sale, advising, grad school

About six months ago I “sold” a piece of my digital work to a guy who had seen it on the internet and wanted to use it on his site. He was in the process of developing a site for artists and designers. I just found out today that he used the piece instead on another site. The site isn’t finished, but there is a flash intro, and then a page where you can sign up for their mailing list. The page will serve two purposes when done. It will be the page for a book that will be published soon called “Ultimate Jujitsu” and it will serve as a meeting place for Jujitsu students/masters/enthusiasts. They will also have an online (I’m assuming they’ll sell Jujitsu materials and the book). I have been assured that once revenue begins trickling in, it will trickly down to me. I’m just glad my work will be on such a visible platform. The website can be accessed here (link no longer valid). The flash animation was not done by me, but the static image you see on the eventual page is all mine, the only changes are the obvious quotes and text fields and such, and instead of “shinowara.com” it used to say “Orange.” Other than that, everything you see is totally mine.

I met with my advisor yesterday and he is pushing me to do an honors thesis project. Its a good idea, so I’m going to try it. The only problem is, the application is due next friday and there is a lot to do on it (including making slides and writing a 5 page paper). Also, I spoke to the Art History office today and they told me that if I take one more grad level art history course I’ll be able to put “Art History Minor” on my diploma.

I picked up a grad school application as well, but its not due till january, so I’m forgetting about it for now to focus on the problems at hand.