New Artwork

So, with much patience and some frustrations, the new art is finally all up over at the ImageKind store.



For those in the extremely observant crowd, it's been up for a few days and I've posted a few preview pieces on Facebook and the like, but the sidebar on the left has all of the works, and you can visit the full gallery on ImageKind.



With the release of this last batch I was invited to display my art in two of the featured groups on ImageKind, 'Art for Cancer' and 'HealingArt.' Both of these groups are doing art for a good cause, the former is raising money for cancer research charities and the later is just a group of artist sharing there positive energies to bring artwork they feel has a healing vibe to the group and to a larger audience.



Anyway, I have one piece in the 'Art for Cancer' group for sale, of which 15% of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. the remainder of the proceeds and the proceeds of all other sales go to the feed Hatdragon and the Family fund. ;-) So, feel free to donate and enjoy the artwork!

Hide and Seek...?

Where have you been hiding, Mister? Um, yeah. So, I feel like I owe you all an explanation.

Rightly so. Sorry everyone. I've let my audience down. Last time I posted anything was, mid-May? Not a good blogger or social-media head type person, sorry about that guys, I'll try and do better, promise.

So, what, you ask, have I been doing? I've been job hunting primarily. Not having much luck, but this is the way of the market right now. Which leads me to the rest of this entry, the other things I've been doing. ;)

You can't have expected me to sit idle right? So, while not job hunting, I've been enjoying some of my idle time, hanging out with the family, playing with the kids and going to the zoo and museums and the like. I've also started working full steam on a few side projects. One of which I can talk about, one of which I can only hint at.

As you all know, the point of this journal was to document my travels, trials, and headaches as I explored the vast new world that is iPhone development from the viewpoint of a .Net developer. Along those lines, I have begun development on my first commercial development application for the iPhone and I'll be releasing some details about that soon. Along with those details will come more code samples and lessons learned. I haven't forgotten the reason I started this. So stay tuned for more there. There will also be some giveaways for beta test openings for the application to be given away raffle style soon as well.

The other project, while having roots in the open source community is another commercial venture and you will have to get your details and information on it through the official channels I'm afraid. Fun with NDAs. It's pretty exciting and I'm exceptionally pleased to get to work with this awesome team. I've managed to get back into a more formal C++ development role than I've had to maintain in a long time, and I'm enjoying the hell out of the challenges that have been given to me thus far. You all can find out more at AIR:Steampunk, Facebook, MySpace, or follow them on Twitter.

Also, in the next few days, 13 new pieces of art should be hitting the ImageKind gallery for sale. It took me quite a number of hours to get them all finished, polished, refined, and ready for general public consumption, but I think you all will have a good selection of work to choose from now. I like the variety that I will have available on the store once they post. I will have a new post up to announce them formally when I have them up and priced for sales.

Beginnings of an art gallery - An update

So, the fine folks over at ImageKind are still working on getting the images out to my gallery. Apparently the person in charge of migrating images from the FTP server to the gallery is out sick currently, but will get on it once they are back. I'm hoping this is soon, as I wanted to try and get this up and going a lot sooner than we're looking at right now.

In other news, I'm hoping to have a few more pieces done and ready to send their way shortly. I've been perusing my archives to see what I had stashed away to bring to the table if and when i decided to sell some of my works and have found a few pieces that I think are post worthy.

I've also got a few irons in the fire with regards to the written word, so we'll see what comes of those as well. I'll keep you posted on those as well. Plan for eBooks, possibly print media, but unsure. If print media, lulu.com is a happy happy vendor and I will probably abuse them. ;P

Beginnings of an art gallery

Okay, so last post I mentioned that you all would start to see non development posts filter in as well. This is the first of such posts. I've started the art gallery page and gotten the starts of a site for it up. I'm still researching the on demand printers to determine the best vendors for such things. As I have more details on that I'll get them to you all, for now you get a sneak peak at the artwork. On the versions that you order the water markings will be removed obviously.

http://www.hatdragon.com/artwork.html

Enjoy!

Tomorrow Comes a Day Too Soon

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." Wm. Arthur Ward.

Today, I had to adjust the sails.

My work on the iPhone / iPod Touch App still moves forward and it will continue to into the future. I will now also be moving forward on some additional fronts. From here on, you will be seeing other things appear in this space that are not computer or development related, but may still be of interest.

I've been forced into a need to quickly diversify my trades a bit and will be trying to get some art and music work up for sale, as well as my development side of things. My artwork is mostly abstract and my music tends to lean into the experimental and trance genres.

I will now be using this space to showcase my artwork, music, as well as the development journals. I will more than likely be putting the actual works up for sale on places like Etsy or ImageKind.

Watch this space for things to come. Hopefully quickly.