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April's Sketch-A-Day, Day 27

Hey! What happened to days 9-26? Haha! I betcha think I haven’t been productive – Truth is I’ve been crackin’ down on 2 AstonShell themes. When the inspiration takes you, you gotta do it. Regardless, I’ve still got hand-drawn, computer-rendered, and musical sketches I’ve been chuggin’ out. Just need to scan, record, upload, and flesh out a blurb for each.

This little goober was made as an experiment with the freeware program ContextFree – kinduv a fractal-esque type program with INCREDIBLE potential (if you can get by the rather tacky syntax requirements). The trees were all rendered in ContextFree and then the background, blurring, perspective, shadows, styles, etc… were done in Photoshop CS3. I present here the wallpapers in multiple resolutions for your enjoyment (if you enjoy it).

Hey? What happened to days 9-26? Haha! I betcha think I haven’t been productive – Truth is I’ve been crackin’ down on 2 AstonShell themes (LamdaRed, and SilverTab). When the inspiration takes you, you gotta do it. Regardless, I’ve still got hand-drawn, computer-rendered, and musical sketches I’ve been chuggin’ out. Just need to scan, record, upload, and flesh out a blurb for each.

This little goober was made as an experiment with the freeware program ContextFree – kinduv a fractal-esque type program with INCREDIBLE potential (if you can get by the rather tacky syntax requirements). The trees were all rendered in ContextFree and then the background, blurring, perspective, shadows, styles, etc… were done in Photoshop CS3. I present here the wallpapers in multiple resolutions for your enjoyment (if you enjoy it).

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Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas

Where James Rollins makes you grit your teeth as your favorite characters are seemingly killed only to pop up safe at the end, Iain Banks pushes your favorite characters through gut-wrenching punishment and still has the sadism to kill ‘em all at the end anyway. Don’t worry, it’s the ride that counts (or at least that’s what I keep telling myself).


Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie

Few books touch me so indelibly. Rarer still are true stories that leave a mark or impression on my soul. Tuesday’s with Morrie has done that with rapacious wit, candora, melancholy, but most importantly, truth. Life is to be lived, and fully, not sequestered away seeking money, fame. Life is who you love. This is a book to own. I hope my kids will pick it up off the shelf when they’re old enough and give it a read.


Martin Koch's Building Electric Guitars
Building Electric Guitars

Great resource read for anyone thinking of building their own electric guitar. Great examples and nice anecdotal information. Tremendously lacking in schematic or diagramatic details, but rich with verbal suggestions. I’d recommend reading this to get an idea before going online and getting more pertinent details. Organization is a bit confusing, but when used as a reference (i.e.: skipping to a needed section) the book still proves its worth.


Ice Hunt, by James Rollins
Ice Hunt

An American arctic research submarine stumbles upon an ice-entombed WWII-era Soviet research base holding a secret so sinister that both countries will do anything to obtain it, or ensure it is never seen by the public eye. Not the traditional action-adventure novel, Ice Hunt adds fantastic character-development, accurate science, a highly unpredictable plot to the exciting non-stop peril. Think of Michael Crichton and Dean R. Koontz on a dose of realism and you get Ice Hunt.


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