SANE Meeting Mishegas

SANEsters,

Well, we've got problems with meeting on either Tuesday February 24 or March 3, not to mention the amount of snow in all the places where people might, I dunno, park. So how's about March 10? If we can get this to work, I think we've got a meeting.

If March 10 doesn't work, then, gawrsh, I just don't know. So please to be letting me know, and I hope it's "Yah, sure, I kin dig it!" Which is, methinks, Minnesota hip-hop for "Yes, I can do this."

We'll be chatting about the Finn/Duckie book as well as doing the Alamagordo... Abramowicz... Agramograph project where we take two or three pictures and turn them into one whoosis that has two or three pictures. Kind of a lab in Newton's Law of the Conservation of Pictures. More details if and when we actually gret a date we can all embrace.

Oh, and by the way, I am going to be putting this on Craigslist, but thought I'd give all my good friends a chance to get in on this deal before the rest of the world comes running to my door: I have a bunch of snow, right outside my sidewalk, on my lawn, on my bushes, on my garage roof, over my kitchen addition, and in my gutters, and even creeping in my leaky storm windows, and I'm offering it FOR FREE to anyone who wants to come along and cart some away. No quantity too small! Come and get it before the city starts chomping it up and carting it away in big trucksters for its own nefarious purposes! You don't even have to let me know in advance; just wander by with your front-loaders or pickups or dumpsters or carpetbags and whatever (snow) you can grab is yours, yours, yours! And for a limited time, there is a smaller quantity of ice, and you can have that for the same kind of deal.

Just sayin',

Richard
Curator, The Incredible Snow Farm

SANE Meeting Notes & Homework!

SANEsters,

I have been lax in getting new meeting messages out, so here it is in time to actually be useful:

[drumb role] The next SANE meeting is Tuesday, 10 February 2015. [creche of symbols]

Okay, a quick summary of the last meeting: Pam A. had a buncha stuff ready to make cards/cut-outs/etc., but instead we sat around and gossiped, then reviewed the material Mary brought that had to do with Betsey's third book for FInn: Finn Corners the Silver Futures Market. (I kid). We chatted briefly about possible scenarios in which we, as SANE, might illustrate the text Betsey wrote, and print a version for posterior (or for Finn). As almost always, thanks to Pam for hosting, and coming up with a task to keep us busy while we're thrashing.

Mary brought the two other books Betsey has written and illustrated for Finn:

1) Duckie's Dark Day (3.5" x 5", spreads folded and stitched): Duckie stars, and is used as a towel, then cleaned, then rescued by Finn.

2) Time for Bed (6" x 6" spiral-bound): Finn decides to sleep in his doorway, [B & Mack?] give examples of how using his imagination can help the bed again become a welcome option.

Book 3's real title is "Duckie Takes a Ride,"

[zip file/files & explanations removed]

Okay, you ask... Now what? We're probably  creating separate pages, and will bind them as single pages (rather than trying to illustrate an already bound volume).

We discussed many options, and these are the ones I remember:

1. Pre-designed: as a group, we sit down, lay out what text appears on what page, plan out each illustration & farm out illustration duties
2. Exquisite Corpse: plan a bit up front, keep sending pages around for people to keep working on, until eventually, it's done
3. Non-narrative: We all produce illustrations on our own, either illustrating events from the book, or just  images related to the characters, and later decide which to add & where, when assembling a book.
4. Head/Torso/Feet flip book: We create a selection of heads, torsos and legs/feet that the reader can flip through, and mix & match. Another set of pages contain the narrative (in order), and the reader can illustrate his/her own story.
5. Taxi flip book. The entire book is in the shape of a taxicab, with a variety of illustration/page/pull-out options available. Examples: flip through drivers at the front windshield; passengers if the door pulled out; open the trunk; open the hood; etc.

Other options?

So one thing we can do at thie 10 Feb meeting is come up with a real plan of a tack [sic] based upon the above.

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On another note (<-- nbsp="" span="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">this is a pun!!), Duncan's album finally dropped, and it's available many places: iTunes Store ($9.99),

 amazon.com ($8.99), CDBaby ($9.99, includes two videos) and duncanjohnsonmusic.com (maybe you can't download here, but you can hear here). Flip thinks that Duncan will get the most $ from downloads at CDBaby. Somewhere I saw something about two videos if you download the album, but I can't find it any more and wonder whether the drugs finally kicked in. But anyway, here are some links. Go Duncan!!

YouTube videos:

The Song About the Movie That I Am Desperately Trying to Cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qEG9DUQYg

Believing in Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1IDUR4RRQ

Catch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZdJFIBheo

LobsterClamsterMania Recap, September plans

SANEsters,

The predicted evil weather failed to materialize on LCMania day, so attendees were treated to a lovely event. Not terribly hot, not overly sunny, a slight breeze, pleasant company, delightful food, wicked good clamsters & lobsters, and the very comfortable seaside setting we have come to know and love. A good all was had by time. Thank you to Bestey & Michael for making your snazzy house available to us for the 15th straight year! Yay!

We're launching the umpteenth season of SANE in September: we're issuing a Request For Proposals for what to do in September, and when to do it. Please submit all suggestions in singlicate emails (that's triplicate minus two) to this email address (reply all, if you dare). Suggested meeting dates, if we're sticking with Tuesdays, would be the 16th, 23rd and 30th (the 2nd is post-Laborious Day, and the 9th is in the midst of school start-up, or so I hear). So tell me/us when you can/can't make it, suggest possible new/repeat projects, and suggest possible topics of conversation, because we are always such awkward conversationalists...

Hey, I know -- let's get the gang together and put on a show!

Okay, maybe not. What do you wanna do?? When do you wanna do it?? Let me/us know!

-R

Re: LobsterClamsterClearster Mania 2014 - Whether Update

Thanks for the weather update!  We will see you there, and so glad you will NOT be sacrificing one of those cupcakes!

On Saturday, August 2, 2014 9:02 AM, Richard Blewett <RLBlewett@comcast.net> wrote:

SANEsters,
The weather gurus at Channel 5 claim that after 0.4 inches of rain in Glockster, the skies will clear by 1:00 and the rest of the day will be post-storm glorious. Okay, so maybe they didn't use the word glorious, but the rain was expected to wend its wet way eastward, to give the little fishies some unsalty water for a change.
Therefore, the LobsterClamsterFester 2014 will proceed apace, and ascheduled, and all of us will be happy we came. The travel northwards might be a little discouraging, but there is a cloudy (tho rainless) kind of light at the end of the travel tunnel. And there will be lobsters and clamsters and all the assorted accountrements. Plus SANEsters.
Looking forward to seeing y'alls.
R