drafts for 24 Avatars, for use on Moli.com
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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we were standing next to the flag on the right when the house exploded. Looks about 15 feet away
totally colapsed.
Post
http://wbal.com/news/story.asp?articleid=65315
We were about 10 feet from the explosion when it happened, but thankfully Griff and I are both fine. Had we not taken a little longer at the post office, we would have been standing directly in front of the blast on our way up Hickory Street in Hampden. Judging from the amount of shrapnel embedded in cars and the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, that would have been lethal.
Our thoughts go out to those inside the house, and the many children next door who were not so lucky.
Gavin & Griff
Hampden
We were about 10 feet from the explosion when it happened, but thankfully Griff and I are both fine. Had we not taken a little longer at the post office, we would have been standing directly in front of the blast on our way up Hickory Street in Hampden. Judging from the amount of shrapnel embedded in cars and the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, that would have been lethal.
Our thoughts go out to those inside the house, and the many children next door who were not so lucky.
Gavin & Griff
Hampden
Explosion
It felt like an IED video... just a sudden, unexpected pop that sounded like a balloon. A very loud balloon sure. A black cat went running across the street, along with timber and glass. then a fraction of a second later the front porch buckled and fell forward into the yard.
I pulled out my phone and called the police. Busy signal. Called again, phone didn't connect through, shouted at others to call.
Holding a package, Griff is freaking out.
A number of men are running into the house next store. Screaming is coming. A few children are pulled out. An older woman. Then eventually a man from the house which is missing its front. He looks almost comical, covered in soot.
It's chaos, no one knows if there are more people inside, Griff is trying to get one of the boys to sit down. The back of his head has been blown open, exposing a 6 x 1 inch slice of brain. He trots off, unwilling to sit down.
The older woman, a grandmother of three, is frantic, unable to be clear. The men go back into her house, the fire trucks are showing up, then the police, then more fire trucks. it seems like an eternity before he medics show up. we're walking away from the seen when they do. Griff doesn't want to see what the firemen have found.
I returned later to check on friends across the alley. They are fine thankfully -- not there during the blast. the firemen have said the owner (the sooty man) had a propane tank on a space heater. Perhaps an O2 tank. The grandmother says he didn't have a working furnace, during a short sob filled interview on TV. He was trying to stay warm.
Very surreal evening.
I pulled out my phone and called the police. Busy signal. Called again, phone didn't connect through, shouted at others to call.
Holding a package, Griff is freaking out.
A number of men are running into the house next store. Screaming is coming. A few children are pulled out. An older woman. Then eventually a man from the house which is missing its front. He looks almost comical, covered in soot.
It's chaos, no one knows if there are more people inside, Griff is trying to get one of the boys to sit down. The back of his head has been blown open, exposing a 6 x 1 inch slice of brain. He trots off, unwilling to sit down.
The older woman, a grandmother of three, is frantic, unable to be clear. The men go back into her house, the fire trucks are showing up, then the police, then more fire trucks. it seems like an eternity before he medics show up. we're walking away from the seen when they do. Griff doesn't want to see what the firemen have found.
I returned later to check on friends across the alley. They are fine thankfully -- not there during the blast. the firemen have said the owner (the sooty man) had a propane tank on a space heater. Perhaps an O2 tank. The grandmother says he didn't have a working furnace, during a short sob filled interview on TV. He was trying to stay warm.
Very surreal evening.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Thanks giving card
Still going backwards. Here is the thanksgiving greeting card, following on the heels of XMass. This was pretty enjoyable to work on. It started as a number of line drawings taken from multiple pages in my sketchbook. Then I cut through the pieces I didn't like to get a composition that was 'okay'. Each piece gets colored separately, which ended up looking blegh on a whole (but lets each piece work as an individual icon, for shirts and such). So I dropped a low intensity coloration layer on it and it came together for the most part.Halloween is next :P
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