4th of July weekend is Alien Time in Roswell. We shall see if anyone shows up this year, what with the gas prices & all, Roswell being 200 miles away from everything in all directions.
This is the new shirt for the Alien Chase the Roswell Runners' Club does every year. It's a sequel to the Flash Gordonesque design I did last year that everyone seemed to like. Son of Alien Chase '07.
The Roswell Museum and Art Center does the Alien Costume Contest every year as part of the festival. This year they had me do a poster for it. I sort of tied it into a similar theme as with the Alien Chase shirt (that everyone seemed to like), but not exactly. And I was going for the look of an old scifi movie poster, whereas the Alien Chase shirt is a comic book cover. The RMAC liked it so much that they're doing T shirts of it, too. We'll see how those come out.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Up, Up & Away
May 3, 2008
(not really, but that's when it happened. I was unable to document it in real time.)
Our First Balloon Ride(s)
12 years in New Mexico & we finally go up in a hot air balloon. We're a little slow, perhaps, but/& we're savoring every moment as we always have been, haven't we? I forget. But I savored it at the time. I tried to, anyway. I think. Therefore I uhhhh....
The Old-Timers' Balloon Rally in Roswell, New Mexico. It was the I-have-no-idea-how-many annual one of those.
Now that we're part of the Doyal Family by dint of our son Zerek having married Caryn nee Doyal; we're inlaws with the inlaws, & they've been participating with this Albuquerque balloon crew for years & Caryn's been telling us about it for years & this year, we got to become part of it.
It'll do.
The name of the balloon is A Touchie Subject. Its pilot is Fergie. We got to know & love the rest of the crew even though we don't know all of their names yet.
Which will do for now.
Okay, this was followed by a Friday at the 'new' location of our shop like we never had at any of the various locations we have operated our little sign shop out of in this stinking little town over the years. Big Weekend in Roswell: Speed Channel doing a thing out at the Roswell Dragway, which has stupidly chosen to call itself Area 51 Dragway, Cable One needed some banners to put out there, Krumland Auto Group, which is the outfit that owns the Toyota/Scion store, the Honda store & the Hyundai store here, wanted to put some stuff on their racecar trailer, okay, it's this guy that works at Toyota & he's got 3 racers, one of which is him, & Krumland is sponsoring him, or they own his ass or something, at any rate they wanted to have their logo on both sides & the rear of the trailer, Joe wanted his logo, which didn't even exist: Reiser Racing & the numbers of the 3 cars, each in a different gaudy flourescent color of vinyl, which is real expensive & we don't keep that shit in stock so we would have to order it from a place in Albuquerque, on the 3 sides as well, I had to design it all in order to be able to figure out how much vinyl it was gonna take & how much it was gonna cost. I told Joe & Staci the Marketing Director about how there was good, fast & cheap & you get to pick 2. So it was gonna come to $3,800 bucks & that didn't include the racecar he also wanted me to do. We were gonna try & do one side of the trailer for the weekend when Speed Channel was gonna be there & do the rest of it the next week. Half hour later Staci calls me back. They bailed.
There's also55 Alive, a golf tournament at the Spring River Golfcourse being put on by the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, We did a mess of coro plast signs for the Hole Sponsors.
And other stuff, too.
So we got up real early Saturday morning & managed to show up at the old soccer field right across the street from the Wool Bowl all on the grounds of the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI, locals call it "Nimmy") at 7 o'clock, which is like a really unusual kind of thing for us to do. We're helping kind of helplessly here & there, spreading the envelope out on the grass, holding open the opening as the blower blows air into it & makes it big. Fergie lights up the burner & heats up the air in there, the envelope gets up off the grass, the gondola/basket is turned upright & there it is, it's a big ol' hot air balloon ready to fly up through the air that is heavier than it is. Their sponsor is the Roswell Lodgers Tax so there's nobody from the sponsor there, having to be allowed the first ride. Zerek had already been established as being first on the list (there is no list). So he was in there & then Kevin was getting Heather in there & then somebody asked me if I would like to go. I didn't have to be asked twice. I climbed on in & then we were off the ground, rising at a good rate, which Fergie announced after checking the guage, I forget what it was. It didn't feel like we were moving all that fast, but the people down there on the grass got really small very quickly & there we were, floating above Roswell, 4,800 feet Above Ground Level.
(not really, but that's when it happened. I was unable to document it in real time.)
Our First Balloon Ride(s)
12 years in New Mexico & we finally go up in a hot air balloon. We're a little slow, perhaps, but/& we're savoring every moment as we always have been, haven't we? I forget. But I savored it at the time. I tried to, anyway. I think. Therefore I uhhhh....
The Old-Timers' Balloon Rally in Roswell, New Mexico. It was the I-have-no-idea-how-many annual one of those.
Now that we're part of the Doyal Family by dint of our son Zerek having married Caryn nee Doyal; we're inlaws with the inlaws, & they've been participating with this Albuquerque balloon crew for years & Caryn's been telling us about it for years & this year, we got to become part of it.
It'll do.
The name of the balloon is A Touchie Subject. Its pilot is Fergie. We got to know & love the rest of the crew even though we don't know all of their names yet.
Which will do for now.
Okay, this was followed by a Friday at the 'new' location of our shop like we never had at any of the various locations we have operated our little sign shop out of in this stinking little town over the years. Big Weekend in Roswell: Speed Channel doing a thing out at the Roswell Dragway, which has stupidly chosen to call itself Area 51 Dragway, Cable One needed some banners to put out there, Krumland Auto Group, which is the outfit that owns the Toyota/Scion store, the Honda store & the Hyundai store here, wanted to put some stuff on their racecar trailer, okay, it's this guy that works at Toyota & he's got 3 racers, one of which is him, & Krumland is sponsoring him, or they own his ass or something, at any rate they wanted to have their logo on both sides & the rear of the trailer, Joe wanted his logo, which didn't even exist: Reiser Racing & the numbers of the 3 cars, each in a different gaudy flourescent color of vinyl, which is real expensive & we don't keep that shit in stock so we would have to order it from a place in Albuquerque, on the 3 sides as well, I had to design it all in order to be able to figure out how much vinyl it was gonna take & how much it was gonna cost. I told Joe & Staci the Marketing Director about how there was good, fast & cheap & you get to pick 2. So it was gonna come to $3,800 bucks & that didn't include the racecar he also wanted me to do. We were gonna try & do one side of the trailer for the weekend when Speed Channel was gonna be there & do the rest of it the next week. Half hour later Staci calls me back. They bailed.
There's also55 Alive, a golf tournament at the Spring River Golfcourse being put on by the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, We did a mess of coro plast signs for the Hole Sponsors.
And other stuff, too.
So we got up real early Saturday morning & managed to show up at the old soccer field right across the street from the Wool Bowl all on the grounds of the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI, locals call it "Nimmy") at 7 o'clock, which is like a really unusual kind of thing for us to do. We're helping kind of helplessly here & there, spreading the envelope out on the grass, holding open the opening as the blower blows air into it & makes it big. Fergie lights up the burner & heats up the air in there, the envelope gets up off the grass, the gondola/basket is turned upright & there it is, it's a big ol' hot air balloon ready to fly up through the air that is heavier than it is. Their sponsor is the Roswell Lodgers Tax so there's nobody from the sponsor there, having to be allowed the first ride. Zerek had already been established as being first on the list (there is no list). So he was in there & then Kevin was getting Heather in there & then somebody asked me if I would like to go. I didn't have to be asked twice. I climbed on in & then we were off the ground, rising at a good rate, which Fergie announced after checking the guage, I forget what it was. It didn't feel like we were moving all that fast, but the people down there on the grass got really small very quickly & there we were, floating above Roswell, 4,800 feet Above Ground Level.
Friday, March 21, 2008
House of Cards
Here's a guy who has a trick way of stacking cards so he can build really big structures with them. And he does so. link
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Buzzards' Jamboree
We know it's spring in Roswell when the buzzards come back and have their party right in the middle of town. They're turkey vultures. They migrate. I don't know where they go in the winter, but in the spring, they come to Roswell. Well, not all of them. This is just one of those places where a bunch of them, wait, what's the group name? Okay, it's a colony of vultures.
When it gets warm enough to make some nice updrafts off of the pavement of the city, they come gliding in from all over, I guess; in the course of a week or so, maybe two, more and more of them show up and gather until there are hundreds of them, wheeling around each other, swooping & dodging; clearly enjoying each other's company. It's not about food, there's no feasting, nothing dead down there, no battlefield or anything like that.
You know how they find leaks in the natural gas pipelines that run across the prairie? They pump the smell of a dead rabbit through it & watch for the vultures to start circling.
But these guys here are partying. They like the historic district a few blocks off Main Street right in the center of town. When it gets dark they'll roost in the tall old trees that don't have leaves yet, on a nice street with really nice old houses, & crap all over the sidewalks & the street. Big nasty green shit. Lots of it. Then one day they'll just be gone.
When it gets warm enough to make some nice updrafts off of the pavement of the city, they come gliding in from all over, I guess; in the course of a week or so, maybe two, more and more of them show up and gather until there are hundreds of them, wheeling around each other, swooping & dodging; clearly enjoying each other's company. It's not about food, there's no feasting, nothing dead down there, no battlefield or anything like that.
You know how they find leaks in the natural gas pipelines that run across the prairie? They pump the smell of a dead rabbit through it & watch for the vultures to start circling.
But these guys here are partying. They like the historic district a few blocks off Main Street right in the center of town. When it gets dark they'll roost in the tall old trees that don't have leaves yet, on a nice street with really nice old houses, & crap all over the sidewalks & the street. Big nasty green shit. Lots of it. Then one day they'll just be gone.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Just a Bunch of Links?
I guess that's where it's at these days, but what???
WTF
I mean I guess that's what the whole thing with Digg & others where it's what? You post a list of your favorites, your bookmarks?
Why?
Why would I post individual items from these blogs that I like to go to?
Why not just send you to those blogs?
Oh, I guess that's what Digg & stuff are about, right?
Those blogs are all run & maintained by people (punk kids) that are all way cooler & hipper than I'll ever be. Right?
Most if not all of what I know about anything that's cool on the Web, I got from http://www.boingboing.net/
I found it from http://growabrain.typepad.com/
which is a goddam real estate blog out of Riverside, California.
WTF
I mean I guess that's what the whole thing with Digg & others where it's what? You post a list of your favorites, your bookmarks?
Why?
Why would I post individual items from these blogs that I like to go to?
Why not just send you to those blogs?
Oh, I guess that's what Digg & stuff are about, right?
Those blogs are all run & maintained by people (punk kids) that are all way cooler & hipper than I'll ever be. Right?
Most if not all of what I know about anything that's cool on the Web, I got from http://www.boingboing.net/
I found it from http://growabrain.typepad.com/
which is a goddam real estate blog out of Riverside, California.
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