The Tooth of the Mare

I do a lot of side work that i don't put on my website. For the most part it is quick concept jobs, or design jobs. 90 percent of the time i am not very pleased with what i do, but today it was a different story. Ole' boy Claude over at TFA tricked me into doing some more designs for the shop (you may remember the mid-century furniture design postcards i did a while back). Claude and i have very differing opinions when it comes to design, but after being persuaded on both sides by both Rachel and myself he decided that he did like both of these...enough in fact that he is going to print both.

- The grey outlines above are just to show where the bleed is for the printers. The background of the first design is a logo i had done for TFA a while back, and the photo on the second design is compliments of Adam who had taken a ton of gorgeous photos for TFA. The wonders of Century Gothic will never cease to amaze me.

Rachel and i had another weekend of going to antique malls. She really scored in the amount of things she found. I on the other hand only bought two things, both of which have made my month. The first of which being a horse skull, jaw bone and all. I have bid on these on ebay for years now, and never won any of the auctions. And to boot, i only paid 20 bucks for it....needless to say i was extremely pleased. The other item i bought was a vintage raccoon tail key chain...this may not mean much to anyone else, but to me it is fantastic. I decided to take a picture of the horse skull (which is absolutely massive by the way...probably 24" long, if not bigger) and while i was at it i took a few shots of our living room:



This isn't all the taxidermy/dead things we have....to the right of the mantel is a shadow box full of skulls (fox,raccoon,badger) and antique/vintage toys. But displayed here are 2 mule deer, a whitetail deer, 2 musk deer (maybe? i don't really know what they are), a whitetail antler rack, red fox, black bear, the ever loved porcupine (which by the way is just a northern porcupine with a summer coat), a wood duck, a mystery duck, a mallard wing, cow skull, elk skull, goat skull, wolverine skull, and there is probably more but i cant think of it right now. Also displayed are some of Rachel's glass work, my original Winsor McCay, one of my MANY vintage radio alarm clocks, and part of Rachel's very modest toy horse collection.

When Rachel and i first moved in together, we had many conversations about how the hell our styles were going to mix. But somehow modern furniture and dead animals mesh well together. Simplicity balancing complexity...or some shit like that.

I have this desire to close down Ghostco until i get the time to redesign it, because i am so truly displeased with how it works now. Though, this seems like a very bad idea. Hopefully by next week i will get some time to switch things around...including the design of this blog, which is half way done as it is.

Though i did not buy Paper Mario because release dates don't mean shit (or a larger mini sd for my phone), i did get Prince of Persia: Rival Swords for the wii. And while it is apparently just a port of an older game, i don't care because i never played that game. I find this thing absolutely addictive, a well as aggravating as hell. I recommend it to anyone even slightly interested in playing video games. My biggest complain is the transition into the "dark prince" where you only have a certain amount of time to complete a task before dropping dead. I find games where you transform into something "dark" absolutely infuriating....but uh, apparently the spider-man 3 game enables you to have the black costume at will....so maybe i will change my mind then.

Hopefully by the end of the day i will have a very very very late Type cover finished...id probably have a much likelier chance of doing so if i hadn't written such a long blog post.

And by the way, if anyone out there would have any idea of how i fix my RSS for this blog so that it actually works...any tips would be greatly appreciated. Apparently the rss feed sources some random file on my server, and not my blog index.