Very Special Good Wishes to Jedrik!!! (I built a prim sculpture that says “HI!” in the temple, will leave it up for the night. Interestingly I didn’t get bumped out until I’d completed the exclamation point, so my net connection is getting better.)
What I’m doing tonight… It’s almost 2 am (make that “well-past-2-am” now, and getting mysteriously later and later, all the time) and all I’ve done so far is categorize the orbs on which I’m working to get them ready for this weekend’s ICW if I can. Dick is working very hard to get the fixes in so my boat rides work correctly, which at the moment, they don’t. The slants are fixed on the boat, but not entirely sure they work on land. Some do, some don’t. Will be trying to debug that while I build boats out of prim type “rboxes”, which are what we call “prims” in the GODD engine.
Here are the orbs I’m working on concurrently:
RAFTER — Workout orb for boat and water problems and steering issues, etc.
SHIRE RAFT — Rafting Expedition through the Shire with lots of bulldozing & hills
RIVER BOAT — “Mark Twain” two-story Steamboat with passengers & lots of detail
00 RIVER — Steamboat paddle-wheeler — Really New Orleans style
BOATRIDE — Uncertain what the boat will look like atm, but the ride is beautiful)
CANAL ZONE — Canal boat ride similar to Team Fortress Canal Zone)
REBIRTH (a stunning variant of warftown that resembles actual rebirth events)
VENICE (waterworld version of HADRON — this will be the basis of some running orbs)
SEA RAFT (that’s the one in the video — this is a wide open space with tropical islands)
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In addition, I’m working with Marvette to try to finish up the trading cards I’ve done so far, about 160 of them in sets of 8 each group.
Here is a partial list — some of the groups contain up to 24 cards in the series:
Hot for Ancient — includes an ancient artifact.
Hot for Bardos — a vivid color photo of the original BardoTown HO-Gauge Train Layout
Hot for Hair — contains a haircut sample with photo of the hairdo
Hot for History — contains an 18th or 19th century swatch or a soil sample or relic
Beads Ancient — contains 5 actual ancient beads as described
Hot for Vintage — contains an actual 19th or 20th century historical textile swatch
Hot for Puja — Gurus are pictured and authentic period Blessed Textile Swatches included
Hot for Landscapes — My acrylic and oil landscapes are featured in full vivid color
Hot for Linocuts — features the “Dark Hours” series
Hot for Pastel — featuring the “Faces of War” and other pastel series
Personal History — some cute baby pictures of yours truly dating back to about 1942-45
Reno Run — Great shots of the group doing the Reno Run
Victoria Twist — in the “Hot for Hair” Series, this features Victorian Hair Styles & Cuts
Hot for Watercolor — features the watercolors I produced for the Clinton White House
Hot for Woodstock — acrylic and oil paintings of Woodstock, New York & Old Zena Mill
Hot for World War I — A series of privately owned photos of WWI taken by my uncle
There are more, but that’s a brief summary. It’s going well, but I need to get them done before I run out of energy to finish the job. It’s grueling labor, mostly in photoshop, but there’s tons of physical work to get the cards cut, pasted and finished in a plastic casing.
Wish I’d thought of this when we had the art gallery. What a great way to introduce a series of paintings, sculptures, jewelry or vintage clothing, hairstyles, whatever. Trading cards, yes, but think of them as a kind of business card you get your customer to buy and because they bought it, they’ll tend to keep it somewhere safe.
Very few business cards have that kind of “staying-power”. It’s quite possible that some of these cards will have increased value over the years, because they are collectibles, although not of the popular variety. Strangely, those tend to have the best performance, because they’re so limited, but you never know what will go viral and what will be dumped by the side of the road.
Gosh, I plumb forgot to add “Hot for Meteorites” which will feature every known kind of Stellar Inclusion type I can get my hands on. The Allende and Murchison are now very, very expensive. Murchison is probably the most studied meteorite of all, because it contains pre-solar grains of stardust, exploded stellar material, plus strange alcohols from deep space.
Mars Rock and Lunar Rock are a lot cheaper than they were, because there are a lot more known and tested samples now. I’ll be making a series featuring Moon and Mars Rocks, as well as Esquel and other Olivene-bearing iron and stony-irons, and of course, my all-time favorite, NWA 7417, a great C3, of which I have a few crumbs as well as the larger 1kg and 2kg masses which serve as Altar Stones.
Well, I’ve just blown away almost 3/4 of an hour of my work time tonight to bring you up to date, and I actually realized just now that I haven’t even mentioned the other things that I’m trying to cover before the next Big Workshop just a few weeks away.
I wasn’t kidding when I said that it takes three months to put together an event — ANY event that includes more than four people — that’s online or brick-and-mortar, it still takes time to organize, because people are busy.
Speaking of busy, Barbara (Grishy) is up to her eyeballs in orb preparation as well as being deep into the accounting area with new duties, so I guess her report will be a bit late, if you’re waiting up nights for it. She’ll be in shortly to start work on a new Orb, between bouts of accounting.
I’m gonna eat something now, before I start wandering around asking “Huh?” and “What???”, and then get back to work cutting, pasting and such, in-between bouts of programming in the GODD engine, hoping to get this stuff done by Saturday morning at 6:00 am. It’s going to be dodgy, but I think I can manage it.
Detail, detail, detail.
See You At The Top!!!
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