A Bloody Sweetness

I made a set of index cards for @tmafearszine illustrating Smirke’s 15 fears. I’m posting them all in batches of 5, alphabetically; today’s the last batch (also my favorite!) The Slaughter, The Spiral, The Stranger, The Vast, and The Web.

Batch 1 Batch 2

Fun fact: The Spiral’s design is based on the maze from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’

“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’

“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.

“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.