Haven't done one of these in a while

Hey all. How has the new year been treating you? Good I hope. At any rate I was bored so I decided to post something.

Recently I have been trying to get more into the graphic design practice. I sketch constantly, but I never seem to find time to hone my other skills, I'm not sure why... At any rate. Graphic design - more than likely, like many other art-forms - is fun to do when you are idle and need to kill time. Why? Because you can make easy excuses for getting practice in, which is always good.

For example: recently I discovered the folder properties in windows XP, and was going crazy on my various My Pictures sub-folders, changing default icons to icons of cameras, picking specific pictures to represent specific folders, and also - and this is where the graphics comes in - designing covers for the different groups of images.

Here's my favorite one, for the image folder "Nature Calls - A gallery of the works of art in nature"

The next is what I consider the better piece but still not my favorite (If that makes sense at all) "The Strobelight Seduction Gallery" a piece inspired by the works of Progressive House musician Kaskade. Beautiful music this man(?)/woman(?) makes. It helps calm me down, power me up, and I am frequently inspired by it, as the percussion resonates with my mind and my soul. Unfortunately blogger is going awol (as is the formula) so it won't upload the Strobelight Seduction pic. More than likely they're all going on MandelaSix, so if you want you can see them there.

Toodles

Your subscription to the Future Times

Okay here's an example of stuff we should have right now seeing as this is the futuristic world of 2010:

Holographic "Newspapers"

Old me reading a HoloPress

This was an idea that I had thought of when I was writing a novel for my Space Impact fanstory. I would call it fanfiction, except there's no manipulation of previously existing character's in the Space Impact story. Only new characters based within and around the realm of the Space Impact mythos. The only mention to the old games I made was of its star Geneva, and even so it was at a passing glance.

At any rate, the Holographic Newspaper aka HoloPress is basically like an Amazon Kindle with the exception that rather than having to buy each book and then download it like the Kindle, the HoloPress only requires turning it on and getting a subscription. Then it will receive the signal sent out by whichever news agency it covers, and project the stories into the Projection Frame for viewing and manipulation.

The stories will still follow a news paper format, and the Projection Frame has touchscreen capabilities allowing you to "turn through the pages" with a flick of the thumb. Processors are getting smaller and smaller. Microchips doubly so. I saw a projector the other day that connects on to the bottom of your cell phone. And I know that hologram technology is in use by armies and scientists. We have WiFi signals that span entire states... AND ITS 2010? WHY DON'T WE HAVE THESE YET?

I am thoroughly disappointed in you futuristic world of 2010!

Happy New Year Ya'll

I know late... AGAIN. christ.

Happy New Year everyone. Wow, a new decade. WHERE ARE MY FLYING CARS AND HOLOGRAM NEWSPAPERS? AS IN SERIOUSLY. I'm idle. I think I'm going to draw something and put it up here. brb.