246 - T shirts and Monarchs

This guy was on the train coming home from the Prom last week. He was very tall and thin. His t-shirt was printed with the whole tuxedo and bow tie image, but I didn't draw that in. Would have looked odd.

Look at how I ended up drawing his fringe.  It looks like the squiggly bit of Elizabeth the first's signature, the one she used to put on all the posh documents, not the one she used to pay the gas bill.

Useless information of the day.

A 246 is a staggered block used to put under the legs of chairs to raise them up into frame when filming someone at a table. So called because you can raise the chair by 2". 4" or 6"

Oh... and... and... apparently, this is my 200th post ! Whoop de whoo.

Proms.

Went to the Proms last night. In front of me was a young boy with his Dad. They both wore plaid shirts. He jammed his thumbs in his ears when the music got too loud for him, and I thought he wouldn't last the night. But I was wrong, he was still clapping as enthusiastically at the end as everyone else, and even stood for the ovation.

One of the pieces was Holst's 'Mars', and it got me to thinking. I have never owned a recording of it, or heard it performed live before, yet I knew every bit of it. Can you imagine creating something that goes out and becomes so ubiquitous that it becomes part of everyone like that. You instinctively know it. How it goes, what it means. To give the world just one amazing thing.

That would be a goal worth having, wouldn't it.