Sailing Lightships
banner and logo graphics needed for this publication
Dear Readers,
A bit of end of the year business, prospective to taking this project forward in 2022: even as Poetry, Thought, Word Magick evolves in lavish response to possibility, details catch me up, so I thought I’d first put out the call to my pool of readers for graphic design of PTWM’s logo and banner at professional rates (specs below). Whether you’ve been with me from the beginning or only since the last post, you have a feel for what this publication is and what it intends - best basis for creative interpretations.
My next “for real” post is January 6th, and you can certainly anticipate an idiosyncratic take on the events of one year ago on that date; this, of course, in keeping with my tracing the timeline of the presidential election and its aftermath, which will go through February 13th, close of the 2nd impeachment trial.
From that point on, it’s evolve or wither! Thank you for reading, because it’s been vital for me to work on newsletter entries, paying close attention to where the action is in time and in the coursing in and out of time, charged in-between calms amidst what is called thought and process, even as I plunge my current manuscript ha-ha forward, The Killing Joke.
For further information on this work-in-progress please click: The Killing Joke
To a withering hardy-har-har accompaniment for bad wordplay - whither? Into the unknown, with realism for what is here, embrace what is ahead.
Then again, yet again - everly - to the source!
I’m strict with myself: if I’m going to drink from the Enchanted Spring, I’m going to peer into its depths. You know what Nietzsche says about gazing into the abyss, though. The source itself, despite its gelid sweet taste, and beneath a pure placid surface which in gentle rippling reflects each breeze and avid breath, teems with monsters throughout its profundity. These terrors have eyes - your soul is seen in a pit mirror nightmare.
Splash through the terrors notwithstanding! The font is life. Its waters are clean and cold and pure. You’re only seeing yourself and it’s easy to mix it up. Examine the refections - all distortion except for starlight.
Am I hallucinating because every now and again I find in puddle, pond, or sea a solar sail, a light vessel, a beacon?
Back to the business at hand: a call for graphic design for this Substack’s logo and banner.
Logo: 256 X 256 pixels PNG image
Banner: 1100 X 220 pixels PNG image
As said, I’ll pay a professional rate and would love to engage your artistic ideas in accordance with the feel you have for Poetry, Thought, Word Magick.
If you’re interested (or if you know someone who might be interested), please reply to this email or contact me through the comments or find me on FaceBook or Twitter.
As models for what I’m after in terms of look/graphic design, please check out three Substack newsletters which have influenced the development of my own - not only in form, but also in themes, quality, and unique personal approach:
The Map is Mostly Water by Simon Sarris
I need the input of a good graphic artist because I can’t hold a pen straight - as you’ll note obviously from the above sigil I drew for my arts organization (currently in stasis), Sui Generis Literary and Performing Arts Lab; nevertheless, it served as a basis for the logo utilized in extension of SiGiLPAL’s central Poets’ Theater activities into other realms, not least for the self-publication of a book on Kindle, The Free Spirit. Maybe something along these handwritten lines can serve in ongoing fashion.
I’m also partial to solar imagery. Here is a form associated with the transcendent proto-monotheistic Egyptian pharaoh - humanity’s original free spirit - Akhnaton.
Sol and sigils aside, know me open to fresh ideas and glad to defer to graphics expertise.
As you must know by now, I’m enthralled by the potential of Substack as a new platform for writers: part newsletter, part blog, and wholly in the combo an alternative to the usual online and offline modes of publication.
Along with the abovementioned Substacks as models for development of my own, if you like how this format works, you can sample others through The Sample - I use it myself and recommend it as an excellent discovery mechanism.
The Sample is a meta-newsletter which forwards different newsletters into your inbox relative to your interests. If you like one, you can subscribe with one click; otherwise, wait for the next and allow room for surprises from all over the world. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Here’s to upspiraling on divine solar radiance into the New Year!