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Artists Needed to Create Cover for IACFS/ME Physician Primer on Treatment

Cort

Phoenix Rising Founder
From Ken Friedman

The IACFS/ME's Physician's Primer for the Diagnosis and Treatment of CFS/ME has progressed to the point where we would be please to receive artwork for its cover.

My personal belief is that the Primer's cover should showcase the artwork of a CFS/ME patient or the artwork of progeny of a CFS patient who has expressed his/her perceptions and emotions regarding the ill parent through art.

Please send submissions electronically to me at this email address.

If sufficient artwork is submitted, I will champion a compendium of the works to be published either by the IACFS/ME or elsewhere: CFS/ME - No Longer the Invisible Illness.

--
Kenneth J. Friedman, Ph.D.
Treasurer, IACFS/ME
Director of Public Policy, P.A.N.D.O.R.A., Inc.
Board Member, NJCFSA
Board Member, VT CFIDS
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, New Jersey Medical School (retired)
 

Nielk

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Cort,
I think you left the e-mail address out.
Is there a deadline for this?
I guess they are looking for an appropriate theme of this illness as a representation for the art work?
 

SilverbladeTE

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The "odd" part works.

hehe ;)

well finished this one tonight (can't be used though as it's "fan art" ship design's based off an artwork from a game, I built it in 3D)

spelljammer_rocks_small.jpg

full sized pic here
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/various/spelljammer_rocks.jpg


bit odd for most folsk taste though

more like these they may like
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/fantasy_2009/wyverns_castle6.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/fantasy_2008/lost_river.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/vue1/horde5.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/vue2007/lightfighter_mk2_19.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/vue1/gunwing_laland1.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/artofadreamer/3d/bedazzlement.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/characters/kassim_defend.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/various/ilithid_captain.jpg
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/characters/drow_ambusher_dark.jpg

etc
 

leela

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Here's a sketch I did ages ago of a wee beached shark. While it pretty accurately depicts what we feel like most of the time, it would certainly give the wrong message for treatment guidelines! :eek:

beached shark_sm.jpg
 

leela

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Silver,
Great imagery! I especially like the SquidfaceMan, because he looks to me like the malevolent deity that rules over all our myriad parasites and pathogens!

E.T.A. I vote for him for the cover, as he represents what the treatments are up against ;)
 

SilverbladeTE

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Silver,
Great imagery! I especially like the SquidfaceMan, because he looks to me like the malevolent deity that rules over all our myriad parasites and pathogens!

E.T.A. I vote for him for the cover, as he represents what the treatments are up against ;)

*bows* thank you! :)
Hm, so, Cthulhu invented ME/CFS?! Hey it all makes sense now: torments from an Elder Cthonic God of Evil! :p
Does that make Wessely, Yog-Sothoth?! hehe
 

leela

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leela,

That's some awesome piece of art!!!!

Gee, thanks! :ashamed:

Your painting is beautiful and quite suited for the hopefulness we all hold even as we are lost in the the craggy, barren landscape of this illness. I hope you submit it.
 

leela

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*bows* thank you! :)
Hm, so, Cthulhu invented ME/CFS?! Hey it all makes sense now: torments from an Elder Cthonic God of Evil! :p
Does that make Wessely, Yog-Sothoth?! hehe

Well, not being fmiliar with Lovecraft, I had to look up both Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth... And while Cthulhu remains a contender for Presider over the Evil That Is M.E., I sincerely hope Wessely et al have no ties with Yog-Sothoth as defined by Wikipedia, or else we are in BIG trouble...

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"


By the way, the Wiki image for Y-S looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Okay I'm way OT now. Signing off before I derail this thread.
 

Sallysblooms

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I think they just need a good photo or art of a doctor learning about supplements. Thank goodness many do, but not all of them.
 

Nielk

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I think they just need a good photo or art of a doctor learning about supplements. Thank goodness many do, but not all of them.

They want to display a piece of art from a patient. Sallysblooms, you are very talented. I'm sure you can come up with something beautiful. It's not about winning really. If they have enough entries, they want to make a book out of it. I think that's cool.