[Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff

Mon Apr 24 07:52:50 PDT 2006

At 10:50 PM 23/04/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Mystress,
>
>I hope I didn't offend ya or anything.

   Well, yeah, hurt my feelings a little, but I was sort of depressed 
yesterday.  I think it was an energy hangover from a great blissful 
meditation Sat. night. I did not want to hurt your feelings either.

   I spent two very long days on that poster!  With the result that it has 
a nice little Shakti charge... compare it with yours. My art has my energy, 
and that is what we are selling. After two intensive days I was kind of 
burnt out on it, and so wanted a fresh eye for the text content. I've had a 
week away and am ready to approach it again.

    I think I need to clarify what I want.  I have had to go over this with 
Lori, too...

   The poster is designed to speak to the higher self, first and the ego 
second.  It is the nature of my work, how people are drawn to it defies all 
the normal rules of marketing.  I depend on synchronicity, Goddess brings 
me my clients, and often through extraordinary means.

    The ego just needs a reason it can accept.  The poster has important 
symbolic imagery to speak to the unconscious.  The snake lady in a white 
glow... higher self, and then me and then the logo... the grounding into 
the Earth.  The snake lady is cute, playful.. laughter is the nature of 
spirit. It could have been a tao symbol, but that would not carry the same 
joy. The tao is on the logo.
    The grounding medtiation itself, is symbolically coded into the art. 
Light above, light below, glow around me.

    She also wanted to go with a smaller, colour poster for the logo... 
No.  I want a twice folded flyer, black and white photocopied. It is 
inexpensive to produce in large quantities, epecially compared to full 
colour printing,  and it can contain more information, including important 
testimonials to soothe the worried ego.

   A colour sticker of the logo can be printed and added. Be sure to get a 
proof, most printers change the teal green to bright blue.

    The flyer is mostly designed, it just needs some tweaking. I usually go 
with a fine quality paper, like parchment, and partly recycled content if 
possible.

   There is a reason I rarely use the cadeucus on my work, and that is 
because people first associate it with medical stuff. The only place I use 
it, is in "about Kundalini" essays, where it is a non-traditional one I 
made myself,  with chakra colours on it... and a small flapping winged one 
on the K-gateway because being a cartoon it does not have the same 
association.  The one you chose looks like it belongs on an ambulance and 
that is not an association to desire.

    I need the text of the poster edited, and I sent the text to the list, 
twice! I am wondering if you are not getting all the mail?  I posted a high 
quality large version of the FST logo to the archive months ago, and sent 
the location twice.

   I want the "are you" columns reduced and merged into one, so the other 
side can be about the workshop.  I like "are you looking for a 
compassionate ear" because spontaneusly awakened people in crisis really 
are! It speaks to the heart. Probably 75% of my clients and students come 
to me already awakened, so a recognition of the symptoms is more important 
than defining Kundalini.  I agree with the edit for the sentences below 
that. The blurb about me on the other side isn't great, I like the one on 
the flyer, better. "Expert on Kundalini awakening" is a title I have always 
avoided. On the K-list FAQ I write there aren't any.

    I also sent the URL for the original psd file to the list, twice, but 
it looks like you used a jpg version, because there is a Mys to the left of 
me which would have disappeared if you only copied that layer, or made the 
text layer invisible.

     Maybe you don't have photoshop, or don't know how to use it?  Let me 
know. I know it is a huge download.  Give me a hand editing the text, and I 
will send you a poster ready for the print shop.

   I like Bobby's poster, I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't carry the 
same Shakti either, and I am concerned people won't know the workshop is in 
English. That event is going to be small, it is in someone's house.

    I finished making a second copy of the vids, will ship it today.   I 
was not able to do much in the way of notes about the vids, but I think 
when you watch them you will recognise which vids are what, and know what 
version was used last time.

   Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your 
talent blows my mind!

>Gustaf and I were looking at the
>poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed
>a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to
>look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down
>the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the
>central focus they seem to be meant to be.
>
>We were experimenting with other ways to organize it to get all the
>needed elements onto the picture and have an attractive flow to it. I
>think once we have the text done and can apply it to your lay out we'll
>really have a better idea though. I'll be working on that today.
>
>Blessings,
>Kimberly
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire-
> > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent
> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:32 AM
> > To: FST Helpers list.
> > Subject: Re: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff
> >
> >    Hello:
> >     I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are
> > starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made?
> >    Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly?
> >
> >   All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via
> > email, to be edited shorter.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 11:57 AM 23/04/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > >Ok!
> > >
> > >Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this
> > weekend.
> > >Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on
>the
> > >ideas we have. :)
> > >
> > >We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive
>doc
> > >files, and there are elements we like from all of them!
> > >
> > >First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a
> > >version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we
>thought
> > >that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the
>dutch
> > >one, yet not as detailed as the UK one.
> > >
> > >The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on
>the
> > >sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be
>nice
> > to
> > >have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have
>the
> > >"Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual
> > >Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that.
> > >
> > >Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and
>the
> > >text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch
>label
> > >"Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left
>side we
> > >would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers.
> > >(Including mentioning personal sessions)  On the right side, we could
> > have
> > >brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence
>if
> > >you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was
>nicer
> > >though.  Then we also have information about Mystress following,
>Mystress
> > >as a teacher, etc
> > >
> > >A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like
>to
> > >put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to
>describe
> > K
> > >in 1-2 sentences?
> > >
> > >At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of
> > >Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the
> > >time/date/ordering/contact/location info.
> > >
> > >As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in!
> > Good
> > >news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have
>the
> > >final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at
>making
> > >things look neat!
> > >I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in
>detail,
> > >I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good
> > >feeling about that.
> > >
> > >
> > >Now for questions:
> > >
> > >* What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop?
> > >* Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high
> > >resolution picture of the healing portrait?
> > >* What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters?
> > >* Do you have the original PSD files for them available?
> > >
> > >Namaste!
> > >Gustaf & Kimberly
> > >
> > >PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in
>the
> > >Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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