Been a while since i posted on the Rise and Fall of it All, but things have progressed, all be it intermittently. Had to stop for a few days to do some contract work and beaurocratic house cleaning. Back at it now though. Want to get the first act, about 20 pages, done for RevolveR 1.

Working on a project of this scale is a steady string of unanticipated problems and revisions. Right now I'm trying to resolve what sort of imagery I should use for a segment about the transformation of Eliot's environment...

1. Today I watched the buildings reflect the late morning light. Smoked glass, deep blue and burnt orange steel structures, powerful, mute invincible.
2. They seemed to grow more and more everyday.
3. A new one could be completed before you even knew it had been started.
4. They just appeared out of nowhere was as if someone were feeding the rest of the city to them gulp by gulp.

I had roughs done, this would be the thumbnail marked as #12, but I’m dissatisfied with them now. Something about the tone/feel of them is too static, predictable. Too much like what comes just before. But so far I’m drawing a blank. To give myself a brake from that I went back a few pages and completed #10. At the last minute I realised it was the wrong resolution, I've raised it to the correct res but I'll have to see how it looks in a test print, might have to re build it from the scans. Grrrrr.