Posted on July 31, 2001

• Sorry this took me so long. I guess I wanted to take a few days off after the move. Hope you don’t mind too much, given that I’ve worked just about every day for the past three years.

  Anyway, I have been working on a new wallpaper for the past few days and I think it’s ready for your comments. I call it “Earthen” and you can find it on the New Images page. I hope you like it!

  I’m going to try to get things back to normal around here now. I still don’t have my broadband connection (waiting for the installation), but that might actually help me concentrate more on artwork and less on email. We’ll see.

  Either way, sorry about the lack of updates for the past couple of weeks. Two weeks between updates is too long for me and I’ll try not to let it happen again!

Posted on July 24, 2001

• Hi! How are you? My email inbox has been jammed up for the past few days with these annoying “SirCam” emails. I’ve gotten hundreds of them (but I was never infected). It wouldn’t have been that big a deal if I still had broadband access, but it has made it all but impossible to get my email over my standby AOL dialup account (28.8). I expect my broadband access to arrive either next week or the week after that (fingers crossed).

  I think I have the email problem straightened out now. I found a cool little app which will let me delete the crap from my server before downloading. I’ll try to get to my back log today and tomorrow.

  Just so you know, we finished moving last Friday and have been unpacking ever since. I haven’t had the chance to start any new wallpapers because my computer was only set up today. I could have set it up earlier, but I think my brain needs a few days to recover from all of this. I’ll get started on some new artwork soon though, I promise!

Posted on July 14, 2001

• I took some time out from packing yesterday and did a little work with Vue 4. I’ve posted my little project up on the New Images page. Hopefully I’ll be done with all this moving stuff soon and I can get back on track. Thanks for your patience!

Posted on July 12, 2001

• I think I should clarify something about the posters that are now available. They are not the same prints as I have been showing in the Picklejar. The files I gave to my printer (shown in the Picklejar) were 8000 x 6000 and 10800 x 8100 TIFs. The files I gave to Zazzle were 4000 x 3000 and they were JPGs (albeit with very low compression).

  I’m still working on offering the higher quality, frameable prints. I’ll be able to focus more time on that after I’m situated in my new home. I hope to have them available before Fall.

  I’m not trying to put down the Zazzle prints. They look great, are inexpensive, and they’ve worked out a way to get them safely to your door. If you are looking for the best quality I have, though, I recommend you wait until later this year. Hopefully they can tell me which images are most popular, so I don’t have to buy a bunch of prints that nobody wants.

  I should have mentioned this last night. I apologize for any confusion!

Posted on July 11, 2001

• Hi folks. A couple of things to accounce. I won’t have a new upload for at least the next few days. I’ve had to take some personal time this past week and I haven’t been able to get any real work done. I have the next couple of days to work on artwork so I’ll try and get some stuff done before I have to start packing this weekend. I have to be out of my apartment by the 19th. I’ll be spending most of next week packing up and moving.

  I finally closed on my new house today. I’m off to pick up the keys momentarily. We’re so psyched to be moving! The only bad thing from all of this is that I will have to give up my cable modem. Apparently Cox doesn’t run cable out to where I live. I may have to investigate some sort of satillite option.

  My other announcement is that I finally have posters available for sale. I’ve put nine images up on Zazzle.com and if people like them I’ll add more.

  Zazzle seems to have been doing this for a while and it looks like they have figured out how to ship prints without damaging them. Please leave comments if you have any, or feel free to send them to me.