About that whole "deadline" concept...

It took a while after Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy was published before I realized that the word deadline appears nowhere in it. This is important: Lichtenbergianism, i.e., structured procrastination, is a viable strategy only when you don’t have a deadline staring you in the face. (Or worse, at your back…)

Like, for example, the deadline for me to finish the cover drawing for the June issue of the Backstreet &…Zine so I can print it this week was today.

::sigh::

When last we left our artist, he was struggling with all the layers of imagery he was going to have to juggle, including all the texturing on the blocks of the wall.

I had to find an image of a scaffold knot to copy for the rope.

Speaking of the rope and knots…

When I sketched this thing out, I just did a shinyperfect on the rigging for the …ZINE “crate,” so now I had to do the thing where you have to pin down the dumb vagary that you thought was so neat.

I should have taken some photos of the whole TASK AVOIDANCE >> GESTALT >> SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION cycle, because it was epic. But at that point I just needed to get it to the point of ABANDONMENT and get the zine laid out and a proof printed for tomorrow at Backstreet.

So I finished the sketch, imported into the zine’s file, immediately had to go back and futz with the cover file and reimport it into the zine and…

The Backstreet Community Arts &… ZINE, volume 2, number 2, “PROGRESS,” coming soon to a coffee or record shop near you (in Newnan) or as a PDF download.