Summer Popcorn Fun

I finally had two, no wait, three good moviegoing experiences. I went and saw Superman on it's opening weekend and the crowd was perfectly well behaved! I was shocked. Then I remembered that I was watching it downtown on a Thursday. So that I'm sure had a lot to do with it. Then I went and saw it again at the IMAX for the 3Dness. eh. 3D didn't add anything, and was actually more of a distraction, what with putting them on and taking them off. But the audience was great, and there were two kids who passed in front of us that actually said "Excuse me" every single time. I was in shock. Well behaved kids at the cinema?? And finally, we went and saw Pirates 2 DMC. Spur of the moment, on a weekday afternoon. Wow! I loved it. Decent audience, decent projection, and fun movie. And I couldn't believe it when I read the next day about how Davy Jones was entirely CG. I was sure it was just a CG enhancement of Bill Nighy in pirate gear and make-up. But they actually made him 100% CG based only on mocap. WOW!
So anyway, I'm glad to know there are still some movies being made that aren't crap.

Oh, and I haven't really posted any artwork here in a long while, so I figured I'd try and get back into doing that. Starting with my photoshop design for my wife's birthday present. It's a corntoss board that I'm making. I'm actually making two, but I don't want to put both designs up yet, since she looks at this blog and I'd like her to at least have one design as a surprise.
So this is the one she's seen. Our Corntoss team name is the Devil's Advocates, so I wanted to do something with that. I did a logo a while back, but I wanted to do something new. Not that I don't like the old one I did, but I wanted something I thought looked pretty cool. So this is what I came up with.

Now I am in the process of transferring the design to the board, using acrylics. I know it won't look exactly the same, since this is all digital here, but I'm hoping it'll be close. We'll see. I'll post pics of the finished boards when I'm done with them.