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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Apple finally released the new MacBook Pros, and I ordered mine within a few days of the announcement. I used your wonderful donations and my other savings to fund part of it, and made judicious use of Apple’s 0% financing offer, and now my new baby is here! Except that I’m going to let the Apple Geniuses transfer the data from my old work laptop to my new one, so I’ll be handing both of them off in a few short hours.
Since they discontinued my beloved 17″ widescreen model, I got a 15″ MacBook Pro with a Retina Display and I’m hoping that will be clear enough to work in the higher resolutions, so I’m not losing too many pixels with the inches. I’m very much looking forward to the brighter, clearer display, not to mention having eight times the RAM. I mean, Photoshop will still attempt to use all the RAM, all the time, but this way there’s more to go around!
For those who want to know all the specs:
- 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display
- 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz
- 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
- 512GB Flash Storage
There’ll be a period of adjustment when I give up some of my old Rosetta applications, since Lion (and Mountain Lion) don’t support the older stuff, but hopefully the transition will be smooth. I’ll be on my (even older, hah) black MacBook while my data transfers, so you won’t be rid of me, but it hasn’t got any of my newer Adobe applications on it, so I’ll be stuck on a few projects until my beloved work machines are returned to me.
Most importantly of all, I’ve named him “Vincent,” as in Price, and also Van Gogh.
Categories: Daily Art, Words Words Words
Tags: words
On Fandom, Fan Art, and Being a Big Dorky Fangirl
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
S is for Sherlock, Baker Street Tinies art by Amy Crook
By Starlight by Amy Crook
I sometimes think I’ve always been a fan of something. I remember getting into reading Star Trek books when I was maybe 12, but before that it was Stephen King and my big horror phase at 10, and before that I read every Nancy Drew book the library had, and all the Oz books (did you know it was a series?), and the Narnia books, and… Yeah.
I’ve always lived best in other people’s worlds. Even though every one of the things I named above, and every one of the things I’m a fan of now is problematic in some way, that doesn’t diminish my love for them.
Doctor Who
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by Amy crook
As an artist, it’s always been a calling to me to draw or paint the things I was a fan of. I remember when I was younger, drawing ridiculously detailed pencil art from posters of the bands and actors I swooned over as a pre-teen. And now I’m nearly 40, and I still draw and paint things out of other people’s worlds, other people’s imaginations.
Transformative works are everywhere we look these days. From Sherlock to The Avengers, the new anthologies of stories in the Cthulhu Mythos and the explosion of unlicensed fanworks online (note: yes, the stuff here goes in that category), people are looking back through the things that came before, rifling through the imaginations of the past to build a foundation for the things they make now.
I love it.
Every once in a while I roll my eyes at the endless sequels and remakes and book-to-movie adaptations, but in truth it’s more Sturgeon’s Law (90% of everything is crap) I’m disparaging than the desire to depict Shakespeare as high school drama or make stylized movie posters for films from a different era.
So, I’ve embraced my dorky fangirl heritage, and in amongst the abstract salt paintings and tentacles you’ll find cartoon monsters out of someone else’s imagination and other pastiches of my favorite things.
I’ll just try not to do too much that falls into that bottom 90%.
Weeble Voldemort cartoon by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of, Words Words Words
Tags: info, why, words
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