Entries from July 2008

07/31/2008

“Vegetation #2″ and another sign

Created entirely with carrots and starfruit!
Auction starts tonight.

OK, just for the heck of it, here’s another sign from my photo collection. I believe it’s an anorexic Tweety Bird. The folks at Dollar Dreams have some mad skills when it comes to animation.

I haven’t watched Looney Toons in ages, but I remember Tweety as [...]

07/31/2008

Couldn’t resist snapping this photo.

Is it wrong of me to find this hilarious? Everything about this sign is awesome – it’s got inconsistent capitalization, a fragmented sentence, improper pluralization, the word “Notice” (to indicate that the sign is meant to be read,) excessive exclamation points, and super-cool triangularly underlined keywords. This sums up Hartford fairly well.

This sign [...]

07/31/2008

Everything is fine.

I had a bit of a scare today when I found out that the same person was winning all 6 of my current auctions.  I immediately assumed that another account was hijacked (which actually happened with my last auction) and I figured that these were all fradulent bids that were going to be retracted.  Not only does this [...]

07/29/2008

“The Mole” and “New Hope #59″

Most of you probably don’t know that I used to be an online game show host, and the game I created was based on the ABC reality show “The Mole.”  “The Mole’s Conspiracy” was done purely for the entertainment and enjoyment for myself and others.  That was ages ago…probably around the time the first season ended and I [...]

07/28/2008

New Theme

Just a quick note:  I’m changing the design of this blog, so things may look a little strange for the next couple of days.  Feedback is always welcome.

07/27/2008

Aerogarden Week 4 & “New Hope #58″

It’s been exactly 4 weeks since the seeds were planted, and my pepper plants are doing nicely. There has been significant growth since the last update, and the roots are branching out like crazy.

The 1st of 3 straight neutral paintings will be listed tonight (and yes, that is a preview of #59 behind the [...]

07/26/2008

Conversation with my latest copycat

It’s gotten slightly less stressful to see what the copycats are coming up with lately, especially since I see them selling for so little.    However, the newest one has copied my style to a T, and her colors (& spelling) are atrocious.  Googling her full name (in quotes) brings up only 3 matches…one is her eBay “About [...]

07/25/2008

“New Hope #57″

I used a lot of very loud colors for these past 3 pieces, but I’m switching to neutrals for the next 3 in this series. I’m a bit worried about how difficult they’ll be to photograph…2 have black, white & gold, and the other has black, white & silver. Very contemporary and versatile, so stay [...]

07/23/2008

“New Hope #56″

I don’t have anything exciting to report so I’m just stopping by to share the painting I listed last night:

07/22/2008

“New Hope #55″

1:23 a.m. – Saw “Scent of a Woman” last night…good movie!  I thought of an alternate ending that would have made it better though.  I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, so I’ll just keep the “better” ending to myself.  3.5 stars with the original ending, 4 stars with my [...]