Whoa, four months since an update... sweet...

Hay guys!

Haven't been around here as much as I would have liked the last little while mostly due to work and the never-ending pleasantries of school. Always. But we managed to get some reeal, live high-speed internet at the farm here so checking up on everything should be a bit easier.

Real-Life News Hmmm... news... news... I managed to get into a Master's program for history! So I'll be doing the big move from Alberta to Ontario in late August. It will be nice but it kind of sketches me out at the same time - that's an awfully long way from home. Not sure what I'll miss more - the parents or the horses. Likely the horses.

I've also got a Euro-trip planned for the middle of June to about the middle of July. Not that long but I'll get my buttocks kicked at work if I'm gone any longer. The plan is to spend five or six days in south England, a couple of days in France, and then fly to Poland to see as much Copernicus stuff as I can. Seriously, when I think about the last bit there, it's all I can do from throwing enormous, twitching fits of excitement. For any of my watchers from England, France, and Poland - do you have any suggestions of absolutely MUST-SEE or MUST-GO or MUST-EAT/DRINK or MUST-DO things related to your respective countries?

Lastly, I'm going to get a new dSLR as soon as I get my taxes back: [link] HOSHITWANT. Every semi-reputable photographer I've talked to has recommended Nikon and after seeing the effects of Vibration-Reduction lenses with the FLASH OFF, I figured that would be the ultimate for doing historical photoshoots.

Art News

The Septimus costume has been put on hold for a while (read 'hold' as 'likely won't happen' ) mostly due to changing interests (FIE) and lack of time. I wouldn't mind making more Renaissance stuff - perhaps something wonderfully Italian, elaborate, and 1470s. We'll see.

I've suddenly concocted this grandiose mental (in both senses of the word) plan for a graphic novel of the life of Copernicus. Of course, this would mean learning to draw... uh... hands, bodies, expressions, backgrounds, perspective, pretty much everything. It'll never come to fruition, naturally, but I do plan to sketch out a few possible pages over the next couple of months.

Still have other projects in the works, including appallingly late trades, which will be finished as soon as Nic releases his death-grip on my brain.


The Dorky Duo