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Yes I know. It's been some time since I posted something in here.

But I'm always checking for spam contents.

Mee hee.

OUTPOST FORUM 1047

After the crash we're back.

It's a case of me trying to fix some cgi-bin files at the wrong time.

Had I opted to wait longer... things would have been solved faster.

I think my 'wait for the problem to go away' attitude got snagged somewhere last Thursday.

But then again if I opted for the easier path, you wouldn't be seeing this new interface... : )

And since my hands were already dirty, I decided to upgrade some 2 year old cgi/perl scripts.

I've been using some of these scripts for years now and I saw movements from their respective sites after a long time.

I'm talking about YaBB 2.2 (Two years in the making) / BoardMod 2.5.6 (Previous release was dated 06/10/2005) and GreyMatter 1.8.1 scripts (The one I was using for pixelnews prior to the update was still 1.2).

Also... while I was working on the new outpost interface, I found some easier ways to do things in Photoshop CS 3 which usually takes me 15++ minutes to do in the pre-CS version that I have.

(Time spent for cursing not included.)

I'll be sharing those things later... : )

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OUTPOST FORUM 1047 released.

Poser 7 / Adobe CS2 / PaintShop Pro 5.02
Daz3D's Stephanie Petite 3.0 / Irina 2.0

Rendered at 5AM after 9++ hours of coding.

CGSociety and 3D World released a list of Top 100 Greatest 3D Movies.

Also from the same site is a special feature on three of the top VFX films of 2007.

THE ANTI-REFLECTION / 1600x1200 / 803482 bytes
Adobe CS2 / Poser 7 / PaintShop Pro 5.02 / TY2 / Miscellaneous TY2 Freebies

Time-wise you can classify my artworks into two categories.

First... those that takes months (or years (and I'm not even kidding)) to finish containing 3 digit number of layers where the first digit is not 1 and is divided
into four to five 50+ MB PSD files.

Or the ones I create for three hours or less while waiting for something to finish.

The Anti-Reflection belongs to the second category.

I had fun anyway... : ]

"Sometimes when I look into the mirror, there's this stranger I see, who won't look back at me." ~qs

Daniel Simon's The Detonator Bike (via TheLair/protozoa)

Got to have one of those for my qs.

More aa-awesomeazing Daniel Simon artworks, concepts and illustrations can be found in his official site. (And of course an art site would not be complete without female illustrations... : )

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE

Merry Christmas everyone... : ]

Aliens... bacteria and creatures from the Hollow Earth included.

Daz3D's Aiko 3 / Xinxin / MIJ Bundle / Cool Fever
Rendered in Poser 6 (Poser 4 RenderENGINE)
Postwork in Adobe Photoshop CS / PSP 5.02
Background: Remixed Entrance Version III artwork

CGSociety.org posted an article on Beowulf Effects.

Interesting.

That... or I'm just finding an excuse to post Angelina Jolie pics.

Jolie, by the way, will also star in Wanted... an adaptation of Mark Millar's comic which Top Cow published.

To early to tell if this will be placed in the Comics-To-Movies Done Right list or the Hollywood-Butchers-Another-One bin.

I was reading Marvel's February 2008 solicitations at newsarama.

I buy comics for the art.

I read for the stories... but I can always DCP them somewhere or read them at wikipedia.org.

Or borrow from a friend.

(Read them I do before Hollywood butchers them.)

Nothing much has interested me art-wise except for this.

That's X-Force 1... digitally illustrated by Clayton Crain.

Clayton's style (3D-ish with digital airbrush) was impressive in both Ghost Rider limited series: The Road To Damnation and Trail of Tears.

He also illustrated this Spider-Man: Venom versus Carnage limited series prior to that Ghost Rider gig and some Sensational Spiderman covers and interiors.

(And Universe from Top Cow but his style was different then.)

Marvel also compiled some excellent Clayton Crain wallpapers. (There's a free registration process but it's worth it if you're into this kind of thing.)

X-Force would probably be released sometime January (or late December) but if you're looking for amazing artworks in comics this month... you'd definitely go for Ultimates 3.

Nice to see superstar JoeMad back... with Jeph Loeb nonetheless.

And Christian Lichtner!

That's Mr. Liquid to you.

Jeph Loeb is one of the most respected writers in comics who was also a part of the writing/production of Smallville... Lost and currently... Heroes.

Whether he's working for DC or Marvel, most of Loeb's arcs hit the number 1 spot in terms of sales (and quality).

Ultimates 1 and 2 under Mark Millar, although verymvery entertaining (and political) never hit slot.001 in their 3++ year run. (That is of course if my memory and sources are right... : )

Also of course there's that third and final issue of First Born from Top Cow which deserves a different post.

But here's the cover artwork for now. (And you can view more preview images in this link.)

To be fair to DC here's their February 2008 solicitations.

In the lighter side of things... LEIGH remixed one of my Terai Yuki 2 renders.

Nice funky effects.

Now being the demanding person that I am, I'll be asking 9 more remixes from her (or probably 7... I'll create and remix 2 myself) and do a pingpong collab with her which will be compiled into one mosaic.

Knowing how slow I work that would probably take 3 to 5 years to finish.

But I think it's worth the try.

What do you think, LEIGH..?

Another modified Terai Yuki 2 render.

Content Paradise's TY2 / modified TY2 Straight Jeans (Billy-T) / E-Frontier Poser 6 (using P4 Render Engine)

And of course the logo in her shirt is a VFPX project developer logo.

VFPX at CodePlex. Help spread the word.

VFPX.

Why we fight the UFO/ET information war.

Why indeed, when we can just use our PCs to hack the US military, Pentagon or NASA and search their databases for alien related documents..?

Like what Gary McKinnon did.

This setup (image below) should protect those information from hackers... hackers like Gary and my pet Ikia.

Though right now they (Yes 'they' (Inanimate objects have life (No not Gary and Ikia but those PS3s))) are being used to measure 'theoretical gravity waves - ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light'. (Please don't tell me you need hyperlinks for that.)

(Photo in the left from Gaurav Khanna (via wired.com). Right is another Terai Yuki render... : )

Harumv!

Why bother with aliens when we can have mind readers... from Microsoft.

Start gathering the pitchforks!

Minor tweaks.

Nice site » Hybridworks.jp

Don't forget to check the yoritsuki icons... also from the same site.

I know this is pixelnews material (and I have posted it there already), but I can't help but link it from here.

Besides I need a new blog category aside from 'Visual FoxPro' and the imported archive greymatter files that are posted by default in the General categories (which I still have to sort out (slowly)).

A friend of mine, areman would probably dig that site.

He works on a japanese sla... software company (halts... my desktop computer keeps on crashing everytime I'm linking to areman's site (or probably just the mere mention of his site frightens Parcel, my PC)), eats japanese food seven times on a normal day, and talks the japanese language with matching scribbling of characters in the air to his imaginary friend.

Windows Vista... wallpapers... that did 'not make the cut into Vista's Wallpaper Collection'.

Hmmm... let's just call it Hamad Darwish: World of Photography.

Download link... in the lower part of that site... just in case you're having problems with your attention span just like me... : )

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This is the part where we have an awkward moment with an entity whom we haven't had conversation with for quite some time.

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No posts for more than three months to be precise.

Christmas 2006 went by... New Year 2007... Valentine's day and even this blog's third year online and I haven't been able to pushe myself into posting anything here.

I got tagged too. (I'll post a separate scribble for that.)

And, Yes... foxpro.catalyst is three years old... : )

Ah three years of encrypting anti-alien-invasion code maps and schematics in the guise of FoxPro-related materials for covert cybernetically enhanced humanoids in seven areas of this planet.

(The old process was to embed in each image posted an encrypted message which you can extract through its RGB/HSL/dimension values, and decode using a dynamically-modified key stored somewhere in this site. (Again old process so I'm revealing it now.))

Seriously... thanks for all the fish, the visits, the rss grabbin', the linking, and reading.

Thanks.

So where were we for the past few months..?

The easiest answer is to barf out that b--- word, which every human, including (but not limited to), those who discovered porn, use these days.

The world, our world is slowly being filled with humans who tend to be always busy.

(And pretending to be busy.)

(There's that space between Task.001 and Task.002 so we invented blogs.)

So where were we really..?

Let's just say qs and I decided to take this little work-quest that we have started around five years ago to another level.

I will share the specifics, some keypoints, random roadblocks, issues, fruits and some details of this journey.

RY finally updates EYEBALL-DESIGN.com.

Great job!