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Seeking
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
-- Jean Baudrillard
Sunday, February 1, 1998
If you haven't already read yesterday's entry, you really should! All sorts of juicy personal details are revealed! (I say this because I know from reading my logs that the most recent entry always gets more hits, and if I post two at once, the earlier one never catches up. But I didn't want to combine all this into one entry, and I wanted to use the new February design.)
This morning I got up and went to work on journal graphics for this month. I had created the spheres with Image Composer 1.0 last summer. They had a cool tool, the stardisk image warp, that made it easy to creat a shaded sphere from any square image. At that time, I grabbed sections of an image of a pink silk scarf so I could have buttons that were all related, but different. Unfortunately, they took this tool out of the current version of IC, but they made so many improvements that the net result is still positive. Fonts used were Mistral and Impact. So this morning I completed those graphics, and did the banners, the background, and the webring logos. Pink is good for February, but this isn't too frilly, I think.
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We had a fun Cacophony event this afternoon: Sardines at the Market. This game is like a reverse hide-and-seek, with one person sent off to hide, then everyone else looks for zir. When a seeker finds the hider, zie climbs into the same hiding place! Thus, the name of the game, as the nook or cranny (what's the difference between a nook and cranny, anyway?) fills up and the hiders get more and more crowded, till they resemble sardines in a can. The Pike Place Market is a really good venue for this game, since there are lots of hallways, doors, and people. Carl, known for pushing the boundaries, defeated us all in the first round by disguising himself with a wig, hat and glasses, and a different shirt. This isn't really within the rules, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he didn't understand that. The second round, four or five of us found Nick and joined him in the alcove he was hiding in. (Pictures will appear in the event report, when posted.)
The third round, I was the loser who didn't find the rest of the group. Oh, well. Then we had a snack at the Philadelphia cafe, and talked about where Tom Lawrence should move to when he moves to Seattle from the Eastside this summer.
Carl gave me a ride home in a nifty Mercedes, and we chatted about meeting folks online. He's been doing the same thing as me! But he had someone else write an ad for him, which seems like a strange idea.
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