogger is going to be about food and health and wellbeing. Livejournal will be about philosophy and exploration. Rovingjack.com can become a project blog.
I’ve decided to participate again in script frenzy this year and I’m also tinkering around with poetry this month as part of some poetry monthn event. I will still have a bit of time to make physical objects for crafting perposes and to persue my master list for the year. It wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t.
But the big project for now is getting started on something I’m calling ‘The Junk Drawer Bricoler’. Based arpund a notion I had a few years ago.
The premise is fairly simple. I started a Youtube channel and once I get a web camera installed I will begin the first episode.
Each episode will consist of me showing a few items from the junk drawers of friends and family and eventually watchers and fans, that have been collected and given to me. I then proceed to create something from it all. Often times art of some kind but occasionally something utilitarian. If all goes to plan then I will make scans and photo prints available on deviant art, and possibly selling the original work online with contributors of materials getting a discount coupon towards the purchase of any future sale items..
Thats the new plan anyway. let’s see where we stand in a week shalll we.
Looking back on the list of things I’ve done this year I’m pleased with my assortment of adventures.
1) advice column
2) keep up with my web comics
3) add another web comic for my muses
4) make more jewelry and then list it on etsy
5) write up some book proposals for non fiction.
6) see about being a tutor or life coach
7) tend to my growing number of blogs
create several new props
9) create some hats
10) Make a clock
11) make runcible items
12) make prototypes of games and play test them
13) Artist alley at Connecticon
14) Penmanship
15) carve gourds
16) signlanguage study
17) metal working
18) altered book
19) learn to play an instrument
20). make hand made paper .
21) make paper dolls and items for them
22) fabricate a few other items (lamps, spice racks, journals, ect) for experimentation and possable sales.
23) glamour bomb
24) edit some more of my past writing
25) finish some of my writings
26) Nano 2010
27) script frenzy 2010
28) make five maps at least this year
29) get something printed in a magazine or a newspaper
30) network more
31) learn how to better sell myself and not sell myself short.
32) finish some bussiness cards
33) Loom knit something
34) make some toys
35) look into having a vending machine
36) make working locks.
37) talk to locksmiths about maybe apprenticing.
38) .make a terrarium .
39) Utile Toga
40) Soaps, perfume, or other fragrance items in the twelve styles I came up with.
41) plant some seeds and try my hand at growing something from seed again.
42) retry realestate reasearch and querries.
43) lamp work glass now that I figured out how to do it with what I have and where I am.
44) make buttons
45) a fake newspaper with elaborate world and regular releases.
46) Talk to 3 clock repair shops for materials to use in crafts and maybe learn the trade or work in the feild.
47) Produce another 3D model using blender, for the competition
48) sew some dyskord
49) Nemesis
50) Screen printing!
51) woodworking (special project)
52) do some paintings
53) look back at what I can do with my college credits
54) book binding
55) no longer work for a place that gives me less than 10$/hr and only 8hr/week and then cuts me for five months out of the years.
56) leather work
57) make a wallet
58) kaliedescope
59) make some clothes
60) string art
What I havn’t finished yet will be part of this coming years list and I will likely follow the same add five when I finish five approach.
mak 45 thounsand word thingies on novel with no out lines first, did it in three days, makes brain smooshy. when I write for 36 hours straight with noe sleep. Night bye
I’m floundering a bit on the updates due to a slightly packed full life right now. I will keep posting though and I will do my best to have more than one post per month.
It might be a bit tricky this monthwith NaNoWriMo going on. But I will try.
Speaking of Nano, Here are the novel ideas I’m going to be working with:
The Strange Adventures of Runcible & Roving Jack:
One half heroic boyscout and one half Eccentric genius, and all kinds of adventure. If Jeckle and Hyde had worked together for the common good, they still wouldn’t be half as amazing. Steampunk will never be the same with these two heroes in one body set loose upon the world.
From Whence She Came:
They are seperate from the rest of humanity, though they walk among us. Strange talents that boggle the mind. Hidden within the cities annonomous deco facades, and all around the world. Some are silent champions for the hope and wonder of tomorrow… and some are a danger to us all.
But one champion has disappeared, and somebody new finds herself drawn into the a world she knew nothing about… and wants even less to do with.
Stone Against the Tide:
An order of warrior monks, dwindled and fading on the edge of an empire which would rest more easily with the end of these last few holding to the old ways, Find themselves standing alone against the darkness that has breeched the veil of worlds and seek to conquer all.
A Dark Blasphemy:
For millenia the book of genesis has supplied us whith answers as to where we come from and how things came to be as they are. One man is about to discover that we have had it horribly, horribly wrong.
just trying to settle into doing each part of the schedualed updates one at a time.
I’m getting more done each time but I’m not there yet.
The trickiest part for me is trying to sit down and work on only one project at a tinme, and focus my energy so that one task is completed in time to do an update, rather than eight things half done.
I’ll get better, as I run out of time before NaNoWriMo. I’ll have something more sustantive to post next time, right now I can barely think as I’m up twelve hours past bedtime.
You can probably see that I tend to be scattered around the place doing a great deal of this and that. So It might seem like a hit or miss proposition as to where and when one can follow me at any given time.
Fear not I am now posting the current trial schedual for you to find my updates and progress.
Sunday:Deviant art journal and art post
Mon: Roving jack blog on Blogger and posts to facebook, for sharing my thought and networking with others respectively.
Tues: Goober web comic update ,Etsy postings, and Updates here.
Wedn: People of the clear waters comic aka Tautha, and Lady of the mechanism blog posts on live journal.
Thursday is another goober post and updates to my cafepress page.
Friday and saturday are sort of supposed to be free but will likely be over run time and contingencies.
Keep in mind that all this is on top of a normal life… well as normal as I get anyway.
Look forward to sharing the adventures with you all. see you around.
Every year I create a list of projects and personal goals I wish to carry out before years end.
That list is what I refer to as my master list.
I often come up with a great many projects I wish to try my hand at and learn how to do, far more than a person can resonably expect to carry out while working and living an ordinary life. That is why I seek to finish as many as I can in the course of a year. Each year I try for just a few more than last year.
This year I had made my list as I always do and then had more ideas occur tome, and than more ideas, and then more. It was at that point I decided that the way for me to do this was no new ideas allowed on the list until five old ones could be marked off. When I managed that I allowed myself five new ideas to add to the list. and so it has gone since January.
This is the list as it stands right now.:
1) advice column
2) keep up with my web comics
3) add another web comic for my muses
4) make more jewelry and then list it on etsy
5) write up some book proposals for non fiction.
6) see about being a tutor or life coach
7) tend to my growing number of blogs
create several new props
9) create some hats
10) Make a clock
11) make runcible items
12) make prototypes of games and play test them
13) Artist alley at Connecticon
14) Penmanship
15) carve gourds
16) signlanguage study
17) metal working
18) altered book
19) learn to play an instrument
20). make hand made paper .
21) make paper dolls and items for them
22) fabricate a few other items (lamps, spice racks, journals, ect) for experimentation and possable sales.
23) glamour bomb
24) edit some more of my past writing
25) finish some of my writings
26) Nano 2010
27) script frenzy 2010
28) make five maps at least this year
29) get something printed in a magazine or a newspaper
30) network more
31) learn how to better sell myself and not sell myself short.
32) finish some bussiness cards
33) Loom knit something
34) make some toys
35) look into having a vending machine
36) make working locks.
37) talk to locksmiths about maybe apprenticing.
38) .make a terrarium .
39) Utile Toga
40) Soaps, perfume, or other fragrance items in the twelve styles I came up with.
41) plant some seeds and try my hand at growing something from seed again.
42) retry realestate reasearch and querries.
43) lamp work glass now that I figured out how to do it with what I have and where I am.
44) make buttons
45) a fake newspaper with elaborate world and regular releases.
46) Talk to 3 clock repair shops for materials to use in crafts and maybe learn the trade or work in the feild.
47) Produce another 3D model using blender, for the competition
48) sew some dyskord
49) Nemesis
50) Screen printing!
51) woodworking (special project)
52) do some paintings
53) look back at what I can do with my college credits
54) book binding
55) no longer work for a place that gives me less than 10$/hr and only 8hr/week and then cuts me for five months out of the years.
56) leather work
57) make a wallet
58) kaliedescope
59) make some clothes
60) string art
There are only a few months left in this year but I find that what I have already done is something to be proud of. The goals that remain are intrests that mostly still appeal to me in some way, and will likely be rolled over come newyears if they are not completed by then. A few may have become obselete by then and I will trim them from the list if needed.
I will try to keep people posted on my progress, on this page, and many of my creations will go up for sale in my stores at the list of links below.
Medical emergencies aside we should be on course for more regular updates.
I’ve posted some of my items up on etsy.com which can be found via the links below. There will be more coming soon.
Here also is the instructions set for the origami pokeball design I made for my connecticon panel. I will be posting some pokemon to go with it soon.
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/247/1/0/how_2_make_an_origami_pokeball_by_rovingjack-d2xytz1.jpg
