Please Stay Seated During Your Flight

Well, the concert was a-mazing. Gosh, I'm still pretty taken aback by the whole thing (fabulous audience, wonderfully intimate setting, the band sounded great and it was obvious they were enjoying themselves immensely). And I was less than 6 feet away from the stage {insert girlish squeaky-noise here}. It's so cool when a band you've followed and admired for many, many years is every bit as good live as you imagined they'd be. And my fellow Death Cab fans, you may rest assured. The new album coming out next month sounds *awesome*. Utterly awesome.

And after much tinkering, the Bearded Lady is now available in print form over yonder.

My scanner just about keeled over and died from having to scan the gold leafing on this painting. It did not like the gold leafing at all. But with a kick and a punch and a "you WILL like this...or else!" I was able to get everything lookin' good, the result being a lovely and very richly-toned print. I do love gold leaf but my goodness it can be a bit of a pain in the rear for reproductions.

On a completely unrelated side note, I was cleaning out old computer files earlier and came across this scan I made years ago from a flight safety card I *ahem* "borrowed" from a plane that I thought you'd all enjoy."DO NOT jump out of plane into flames of doom.

DO NOT jump out of plane onto sharp pointy rocks.

DO jump out of plane when the coast is clear."

It's a weird quirk, but I love flight safety cards. Is it strange that flipping through them is my favorite part about flying? I just love how every flight has their own uniquely illustrated safety card version. And sometimes, you get really hilarious illustrations (like the one above). I'm fairly easily amused, as you can plainly see.

Happy Wednesday, kids!