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I see BIG things…
If you follow my instagram feed you’ve probably been wondering what is up with all the GREAT BIG GIANT cardboard things lately. Well, let me tell you! It’s so exciting and it’s really in the early stages so things could change a lot over the next year but I’m involved in a new start-up company called Metta Prints. They print anything and everything in large format and they cut them out with a giant robot. It’s pretty cool. I think we’re going to make a little movie about the process eventually.
Usually people blow up photos of their kids for birthday parties or life-size cardboard cut-outs of Justin Beiber or giant flowers for their walls…but they’ve partnered with me to blow up graphics. SAJ graphics! You know me, I’m all about the cardboard. We’ve been making all kinds of things.
Giant Eiffel Towers, giant ampersands… Yes, Secret Agent Josephine in Paris is supposed to come out this fall. I’m going to make a giant SAJ character next and hide her behind doors and freak everyone out. It’s going to be so much fun.
Basically right now I am helping Metta Prints build their website so we are making things and photographing them. The site works but it’s very much in beta stage right now. If you want something big, like really really big, just hit me up. I can make it happen for you. Eventually we are going to have contests and giveaways and all kinds of fun things. There’s talk of a Build Your Own Monster interface. How fun would that be?!! We might make furniture and giant cardboard castles. Who knows…the sky’s the limit. Actually, I think eight feet is the limit but that’s plenty big enough for me!
If you are a photographer and you are looking for props or maybe you’re having a family reunion and you need a giant cut-out of the family name you might want to keep Metta Prints in mind. Email me. Wouldn’t a giant ampersand be the cutest thing for engagement photos?
You think on that and I’ll go drink my BIG GIANT COFFEE and wait for you.
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Kitchen Art
As usual, as soon as I promise something here on this blog, I never get around to doing it. When did I become this person who doesn’t keep her word? That’s the one thing I’ve always tried really hard to achieve in my work. I may not be the most talented artist or any kind of perfectionist who takes a million years to complete something but when it’s done it’s the most perfect masterpiece ever. I make typos and I read directions poorly. I make mistakes all the time. But if I say I’m going to deliver a job by a certain time or date, I make sure I keep to that. It’s really important to me.
Except here on this blog. I promise things all the time and then I skip town for week. Sheesh. It’s pathetic.
So the reason I never posted photos of my line-painted background cat paintings is because I kept taking horrible photos of them and now that I have a photo-centered blog (fancy dancy that it is) I can’t put up bad photos. The horror! And I can’t figure out why I keep taking blurry awful photos! Actually, I know what my problem is. My camera doesn’t auto-focus anymore. I need to send it to the shop. But I’m waiting for funds to come in so it’s sitting there waiting for the tenth of never, along with that external hard drive I need to buy. And when I use manual focus I can’t seem to get it right because I need glasses. Seriously. When I see my pictures through the view finder and on the back of my camera they look fine. But then when I blow them up on my computer they are blurry! Or some random object in the foreground is in focus and the subject of my photo is not. It’s been amateur hour over here for days.
So here are the best photos I’ve managed over the course of three shoots.
Just makes you want to rush out and buy some paintings for your kitchen, right? No? Hmmmmmm… Maybe I need a sexy girl to model with them. Or maybe I need to practice my painting skills a lot more. Heh.
Anyway, they are in my shop if you want them. (Top o’the Morning! Nerd Kitty Love and Pirate Cat!) They’re kind of fun and maybe they’ll remind you that being perfect is not always important. Sometimes mediocre is okay too. Or maybe I just need to focus what I’m better at. Which is work!
By the way I have discovered a new fun game for designers. It’s called Design Crowd. Have any of you designers out there ever played? Basically designers all over the world compete against each other making logos, graphics, graphic design etc and the winner gets paid. At first I never wanted to enter these contests because I figured I couldn’t compete against India and China…but then I went around looking at all the public contests and I realized there are a lot of bad designers out there and I might just have a chance. I never spend too much time on any one contest, because I know I’ll likely not get paid, but I’ve got six contests going and already four clients have gotten back to me asking for small changes. I think I might have a chance at winning! It’s something fun to do when work is slow. It’s also pretty cool for businesses who don’t have a lot of money to spend. You can special request me even. I’m not ranked very high right now but just you wait.
Just thought I’d share. :)
