I finally entered The United Plates into its 5th and final juried competition today. It’s a tough task filling out all the forms, tagging the work, making sure everything is correct for each submission, mailing them off. They all seem to want different things. Then there’s the cost that’s a tough pill sometimes, but I’ve done my part. Now I wait.

The 5 competitions are as follows:

Print Regional Design Annual (as a poster series)
Communication Arts (as gallery art)
American Illustration 28 (as a series)
3×3 Illustration Annual 6 (as a series)
3rd Ward (for a chance to showcase in Brooklyn, NY)

Then it’s waiting. I believe it has a great shot at showing up in a few of those places. I could use the exposure.

Ok, so I’m not a web designer. I honestly hate it with a passion and the only reason I even attempt to do it a couple weeks out of the year is so I don’t have to mess with it the rest of the time. I have to be in the mood to care, and most of the time I just don’t. While I was redesigning this site, I just sucked it up and hoped it would be over with soon.

Therefore, I know I don’t have good coding practices and I have terrible organization skills.

Apparently, when you click “auto upgrade” in the new Wordpress, however, it takes upon itself the notion to delete all of your customizations. I haven’t backed up this site in a while, and I know that’s an important thing to do – but nowhere in the auto update page did it even mention it. So in 10 seconds, all of the customization on this site disappeared. So you’ll be seeing a mess here and there until I get it all back together.