May 02 2007
Minor updates…
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- On the sidebar to your right, you’ll now see a HOW DO I READ THIS? link that provides some explanation how to use the site. A well-designed website probably wouldn’t need such an explanation; I’ll take it down when I have a well-designed website.
- I adjusted the header graphic. I added:
- Copyright information for the artist who did Catastrophe’s pencil-work. (I only colored it). The opening sketch was quite fantastic– that actually inspired the Catastrophe character (that, and the question “What is a moonbat?”… but more on that some time later).
- The site’s title to the graphic and then deleted the title that had been superimposed on it.
- Computer-generated color to Catastrophe’s large eye. I think the yellow blended pretty nicely, but in hindsight, the eye looks really weird because the white is uniform. The small eye is actually more of a focal point because it has many shades of white that makes the brightest spots appear to glow.
- I’ll probably go back and redo the white part of the large eye. My changes took away the depth.
- I have completed a truly crude and bare outline of the third short story (I didn’t post it online). I’ve established a deadline for myself to have the story itself ready to read by May 24, two weeks after finals end.
- I’m actually not sure at this point whether the third story will be Oliver Ryan’s Unarmed and Dangerous or the journalist’s First Draft of History. So I did an outline for both. It looks like I have a clearer idea where History is going, so I’ll probably finish it first. I might end up writing UAD into the gap between Only Human and History. We’ll see.
- I watched Heroes episode 20, the one where the episode is set 5 years in the future. I loved the episode, what with a great twist in the Oval Office, but I was a bit annoyed that they got to the idea of a super-Homeland Security before I did. Oh well. I’ll pursue legal action if they start dropping words like “assistatory…” haha. (I love making fun of entertainers suing each other… thank YOU, Marvel).