Changes

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Melanie

Well, as I’m sure you’ve seen the blog got quite the overhaul today! Part of it is an effort to clean up (if I was feeling overwhelmed, it’s a problem) and part to bring it closer to the feeling of our other sites.

First – the launch of my official photography site is coming soon. It’s live at: http://photos.disjointedimages.com but right now there’s not much to see in the galleries. Expect more and a full announcement later on that.

Second – Chris (the brains behind DisjointedCode) will be moving to his own blog soon. He has lots of cool stuff and ideas to share and wanted his own space so we’re not competing here. Don’t blame him! Details once he’s all settled in.

So this place will be all things buttons/photos/cosplay/ and the mad ramblings of yours truly – and Chris will have a spot for MahJong House updates/random programming geekery/and his personal ramblings of a more binary sort.

Thanks for sticking through the virtual construction.

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Garasunoshicon – after con report

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Melanie

Say that 5 times fast!

Garasunoshicon was really good. We were surprised by the amount of traffic for a college convention, and pleased with our table location (windows! light! yay!). We met new friends (Hi Kristie – http://www.insanitycentral.org/ ) and ran into several AA buddies (man are we all on the same con circuit or what?).

I was really glad to see how clean everyone kept the place too. Both college campus staff and congoers.

AA Staff was very attentive to everyone, and constantly checking in or making sure we knew how to find them.

The pizza was a good price, and pretty tasty.

The volleyball tournament on the first day was amusing – I did get a few customers from it though!

All in all, if they’ll have us, we’d love to return next year.

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On JAFAX and Future Cons

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Melanie

Hi all! JAFAX has now come and gone, and again you guys made it a wonderful experience.

It was down to hours before to decide if we’d be able to go, since I had had an injury just days prior. On crutches and less than comfortable tucked onto a folding chair you made it worth the trip. Thank you to everyone that came by, and for all the well wishes.

Thanks to Brian as always for his understanding, help, and inspiration!

NEXT!

Our next convention will be GarasuNoShiCon in Perrysburg, OH from July 17 to 18th. Admission is free and I hear they have a FULL artist’s alley. All the tables are claimed, so if you’re in the area come on by and there should be lots of good stuff to see.

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ACen – the after con report

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Melanie

Whew. ACen is over for another year. Hard to believe it went by so fast. I am only now getting to my writeup on it, as I’ve been recovering from “con plague”.

I had a fantastic time despite a few hiccups (fire evacuation!), and it was wonderful seeing everyone. We had a fair number of cosplayers (and just people wanting a souvenir) come by for their photo buttons. Next year I promise we’ll have a good stock of colors for the decorative rings so no one misses out!

There was a great response and feedback for MahJong House as well. Thank you to everyone who not only purchased it, but came by to give it a test drive. Your feedback only makes it better!

Mitsuwa was awesome, I finally got to try the dim sum shop and had some steamed buns. They were very tasty, and I can see why they are either busy or sold out when I’m there.

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ACen – Less than a week!

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Melanie

Ok everyone – the big event is almost here: ACen!

DisjointedImages will once again be making a grand appearance to provide you with a variety of funny-because-it’s-true buttons for all kinds of fandoms.

New this year is our active use of our Twitter feed – keep an eye on it for random specials and codes.

I’ve worked hard to have lots of new designs, and as always will have the cosplay photo setup available.

Stop by!

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Button news

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Melanie

Thank you to everyone who came out to Animarathon!

Now that the con circuit season is about to get in full swing here at Disjointed Images (ACEN in 29 days!) we’re focusing on what new designs to have on display.

I’ve got some great ones already in the works, but as always, you’ll have to come find us to see them.

Past designs are always found on our shop.

We also now have HEARTS for the photo buttons in red and silver! These work just like the colored rings, only in a heart shape (with an open center for the picture).

If you’ve got any requests or suggestions please post them in the comments, and we look forward to meeting you soon!

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Store relaunch!

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Melanie

Whew. Well, it took quite a bit longer than we anticipated, not the least of which because of my new post over at ACen.org. I’m now working on the webmaster team, and helped configure their store for a short merchandise sale for the holidays.

As you can see, we’ve now got almost the full catalog of buttons available for purchase (there are still convention exclusives that are only available in person), along with photo examples of all the options.

If you have any questions, please contact us!

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Website Maintenance

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Chris

As you may have notice both the disjointedimages.com and disjointedcode.com sites are down for maintenance currently.  We apologize for the inconvenience.  We are in the process of migrating from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and also integrating all of our pages into Drupal.  This is taking a bit longer than first anticipated due to minor differences between the two versions of Drupal.  We will have the site back up and running in a basic capacity in the next few days and plan to be fully functional shortly there after.  Thank you for your patience.

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Youmacon recap / End of year ramblings

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Melanie

Phew – quite the time gap between posts. To quickly fill you in: we decided very last minute to throw together a WEDDING with no budget, little time, and a big dream. That pretty much ate up any spare time we had. It was however a lovely wedding, and everything went perfectly.

Not long after we came back from our honeymoon, it was time to get everything together for Youmacon. It was a great weekend, lots of our fan/customers coming by to see the new designs, and a few new people too. I got to draw a squirrel, a goat with a monocle, a wolf, and will forever be haunted by the epic man nipples. (You had to be there…)

We had an even greater response to the current release of the game, which made me float with happiness. Thank you to everyone who tried, commented, and (yay!) bought a copy!

As Chris mentioned, the next release will be Linux, and shortly after that we will start putting out some of the expanded rewards and tiles.

I am also oh so excited to announce that I have been accepted on staff for ACEN. I will be assisting with both the website and Artist’s Alley. This delights me to no end; as many of you know, I am a people pleaser, and to be part of the workings the make ACEN what it is for so many just really makes me smile.

Of course, this doesn’t give me any slack on keeping you guys entertained with more humorous buttons each year, and fret not, as I am hard at work with quite a few new designs.

Please look for us next at Animarathon in Ohio.

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MahJong House 1.6

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Chris

Version 1.6 was launched at Youmacon this past weekend.  It unfortunately did not include the new scripting engine, characters or extra rewards.  As I had posted earlier these additions were going to require a substantial amount of time to code/model and would have pushed 1.6 well past the convention date.  So I had to make a tough choice and move them to 1.7 in order to show many of the other improvements that I have made so far.  I want to thank the individuals who purchased MahJong House 1.6 at the con.  As promised to early adopters I have created a patch to update all previous versions to 1.6, I will be posting it to the website this weekend.

Work on 1.7 will commence as soon as 1.6 is finished for Linux and launched.  This will mark the first official Linux release.  I hope to have it live by the end of next week.

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