Some announcments...
Nov. 14th, 2005 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenmillionFirst, my darling husband secured himself an advancement! He's gone from lowest peon engineering assistant to a manager in an office with a window in less than five years at DOT! Go Jake! :)
Second, ArtGauntlet now has a home and a forum - I have very high expectations for this new site, and not just 'cause I'll be supplying the printing services. :)
Third, I'm making my tarot project unofficially public... it doesn't have a site yet, or much structure, 'cause that energy is going into EMG-Zine for a January release, but I want folks to have an opportunity to get started anyway. Have you ever wanted to do a tarot deck, but been utterly daunted by the number of cards and the commitment? And what on *earth* would you do with the designs once you were done? Have you ever found a tarot deck that was *close* to what you wanted, but just not quite right? Do you have particular associations or connections to particular cards? Ever wished you could buy just one? Or five? Enter EMG Tarot!
Each card will be handmade to order, and you'll get to choose from hundreds of designs. Custom-make your own deck, one card at a time, or all at once. You can have Ursula's wombats mixed up with Christine's vampires and Jenny's pin-up dragon girls. Anything you can imagine! Stick to a traditional deck (we're using the very old Mersailles deck as 'traditional,' NOT the rider-waite deck) or enjoy some artists' unique interpretations. When you log into the site, you'll be able to keep tabs on what you've ordered, and where the holes in your deck are. Doesn't it sound like a blast? :) I wanted artists in particular to start thinking about this - the site won't go up until the middle of next year, probably, but it's coming!!
I love projects. :)
Edit: the useful bit that I sort of forgot to mention earlier - work for a 3 x 5 (inch) card, or scale up to a 6 x 10 image that can also be made available as prints!
Second, ArtGauntlet now has a home and a forum - I have very high expectations for this new site, and not just 'cause I'll be supplying the printing services. :)
Third, I'm making my tarot project unofficially public... it doesn't have a site yet, or much structure, 'cause that energy is going into EMG-Zine for a January release, but I want folks to have an opportunity to get started anyway. Have you ever wanted to do a tarot deck, but been utterly daunted by the number of cards and the commitment? And what on *earth* would you do with the designs once you were done? Have you ever found a tarot deck that was *close* to what you wanted, but just not quite right? Do you have particular associations or connections to particular cards? Ever wished you could buy just one? Or five? Enter EMG Tarot!
Each card will be handmade to order, and you'll get to choose from hundreds of designs. Custom-make your own deck, one card at a time, or all at once. You can have Ursula's wombats mixed up with Christine's vampires and Jenny's pin-up dragon girls. Anything you can imagine! Stick to a traditional deck (we're using the very old Mersailles deck as 'traditional,' NOT the rider-waite deck) or enjoy some artists' unique interpretations. When you log into the site, you'll be able to keep tabs on what you've ordered, and where the holes in your deck are. Doesn't it sound like a blast? :) I wanted artists in particular to start thinking about this - the site won't go up until the middle of next year, probably, but it's coming!!
I love projects. :)
Edit: the useful bit that I sort of forgot to mention earlier - work for a 3 x 5 (inch) card, or scale up to a 6 x 10 image that can also be made available as prints!
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Date: 2005-11-14 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-14 08:16 pm (UTC)I've been meaning to ask you (and since you brought up tarot, it reminded me), what do you know about printing cards, specifically playing cards? What gets me is that plastic coating. How do they do that? I've had some projects in mind, designing decks of playing cards, but I have no idea how to go about printing them.
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Date: 2005-11-14 08:19 pm (UTC)Yet another art thing that sounds like utter, total fun to do. And me with my sadly lacking portfolio. So many things!! Arg!
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Date: 2005-11-14 09:36 pm (UTC)Congrats to Jake!
I'll be looking into ArtGauntlet! And I'll be thinking about the Tarot project. :)
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Date: 2005-11-15 02:15 pm (UTC)*laughs* I did mention pinup-girls and dragons, but I never thought to put the two together...That is an interesting idea, I guess that would also fit into "anthromorphic". :D
Congrats Jake! I had a similar kind of experience except I was unwillingly manager (when the manager and assistant manager #1 both went on to other jobs within a few weeks of each other)of a store for three months (that was stressful, I hated it). I wish I had a job that was more meaningful than retail clerk that I could move up in.
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Date: 2005-11-19 09:57 pm (UTC)Oh - and good news about Jake - well done!