FAQs
pronounce it "facks"
Q] What is this all about?
A] This website is host to various creative output. Lately, writing has been taking up a lot of the space on my mind-shelf, but a more exhaustive list of projects includes:
painting flash animashun
- Grocery Bags in Love →
- Fire Planet →
- Robot Coffee →
- The Lady or the Tiger &rarr
- animations main page →
Q] I'd like to to collaborate with you on some art. Or pay you, I'd like to pay you to make art for me.
A] Fantastico! Let's make some art! Email me right away! Don't delay!
Q] I was confused by your art. Alternately, I was enthusiastic about it. Should I keep my feedback to myself?
A] No.
Q] What sorts of personal development projects are you working on now?
A] Relaxing, non-reaction. Those are big ones. Clarifying my ideas about urban subsistence farming. Writing songs, writing other words.
Q] What's "Tuesday Art"?
A] Tuesday Art
See more at the Flash main page →
Q] Your webcomics, Cat & Llama and Why Democracy Doesn't Work: are you updating them on a regular basis, or just when you feel like it, or what?
A] It's been sporadic so far. They come when I'm inspired. But I haven't forgotten about you! I love you.
Q] Why doesn't Llama appear very often in "The New Adventures of Cat & Llama"? Is the frog supposed to be "Llama"? Is the bird? Does Llama turn into the frog, then into the bird, then back into a frog? I get it now.
A] The "real" Llama lives
Q] Why don't you call it "Cat & Friends" then?
A] Hm. But which webcomic do you want to read: "Cat & Llama" or "Cat & Friends"? "Cat & Friends" just makes you think of "Garfield & Friends" and oh mans Garfield is so lame but remember when it used to be good? Remember collecting all the books and they were so funny?
Q] "The New Adventures of Cat & Llama"? Can I read the old "Adventures of Cat & Llama"?
A] I think the first issues ever are with Llama still (hey! Llama! Cough 'em up!). I've got a couple of other issues kicking around, will look into posting 'em up.
Q] I have a great idea for a comic. Would you like to hear it?
A] Yes.
Q] Your drawings are neat. Do you ever think about doing compositions, or narratives?
A] Yes. I did Song of the Chicken in September 2008. And the next installment in the "20 page booklet" series ("My Goose") will be both narrative and compositional. I dare me.
You can download the other booklets by clicking here →
Q] Do you do art for a living?
A] Naw—in the daytime, I'm a capitalist/nonprofiteer with Social Venture Network (www.svn.org). We're a network of socially responsible entrepreneurs.
Q] In the booklets, there are weird letters sometimes. What's that about?
A] In Good Juice, when those letters appear it's generally me writing notes to save myself. Since I write with that alphabet a lot more than I read it, I'm fairly illiterate in it, even having made it up. Plus the characters and spelling have changed over the years, so sometimes words are indecipherable. But prolly with half an hour and a "Rosetta" translation you could decrypt the whole thing, and read my notes about, "chocolate?" and "this attempt at teambuilding is a farce." Note that: private notes to save myself were a necessity at my old work.
Q] You use the phrase "lovingly hand-coded" a lot. I have no idea what that means.
A] It just means that I built the site out of text and love, and not with something that would aid in ensuring best practice in web design, like, say, a tight content management system, or software from the lovely and oh-so-integrated Adobe Suite.
Messing around with HTML puts me in a Zen-like flow state, where I forget time and the confines of world and body. I like the spartan look of the site, which is a lucky thing, since I don't really know how to code it any other way.
I'm hoping that my skills at basic-level HTML will be generalizable to more serious programming and compy skills. Like buckling down and learning a scripting language, for instance.
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A] RSS here:
And the rest? Someone day soon, baby. Someone day soon.
Q] What about t-shirts. I think you should make t-shirts.
A] I think so too. Take a look at
www.zazzle.com/ericaricardo →
Q] I would like to teach you a scripting language. Tight as can be?
A] Tight as can be. Email or give a call, with a quickness.
Q] There's a lot of great content on this site, but it's buried. Why do you bury it? Like this FAQ is a much easier way to get to your animations and other art than the front page. And even then, it's rough.
A] I keep thinking that a content overhaul will just happen to me, the way that true love at first sight can just happen to you. Or financial windfall. Or being a guest on Oprah. I'm pretty good about publishing cool content on the RSS though.
Q] Was that a reference to The Princess Bride?
A] What, "RSS"? Oh oh oh you mean "Rodents of Unusual Size". Those big scary voles. RSS is the thing where you can notify Dear Readers of updates to content.
Q] I don't like The Princess Bride. Or the Rolling Stones.
A] For real-ity? How do you trust yourself to believe the things you think, when you don't like the Rolling Stones?
Q] What's next?
A] All my draws are so flat. I am flipping this aspect of my drawing (like a sensei flips a guy) from a so-called "weakness" into a strength, since the trés awesome, hot medium of Flash loves flat, depthless drawings. So, I'm in luck. See more at this spot here →
I'm also thinking about video, too. uTube, get ready. And then there's also thoughts of renewing the musing/blogging vibe that dominated the early days, cf The Hot Fi5e →
Q] I'm here on accident—I was looking for the other Erica Dreisbach.
A] The one from Pennsylvania Deutsch country? Yeah, I'm not her. But she got married, I think she might be Erica Thompson now. Much like the Highlander, there can only be one.
Q] You've managed to do a whole FAQ without ever addressing the most frequently asked question about ericaricardo.com. Which is also the only question ever asked about ericaricardo.com.
A] Which question is that?
Q] Your name is Erica Dreisbach.
A] Right.
Q] Your name is not Erica Ricardo.
A] Right.
Q] So...?
A] So.
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