{"id":128,"date":"2004-04-07T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=128"},"modified":"2007-11-12T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T01:08:53","slug":"nf-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/128","title":{"rendered":"NF . Heavy Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltv.com\/showitem.cfm?Itemnum=3610\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Metal&#8217;s December <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, Arial\">2003<\/font> issue<\/a> yesterday.   Bought it for a third of its original price (Is this starting to be a trend already?).  The cover artwork is done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borisjulie.com\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Vallejo<\/a> but inside a find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luisroyo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Royo<\/a>, the fantasy artist that inspires me the most, released Conceptions II already.  So I fired up Google to look for a gallery online.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived a minute later at the front door of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantaysia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fantaysia.com Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also stumbled upon an online gallery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jormungand.de\/royo\/prohib3\/prohib31.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Prohibited Books III<\/a> in that site (though I later found out that it was uploaded already a couple of months ago at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therionweb.de\" target=\"_blank\">Therionweb.de<\/a>, the site where I usually download fantasy-related artworks).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I spent the whole night until almost sunrise viewing, pondering, right-clicking and saving these images to my bloating hard drive.  I have been collecting JPEG versions of the Luis Royo&#8217;s artworks since the day I found his <a href=\"http:\/\/xoomer.virgilio.it\/volker1\/royo\/malefic\/malefic1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Malefic series<\/a> in the &#8216;net (Funny I was really looking for Anime that day).  <\/p>\n<p>It would need <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, Arial\">19<\/font> pages or more if I have to describe the works a genius like Luis Royo creates.  His artworks inspired the first website I published- collections.com and for those of you who first found this site before <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com\" target=\"_blank\">pixelcatalyst.lair<\/a>, I also create <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com\/wallpapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">digital artworks<\/a> in my free time to release the tensions and pressures that database programming bring.  One of my artworks, <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com\/wallpapers\/infestedpixels\/barofpersuasion1600x1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The Bar of Persuasion<\/a> was inspired by Luis Royo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/img233.imageshack.us\/img233\/6151\/luisroyop2thecrossofplegv5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Cross of Pleasure<\/a>.  Be warned though that most of his artworks contain materials and elements that might be &#8216;offensive&#8217; especially to the conservative ones.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this have to do with Visual FoxPro and database programming?  Nothing really&#8230; though two of Luis Royo&#8217;s artworks, <a href=\"http:\/\/img407.imageshack.us\/img407\/9770\/luisroyolightofpanicgg1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Light of Panic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/img48.imageshack.us\/img48\/7545\/luisroyowingsofreflectisp0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wings of Reflection<\/a>, are always posted on the wall of the room or cubicle where I work since eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of those things you can find on my desk\/cube that keeps the creative juices flowing and fires up the neurons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/p>\n<p><b>More Luis Royo-related links<\/b>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luisroyo.com\" target=\"_blank\">LuisRoyo.com<\/a> [Official website]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/members.xoom.it\/volker1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/members.xoom.it\/volker1<\/a> [Luis Royo Galleries]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therionweb.de\" target=\"_blank\">TherionWeb.de<\/a> [More amazing fantasy artworks]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=pd_kk_sr_1\/102-1201192-5005704?index=blended&#038;field-keywords=royo\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Royo artbooks at Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a copy of Heavy Metal&#8217;s December 2003 issue yesterday. Bought it for a third of its original price (Is this starting to be a trend already?). The cover artwork is done by Boris Vallejo but inside a find out that Luis Royo, the fantasy artist that inspires me the most, released Conceptions II [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gfx","category-randomlinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}