Wednesday, March 08, 2006

One Year With RLC

Because I knew I was going to be moving, I never bothered buying a calendar last year.
For the brief period in which I was still in my old place for the new year I was using some crappy calendar I'd gotten in the mail from a realtor or something. It had pictures of flowers, or buildings, or kids, or cats, or something. The point is that whatever it did have pictures of, it did not have have pictures of hot chicks painted by artists like Jennifer Janesko or Boris Vallejo, which is my usual calendar fare.
(Last year was an exception; I had an Alex Ross calendar which featured his paintings of various DC Comics super-heroes)
As a result, the calendar didn't manage to make the move with me, so I've been without a wall calendar ever since.
I decided that I would finally get around to rectifying that issue today and had visited Janesko's site to buy one, but then it occurred to me that I could just make my own.
Zazzle, unfortunately, doesn't allow you to make calendars, but it occurred to me that I could make a 12-month calendar as a poster.
So once I decided on that course of action, the obvious question became, "Who do I want to spend a year with?"
The obvious answer was itself a queston: Who else?
Thus was born the RLC (Rachael Leigh Calendar).


One year of Rachael Leigh Cook greeting me with a sexy little smirk? I think I can handle that.

In creating the calendar image I actually tried making my own monthly calendars by hand, but that proved to be too much of a pain in the ass, so I found a site that lets you download calendars as MS Word documents, copied and pasted that into Illustrator, imported my painting of RLC, and voila!
Now that I have the basic template, I could put in pretty much any image. If anyone out there would be interested in buying a calendar like this featuring one of my original (read: non-celebrity) images, let me know and I'll put one up at Zazzle. The size of this one is 16" by 24", but I could make it pretty much any size.
So far my day has been pretty uneventful. I slept in a bit, went grocery shopping, had lunch, went for a little walk, made and ordered the calendar, and that was pretty much it.
I've been kicking around more ideas about the LL Ideal Queen of Perfection Competition, but don't have anything solid yet. I know the whole idea is kind of silly, but that's rather the point. Mostly I just think it would be good for a laugh, but I also want to see if I can create any sort of "Internet buzz" and unleash one of those phenomena that manages to take the Web by storm.
In any case, there are a few things I should probably do.

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