Do your own thing, not just the client-paid-for-it thing. That thing isn’t yours, no matter how many hours you wrote it, shot it, retouched the hell out of it. The client paid for it, but it’s not theirs either, it belongs to a brand they’re paid to watch over, and someone called a consumer will …
Month: November 2010
I bought a Sheaffer Copper Legacy from Jim Gaston early in my fountain pen collecting days. The pen is now with a dear friend, and Jim Gaston’s site has now been turned over to the family resort; nothing on the front page links to any of the beautiful Sheaffers he used to sell. When Dennis …
“A-scavenging we will go, a-scavenging we will – what’s that?” The Scavengers didn’t like taking anything that wasn’t useful. Or edible. This object was certainly a puzzle. It seemed to be made of shiny, mustardy celluloid. The two Scavengers stared at Pennie. “Dude. It’s a box.” “Yeah. Chill.” Pennie snarled. “You don’t survive in the …
Stephan LePodd, Explorer Extraordinaire, came upon a most peculiar cylindrical object in his extensive travels. He decided to bring it to Mr. Head, his friend and Puissant Philosopher. Surely it had been machined by the survivors of a long-lost advanced civilization! Perhaps even the famed Atlantis. Why else would it have “Waterman” impressed upon it, …