This Saturday I'll be attending Jeff Mach's The Totally Normal Event, a benefit show for the SPARC Summer Experience which is a summer program for gifted youth combining elements of summer camp with the multilevel benefits of rigorous academic achievement.
The event includes a tun of performers like The Dresden Dolls, Freezepop, The White Elephant Burlesque Society, The Mighty Mike Saga, Voltaire and many more, as well as vendors and artists, movies, panels and a large interactive story you can participate in throughout the event.
I'll be one of the panelists for "Genius At Work: Multidisciplinary creators talk about the creative process, their work, and what it's like to try to be a professional creator." which takes place at 8:00 pm in the Council Room.
I'll be participating in the Midwest Haunters Convention this upcoming weekend. I'll be at booth 612 pimping my spooky shiznit. The traidshow will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
If you're unfamiliar with Midwest Hunters Convention, it's one of the largest Haunted Attraction traidshows around, filled with all sorts of prop-makers, set designers, makeup suppliers, haunted attraction owners and the like. Lots of potential networking and perspective clients at this shindig.
There's more info here - http://www.midwesthauntersconvention.com/
I'll be participating in the Artist Alley once again at Wizard World Philly. I'll be at table 1808 pimping my shiznit as usual. Stop on by and say hi.
Wizard World Philly will be held this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center - 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 http://www.wizardworld.com/home-pa.html for more info.
And here's the spanking-new piece I eluded to yesterday - AGELESS. The lovely Alysa was the model for this piece. This is a very different style for me but the techniques I currently use were the same, just applied a bit differently. It's available as an 8.5 inch by 11 inch print. Visit the Grendel's Den Design Studio Store section to purchase yours.
I will indeed be vending at next month's Midwest Haunters Convention! This massive Haunted Industry trade show will take place the 13th, 14th and 15th of June at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. It's filled with vendors, haunted attraction tours, seminars and other creepy-ass stuff. I'll be at table 612 so stop by for a visit.
Simply have had little time to make any real posts here, but I do try to keep up on things with you all out here in LJ Land.I have a bunch of new projects going on, including some pretty swank announcements to be, well, announced soon. But for now let us see what's do'n:
I'm now the web designer and host for the infamous West Philly institution, the Clark Park Music and Arts Festival. I'm in the midst of helping the new organizers sort through the mess that was the event's web presence, which at this time is just a MySpace page. We're fixing that. I'm putting together a site that I think will represent the event pretty nicely.
I've been happy with the response all around.I have two design projects for charities I'm currently working on - The Scares That Cares anthology which I'm designing the book cover for (and doing the initial shoot for today). And there's the SPARC Summer Experience for Gifted Children which is going to release a compilation disc, of which I'm working on the design.
The plans for this year's Philly Zombie Crawl Zombie Prom are steamrolling down the pike. There's a lot of pretty amazing things that could be happening for this and to be very honest, I've never been this excited about the Halloween season in a very long time.
The work on PhillyFrights.com is chugging along nicely. I'm hoping that I can have it ready for the Halloween swing, which it should be.
And I just finished up the new site JenniferBrozenske.com. I think a lot of folks on my friends list know Jenn from here Candelabra Productions days. This site is for her other creative side to life, an opera singer.
I should have a new piece to unveil later today. It should help satisfy a certain crowd that's been waiting for this. I'm looking at all you Steampunk freaks out there. ;P
So there's my attempt to keep all you suckas updated and stuff.
I just added some more current designs to my profile's album, including the work I did for Information Society's Don't Be Afraid V.1.3 and the upcoming novel Orgy of Souls. Go and check them out.
I was vending this past weekend at the first ever Eastern Haunters Convention, which was held in the Philly area (Frazer to be exact). I had a blast to say the least. Friday was a bus tour which took us to Eastern State Penitentiary, the Mutter Museum, and the Fright Factory, plus a catered lunch and dinner. Saturday and Sunday were the actual convention days which included seminars, a catered dinner and masquerade ball, and ghost tours of the tavern attached to the hotel (which is supposedly haunted). I took a crap-load of pictures which you can check out here, evidence of the mayhem and such.
Things are going swimmingly here at Ghoul H.Q. I've been busy as hell, which is good 'cause being busy means money.
The convention season is well on its way so many a mile will be racked up. There's also some new sites coming down the pike, Philly Frights of particular note, and new design work including the re-release of Information Society's Don't Be Afraid (swank as hell for a music nerd such as I) and the book Orgy of Souls - of which I am in the middle of signing the tip sheets for the hardback edition.
The newly revamped Zombie Monkey Projects is chugging along and finding its audience pretty quickly. If you haven't checked it out I highly recommend you do. It's chuck full of freaky-deaky stuff that I know most of you dig.
And then there's the new project in the works for the charity Scares That Cares, which benefits the Johns Hopkins Children's Cancer Center. The organization has had a few benefit auctions and such but I'm involved with an anthology that will donate it's proceeds to the charity. I'm pretty excited about this one.
I'm still working on finding the time to actually work on my personal projects (remember that Steampunk thingy), which on one hand is frustrating but on the other is a sign that business is good.
excited
busy
accomplished
cheerful