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When creative people get bored
As some of you know, I'm the supervisor in the layout department of a nameless* newspaper.
*But not really hard to figure out, if you know where I live.
The advertising industry takes a nosedive in January, with half the people in town having spent all their advertising dollars on pre-Christmas sales, and the other half taking their annual "Let's get out of town while it's -40" vacations. In every single year I've worked in the newspaper industry, going on 7 years this winter, it's always the same ... after an insanely busy November and December, the layout/advertising department spends the month of January sitting around coming up with things to do.
We have these three-sided boxes that prop up our computer monitors (basically a box turned on its side ... the 4th side is open so you can put things in it). One of my employees brought in acrylic paints to paint hers, and kindly brought enough for the entire department.
General view of the box.
The first side I painted ... I slowly worked my way around the box from there.
Unfortunately all the pictures I took of this side turned out blurry due to inadequate lighting. The quote is from Matt (Life in Hell) Groening: "Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Then it flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
*But not really hard to figure out, if you know where I live.
The advertising industry takes a nosedive in January, with half the people in town having spent all their advertising dollars on pre-Christmas sales, and the other half taking their annual "Let's get out of town while it's -40" vacations. In every single year I've worked in the newspaper industry, going on 7 years this winter, it's always the same ... after an insanely busy November and December, the layout/advertising department spends the month of January sitting around coming up with things to do.
We have these three-sided boxes that prop up our computer monitors (basically a box turned on its side ... the 4th side is open so you can put things in it). One of my employees brought in acrylic paints to paint hers, and kindly brought enough for the entire department.
General view of the box.
The first side I painted ... I slowly worked my way around the box from there.
Unfortunately all the pictures I took of this side turned out blurry due to inadequate lighting. The quote is from Matt (Life in Hell) Groening: "Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Then it flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
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(Anonymous) 2005-01-16 08:22 am (UTC)(link)That's really cool, Layla. Really Roger-Dean-ish. (I think that's his name--the guy who painted all those Yes album covers?) Except, of course, with ice weasels. Everything's better with ice weasels. :-D
When physicists get bored, we solve differential equations. :-/
Rob
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... Aha, Google tells me that Dean came first, and Matthews learned (some say "copied") from him ... that's why it looks so similar; the style is damn near identical except Matthews' art looks a bit more industrial.