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Discovered some new (new to me) music - Fever Ray. Brilliantine, shadowy, somehow air and earth at the same time. Contradictory, I guess. And cool. The few accompanying video clips I've seen so far are amazing, too. This one is Stranger Than Kindness:



I love the feeling that it's a piece of story, that there's a beginning and an end - an explanation - somewhere we can't see.


Meanwhile... I finally got around to doing a little more work on a texture I've been making for Second Life. The octopus one, remember? As referenced in this post. Quite pleased with how it's turning out.

Look, i figured out where to put the trident!

I'm also trying* to finish something in time for Xmas. I've planned two different things - a slightly creepy picture, and a sort of slick, modish one. Both digital photo-collages. Have made progress on the slightly creepy one so far. Creepy... actually, I find it amusing. It's called Christmas Is Coming To Get you, and features a kind of Xmas golem.
*-sort of. It's possible I'm a little lazy and/or distracted.

The snow-covered pines are sourced from morguefile, a lovely free photo reference place.
I haven't started the slick, modish one yet, which is a little unfortunate, given that i was planning to use it as xmas cards this year.

That's it for now. I'll try to post again before Xmas!

Art 43

I've joined google+ ! Not sure what to do with it now.

Meanwhile, here're some snapshots of various things I'm doing tonight.

The video can be watched here.

I don't know much about geometry (I made it to basic algebra), but it's fascinating.

This is part of a cross-stitch design i'm slowly slowly (very slowly) working on, using a lovely program that i was so sure i'd posted about before, but now i can't find the post, so i guess not. The site for it is here. I really like this program, it's nice and easy to work with, a lot like Paint, really. I've done very little cross-stitch in the past, but I'm figuring the colour charts and the stitch markings available in the program are fairly useful to people who know what they're doing with a needle and thread.
As for the design itself... not telling!

A pretty little site i've started going through the archives of: Iconology. I'm up to February 2009...

The cryptomnesia piece! Sorting all the bits into colours. The grey needs a bit more work, looks like.


That's it for now, I need to restart the computer. More next episode.