Alida's Art Journal

cutest carrot, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

I am not dead, or slacking. Just under an NDA contract and swamped for work for the next month.

In the meantime, have a cute carrot!

The Big Broadcast of October 30th, 1938, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

This here is a poster I worked on for very soon to be playing live radio program at the Somerville Theater. A lot of fun to work on this poster, trying to get a bit of a vintage feel (but without adding aged grunge). This is the full poster version but there's also a postcard version, buttons, etc. If you're in the Boston area at the end of October, you might want to check it out!

Here's the official website. And below you can see the theater (with poster in the coming attractions window!). Neil Marsh took the photo and kindly allowed me to post it with the poster.

Edgewood24, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

I'm free! I'm free!

I hope a few were entertained by this written on the fly urban fantasy fairy story. I leave you to imagine what she could see through the holey stone.

Now I am going to get off this chair.

Edgewood23, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

ONE MORE PAGE TO GO.

Ow.

Edgewood22, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

You know how Lois Lane was the news as often as she reported it. Lady reporter will be in trouble before the 6 o'clock broadcast.

Also, hobo santa knows where it's at.

Edgewood21, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

Poor cameraman.... he doesn't do so well with teleportation.

Edgewood18, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

talk talk talk

Edgewood17, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

Well with 30 minutes left to my 24 hours, I'm not going to "win" this time. However, I want to finish this story, so I will be doing the stubborn version of the 24 Hour comic: I'm going to keep going until I have 24 pages. I hope I'm not torturing anyone with this. ;)

Edgewood15, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

Wiki page for that little ditty...

Edgewood14, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

And I'm back at it, in the wee hours. It's all foggy and atmospheric outside.

Edgewood13, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

Lucky thirteen. Actually, it'd be luckier if I was at page 20. Ah well! I'm going to crash for a bit, then get back to this in the wee hours. I have till 9:30 am after all, to attempt to get it all in 24 hours.

Edgewood11, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

Eyeballs falling out of my head... shouldn't have done this digitally. ;)