{"id":1309,"date":"2006-11-13T02:36:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2006-11-13T02:36:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T02:36:25","slug":"work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1309","title":{"rendered":"Work in progress."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my great failings as an artist, if not as a human being, is that I&#8217;m almost constantly running behind with my projects.  This is due to a number of reasons &#150; I&#8217;m still learning to say &#8220;no&#8221;, I occasionally get burnt out and have to unwind for a couple of days to get my brain unkinked, and I&#8217;m also often a horrendous perfectionist.  Still, when something does come together it makes me really insanely happy.<br \/>\nTonight I <i>think<\/i> I finished a project that&#8217;s been on my back burner for months &#150; a new recruitment poster for CMS.  Not a minute too soon, either &#150; we need to start sending these puppies out to universities to get some new blood for the 2007-2008 school year.  (Bizarre that I may not be around to see the people my work recruits, but oh well.)  I&#8217;m still learning how to really use Illustrator, but this project certainly helped.  A preview:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cms_recruiting_excerpt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/images\/cms_recruiting_excerpt.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m really hoping they go for this.  I like it quite a bit, and I think the streaks in the back of the art coupled with the more elegant design at the bottom of the page (which I cut off for the excerpt, so you&#8217;ll have to trust me) capture the dual nature of CMS &#150; dynamic, yet rooted in classicism.  Wish me luck!<br \/>\nAnd now, since it&#8217;s almost a quarter to 3 in the morning&#8230;  <i>Bed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my great failings as an artist, if not as a human being, is that I&#8217;m almost constantly running behind with my projects. This is due to a number of reasons &#150; I&#8217;m still learning to say &#8220;no&#8221;, I occasionally get burnt out and have to unwind for a couple of days to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-l7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}