This is aimed at the Deviants who live in or around the Pensacola, FL/Panhandle area.

I would like to assemble a sort of PDF zine that would showcase our best work, available for download, or print, or whatever we want to do with it. (I'd of course give it a name and its own website.) I want to do a project like this to challenge my graphic design skills, all you have to do is submit 1-3 examples of your work and a short bit of info about yourself if you want. If you've ever read Funkworks or Beast from way back then you understand the sort of project I am going for.

The other thing. I'm looking for cool, biting, subversive, alternative, emotional, gritty, sardonic, grimy. Not seashell paintings or banally lit portraits of your kids. We want bad ass shit in this little zine. Personal work, not commercial.

I dunno. Right now I am just throwing the idea out there and seeing what bites. I figure I need about a dozen or so people to really make it sing. This is open mainly to the gulf coast, but anyone may submit really.

Additionally, I may want to include an interview or two, so that could come up as well. I just think it would be cool to have a central location to show our art, and in a different format.

If you are interested, send me an email at nsdesigns@gmail.com. I don't check DeviantArt so much anymore so if you message me here it could take a couple days for me to read it.

Now it just needs a name...

Oh for a look at Funkworks, a major inspiration for this project, here are three issues to peruse: [link]

DeviantArt: If it ain't crappy anime, it ain't art!

Looks like I will not be leaving in February after all. I'll be around for a few months more. Whatever the plan is, saving as much money as I can is job one.

Not that I think anyone gives a shit or anything, but I think I am going to take a cue from Greg and go ahead and focus primarily on my Flickr account ([link]). DeviantArt isn't really a great place for developing artists to get accurate feedback, and frankly, I think the place is overrun with too much crappy anime and really messed up people pushing their weird furry agendas. Flickr is more of a serious site, with focused groups and fairly straight-forward tools to organize art and control rights-management. Plus there are all kinds of cool services attached that are dedicated to printing out work in really creative ways for cheap.

I'm not closing this account or anything...just not posting anything new for a while.

"The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe I had planned it all along, subconsciously waiting for the right moment..."
—Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas"

I am moving to New York Fucking City. February. The month of Valentine's Day. Which is appropriate because I am moving for love just as much as money.

Actually, it's not 100%. The decision will ultimately come in January when we go to scout out the situation. But because the move date is only a month later, I am acting as if everything were set in stone now. Saving money, getting rid of most of my material possessions, tying up loose ends. If the relationship works and the city works when the time comes, I will be ready. Trial by fire. I have been wanting to take a risk for a while now. This isn't a chance, this is THE chance.

I could have taken an easy ass job in Atlanta back in August working for one of the alt-weeklies in town making a solid 10k per year more than I am now, with another 500 a week extra from club photography, and with a similar cost of living, but ATL wasn't right at the time. And frankly, a cake job isn't going to help me any. I love cities, metropolis, noise. If this doesn't work out, I can move anywhere else and find work. But I have this feeling...

We'll see.

Totally effing excited. There is so much work to be done.