“Eye Opening” I didn’t give any warning when the Captain got his injury. Since the actual impact is handled out of shot, I hope everyone is cool with no warnings on this one too. Not sure if this helps if it doesn’t: eye stuff makes me squeamish so I understand.
Be careful out there.
With 2020 being such a crazy year, I am surprised how quickly it became October and, with that, Inktober! It has been so crazy, I thought I would share my day one entry instead of the official logo. Wait a moment? Is this a Pokémon crossover? Yes, but with a very important disclaimer… and with a macron instead of an acute accent. While Pōk is shown here attempting to catch a Magikarp without a Poké Ball, the images I do for Inktober are mostly non-canonical. So if you were expecting the Gobos to be blazed by a Charizard, don’t hold your breath!
This will be the third Inktober for Gobo Gazette, my fourth in total. While Inktober has changed with time (you don’t have to do it just in October, check out the alternative guidelines) the basics are the same: a set of inked pieces of art, each based upon a keyword. Tired of getting only one Gobo fix each week? In October you get a bonus seven per week (roughly speaking)!
As mentioned, the image here is just a teaser – to see all of the art for Inktober 2020, you’ll need to go to the Gobo Gazette Instagram page. And if you want to see my Year One Inktober art, check out this album on my personal Facebook account. Following GG’s Instagram is just one way to get updates. The others being Facebook, Twitter and via RSS feed. Check those out if you are into social media… and please share!
Stay safe out there!
Well, hasn’t 2020 been something? We are three-fourths through the year and it doesn’t look like it is going to get any better. Although one thing that is coming out of this is some long overdue awareness and recognition of discrimination, the price is quite steep. And it shouldn’t cost that much or take this long to make sure that everyone is provided an equal footing, no matter their background. To say that normal routines have been disrupted would be an understatement, and the same applies here at Gobo Gazette. I had plans to maintain Instagram posts (other than update alerts), updating the Cast page, implementing a Locations page, and changing the overall look of the website to better match the social media alerts. As you can see, all that went out the window around mid-April.
But good news, everyone! I’ll be updating the long neglected cast page! A new cast entry will be added to the Gobo Gazette Instagram account, today and the next three days! You can see the first entry in this post (talk about overdue)! On Friday, I will be adding these entries to the cast page as well as going through the archives and updating each with new tags. The plan is to get back on schedule. Along with the neglected cast, I am hoping to get those other changes in place by Christmas*! And on top of all of this, there is Inktober! For all of you artists new and old, I believe tomorrow is when they post this year’s prompts. If you have never checked it out before, do so!
So, despite everything going on out there, there is some good news out there. It’s just unfortunate that you have to dig for it under a heaping pile of hot mess.
Stay safe out there!
*emphasis on hope
I want to wish my son, Dante, a happy third birthday! I think it is very interesting that, of all the methods to do so, the first way I am doing so is virtually. When I was growing up, you either got a phone call or a birthday card if someone wasn’t going to make it to your party. Now you get a text, email or post on social media. Maybe it’s just me, but I think the personal touch is lost in this digital age. It feels pretty… automated. Like this post. I am creating it the day before and scheduling it for upload today! But now that I think about it, it is kind of like handing an analog birthday card to the mail clerk. People still do that. Right?
But I digress. I am very happy that my boy has such a wonderful imagination and seems quite oblivious to the world outside our windows. I am not saying we don’t get him outside. We do. It’s just not so easy with a shelter in place order. Perhaps he gets it from his family. Everyone at home is riding this thing out quite well. I can only hope the same goes for you. I think the key is to make sure that you set time aside to imagine. To play. Living in a small apartment, you realize that you don’t need a large space to have fun. Just remember that staying at home might be tough but it is helping everyone out right now. So, if you are family or friend – or a regular viewer of Gobo Gazette – and you want to wish someone a happy third birthday (or whatever number that might be), do so virtually. Stay safe out there!
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I used to hear this a lot growing up, or the alternative “You can never tell a book by its cover”. I don’t hear it as often now, and that is unfortunate. It is some good advise. There is quite a bit of misconceptions out there. There are also a number of individuals who would try to pull a trick or scam on somebody else. Or they might not be as knowledgeable as people think they are. This is not quite the “Happy April Fools’ Day” opening I was going with but, here we are.
We should always do a little fact checking before we jump to any conclusion. And we should get that information from more than one source. We should be aware as we go about our business, less you get pranked or swindled. Would you be happy if you ordered an impressively thick print copy of Gobo Gazette, only to learn that Tik and Tok had just pasted on a cover? (The image today is larger so the cover text is a bit more readable).
Or worse, we could give into fear, snap-judgement, or stereotypes. A lot of the world’s issues wouldn’t exist if we just took a moment to un-cloud our eyes, unstop our ears and perceive things truthfully. So before you judge another, try something that seems too good to be true, or but a disguised copy of War & Peace from a pair of shady goblins, take a moment to be aware. At the very least, April Fools’ Day will be less eventful. And that is a good thing.
With a title like “Catch the Rainbow”, you would think this was an advertisement for Skittles. But that fruit-flavored candy doesn’t have the monopoly on rainbows. Still, not many people would immediately think of St. Patrick’s Day if they saw a rainbow without a pot of gold. Well, the heraldic color of Pat‘s clothing is Or which mean gold. And a saucepan is kind of a pot, right? So, there you go! This is totally an appropriate image for St. Paddy’s Day! (Some might say that a rainbow without a pot of gold on this day could also refer to a technicolor yell or yawn, but lets not get gross).
I want to wish everyone a happy and safe St. Patrick’s Day… with an emphasis on “safe”. I know that I usually bring up how I feel that this is one of the annual “amateur nights” when it comes to all the drinking that happens. I still want everyone to drink responsibly and to have a designated driver. But also keep in mind that their is a highly contagious virus out there. Not only does drinking reduce our inhibitions but it also makes us sloppy. If you plan on going out on the town or even to a smaller social gathering, consider taking precautions to keep yourself and others free of illness. And now you know. Have a great St. Patrick’s Day!
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