Rorschach’s New York ID

I am a big fan of the movie Watchmen and have made several paper props from the film. I came across an image of an old 80′s New York drivers license and decided to make an ID for Rorschach, this doesn’t appear in the movie.

I used a picture of Rorschach and a picture of Jackie Earl Haley, the actor who played Rorschach, and used PSP to create an ID picture by merging the two together, removing the black eye from the movie image. I Googled an image of the shape of New York state and used it as a template for the ID card front. I create several layers in PSP with each detail on it.  I then created what I thought would make a suitable back of the card.

So far I haven’t put together a finished ID card from these files, but to do so I would print the front and back. These are glued to some thin card to give the correct weight and feel of an ID, the ID then gets laminated and then the thing will get grubbed up and weathered to look as if Rorschach had it in his pocket,  the edges then get rounded with a tool from a scrap booking store for that purpose .

Who watches the watch tower

On a couple of occasions while I have been waiting for my bus in the morning an Audi containing two women pulls up behind me (it has been a different Audi on each occasion). One women stays in the car while the other exits and approaches me. As she nears she offers some magazines in her hand towards me and wishes me a good morning and asks how I am doing.

I notice the magazine is the Watchtower from the Jehovah’s Witness. before the women goes into her spiel I save her time and energy and tell I am not interested. She thanks me and again wishes me a good morning as I do to her.

I have to say while she had the magazine thrust out at me the idiot little voice in my head urged me on trying to get me to say:

“Watchtower! Cool,” I snatch magazine from her hands, “I love this comic, Rorschach, the Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, hey where’s the bloody pictures?”

While the inner voice giggles like a little school girl, I fight off the urge, the women are out in the cold espousing their beliefs and the magazine, no need for me to be crass!