gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

current stuff

1. It looks like I'll be based full-time in London for at least for the next two years. Not quite sure what I think about that. But I'm here for the business, not the lifestyle.

2. I feel the conversation I want to have the world is changing. Small is beautiful etc.

3. At last count there are over 1400 unique cartoons uploaded onto gapingvoid.

4. Current books: Re-reading "War And Peace" by Tolstoy, which I first read 12 years ago. Magnificent. "Spitfire. The Biography" by Jonathan Glancey, who's an old friend of mine. Jonathan's father flew Spitfires in World War Two. The guy at the bookshop up the road says the book is currently selling like hotcakes.

5. 2007 is going to be an insanely busy year for Stormhoek. I get tired just thinking about it.

6. New Year's Resolutions: Quit smoking [Ha!]. Join a decent gym [I used to train at free weights and Kung Fu quite avidly back in my New York days, and wouldn't mind getting the ol' mojo back].

7. I've been drawing a lot on paper recently. Will start uploading some new stuff next week, once I get access to my scanner. Recently I've gone off drawing on the Tablet PC. Though the latter is a wonderfully versatile tool, it lacks a certain magic.

8. In the last year the main focus of my career has switched from building gapingvoid up, to what I call "shipping cases". Unlike web stats, how many cases of Stormhoek shipped in any given time period are EXTREMELY easy to measure.

9. Unlike a lot of people with relatively well-known blogs, I am not a consultant. I have no day rate. When people ask me to get involved with their projects, the quid pro quo is helping Stormhoek "ship cases", otherwise it's hard to get me too interested. The only exceptions to this are English Cut and Thingamy, which I treat mostly as side projects. Stormhoek I treat as my main day job.

Posted by hugh macleod at December 23, 2006 11:48 AM | TrackBack