argh.
I’m designing a CD cover for a song to be released soon about the last ANZAC. (he died last year)
The cover needs to contain a child like quality due to the children involved in the production but still look, well, ‘professional’ i guess.

I asked the guy who is getting me to do this to ask the children to draw with pencils the idea he and I came up with. The idea; a simple view of the cove from the water with a sun rising from behind; water and sand in foreground.

I don’t know where things went wrong or who didn’t tell who, but I didn’t get what I asked for. Instead I got something completely different, not to mention unusable
The cover I received was 4 windowed pixeley(aliased) Claris draw or Microsoft paint style images drawn by the children. While this style does have its own interesting style and charm, its not as aesthetically pleasing as pencil drawn images in my opinion.

sigh I really need a scanner too. (yes I’m in frustrated mode)

Moving a long and carrying the WW1 theme on a little, i just read an article about a boy soldier. Here’s an excerpt that made me shudder:

“Victor Silvester soon discovered that the war was very different to what he expected:

We went up into the front-line near Arras, through sodden and devastated countryside. As we were moving up to the our sector along the communication trenches, a shell burst ahead of me and one of my platoon dropped. He was the first man I ever saw killed. Both his legs were blown off and the whole of his face and body was peppered with shrapnel. The sight turned my stomach. I was sick and terrified, but even more frightened of showing it.

That night I had been asleep in a dugout about three hours when I woke up feeling something biting my hip. I put my hand down and my fingers closed on a big rat. It had nibbled through my haversack, my tunic and pleated kilt to get at my flesh. With a cry of horror I threw it from me. “

read the full article for even more scare and sadness