I’ve been working on a lot of divergent projects but this one takes the cake (ewww). I have partnered with a person who is introducing advertising in of all places … urinals. I know this seems a bit out there, but the demographics and retention numbers play out and it is, after all, a captive audience. That being said, I feel that it needs to be accomplished with a nudge and a wink. It’s hard to take yourself too seriously when you are pitching a stranger who has his life in his hands. Since I am working with this guy, doing the ad design and layouts for the boards, I have placed a few ads as starter seed to help his selling efforts. Yes this relies on toilet humor, and yes it is not an evening at the opera. Still and all, I am not sure if I have crossed the line of taste.

As bathroom ads go, it is not a product placement on a urinal cake, (ewww x 2) nor is it a branded game on the same, both of which exist in the narrow but lucrative market of toilet ad specialties. So I should be grateful.

I am trying to have some fun here. Who knows in the end I might actually drum up some business.

So … My Mondays and Wednesdays are nutty crazy as this last emergency fill-in sub situation for North Idaho College has a stranglehold on my life. You wouldn’t think it would be so hard, But 2.5 hours teaching in the morning (7:30 – 10:00) then coming home for studio work, then teaching again in the afternoon (3:00–4:50) then coming home to wrap up studio work and set up the next days work is killing me. The loss of creative momentum is staggering and to be honest the politics of academia would make disgruntled postel workers shudder in fear. If it weren’t for the students, and what they give back in energy and shear joy for the work It would not be worth it al all. (It’s certainly not the money … I mean … really? This is what professional teachers get paid?) If I have not said it before … I am grateful for my studio work.

Speaking of which, I have been very busy working on a host of divergent projects including an ecom website for one of my regular clients, a large 6′ x 4′ standee (Standing advertising display), a logo and brochure, a couple of newspaper ads and some misc promotional items for a local broadband internet company.

All of this put together means I am a very busy man. Not as busy as I would like, and not productive busy, (I spend a lot of time comuting from my home studio to campus and back again, and grading, and reviewing lesson plans, and trying to get into a creative groove and then leave and then getting back into it again.

This means that my webcomic is falling behind, and my game play is down considerably, and of course updating this site has taken a back seat to real life and trying ot get a grip on the whole, only 24 hours in a day thing. Fortunately we are past midterms and I have high hopes of organizing all of this into a profitable and well managed machine … uhm … real soon.