Must read!!

So as most of you know, I am not the biggest fan of the Evil Empire of Amazon. (And this is, of course, an understatement. I am, in fact, not a fan at all, let alone just not the biggest one.) Recently, they have been trying to strong arm Hachette (a publishing office) into accepting their terms of sale. Amazon is refusing to sell these books in rather childish ways, such as having the book up but removing the BUY button, or even better, having an automatic redirect to a DIFFERENT book (Both actions bring back childish remembrance of saying "look but don't touch" and "Are you SURE you want a cookie when you could have this CARROT!"). The unfortunate point being, that if Amazon wins, they will be the ONLY ones who get any sort of money. Where as the book binders, publishing house, printers, and AUTHORS have to fight over what's left. Think of it like someone taking your cookies, saying they will return with adequate compensation for the cookies (this person is also carrying around a thesaurus), and the eating them all. Followed by the only compensation you receive was that they assure you, the cookies were REALLY good.

Now this article (which I am in the process of figuring out how to link it :/ ) is a great answer to the AMAZON question: "Where do we get books if not from online O_O?"

Well, read this article, and you'll have an answer.

Also, sorry for the rant... Really don't like amazon. BOOK STORES FOR LIFE!

Also Happy Fathers Day :)


LINK (haha! figured it out):
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/how-to-shop-in-a-bookstore?%3Fsrc=rss

June 10,2014

A new job!

No, I'm not quitting the books store :). But I DO have a new job IN the bookstore... well I say job... more like they allow me to continue doing something that I randomly started doing anyways.
It is now my great privilege to draw on a chalk board and dry erase board in the kids section of our bookstore!!! Frankly I can't think of anything else I would better suited for. Sadly there isn't a lot of call for a illustration background when working at a bookstore... Which you would think isn't the case.

Bookstore = creative
Creative = Art like stuff
Art like stuff = Illustration....

I'm pretty sure my math is right.

But that's not the point. Now I have the opportunity to flourish and to show off my skills with chalk and dry erase board markers :).

So each one is taken from a children's book (Or at least that is the aim. As you can see, there is a JRR Tolkien quote here too.)

This one sadly only lasted about 3 days. It looked as though the colors excited a small child. And the only way to relieve said excitement was to make sure all the colors were destroyed. That's ok though. These weren't meant to be permanent.    

 I think this one by Roald Dahl might be my favorite so far.

 People in the store were pretty impressed that I could draw typewriter font.

I'll keep posting them as I make more. And hopefully newer and greater ideas will keep this practice going for a good long while.