[Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 10:28 AM 24/04/2006, you wrote:
>Ok! It seems I've looked at it from the wrong viewpoint!
>
> >   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.
>
>Gotcha! I was more looking at it as a general tantra workshop rather than 
>something
>for people who are already awakened/being awakened. Spiritual Emergence is 
>not
>talked so much about in this country, at least not where I've been. But I 
>know about
>people who have had rough K-awakenings here in Sweden.

   Yes, they are everywhere, and represent the majority of my clients.

>There's a lady who is in
>contact with a few "victims" of kundalini yoga. Maybe some of them may be 
>interested
>in attending the workshop. (Adding that to my list of people to contact)
>Some people may look at it a bit dubiously, but others will no doubt 
>welcome it!

   Yes!


> >    I think I need to clarify what I want.  I have had to go over this with
> >Lori, too...
>
>Sorry that you had to do it again with us.

   No, it is fine. Good to have clarity. Sorry, I did not want to be hard 
on you.


> >   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.
>
>What you are saying all makes sense and feels right to me.

  Good!


> >    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.
>
>Very cheap indeed! Makes it easy to spread the fliers in a lot of places.

  yes! :) The posters generate interest and intrigue, but the flyers sell 
the course. If the photocopy shop has a folding machine then it gets very 
easy.

   A few dozen posters, several hundred fliers.  A few little 
Shakti-charged newspaper and/or magazine ads. If we can get some press 
coverage, a radio, TV or news interview, so much the better!


> >   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.
>
>Ok gotcha.

    Yes, printing a few pages of stickers is inexpensive, you can even get 
large label pages and print them at home if you have a colour printer. I 
get the Avery full sheet labels and cut them by hand.

> >    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.
>
>Ok!
>
> >   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.
>
>The cadeucus on that draft was my idea, and I get what you are saying about
>it. I don't mind scrapping it.  It was just an idea. :)

   I know, a rough draft. I could have been clearer about what I wanted, 
sooner.

> >    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.
>
>Quite possible! I couldn't find the mail with the PSD link for example.

   http://fire-serpent.com/loriwest

   All the versions are there, the PSD file is in the same folder as the jpg


> >   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.
>
>Good points! We'll look into that.

   Thank you.


> >    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.
>
>We copy/pasted from the PDF file because we couldn't find the PSD file.
>I couldn't find that mail. So that's why so much of it is totally off.

    I did not make a pdf file, just a jpg and psd.


> >     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.
>
>We do have photoshop and know how to use it. At least basic operation.

   Same for me. Self taught, but I have been messing with it for quite a 
few years now.


> >   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.
>
>We'll keep the Shakti intact.

   :)


> >    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.
>
>Ok I understand. :) I will do my best to compare, and if I get stuck I'll
>post about it and get your help with it.

   Cool! I'm going to work on the poster today, maybe I can send a copy on 
disc as well as the DVDs.


> >   Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your
> >talent blows my mind!
>
>It's Goddess' doing. :)

   heh, :) It is lovely, and it came through you!


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