Nostradamical

Illustrating consumer devices months before they reach the marketplace can result in hilarious inaccuracies.

Illustrating consumer devices months before they reach the marketplace can result in hilarious inaccuracies.

W.O.W. and reggae ... together again.

Technical illustrations aren't exactly the stuff that excitement is made of, but an illustration dealing with the posibility of free WiFi access from anyplace - be it in an apartment, inside a parked car, up a tree, or at the bottom of a dumpster - does give a guy a small thrill. Unfortunately, some people took a bigger bureaucratic bite than they could chew.
So that I don't meander into the morass that is "talking shop", suffice it to say that I employ Adobe Illustrator for all my vector building purposes. That, however, was not always the case. For many, many (many!) years I used Macromedia FreeHand. Sometime during that stint I experimented with duplicating and manipulating simple, abstract shapes until I'd crafted a few entities best described as "angelic". Unfortunately, neither FreeHand nor my Mac's CPU could handle what I'd created. On a good day on-screen rendering moved as slow as molasses, and on a bad day it came to a screeching halt. But with much patience I did manage to amass a few angels, and here are three I like best:



Amen.