Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!

"Upon receiving my order, I carefully opened the box and dug through the packing peanuts in order to get to the pen contained therein. 'Beautiful!', I thought, and promptly opened up my moleskine notebook to jot down to myself some notes. My previous pen had ran out of ink four weeks prior and I didn't want to splurge on expensive shipping, which meant I had a lot of notes to catch up on writing.  But, when that quality carbide ball touched the surface of the paper, it was not ink that came out. From a distance I heard the screams of men and the cackling of innumerable ravens. I stopped, cold and sweating profusely. I looked down at the Bic Crystal black medium ballpoint pen which I held in my hand, only to see darkness. I dashed it against the wall, recoiling in horror. I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen. It spread across the page like a plague, and looking at it I gazed upon true horrors. For, what I thought had been ink was in fact a portal to a dark, unforgiving dimension. A portal whose maw was now widening to engulf all hope and joy in the world.  'God, what have I done?' I exclaimed as I weeped and fell to my knees, 'What have I done?'  From beyond the Dark Gate I heard these words, words which I can never forget. A terrible, booming voice said to me, 'Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!'  I ran, blindly stumbling, away from that place and never looked back. My only hope is that none shall follow in the path I've walked down, too blinded by hubris to realize my follies." 

 Customer review for a Bic Crystal ballpoint pen which is simply awesome.  

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Tea time has gone horribly wrong

Just posted a new piece today Tea Time Has Gone Horribly Wrong on Pixelrust. Really happy with how it came out. Took a whole bunch of different shots and tricks to make it all happen. Looks really strong as a print as well. Makes me want a large format printer even more. Hopefully the tax man will be good to me and not rape me up the ass this year so I could afford one.54 layers. Not too bad.

The fire was the most fun. Think more images are inbound that have fire. I was thinking the water would be a lot more fun. But since it does not throw off any light, it was not as fun as I hoped. Still need to explore some more water based pics though. Ice maybe?

For Sale = One Large Stock Photo Agency

If you have not heard, Getty Images is going up for sale. Pretty serious stuff and it effects my biz in a funny way. But the best break down of it I have found so far is the following:

"But, it is not because a company is for sale that one, it will find buyers, two, it will disappear. This is not the end of Getty images, so those that rejoice, or those that predict the apocalypse of this industry should tone down and listen. At $850 million a year, Getty Image has proven that this industry has a huge potential. And for a company that started with $30 million, $1,5 Billion is not that bad. In other words, I fail to see where is the failure."

Interesting take.

New image

Sometimes my ideas get the better of me Made this in about 3 days. My house still has a lingering smell of cigar smoke. It's going to be used as a new promo mailer for the retouching biz.

...But they lived in what might be considered more enlightened times: the 18th and 19th centuries.

"The great American statesman Benjamin Franklin, a Deist, said, "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absented myself from Christian Assemblies." President Thomas Jefferson, also a Deist, was even more anti-Christian: "The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious." President Abraham Lincoln said, < ahref="http://www.nthposition.com/thedubiousworldof.php">"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Via wood s lot.

Alberto Seveso

Alberto Seveso has really come a long way with his style. His new work is stunning. Wish I could link to it better. Here is his home page for those who want to know more.

The designer side of me want to get a hold of his collections of vectors!

Typing program

Man I suck at typing. It's been a goal of mine to get better at it for years. Well, this flash app seems to be helping:

Keybr

Gonna do 5 day and see if I can limit those ugly chat typos!

Free stuff!

Man, I went nutty today with the photoshop freebies out there. Found some cool textures and brushes at a place called Bittbox and grabbed this new template from N.Design. Some slick code there.

What I've Learned

"The pro game of acting is very difficult. You go into that editing room and there is empirical evidence of what you've done. And no matter how good they say you are, well over half of what you do is pure shit. You can be totally self-annihilating about it if you want."

Jack Nicholson

Thomas Gauck

Interesting... Kinda of like the Starn Twins, but digital. I like this one the most I think. It's a hard line to ride with digital compositions between cheesy and art. Good ideas here though.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!

"Upon receiving my order, I carefully opened the box and dug through the packing peanuts in order to get to the pen contained therein. 'Beautiful!', I thought, and promptly opened up my moleskine notebook to jot down to myself some notes. My previous pen had ran out of ink four weeks prior and I didn't want to splurge on expensive shipping, which meant I had a lot of notes to catch up on writing.

But, when that quality carbide ball touched the surface of the paper, it was not ink that came out. From a distance I heard the screams of men and the cackling of innumerable ravens. I stopped, cold and sweating profusely. I looked down at the Bic Crystal black medium ballpoint pen which I held in my hand, only to see darkness. I dashed it against the wall, recoiling in horror. I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen. It spread across the page like a plague, and looking at it I gazed upon true horrors. For, what I thought had been ink was in fact a portal to a dark, unforgiving dimension. A portal whose maw was now widening to engulf all hope and joy in the world.

'God, what have I done?' I exclaimed as I weeped and fell to my knees, 'What have I done?'

From beyond the Dark Gate I heard these words, words which I can never forget. A terrible, booming voice said to me, 'Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!'

I ran, blindly stumbling, away from that place and never looked back. My only hope is that none shall follow in the path I've walked down, too blinded by hubris to realize my follies.

Customer review for a Bic Crystal ballpoint pen which is simply awesome.

As seen on the boing boing

Kim Keever

Yeah, here is another one I like Kim Keever. 

I really dig the people who set up these make believe worlds but don't use any photoshop trickery. I think the back story is that this Photog sets upa 500 gallon fish tank, builds these landscapes with plaster and stuff. Then squirts in different inks and liquids to create the clouds. All 4x5. I THINK!

Don't hold me to that. I can't remember or find where I found that info. And my memory is shite.