mezzaverse beta
It’s been nearly a month since my last rant here. Mentally, I’ve undergone a significant bit of change, slowly inching away from the injured soul licking his wounds to the slowly-recovering creative-nut job I know myself to otherwise be. As an example of this recovery, just this morning I received an email from the woman who played a large part in my ultimate job loss asking — as I’ve still got a couple months of “work” left — if I could provide her with some details on a past contact, yada-yada-yada… A month ago I would have got fired up, roamed around the office, and exclaimed how unjust and oblivious she was appearing. Now, I just replied — pleasantly enough — and got on with my day. I have other things to occupy me…
One of the big (largely therapeutic, though I wouldn’t want to admit that too openly) activities has been the webcomic on which I’ve been working. (I do hate to use the word “comic” though, as it does imply funny and the idea in the story is not particularly intended to be funny.) Currently occupying the domain formerly held by this exact blog (and a few other URLS as well) is a collection of drawings-come-cartoon-panels depicting the adventures of Telo and Grim as they set out from home and become lost in this (potentially) vast and infinite other-reality. I explained it a few minutes ago on ersatzowl.com like so:
While that’s not exactly an easy thing to explain — nor do I want to give too much away — for those less inclined to go blindly reading a novice attempt at webcartoonery I’ll give you two assumptions you must make to enter this particular narrative:
1) Assume that the world in which we live is nothing much more than a vast piece of computer software and data, and;
2) Assume that since this software must execute on some kind of hardware, that somewhere outside the scope of our perception lies a vast, possibly infinite, jumble of circuits, chips, resistors, wires, and connectors.
Now, populate that jumble of circuitry with characters and a quasi-philosophical storyline and you have the foundation for a weird — and potentially wonderful — graphic narrative filled with crisp and surreal imagery provided by yours truly.
If nothing else, the project gives me tons to work on, and plenty to which I can direct my creative and professional attentions. And, unlike this blog (which I’m sorry to say as I distance myself from it’s public existence more and more, is a weird collection of stories and rants not fit for a wannabe eProfessional) is something that I’m actually quite proud to show off and display. And even in the three weeks I’ve been working on it, I’ve learned heaps of skills and techniques for graphic design I would probably not have otherwise encountered. And that’s been worth the effort.
Mostly, folks have stopped asking about the blog. It’s not gone, of course, and eventually I’ll need to collect all the text into something more permanent. But for now my attentions have rebalanced online, and less in wordiness and more in (what is starting to seem) strong creative output.
