{"id":5700,"date":"2009-01-22T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:41:22","slug":"the-new-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/22\/the-new-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4235,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sharii.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307023259\\\/https:\\\/\\\/sharii.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/sharii.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 23:35:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 23:49:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:40:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:40:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4560,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/1326981&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/1326981&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Last week sometime, I was brainstorming with ways to personalize the design of my site a bit while still working within my limited artistic and design sensibilities. On a whim, I emailed <a href=\"http:\/\/sharii.com\/\" title=\"Shari Chankhamma\">Shari<\/a>, a comic artist whose blog I&#8217;ve been reading and whose artwork I enjoy, to see if she might be willing to sketch a version of me that I&#8217;d be able to work into the design somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Shari was kind enough to agree, and since I didn&#8217;t have a particular image or pose in mind beyond knowing that I wanted to be wearing a Utilikilt, I directed her to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/1326981\/\" title=\"Flickr: Narcissism\">Narcissism<\/a> set on Flickr and let her go to town.<\/p>\n<p>A day or so later, Shari sent me a first set of preliminary sketches. There were a number of versions of &#8216;me&#8217; that looked very promising, but down in the middle of the page was a funny little very anime-style version that she&#8217;d dubbed the &#8216;Valiant Camera Warrior&#8217; which I got a big kick out of. When I wrote back to confirm that I liked the direction she was heading with the sketches, I also mentioned how much I enjoyed the Valiant Camera Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>A couple days later she sent me the final artwork&#8230;and I was <em>floored<\/em>! Not only has Shari come up with an incredible comic version of &#8216;me,&#8217; but she went ahead and inked the Valiant Camera Warrior as a bonus! I&#8217;ve worked the artwork into a few different places into the site design now, but under the cut are larger versions of her work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First off, the more &#8216;normal&#8217; version of me:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/me-norm-500.png\" alt=\"Me by Shari Chankhamma\" title=\"Me by Shari Chankhamma\" width=\"500\" height=\"811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5718\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now, the &#8216;Valiant Camera Warrior&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/me-vcw-500.png\" alt=\"Valiant Camera Warrior by Shari Chankhamma\" title=\"Valiant Camera Warrior by Shari Chankhamma\" width=\"500\" height=\"780\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5719\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once again, thanks much, Shari!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week sometime, I was brainstorming with ways to personalize the design of my site a bit while still working within my limited artistic and design sensibilities. 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