Month: January 2005

Will Eisner is dead.

This will probably mean nothing to most of the people on my friends list. I find that thought almost as depressing as the news itself.

Eisner’s got such a body of work behind him that I’ve never got around to reading it all, but of what I have read, I’ve liked most of. He’s the author of one of only two or three decent texts on the craft and mechanics of comics, and he produced “A Contract With God”, generally reckoned to be the first original graphic novel (a bookshelf comic that had not previously published in serialised form) in 1978. He’s been a huge infulence over the medium, specifically toward a more grown-up market, and were there any justice, he’d be the household name while Stan Lee languished in obscurity.

If you have no idea who he is, you really should check out his work.

2005: Light Writing

So, as I hope most of you are aware, I’ve started a photoblog over at electricana.  I started it in an idle moment, figuring that if I put up a couple of images a month, I’d be doing pretty well.  Instead, I have suprised myself by managing to put photos up at the rate of more or less one a day.  More surprising still, is how rewarding I’ve found doing it.

So I’m going to keep doing it, in the hope that I’ll get better at it.  I’m setting myself a target of putting five new photos a week on there every week for the next year.

Why am I telling you this?

Because I’m an attention-seeking tart, obviously.  It’s looking like this is going to be my major creative project for the next year, and at the moment, it’s got an audience of about 20 people.  I’d like to build that up a bit.  So, firstly, this is just a reminder that the journal exists for you to friend if you’d like.  It won’t break your friends page, and it won’t be loads of big images.  Unless something goes wrong, I won’t be posting more than one picture a day, two at the most, and none of them will be huge.  Go on, validate me.

But secondly, and more importantly: Tell your friends.  If you see an image you like on there, feel free to repost it in your own journal, providing you credit me, and post a link back to electricana.  Do this as often as you like.  Encourage others to friend the journal, or link to it in whatever way they’d like, if they’re not on LJ.  You will not need to know me in order to (I hope) enjoy the photos.  This is not going to be a photo diary, and it won’t contain loads of tedious photos of people they don’t know, unless the shots are interesting in and of themselves.

So.  electricana.  Tell Your Friends.

That’s that done.

2004 has shat the last of it’s rancid guts out.  It’s over.  Expired.

Re-fucking-sult.

2005: I’m watching you carefully.  You have been warned.

There’s a toast I like at this time of year:

“May those that love us, love us.  And those that don’t love us, let God turn their hearts.  And if he cannot turn their hearts, let him turn their ankles, so we’ll know them by their limp.”

Happy New Year, everyone.

(And apologies to all at alexdecampi and davebushe‘s place.  I left in a small pile of pain, and getting home and wearing something, you know, comfortable became a bit of a priority.  And now I’m home, well, I’m discovering that I’m quite tired.  So I’ll see you all in the week.)