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Blue-feathered Amazon Halter Shirt

Blue-feathered Amazon Halter Shirt by spuriousink

Yes, it's tacky. No, no one will buy it. But drawing it was a bit of a giggle-fest, for me. And, in the end, that's all that really matters.

Note I used the word "halter", instead of "bra". I'm not a total heathen...

OK, I lied...

Boobs. Leather-garbed boobs. That is all.

Bleeding Vampire Starfish

Bleeding Vampire Starfish Poster by spuriousink

I'm too busy to write a brand new bunch of text for this, so -- in the grand spirit of internet "theft" -- I'm stealing the description from my own product line:

Yet another face of EVIL! This is no ordinary starfish! Oh, no! Be mesmerized by its blood red (and sorta pink) gaze! Recoil in horror from its blood-stained fangs! Realize that it's a freaking starfish, that it's tiny and has no thumbs, just as it crawls away from you, leaving a trail of blood across the... ummm... periwinkle sand? WTF? Cue evil laughter!!! Muahahhahhhaaaaaa!

You can see the entire product line here.

What Kind of Fish Am I?

I don't remember when I did the original drawing for this. I do know that I never got a chance to scan the drawing. So, last night, when I was going through some of my old, unused work, I decided to re-draw it on the Wacom.

I finished the actual art work this morning, then spent a few hours asking people if they could Identify the species that I'd drawn. No one could. The truth of the matter is that I don't know if I used any sort of special -- Ha! -- reference, or if I just drew from imagination.

Regardless of the original source(s) -- Wontar thinks I'm a "fish combiner" -- my imagination failed me when it came time to name the creation. Ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise: You're now looking at "Spiky-finned Yellow Fish", and you can buy it here - while sighing in relief that I won't be naming any humans.

Zazzlers on TypePad

Growing up "different" (read that however you want; for myself, several readings apply) in a small town, one will inevitable find oneself on a quest for community. Get to middle age, take to the internet, and somehow that global pond still leaves one looking for similar fish, even if the hunt may have different motivations. In this case, I simply want to see how other Zazzlers are using TypePad.

TypePad has recently re-launched what serves as a directory of sorts of TypePad blogs, which is a good thing, but it only includes a small sample of what's actually blogged via TypePad; and, frankly, directories aren't generally specific enough to help me find exactly what I'm looking for.

So I'm making my own mini-directory. Consider it a perpetually-incomplete list of Zazzlers who are blogging on TypePad, updated at my convenience, and built through the power of Google Blog Search.

If I've missed your blog, don't be offended. There could be several reasons for the omission; from white screens of death, to my browser grinding enough that I just closed the tab, to the fact that I simply haven't found it, yet. Feel free, though, to help me find you by leaving a link in the comments.

Blogs Added 20 November 2009

• bethsblog
• Dreams & Ghosts
• Floating Lemons: Bit by Bit Blog
• HodgePodge by Amanda
• Naked Pixels
• PaperSparrow
• Pee Yoo!
• Provence Gifts Blog
• Squidazzle
• tortagialla the blog
• vol.25

Blogs Added 21 November 2009

• Only a Game
• Saying Yes

New Zazzle Product Line: Ladybug on the Rocks

Ladybug on the Rocks

This is a manipulation of a photo I took of a ladybug on a fountain at the park in the center of town. I'm in a "metallize" phase, at the moment. You can see the entire, admittedly small, product line here.

TypePad Photo Albums and Zazzle Products

One of my favorite things about TypePad is the way that TypePad photo albums look and work. One of my favorite things about the internet is the way that Zazzle lets me make money without having to battle my much-improved -- but ever-present -- social anxiety disorder. Combine those two favorite things, and you get a little something like this:

That's the index page for my Design Catalogue photo album. The grid contains the automagically-generated thumbnails for the images that I've uploaded to the album. When you click on one of those thumbnails (Gemini Taiji, in this case), you're taken to a page like this:

The large image is the uploaded image. It's taken directly from Zazzle's super-handy linking screen, downloaded to my computer, then uploaded to the TypePad photo album. In addition to giving one plenty of room for text, TypePad photo albums also allow the use of HTML in the photo's caption area. The smaller product links are from Zazzle's "Copy and Paste HTML" option, and I've put them in a table, just to keep them neat.

At this point, a certain cranky fellow Zazzler would probably say something about automation and SEO, were he reading this. And my response would be "But it's pretty, damnit!"

You can check out the Design Catalogue for yourself by clicking here.

Astrological Christmas Designs: Aries and Taurus

Continuing the grand tradition of designing things for sub-niches so small they have an interest group of me, I now present the first two entries in a series of sign-specific, astrologically-based Christmas designs:

White Aries Christmas Poster

White Taurus Christmas Poster

I've linked to the posters, here, because even though these designs don't make sense as posters -- here comes the pro-tip! -- poster images from Zazzle give a clearer representation of actual designs than most other product images do. If you would like to see the entire series of products (some of which also come in a red variation) for these designs, 1) you're quite nichey, yourself, and 2) click here for Aries or here for Taurus.

This series also marks the continuation of another fine tradition: Starting things I can't finish. Sure, I can change "Cancer" to "Moonchild", but coming up with a bad pun for Sagittarius? That's not looking too likely...