Category: art, artist

Like I Said, What Free Time?!

Posted on by D. L. Keur

Never fails.  I just about think I’m tidying up the day when somebody drops in with some “needed, necessary, must have ASAP” emergency.  Okay.  Fifteen minutes and some magic with the Wacom, and, there you go, FIXED.  *sigh*  I tell you.  Nobody plans.  Everybody is rushing around doing last minute gasps to meet deadlines they knew about twelve months prior.  If I lived my life like that, I’d never, ever make it.  People…er…Americans, LISTEN UP.

The way to have life under some measure of control is to NOT PROCRASTINATE.  Do NOT put off until the second before your project deadline what you should have iced months ago.  I’m not always nice.  I’m not always HERE.  Then what?  You’re going to wind up with your shorts down around your ankles and your hands too full to cover what needs covering, that’s what!  Of course, that’s always fun for us bystanders, so…carry on.  😀

zentao.com just got updated.  Really.  (Amazed faces.)

Posted on by D. L. Keur

Yup, that’s right.  zentao.com, poor child of a too busy webmaster and graphic artist, a website that winds up limping along on old code and outdated everything, finally got a SMALL update.  Front page changed…which might just blow my SE ranking, but, hey, that’s okay, too.  And I put up a 2007 fine art gallery showing mostly stuff I’ve just done this year and end of last.  I haven’t put up the professional graphics gallery yet, though.  I’m too intimidated after opening the drives all that work is stored on.  I have to say, I never realize just how much “stuff” I create on the fly for various projects at hand.  Sifting and sorting what should go on, what can’t go on because it’s being used on this or that client’s website right now, and what I don’t want people to see because they might think I like doing “cutesy”…well, you do see the problem.  Still, wow.  Too many gigs.

Oh, NEW to zentao.com:  There’s also a new art blog there.  Again, I’ll be moving the posts to hard HTML when they get to the second page, but the blog is mostly devoted to me commenting back on some of the misapplied logic that artists wanting websites and promotion feed me via email, telephone, and, very occasionally, face-to-face.  The blog isn’t skinned very nicely yet.  Haven’t figured out or found something that really hits the switch, but I’m working on it. 

Well, What Fun! Steve Yahn.

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Success.  NY coordinates with Idiotho…er…I mean IdAho (don’t I?) and we get to speak easy.  What a fun guy!  You gotta read his column, too:  Sage Advice (link will go to archive in a week or two, so click now or pay to read.)

So, we talk the same talk — laughter.  This is good.  Sure beats grumpy wannabe clients who I keep saying “No” to, but they keep hearing “Yes.”  How does that work?

“But, Dawn…”

But Dawn nothing.   Dawn doesn’t DO bait-and-switch websites…which is what they want, though they’re trying to convince me that that isn’t what they’re up to.  (Don’t lie to me.  I can tell.  How?  Noses grow.) 🙂

So, welcome Steve, who has his own Category (called Steve Speaks) on this blog now, see it under Family & Friends.  Welcome, Steve.