Christmas, Christie, Secret Order, T-Shirts and other shades of madness.
It’s almost Christmas, and I see no reasons for remaining silent.
First of all, I’d love to admit I’m still alive (which makes me reasonably happy).
As for the second, I had almost no time for painting these months (miserable me).
As for the third…
I want to tell you about my little adventures here.
I’m being rather funny and generally stupid these months — mostly due to multiple stresses I experienced. I’m not going to give you details; I just want you to remember, ALWAYS remember that there’s nothing as important as family. Blood bonds, that sort of thing. Remember about them. But I started the different story…
In September my muse Chiffa and I performed a huge task. We shot over a dozen of completely different people for a HUGE photosession (in “sketch version” there was over a thousand of shots) — I am not allowed to show you the results until April 2011 comes, so be patient… But believe me, that was madly entertaining.
In October I had an enormous luck to meet my French friend (whom I used to know as a poet and photographer, but who appeared to be the famous [sic!] guitar-maker)), but that’s a huge story for “insiders”. All I can say is that he is a pure wonder, seriously.
In early days of November I SUDDENLY achieved a “daily deviation” label on one of my graphic things. I drew this one under great stress and I nearly asked out loud for help in “author’s comments” section; well, I literally asked for luck. And imagine my feelings: I received feedback that can be measured in several THOUSANDS of different people’s voices. I was flattered, embarrassed, madly happy and needed a shock blanket.
Wow, then, I said in my normal grim voice. And got back to my sweet everyday angst, which haunts me so far (and it’s family issues, again). There was one thing that saved me… well, I lie. There were two things.
#1 was Agatha Christie via David Suchet proxy; I’m a huge fan of the “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” series (I’m gonna celebrate “20 Years Of Being A Fangirl” in 2011, really)), and the most recent adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express” was an exquisite gift for my shattered feelings.
#2 was (and remains being)) the fact, that I somehow managed to become The Recruiter and Spiritual Leader of some tiny, friendly and secret Order))) I can give you a link with details, so that you can see the limits of our mutual madness (seriously, limits?! we don’t know them))), right here. We laughed so much that we started to cry, our weird stories were read out loud, we performed team “solve-the-crime” role-play games… God, we even talked several waiters into having drinks with us — and we did that so charmingly, that we’ve been actually invited to some “insider parties”.
Both for the sake of #1 and #2, I started making T-shirt designs.
Here comes the first (you see, that’s Dame Agatha Bloody Christie, her gardeners are always SO mischievous))
Here comes the second (see this entry for the reasons, it’s a LONG story)))
The most peculiar facts about these ones are that:
#1 made me acquainted with lovely Czech lady, who writes the most nice fiction;
#2 appeared to be retweeted by the author of the phrase, Michael Sheen.)))
The #2-thing still makes me giggle. Add to that the fact, that we actually found the retweet out at the day we went to see “TRON”.)) Insider’s joke, yes, but so bloody funny.)))
So.
I have to finish about five or six art projects, so far. I am obliged to finish four texts. I’m going to re-launch my website these days. And I pray for some opportunity to write more “how to” things; I have TOO MUCH work to do.
Let me be off with this…
…and mind that I’ll be back on Christmas Day, preferably with some art to be discussed.
xxx
