About 30 minutes ago I have started to work on the 7th and last calendar, but for some reason I came up with this unplanned result
I have to figure out if I want to put it in the group of the calendars I want to sell or create another sea calendar for the people.
Not that I want a personalized unique calendar for me but I reckon that the union of such a B&W image and the colors of the days (even just the white and reds without any other specific event highlighted) can be really disturbing, unless both the picture and the colored days means something for you…I don’t know.
I think that it’s something that only a crazy mind like mine, that links to that picture a lot of little but relevant moments of her life, can like such a calendar.
Therefore I was creating something similar with the background of the Orion constellation, but … when the webmaster saw the draft, he said:
“Nooo, I meant a complete treasure map, like the one in Duck Tales”
Now, I watched that animated television series, actually I loved it, but I couldn’t remember of a specific map
A few seconds later he sent me this link:
Oh… well, I could have avoided the work, I had to just play the card “make him feel guilty” that means saying things like:
“I have never drawn a map like that! I study physics and take pictures, I can’t do this TOO! You make me waste time!”, but
he asked it in such a tender way, like he went back to the age we had when this show was on TV, and
I have to admit it, the challenge was intriguing enough that I have agreed to make a treasure map, or at least something looking like a treasure map.
No matter how long it might have taken.
The path, the circle, the final “X” on his favorite picture, the mountains, the so-so trees, the rivers as well the railroad (for the railroad may God bless the brushes of the program).
All created today, while chatting with the webmaster via skype and showing, through screen sharing, the calendar taking form step by step.
It is not exactly like the Duck Tales map, it’s way more trivial, but I guess that as first attempt of “treasure map” I can’t complain.
And, above all, the webmaster sounds really happy of it.
Just a funny note:
while I’m writing this post from the webmaster’s laptop I hear this music coming:
and several other intro of animated television series
I guess we have to thank skype for such a funny evening despite we have to live 1000km away from each other.
On friday I got rid of another exam (YAY!) considering what happened in the last 3 years I can’t complain. The problem is that in theory in less than a month I have a written test 0.0
I have started working on calendars in these days
The first of the base* calendar
and went ahead today with the calendar for a friend
in the center goes the picture of his grand kids
*I’m going to call “base calendars” the ones that are not done specifically for a friend or a relative and that I have the intention to sell.
Of course the big text “Photonmessage.com” is just for this web version, the actual calendar is clean with just a little signature in a corner
And now a calendar for the “pulzella” (Merins’ daughter):
It is focused on “panorama” because a fe days ago, while we were having a conversation via sms she told me she loves panorama shots.
The cat is an extra picture she has chosen from my website.
This one is for my friend Merins…. this time the calendar was more focused on what she loves doing (singing) and her singer friends and group of singer (Ethno Voice).
Some of the pictures (the 3 group pictures + the picture under March: the man with the guitar) are not mine, the others are picture I took on Jan 8th 2011.
And finally the calendar for my bedroom:
Under (or above) each month there is a picture taken on that month of any of the past years.
In the central line I had put soap bubbles shots for decoration and because I do love those shots
Let’s see who can say which is the “planned” pictures composition and the reason of this pictures-matching
I will have this calendars printed tomorrow afternoon.
Something tells me that the work is not over, but what is left are probably calendars that I have to send via mail due to distance issues…:)
On 19th December officially started “my” Christmas vacation.
This means that on 19th December afternoon I have started doing what I had been desiring to do for at least 4 weeks:
just stay with my pictures and imagination!
since it’s the end of the year I opted to go ahead with the calendars project.
On Monday I created a soap-bubble theme calendar for my mother.
This one will hang on a wall in our apartment corridor for the next 12 months.
On Tuesday I created a nature-events theme calendar for the webmaster: For the first time he will hang his calendar in a room in north Italy. Big changes in our life are going to happen in a couple of week, I want to give him something that would make him feel at home even for just a second per day.
On late Tuesday a good man I met on the web asked me a calendar for his granddaughter. He asked me a calendar full of cats
Here it is. Except for the cat on the left bottom corner, that is the grandpa’s cat picture taken with a cellphone the rest all all cats picture I have taken from late Summer 2006 to October 2011.
I tried to use lighter colors since it will go as a present for a 7 year old girl. I hope she’ll enjoy it.
This was actually the most difficult calendar since I have no idea of what a little girl might like (but this is another story…)
Now the last big dilemma is left: WHAT ABOUT MINE CALENDAR?
I know that these calendar are not exactly the most useful thing in the world, but people receiving one of these as present seem to enjoy his/her calendar for the whole year.
Plus: I really love making them because it’s another way to enjoy the process that start with a just-white page and ends with a colorful page.
Work is over, everything went (except a little note on the printing, they turned the colors much darker and wasted a little the effect of those) and now we can go ahead in this year.
On the left the calendar for a friend, on the right the one for my bedroom
For the first time he will hang his calendar in a room in north Italy. Big changes in our life are going to happen in a couple of week, I want to give him something that would make him feel at home even for just a second per day.
