Arfink's Avatar Doodling Service

[SaintOlaf]

If you want more to do, Arfink, Id still like one revolving around a viking with some mead I like the holy hand grenade tho, maybe we can keep it somehow?

[arfink]

[quote name='SaintOlaf' timestamp='1332819336' post='2409016']
If you want more to do, Arfink, Id still like one revolving around a viking with some mead I like the holy hand grenade tho, maybe we can keep it somehow?
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Sounds exciting. I have a longer than usual evening time tonight, and after such a troublesome day I'm ready to unwind with my pen in hand.

[vee]

What canyou do in the way of Papa Benny eating a taco??? Sombrero included of course.

[arfink]

Time to make a list:

EmilyAnne: ice skating nun
Sidemunch88: something new
Olaf: Vikings and mead and grenades
Vee8- Papa Benny y taco in sombreros.

[arfink]

EmilyAnne:

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJN-cK1I_So/T3JXoTAfSWI/AAAAAAAABXQ/UNQAXBRZQrY/s800/iceskatesnun.jpg[/img]

Link to avatar sized one: [url="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJN-cK1I_So/T3JXoTAfSWI/AAAAAAAABXQ/UNQAXBRZQrY/s288/iceskatesnun.jpg"]http://lh3.googleuse...ceskatesnun.jpg[/url]

EDIT: This will need to be cropped. If you can't figure it out PM me about it, I'll choppety chop it.

Edited March 28, 2012 by arfink

[Byzantine]

I have a request for you [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/120084-hey-arfink/"]here[/url], if you're interested.

[arfink]

Here is something I blatantly stole from Seth Godin that accurately explains what I feel about my labor in these avatars for you all:

[indent=1]Lewis Hyde’s essential book The Gift makes a distinction between work and labor.[/indent]
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Work is an intended activity that is accomplished through the will. A labor can be intended but only to the extent of doing the groundwork, or of not doing things that would clearly prevent the labor. Beyond that, labor has its own schedule. Things get done, but we often have the odd sense that we didn’t do them. Paul Goodman wrote in a journal once, “I have recently written a few good poems. But I have no feeling that I wrote them.” That is the declaration of a laborer...[/indent]

[indent=1]...One of the first problems the modern world faced with the rise of industrialism was the exclusion of labor by the expansion of work.”[/indent]
[indent=1]
Labor, particularly emotional labor, is the difficult task of digging deep to engage at a personal level. Emotional labor looks like patience and kindness and respect. It’s very different from mechanical work, from filling out a form or moving a bale of hay. Emotional labor is difficult and exhausting, and it cannot be tweaked or commanded by management. As our society industrialized, it has relentlessly worked to drive labor away and replace it with work. Mere work. Busywork and repetitive work and the work of Taylor’s scientific management. Stand just here. Say just that. Check this box. I’m arguing that the connection revolution sets the table for a return of emotional labor. For the first time in a century, we have the opportunity to let digital systems do work while [we] do labor.[/indent]

Edited March 28, 2012 by arfink

[EmilyAnn]

[quote name='arfink' timestamp='1332893657' post='2409411']
EmilyAnne:

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJN-cK1I_So/T3JXoTAfSWI/AAAAAAAABXQ/UNQAXBRZQrY/s800/iceskatesnun.jpg[/img]

Link to avatar sized one: [url="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJN-cK1I_So/T3JXoTAfSWI/AAAAAAAABXQ/UNQAXBRZQrY/s288/iceskatesnun.jpg"]http://lh3.googleuse...ceskatesnun.jpg[/url]

EDIT: This will need to be cropped. If you can't figure it out PM me about it, I'll choppety chop it.
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That's amesome! I love it! Thank you so much!

[missionseeker]

razzle dazzle

[arfink]

I have the day off. Once I get the chance to have somebody else watch my 2 yr old sister I'll be able to do some more drawings for people.

[Lil Red]

i'm getting excited for arfink to design a t-shirt for me.

[arfink]

OK, I'm taking a brief break from avatar drawing to do some work for LilRed. She is paying me, after all.

The task at hand: to design a t-shirt for her summer bowling camp. Here is a WIP of the bowl-bot, who will be a central motif of the design:

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tOHDJTyqvb0/T3T-CCTyJiI/AAAAAAAABYo/j9Xqpg4VGCs/s800/Screenshot.png[/img]

In this shot you can basically see how I work. Browser open to search for reference pics, toobox open, reference pic hovering above drawing area. Pretty simple, really.

[AnneLine]

"Pretty simple, really." Maybe for you, ARFink! I am still in awe... .and I loved your long quote about the Gift you have been given. Yup.

Your bowl-bot makes me think of the Jetson's maid, Rosie (1961).. but I like your guy better!

[img]http://images.mises.org/RosieJetson.jpg[/img]


And then there is Earl the bowling robot...

[url="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3057"]http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3057[/url]

Imagine what they will come up with by 2061....

[Lil Red]

oh my goodness, i'm getting so excited for the bowling t-shirt. i'm loving what you've already done. (re: the email you sent this morning)

[MissScripture]

[quote name='arfink' timestamp='1331918354' post='2401868']
And now one for Nolaseminarian:

[img]http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z6PxtgBxRMI/T2N11egg1LI/AAAAAAAABT8/3Xco5brRspo/s800/nolaseminarian.jpg[/img]

And that means it's now time for EGRETS.
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I totally had a teacher in high school who actually said, during religion class that, "Cows are people, too!" And we made fun of her for that for so long!