Don We Now Our Gay-Ass Apparel December 14, 2002 By: Green Gibbon! Currently Playing:    Shinobi    Rygar    Steel Battalion

   Christmas is a unique holiday. Although rooted in Christian tradition, it's an event that's celebrated to some extent by every developed culture on the planet. We have capitalism to thank for this, of course, but I shall spare you all my annual "I hate Christmas" speech this year. Rather, I'll brush the whole thing off quickly and tactfully with a new logo that I spent most of yesterday and a good chunk of today working on. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make it not suck, so for the time being I'll leave you all with last week's G. Silver logo.

   I actually have alot of trouble with the logos. I am, at heart, a sketch artist. I like doing rough pencil sketches but when it comes time for cleaning, I lose interest and everything goes downhill. I suppose I don't like it because when I actually get down to fine-tuning, it becomes apparent that I can't draw, a flaw I'm usually able to hide beneath layers of gestural fluff. Perhaps I'm just trying to justify my laziness, but personally, I really do prefer a rough, gestural sketch to a finished, colored drawing, at least in my case. Unfortunately, when I scale those sketches down so as to fit in the logo graphic, the detail is lost and the flaws stand out ten times more. This, of course, is proof that I suck ass... and I know I suck ass, but the trick is not letting all of YOU guys know that I suck ass, and that ain't easy. When I do finally have a logo to show, it's invariably something that I've labored over for hour after tedious hour, working and reworking until I have something that I'm not completely ashamed to put on public display. I wish I were like other artists who can slap down a quality illustration any time they feel like it, but I also wish I wasn't a short, skinny wanker with a big nose. There just ain't much I can do about it. Anyway, to prove that I'm not just making up an excuse for not having a new logo, here's a full-size sample of a portion of one of the draft sketches that may or may not make it into the final piece. It's Claris Sinclair, by the way.

   While I struggle fruitlessly to convince myself that I am indeed a capable artist, it seems that I have no trouble at all schlocking together new information for the site. My last final was on the 3rd, and since then I've been working on the museum like it's going out of style. I've updated every museum page -- every single stinking one -- chronologically up to the Sonic Spinball 8-bit page with new information and/or screenshots. I hope to have the entire museum tuned-up by Christmas.

   In other site-related news, I've decided to eliminate the "what's new" box which, until this week, appeared just south of here. Since I'm the only one who ever really updates the content of the site itself (except for Pep, who usually does so without permission), it was getting kind of useless. Popcorn and Silver seemed to be having a devil of a time trying to figure out what to do with it, anyway.

   Above is an image that Popcorn fished up of PSO Episode I&II. I guess that's from the download quest where you meet the great dreamy one himself and plug your GBA in to play the NiGHTS mini-game. I must say, the old fellow's looking better than ever. And I have to admit, within the three seconds it took me to realize that it is indeed a screenshot of PSO, there was a brief surge of excitement. Y'know, perhaps it is getting to be about time for a NiGHTS 2 after all...

   While we're on the topic of PSO, I ordered an assload of PSO capsule toys. For capsule toys, they're not too shabby, although there is some assembly required and when I sat down to put Ash (the HUmar) together I busted the handle off his Saber, which frightened me enough to not touch any of them since. Anyway, I'm still missing HUcaseal, FOmarl, and FOnewearl (three female character types, darn my luck)... uh, anybody want a RAcast?

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