Like I said yesterday, this is about the halfway point of my year long challenge. For those who are wondering what I’m doing here’s a quick recap.
Every year I try to challenge myself creatively. Some examples have been: a Doctor Who series of geocaches, building a pinewood derby car, actually publishing a comic book and tabling at a convention, things like that. So in January I decided I would create a unique MINIon badge for every day of the year. This stemmed from creating a series of badges for a group of MINI owners for MINI Takes The States 2014. Each badge has a hand drawn monkey, a clone of Cecil, on it. I made some rules that have been bent – each clone wears a fez with the MINIon logo on it. This has changed to having the MINIon logo somewhere when a fez doesn’t fit into the character I’ve drawn.
Like I said this was originally for a group of MINI owners, so the numbers were their choice and I have no idea what the numbers mean for those badges. Once I had run through those people I started doing other MINIons. Those the numbers do mean something- usually related to the actual MINIon. 1889 for example was the year VanGogh painted Starry Night, and the self portrait with bandage that I used as inspiration for the MINIon. With 187 posted so far, I only have 178 to go. I’ve kept a spreadsheet of the numbers but a few got lost at the beginning. This happens to be one of those. The rule for John Cooper Works GP owners- the MINIon is in a racing suit (again there are always exceptions, but I really tried to stick to that rule). I’m still working on my comic, but for the time being it will post sporadically.
SO what does half a year of MINIon badges look like?
