Personal News: Laura and
Baby Jack are doing great. He kicks so hard now! He is like a utero ninja.
Spent several hours last night hunting a baby poisonous snake in our house. When I bludgeoned it into pieces with the fire poker it broke into three seperate pieces. The two ends still tried to function as a snake, the middle had given over to death accordingly.
Business News: The
bookstore is doing great right now. We moved from our initial (awesome but obscure) location into the building Laura and I purchased on Main St. in February. Things have been on a gradual but great uphill slope since then. Up in this case meaning good, not like....hard to climb.
We are currently participating in a big (tiny) business association thing where we stay open late on Friday Nights. In addition we have converted a large, previously unused, room of the building into an art gallery. If you are interested in displaying some of your artwork in said gallery, you should drop me a line. I'll put up your prints and stuff even, so long as they are semi-family friendly and relatively unpolitical. This is Dickson TN. here, not Los Angeles, or Vancouver, or Clarksville, apparently. Oh, and you'll have to pay to have them mailed to me, and possibly mailed back to you should they set here for ages. Sorry. I'm new to this. You can keep all the profits from the sale though! (We will charge sales tax on it, and keep that portion, but that's just so we can pay the sales tax.)
I have started working on a television show again. I am excited, and I can't tell you anything about it. It will however be a show. On the television. It is animated.
I am apparently going to start teaching at another school (while still teaching at the first one). It's a brand new film school, and apparently they used my name (as well as other, probably far more deserving film professional) in a story announcing their new school in the "Tennessean" (big Nashville paper). Nevermind that I have no idea when or what I'll be teaching and will have to create the curriculum from scratch, and that the school apparently opens next month, it was nice to have my name in the paper.
I had the
music video I recently finished in a small animation film festival a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. It was really late on the bill, and followed a very long, very shitty fan parody about Mario, so a lot of the audience had left or gathered at the bar by then. It recieved no awards. Though several of the other filmmakers commented on how good it was to me personally. So hooray for small triumphs.
I am currently redoing my portfolio website (long overdue) and creating a real professional (meaning full of work I was paid to do) demo reel (longer overdue), so that is exciting. I'll promote that like crazy when it's done, don't worry.
Prints: I am hoping to start selling some prints online (and in person) in the next week or so. I am getting some samples made as we speak, and if my digital painting amateurishness, coupled with my lack of print(ing) knowledge does not produce absolute horseshit, then they will indeed be for sale. Just two to begin with. One is some art you will recognize from past posts. The new one, which has taken up a lot of my art time so far this month is of great interest if you have, or own, a small girl child. Two words: Hippos, Mermaid.
Tell your friends.
LiveJournal News: I don't have that many LJ friends. And a lot of you are friends with the same super popular somebodies that I am also friends with, but none of them are friends with me. Try to help me out with that, would'ja?