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Friday, December 29, 2006

There'll always be a Basin...

It's taken me nearly six months of arsing about and putting-off, but I finally did it. Welcome to "Stu's Dream".

Those of you who know about cricket will recognise the place at once: It's the Basin Reserve in Wellington. I went down there in August and took some shots to make this panorama as reference.

Now, last time I looked at the cricket, both sides were wearing white. But what the hell? This is a dream, inspired by what came before, and I think West Indies wear yellow. As for the sickly amber wash all over the bottom panel, it's supposed to reflect the sodium streetlamp at the entrance to Opito Close (behind Stu.) You'll notice that I now put a couple of fairly big sand dunes in the middle of Te Kore instead of having it flat as a pancake like it was at the beginning!

So, why now? Easy. I got a new HP flat panel monitor for Christmas, thought I had to install drivers, and ended up scragging my computer. My attempts to fix it made things worse, so I'm now waiting for the local tech shops to reopen so they can fix it.

And I wanted something to do while I waited. :P

Frankly, also, I seem to have lost impetus with an internet connected computer in my room. Comics are bloody hard work, and surfing for porn is more fun and instantly gratifying than painfully pencilling, inking and colouring another episode in a denigrated art format.

Incidentally, I also started work on a book about comics! If you've ever read one of the Ginger Series from Awa Press, you'll have a good idea of what the book's going to be like.

And, finally, I may be in luck with a full-time job sometime soon. I won't say much more since the Bad Luck Gods read the interweb and know where I live.

Cheerrio - see ya later.

posted by Cardboard at 4:57 PM