Posts Tagged ‘art’

And so, the time has come to start posting/journaling/blogging again. I was originally going to wait until January, then I decided I’d resume on Solstice Day, because of the nifty symbolism of it. But no, I’m doing it today. Today seems right. Here’s why:

Today (December 17th) is the one-year anniversary of the death of my father, Robert Bradley. If you’d like a refresher of the sturm-und-drang of all that, you can go back and read these posts: [ My Father | Two Irish-American Guys and their Fathers | Father's Day]

But back to the present: I learned two days ago – in a note enclosed in a Christmas card from my aunt – that they finally decided to have a memorial for Dad and spread his ashes at the cemetery in Midland, MI where other family members are buried. The memorial was held on October 16th. According to the note, six people were in attendance. None of them was me. I wasn’t informed, until two days ago, almost two months after the memorial. Read the rest of this entry »

My logo Remix Entry

Here’s a Story Games thread where some S7S logo remixes are being shared. Not all the submissions are there, but it appears that many of them are.

And you’ve still got time to send one in, if you’re reading this before late Monday night April 6th. Go to the contest info page at 7skies.net and get in on the action before the deadline.

Or, if that’s not your cuppa, then go preorder the limited edition hardcover at Indie Press Revolution.

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I am entering the Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies Logo Remix Contest. Well, after choosing from among two or three directions I could have taken, here is my chosen entry. If you wonder if this choice reflects my current mental state and/or what I’ve got on the brain … I have no comment.

Now head over to the S7S Website or Indy Press Revolution and place your pre-order!

Today I was hoping to create something either written or visual to share in honor of Brigid’s Day, but in an odd twist, I got completely buried today in client work due to a botched Joomla upgrade.

So tonight, as I try to settle in for the evening, I have been reading through some of my favorite blogs and I ran across a really potent entry from Paul Tevis that hits creativity right between the eyes.

I’m going to be thinking about what this means for me all night tonight, I suspect. And hopefully tomorrow, I’ll grab a moment and make myself available to it, and CREATE something.

Becoming Available To The Moment » paultevis.com.

Feelin’ pretty Wookieefied tonight, so I’m tossing my cool new Obamicon around the Aethernetz, just for pleasure.

Behold and be afraid, Sithlings, Hutt, and NeoCons.

Rejoice and take hope, misfits, rebels, and progressives.

Change is coming.

Originally published at TGTMB. Please leave any comments there.

Whenever I get flustered or frustrated while trying to write/edit/compile VAM playtest text these days (which is more often than I’d like to admit) I often try to turn to an alternate activity that still accomplishes something that brings VAM along. So lately, I’ve been dinking around with creating insignia for each of the factions. I’ve only got three done so far – 10 more to go in my baker’s dozen – but I figured I might as well share them here along with putting them up on the VAM site.

I should also point out that the VAM site itself is another ancillary project that I’ve been puttering with when my patience with rules writing gets to me. So it’s in a state of transition right now, design-wise. Forgive the potentially odd colors and layout you might encounter if you visit. I do, however have a cool new title/logo design for Vegas After Midnight that is featured on the site and in the faction insignia images.

As for the rest of the VAM site, I plan to have it shiny by GenCon. But as usual, I’m juggling more than I can keep in the air, with kids, clients, and a re-vamp of the main Harping Monkey site that I’m doing to show off to a potential new client. By the way, the juggling thing also accounts for my recent lack of participation in various discussion communities, and the absence of new recorded episodes of TGTMB – you’ll have to settle for occasional written posts like this one for the time being.

Back to VAM – I want to publicly give a big shout-out to Mark Kinney. He provided a much-appreciated spark of VAM coolness by proposing an alteration to my revised faction plan to allow the VAM story arc that the Rolemonkeys played to remain a part of the history of the setting, in spite of the fact that the faction they were joining – the Rangers – no longer exists. The notion of WHY the faction no longer exists has become a nice springboard for enriching the premise of the game, and plants several potentially useful situation elements into the mix that play groups can fiddle with if they so choose. So, thanks Mark – and also thanks to Clay Karwan, whom I suspect probably added some input into the idea that Mark proposed.

Wow, this turned into a longer post than I intended – I was just going to show you some pictures. So maybe I ought to actually cut to the chase, eh?

Here are the three I have done as of today. I’ll add more in future posts as I complete them. Click on the little 400-pixel version and you’ll get a 1000-pixel version. I’m leaving these un-watermarked and thus out in the open – please don’t misuse them.