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Here’s a great big diaper box full of DVDs headed to Oklahoma City with me this weekend – hopefully no one will think that the contents are full of crap! \ud83d\ude1b I’m a few more copies of the Brown Box twin-pack away from being finished with both duplication and packaging. I’m amazed I haven’t killed an inkjet cartridge yet, with the dark “woodgrain” cover on the Brown Box.<\/p>\n
Those not making it to OEGE this weekend who have pre-ordered will probably get their copies early next week – I may mail some out as early as Thursday. Now, ready to see something else cool? Well, I think it’s cool. Not sure anyone else will.<\/p>\n
I don’t do nearly enough of this kind of photography, and I’m thinking that needs to change, or my grandfather will be revving up to a 3500RPM spin in his grave. There are times when I look at a picture I’m about to take, or have just taken, and I can almost hear him telling me what to do different. And the thing of it is, he’s usually right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a great big diaper box full of DVDs headed to Oklahoma City with me this weekend – hopefully no one will think that the contents are full of crap! \ud83d\ude1b I’m a few more copies of the Brown Box twin-pack away from being finished with both duplication and packaging. I’m amazed I haven’t killed an inkjet cartridge yet, with the dark “woodgrain” cover on the Brown Box. Those not making it to OEGE this weekend who have pre-ordered will probably get their copies early next week – I may mail some out as early as Thursday. Now, ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines","category-toybox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-09\/tardis.jpg\")
This is a very strong candidate for the cover of the upcoming Doctor Who nonfiction book I’m working on. You may think I’m being stupidly bold for using a screengrab for an “unauthorized” book, but here’s the trick: it’s not a screengrab<\/em>. It’s a combination of about three photos, all of which I took on a table in the living room at midnight a few nights ago \ud83d\ude06 and they all looked very much like they do here – i.e. colorful moody lighting, etc.; the only computer-generated element is a wireframe police box which, on this squashed-down copy, you can barely see as a green blob on the scanner screen. Everything else was shot practical photography, and the colors were amped up somewhat in post production with a little bit of a “glow” added to everything to hide the joins and unify the image a bit; the whole thing is then covered with a combination of filters and other effects (detailed several months ago<\/a>) to give it a drawn\/painted\/almost-graphic-novel look (which probably doesn’t come across with this very small version). I’ll post more at a later date on how it’s all put together, but it comes very close to the concept I have in my brain for the cover art. I have a couple of other ideas I want to try within this same basic framework, but…man, this is awfully<\/em> close to what’s in my head, actually much closer than I expected to be able to get. In case this small version doesn’t get it across: it’s supposed to be a hybrid between old TARDIS and new, with a large panel of the new TARDIS console apparently revealing the original console controls, and the “walls” are meant to straddle old and new as well. Not unlike the book itself.<\/p>\n