SALE’S OVER. EVERYONE GO HOME. NO NEED TO READ THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS OF THIS ARTICLE. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG.
Word around the campfire is that my series of prints from my book “University City Worship” is on sale for 50%. Also something about free shipping, but definitely 50%.
The sale ends in about 10 hours, so hurry up, Christmas is coming.
I guess I should make it official. I’m throwing my hat into the ring. At the most, I will end up with a finished project. At the least, maybe I’ll just get this “writing” thing out of my system.
This year I’m going to be part of National Novel Writing Month.
“Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
This approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap.
Also, I’ve decided if I’m going to spend time doing this, I might as well use my powers for good, and give something back. So I’ll be doing this as a fundraiser for The Office of Letters and Light, a charity that creates free creative writing programs for kids and adults in over 500 cities and towns, 3,000 classrooms, and 200 libraries every year.
Please visit my fundraising page and shower me with positive attention.
I’ve been writing for most of my life.
If I remember correctly, my first attempt at writing a novel was at an incredibly young age. My mother was a diner waitress, and she was on the over night shift. I remember not wanting to go to sleep, and instead I waited patiently for her to come home by sitting down with a spiral bound notebook and a pen and writing out a story. No index cards, no story arc, and definately pretty plotless.
I think it had something to do with a group of kids trying to escape a killer amoungst them on some deserted island. Honestly, I don’t remember too much about it, except I know I got quite a few pages into it, and I think I ended up distracting myself from finishing it by drawing illustrations for the story in the margins.
Speaking of distractions, I don’t remember where I was going with this, so I’ll end it here with my original point.
Samples of my writing are now available and free to read on Scribd. If you’re active there, come and say hi. I’m pretty friendly.
I’d like to send you some free jewelry.
I’m looking for people who want to wear my art, and then talk about it. If you can help me out here, contact me.
Otherwise I’m going to go back to what I was doing, which was trying to set up all of my social networks and publishing sites to topple on top of each other like dominoes when I kick at them from here.
So far things are responding to other things, but I’m still a step or two away from getting everything to echo everything else’s feed. Or I’m a step away from a resonance cascade, which would be funny as hell, but it would probably cause the internet to die over here.
I’m having a total blast doing what I’m doing, I really am. I’m having a great time learning my way around a new skill. I’d love to open the bag about this, but I need to get a few more things finished before I make any formal announcements.
Stay tuned…
It’s almost as if I totally forgot that I had a blog here, it’s been so long that I’ve posted something. It’s just that ended up being really busy recently. There’s been some family changes (congrats to Justin and Renzler), and I had my mustard knocked in the dirt by a sudden illness.
However, things have stabilized enough (as well as they do for me) that I was able to pursue a light interest of mine.
BUT, before I get into that, can I just post an image really quick? I took this back in April, but I totally forgot to post it. I’m a horrible blogger, no matter how much practice I have.
From left to right, the pencil sketch, the first pencil, and the final.
So yeah, next up, I’ll be talking about my next attempt at becoming infamous. It involves some dangerous chemicals, some heavy machinery, and a pretty hardcore 3D program.
Also, I need to start talking about other people here more. I like talking about what my friends and dotcomrads are up to.
Back in 2007 I was working for a Haunted Attraction in NY. It was rated as 3rd best in the nation at the time, and I was proud to be a member of some of the hardest working suckers on the planet.
I was picked to design a room, and I was responsible for installing and dressing it from scratch.
Recently I discovered “Behance”, and I decided I should go ahead and spotlight this project on it. My “Baphomet” statue ended up being very well received, both on the internet and in real life.
So here it is, check it out.
I’d also like to take a moment to thank Chris De Troy, without his guidance, this project would not have happened.
Being as I don’t think a few large format posters and a book is enough, I’ve gone ahead and updated my DeviantArt account. That means now I offer quite a few images in a wide range of product formats. Mugs, magnets, canvas prints, puzzles…
Speaking of puzzles, I think my favourite image/product combo right now is “Blackout” being available as a puzzle.
Seriously, who’s the sicko that’s going to order it and put it together? And can I sign it after you’re done?
In further news, I’ll be introducing my new portfolio, and probably a new landing page here shortly.
It’s live.
I picked my four favourite images from the book and released them as prints. These posters are HUGE in size.
Spire
Renewal
Incoming Storm
Monolith
I’m such a big fan of that last one. I might have to buy myself a copy. But bigger.
Looks like some foul sewer creature is in love…
"Madman" is copyright Mike Allred.
Now available for ordering, this book will only be available for the next 15 days.