Today, some graphics I created and Enterprise Dashboards I designed and updated a couple of years ago were featured on an article on ReadWriteWeb. The focus of the article wasn't the dashboards themselves of course, but the product behind them. Granted, it may be a small thing, but Yotsuba (above) neatly explains my reaction.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend about commissioning a new necklace using the StarReader Universe symbol. When she asked which one that was, I set out to the 'net to find a reference image.
To my surprise, I couldn't find one. Since I was at a restaurant, I didn't have access to my files in order to show her. At last night, I was too exhausted from traveling from Boston to Minneapolis to find the image.
At 6pm, my phone unexpectedly uttered a loud notification alarm, followed by the rattle of a small device vibrating on a tabletop. The little plastic trackball shines the occasional yellow before fading to darkness.
When I unlock the device to see what it's on about, I'm presented with the picture of a little pink squid. Above the chibi mollusk, a yellow speech bubble reads off "Time to work! Draw something!!!" This isn't the first time it's done this; in fact, it's been doing this for over two days now. Each time reading messages like:
You have carried around a story in your head for almost an entire decade, but have been unable to write it. There have been several attempts, rewrites, false starts, and even one successful but aborted attempt. Life interrupts throughout all of this, making any attempt to sit down and get the damn thing onto parchment impossible.
It turned out surprisingly better than I expected. The background really brought the piece together. The mist was also a complete mistake -- I had intended to render earth but the rendered greyscale looked much better.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend about commissioning a new necklace using the StarReader Universe symbol. When she asked which one that was, I set out to the 'net to find a reference image.
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