Somewhere far from here
Oct. 13th, 2006 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaTwo more presentations to give next week. I'm not particularly opposed to doing the things, but the class on Monday night happens just as the Communication Entrepreneur dinner is being held up the road... it's the only real chance to catch up with most of that crowd before we all go our separate ways, and I'd really like to get some contact details for people before they all vanish. I just hope that some of them will still be there by 8pm.
I'm hoping to keep the Publishing talk to about 15 minutes, as I can't stand sitting though a series of half-hour talks... The presentation covers 3k words of research paper, and if you can't cover the details in about ten minutes there may be something wrong. I'm talking about the "death of the book" - something that gets brought up every time the next piece of technology hits the market, and still hasn't quite managed to eventuate.
A Flock of Cyborgs is slowly coming together in the background, but has been pushed back by all the other work due this week. Robin's started doing full readings of the workshopped pieces, though, so I'll need to get a move on next week. At 3k each, we rarely get through more than 3-4 in a class... so, in the final week before it's due, I get my last chance to gather feedback about it.
As for paid work, Junior Horizons 9-3 needs a cover pic and an editorial, and then it's all done bar the shouting (well, barring any post-last-minute editorial changes). I've basically re-built the JH template, which should speed up production in the future.
Once I get the next couple of essays written, I really need to get sculpting before the weather makes it impossible. I tend to work with two-part epoxy putties - great for forming details, but the working time is almost nonexistent if the temperature is over 30°C. I have one commission piece to finish by the start of November, and ten pieces to finish by Arcanacon in January.
Painting is even worse, in hot weather - part of the reason why I do my best work after midnight, when the air is cool enough. I've started mixing drying retardant into the water I thin my paints with, but the acrylics still dry in under a minute. Once the last sculpts are finished, I'll be painting 37 figures for Ian... again, needed by Arc. Still, it beats working in a lab hands down :)
I want to try larger-scale relief sculpting, to make medallions and trophy plaques for the Arcanacon tournament. If they work out, I'll cast them up in resin and paint them up as aged bronze. Should be fun, and hopefully it'll give people more incentive to come to the tournament.
I'm also getting itchy fingers whenever I walk past the Riot art store near the station... they have canvas boards on special at the moment. I haven't painted 2D work for at least ten years, but I'd like to try it out again. Maybe after I finish my course...
I'm hoping to keep the Publishing talk to about 15 minutes, as I can't stand sitting though a series of half-hour talks... The presentation covers 3k words of research paper, and if you can't cover the details in about ten minutes there may be something wrong. I'm talking about the "death of the book" - something that gets brought up every time the next piece of technology hits the market, and still hasn't quite managed to eventuate.
A Flock of Cyborgs is slowly coming together in the background, but has been pushed back by all the other work due this week. Robin's started doing full readings of the workshopped pieces, though, so I'll need to get a move on next week. At 3k each, we rarely get through more than 3-4 in a class... so, in the final week before it's due, I get my last chance to gather feedback about it.
As for paid work, Junior Horizons 9-3 needs a cover pic and an editorial, and then it's all done bar the shouting (well, barring any post-last-minute editorial changes). I've basically re-built the JH template, which should speed up production in the future.
Once I get the next couple of essays written, I really need to get sculpting before the weather makes it impossible. I tend to work with two-part epoxy putties - great for forming details, but the working time is almost nonexistent if the temperature is over 30°C. I have one commission piece to finish by the start of November, and ten pieces to finish by Arcanacon in January.
Painting is even worse, in hot weather - part of the reason why I do my best work after midnight, when the air is cool enough. I've started mixing drying retardant into the water I thin my paints with, but the acrylics still dry in under a minute. Once the last sculpts are finished, I'll be painting 37 figures for Ian... again, needed by Arc. Still, it beats working in a lab hands down :)
I want to try larger-scale relief sculpting, to make medallions and trophy plaques for the Arcanacon tournament. If they work out, I'll cast them up in resin and paint them up as aged bronze. Should be fun, and hopefully it'll give people more incentive to come to the tournament.
I'm also getting itchy fingers whenever I walk past the Riot art store near the station... they have canvas boards on special at the moment. I haven't painted 2D work for at least ten years, but I'd like to try it out again. Maybe after I finish my course...
To liquid born, from patterns formed
the sand descends with blind intent
Where the river takes me
will in time be revealed
Call it destiny, call it fate
Chose my direction: Running forward
Each life to learn anew, whatever may come
- Arena, VNV Nation
the sand descends with blind intent
Where the river takes me
will in time be revealed
Call it destiny, call it fate
Chose my direction: Running forward
Each life to learn anew, whatever may come
- Arena, VNV Nation
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Date: 2006-10-13 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-13 04:25 am (UTC)Brass would be nice, but I'm relying on the resin being sandable - I want to do one-sided moulds, and then I'll just smooth off the back when the resin cures. With bronze I'd have to make sure it was poured perfectly flat...
Price is a bit of an issue, as I'm trying to do this out of my own pocket - I'd like to put any prizemoney from Arc into buying the models in the prize pool. I could be tempted to look at getting things cast in future, though, if it works out.
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Date: 2006-10-13 05:03 am (UTC)But hey, if you do get the urge you know who to call...
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Date: 2006-10-13 08:24 am (UTC)in other non related news, guess what...i am going to the BDO in melbourne, woo tool are playing! :)
catchya soon