So Ive been here over a year now.
And the whole time, I have had that stupid standard white place-holder banner. *points up*
BUT NO MOAR!
Kevin Hopkins, an artist with Super-Geek-Street-Cred made me a sweeeeeeeeet banner!
Kevin has graciously allowed me to play around with the color on PhotoShop so I can has lots of colors and a rotating banner-- but I take responsibilities for those inevitable fails :P The blue one here is Kevins :)
Super-Geek-Street-Cred:
Kevin has earned a BA in Fine Arts with postgraduate additions and has studied under several internationally acclaimed artists. He is an accredited art teacher and has taught high school art and vocational painting classes. He also teaches private classes in painting, drawing, and Photoshop. Kevin pursued a career in fashion design where he created over 1,000 product lines and a medallion that headed into space on the ill-fated 'Challenger' space shuttle expedition. Later Kevin became associated with Realm Press, a comics publisher, and worked there as artist and art director for their 'Battle Star Galactica' and 'The Drakkon Wars' licensed series. In '90 Kevin became a winner in the L.Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and attended the Los Vegas awards presentations. In the late '90's Kevin relocated to Hollywood, California and began work on a pre-syndication comic strip and discovered the emerging field of digital imaging. While there he was a guest of several local conventions including LosCon, and the San Diego Comics Con. After two more years of drawing comics Kevin was hired by Warner Brothers Studios and was involved with some aspect of almost every motion picture produced by them between 2001 and 2006, including 'The Matrix,' Loony Toons, Back in Action,' Last Samurai,' The first four Harry Potter films, and 'Batman Begins.' Over this period Kevin has produced several magazine and paperback book covers and taken awards at convention art shows to numerous to mention. For spare time hobbies he enjoys writing, sculpting, and being a fossil enthusiast.
Now I just need to figure out how to upload/set-up this new banner in the new MT... lol!!
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Woah that looks awesome!
Our handbook instructions are for the old version of MT, and now weve got this new version, and stuff doesnt match up, and there are over 9000 'DO NOT TOUCH THIS TEMPLATE!!' landmines to avoid... AK!
Have to wait for tech guy to get back to me to upload without killing SciBlogs :/
LOLWUT 9000!!!!!!!!
oooh, shiny
woo woo !
Thanks for the nice write up. Looking forward to seeing it in place.
wait
What?
And very cool banner!
I dig it the most!
Cool!
"wait
What?"
I have a number of friends who've won the "LRH Writers of the Future" contest who have nothing to do with scientology.
Once you get past the fact that the awards are run by whackos, the bottom line is that they are just awards that give a fair bit of exposure to the winner.
"wait
What?"
The illustrator's contest is a companion to the writer's contest. They throw good parties and host interesting and talented people so I attend when I can. No one has ever mentioned 'Scientology' to me at any of their functions or in any of their literature over the many years Iâve been associated with them. I've met and corresponded with several of the top names in science fiction through them and have found the LRHWOTF staff to be very generous and helpful. Occasionally they get me a job. In general Iâm very skeptical and I have nothing to complain about with the âLRH Illustrators of the Future Contestâ and several things to appreciate them for. For what its worth, when Iâm in L.A. I also hang around at the Center for Inquiry West. Ty's pretty much got it.
He even preserved your absence of an apostrophe, while preserving the other apostrophes. Message aside, it is a nice looking logo--though I think the ERV is Photoshop cliche.
Dear Abbie I think the banner is very well constructed and thought out however I do have one point of critique. It seems a bit sugary, sweet, and having read your blog for more than a year I would say your writing is anything but that. Anyways I enjoy your blog and I hope you enjoy your banner
My first thought was "there's an apostrophe missing!". Then I remembered who's blog it was, lol!
Only one design thing that caught my eye: the ERV being all 3d and shiny clashes with the more subtle nature of the rest of it. Although that could be the intention. WTH do I know, it's better than anything I could do!
Los Angeles and Las Vegas are great big cities. Los Vegas otoh is a one greggs suburb of dumptruck ohio.
Nice logo.
So. When are you going to start using this super-duper banner? I think you should get it up there on the top of your BLAG..