shatterstripes

I love seeing your art, but suddenly realised - if it has the boobies or cock, then I'll have to make a worksafe filter or something because I _do_ LJ at work. Oh God, do I.

Ooh, good point. I am planning on having some cards with bits in them; I'll make sure to put those behind LJ-cuts when they happen!

See, The Hermit is my life-card. Its the me of the deck. My two best friends through art college also had hermit life-cards. It was an awesome trinity of hermitage.

Also, gears! Jingley bells!

Ah, I love this whole project. And I'm really really excited for Absinthe too! *froths in happy*

I can totally see the Hermit being a card for artists. I know I've been a hell of a hermit at times, hidden away from the world practicing my drawing skills! (And that's one of the layers I ended up putting into this image: the person who was once a fool leaping into the unknown is now deliberately stepping away from the world, to learn and practice.)

The gears are a reference to a possible historical reading of the Hermit as Time. But they're also hidden under the world, out of mundane sight: outside the world and away from it, you might be able to see how it all ticks...

Also: "Now you're thinking with portals"

(That's the first thing I thought of upon seeing the elliptical orange portal ring.)

Not that they're the first or last to show holes in the world that way!

(I should see if there's a demo for that so I'll know if it'll run on Rik's machine - looks interesting.)

True, true. Still, it's the first thing I thought of. :D

The Source engine runs surprisingly well on even modest hardware. Team Fortress 2 runs perfectly on our not-exactly-cutting-edge Dell Optiplex GX620 computers here at work (2.8GHz Pentium D, nVidia GeForce 7800GTX, onboard audio). Portal seems to run fine as well. The Orange Box gives an amazing amount of value for the money; $45 at NewEgg gives you Half Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Peggle Extreme, and a geeky song too.

That was precisely my thought as well. :-D

But I've had too much Portal on the mind anyway.