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8/26/06 --Okay, the new website is now located at the www.marktedin.com domain and I've updated all the links hopefully. Lotsa room here and hopefully no more blackouts for a very long time!
I'm keepting the prefab portal page for now but will probably change it later. I learned that upper-case letters in .html URLS were a big no-no, it causes problems when manually typing in case-senstitive words. Lotsa broken links. Now it seems to be working fine. Please redirect all links to this site if you see any difference. The old URLS won't be updated with new information and will be taken down within the week. If you have any problems with the site on the new server, just drop me a line!
8/25/06 --Well, I'm switching the website to a new location, so I may have to go offline for a few hours. I'm thinking that after this, the two direct locations "tedinmark.home.mindspring.com/Home.html" and "tedinmark2.home.mindspring.com/Home.html" will probably go dark. I'm getting direct access and hosting control over www.marktedin.com in a few minutes as I switch routing over to the new server. Please bear with me as the website goes dark today. The main page will still be www.marktedin.com.
8/24/06 --So there's been more than a few images floating about the web that were shot at the Wizards of the Coast™ booth during GenCon™ 2006. They were described as "concept art" for the upcoming Time Spiral set. Now I can't divulge how the images are going to be used or what they are, but since they've seen the light of day I might as well give you a better look:
Also, I've updated the art on the Clout© page to reflect the most recent two sets, Defenders of Undersea and Redbeard's Revenge.
8/16/06 --Some old cards are making an appearance again at the Wizards™ website. Lord of the Pit from the original release of Magic© and Necropotence from Ice Age.
8/8/06 --Hey, whattya know...I do have a card in Coldsnap! Not new art though. It's Deathspark from the Alliances set about ten years ago. I still don't have a decent scan yet of the artwork, but you can find a small picture here. I hope to see some of you at GenCon™ Thursday!
8/2/06 --White Silver Publishing™ has published the timeslots when I'll be at their booth next week at GenCon™:
Thursday: 10am-12pm, 1pm-4pm
Friday: 12pm-4pm
Saturday: 10am-12pm, 1pm-4pm
Sunday: 10am-1pm
Other artists times can be found at this link.
7/26/06 --I've slimmed down the News section and put most of it on an archive page reorganized in chronological order.
7/23/06 --The main site is down because of overactivity again, but the backup site is still working. You've probably figured that out anyway since you're here.
There's a new article about the Forgotten Ancient on the WoTC website. It's mostly about how I made a visual connection between that image and the Celestial Ancient that came later. The sketch for that card is also featured there.
7/18/06 --There's now a much larger view of the Raffle Montage piece that's available to benefit the Children's Make a Wish Foundation. The webpage at the White Silver Publishing has a write-up at this link.
7/13/06 --This is a little last minute, but I just agreed to head out to the St. Louis Magic: The Gathering© Grand Prix event next weekend, July 21-23. There is more information about the event at the Wizards of the Coast™ site and at www.moyevents.com. No concrete details yet about the appearance, but I'll be doing the usual signing of cards and selling of prints and other stuff on Saturday only.
7/11/06 --Going to GENCON™!!! This year I will be making the sojourn to the annual Indianapolis game fair on August 9-13, courtesy of White Silver Publishing™, publishers of the upcoming Ramlar© game. There will be ample prints available, as well as artist proof cards and maybe a collection of original art to show. A thanks goes out to John Prescott for making the trip possible this year.
On the White Silver Publishing™ site, there is a mention of a collaborative piece that Larry Elmore, Ron Spencer, Jennifer Meyer, James Ryman, Kevin Crossley and I have worked on. It will be presented as a prize to a lucky raffle ticket holder at DragonCon this fall; the tickets are available now to benefit Children's Make a Wish Foundation. Go to my Ramlar© page for a closer look.
You may have noticed that I haven't done anything for Magic:The Gathering's© Coldsnap. No worries, scheduling got tight and I was unavailable to work on the set. My work will be featured in Time Spiral, due out in October.
6/6/06 --Despite that many modern scholars have identified the true number of the beast as "611" instead of "666", I'd still like to mark this truly special day with a request to people with extreme personality disorders to not mess around. It's a number folks, and since nothing of note happened 100 years ago (or a score of times before that), it deserves to be ignored like any other day. Relax, and go watch an episode of "House" instead.
Beyond that, Experiment Kraj was mentioned again in a WoTC article yesterday explaining scale in Magic artwork. They've also shown a pretty decent scan of Celestial Ancient. The one on my page shows the correct value range (the artwork is a little darker than how it was printed), but the one in the article shows better the greenish-blue tones that my scanner doesn't capture that well.
6/1/06 --Experiment Kraj is now a humongous Wallpaper of the Week at the WoTC site! Dang, I knew I should have spent more time detailing the sucker....
5/30/06 --I will be in Toronto this weekend (June 2-4) appearing at a Magic:The Gathering© Grand Prix event organized by Skyfox Games. The Toronto Congress Centre will hold the event. A WoTC-sponsored webpage with more details can be found here.
I'll be posting signing times when I get there, and I usually will sign at least 5-6 hours per day. However I'll probably be heading out for the airport mid-afternoon Sunday.
4/28/06 --Two recent articles have explained why my old card Time Vault may soon be losing its "punch":
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/askwizards/0406
http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/article/11812.html
4/22/06 --New Dissension cards are now live on the website!
4/11/06 --Wanna see something "grody"? New Dissension card preview!
4/05/06 --I'll be attending a Magic:The Gathering© Dissension prerelease event on the weekend of April 22-23 at StarCityGames in Richmond, Virginia. More information about the event can be found at their site. They also put up a handy page that visually lists all my cards in one convenient place (573 with all variations). Thanks, guys!
I've also added another Art page to better accomodate recent and upcoming Magic sets.
3/20/06 --Here is the link for the Magic Grand Prix schedules for the next couple of months. The specific page for the event at the Cardiff International Arena this next weekend is here.
3/19/06 --I will be attending one of Wizards of the Coast's™ Magic:The Gathering© Grand Prix events next weekend in Cardiff, UK (Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th). I'm really looking forward to seeing Wales and signing cards at the event. I don't have specific information about the venue just yet, but check out the Magic:TG webpage and root around the events schedule and there should be something mentioned there. I'll try to get more information posted as it comes in.
3/08/06 --A link for the role-playing game Ramlar© from White Silver Publishing™ has been updated. The game will most likely premiere during GenCon 2006. Their page just went live so there's a few blank spots right now, but check it out. I'll post the art later as it becomes officially public.
3/02/06 --I finally got that spacing problem fixed with the preview .gif boxes on the Magic Art List pages. It took a closer look at the HTML to fix the problem, which made the boxes "clump together" badly with some browsers. They resize much more smoothly now. I also updated the Clout page to reflect the upcoming release of the Defenders of Undersea set this month. Since the Sea Hag artwork has shown up on the web as packaging art, I'll update it with a page of its own shortly.
2/15/06 --Well, the website dropped out only halfway through the month, so hopefully you're reading this on the backup mirror site anyway. I'm going to let the main site stay down for two more weeks and let it reset on its own. I'll have to deal with the increased traffic more creatively in the future, so please bear with the current dropout.
2/11/06 --I just got a message from my website host that my site has exceeded the 80% traffic mark already. And it's only the eleventh! ;) There was an unusual spike in traffic on Wednesday so it looks like the main site will go down pretty soon. Remember, if you have problems with this site, use the backup mirror site or just bookmark the "foyer" page www.marktedin.com instead to get there.
I've also updated the second Magic card page to denote the cardsets I didn't contribute to back in 96-98.
2/09/06 --Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's and all that. As you've probably figured out, I didn't do any cards for Magic: The Gathering's© Ravnica: Guildpact set. Not for any ominous reason, mind you. My work shedule got very tight and I concentrated on other deadlines instead, including some upcoming Magic work as well.
I've updated the list of promotional cards I've done over the years. Not many have images yet (still hunting some of them down), but at least the list is accurate now.
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