Bat Tat
Thursday December 29th 2011, 6:09 pmAdnorning the office wall above my drawing table, among a few photos of Debbie Harry, is now this very cool framed Red Bat Tat (see below), made for me as a gift from our friend Pam Quevado. Such a cool idea. She’s been doing very beautiful pieces for a long while now. She runs an entertaining blog, and a webstore at Etsy too. I can’t speak enough about how much her work is liked around here. So everyone should go check it out, and her blog too. Links…
Pam’s Tatting
Pam’s Tatting Too
Another fun and totally awesome gift came from my wife, Wendy. A relatively portable record player for the office. For all you young’uns, music used to be to be played on these things called vinyl records (smirk), and still is in many circles. I’ve got a small decent vinyl collection that I haven’t played in quite some time, since cds and digital started becoming the main thing. But I gotta tell you, nothing beats the feeling of playing a vinyl record. I tried it out as soon as I got it set up in the studio office, and I can’t begin to describe the feeling I got from putting that record on, after not listening to a vinyl record in close to 10 years. It was amazing! It made me just stop, listen to the music and do nothing else but. The first record played was Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, and then a Black Belles single. As noted on this blog, I’m a big fan of all kinds of music, but it always seems to be while working or doing something else. Its been forever since music has been played as a singular activity in this house, and I didn’t realize just how much I missed that, until now. So thats going to change for certain. What a perfect gift from my wife, bringing pleasure to my life.
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Hey there Alex
Yeah, Pam’s work is really nice.
And cool that you got a copy of the Star Wars Art: Comics book, it was an interesting challenge to work on that, and I couldn’t be more happy with the results.
Comment by jhw3 12.30.11 @ 2:21 amAh vinyl! I will always love my first record player: red, plastic and portable. It played all three speeds – 45, 33 1/2, and 78 and had a pop up thing in the middle for 45’s. Abba never sounded so good! 😉
Congrats on the record player and the red bat tat– both are great gifts!
Comment by jenjen4280 01.03.12 @ 2:05 pmHey there jenjen4280
That sounds almost like the very first record I ever had too. The color of it and all. I think mine had white accents along the edges of the red plastic casing. I have fond memories of listening to story records that came with comics like books of DC and Marvel heroes, like FF, Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Conan, stuff like that. The recordings were basically the story in the comic and you follow along while listening to the actors and sounds. I remember that there would be a little ring of a bell noise to tell you when to turn the page. Ah, Nostalgia! I wish I still had some of those.
Hey Jim,
Thanks for sharing Pam’s work. I may have to buy some earrings for my Ms. CEO.
Hope you and Wendy are doing well. An Absolute 3 is heading my way via Thwipster very soon.
Two questions: Did you do a lot of work on the Star Wars Art: Comics book? Think it would be too much for a 5-year-old to appreciate?
All the best to you and Wendy!
Wayno
Comment by Wayne Beamer 01.06.12 @ 5:50 amHey there Wayne
The piece I did for that is a trifold spread. The book itself is very impressive, some amazing examples of comics art throughout. As for enjoyment from a 5 year old for the book? I honestly couldn’t say without knowing them.
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very Interesting work…
For ages now, I’ve been meaning to get a USB record player so I can convert all my vinyl into MP3’s. Gotta whole lot of picture discs!!
I think 2012 will be a big year for vinyl!
BTW, I got My Star Wars book the other day and LOVE the piece you did for it!
Comment by Alex 12.30.11 @ 12:20 am