Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

[Gare]

"Allusion Islands"...heh,heh,heh.
Bob.

Hey, everyone knows I can't actually afford a getaway, so I'm alluding to it.

Aleutian Islands.

Illusion Islands.

Long Island.

I'll take it!

-g

(And Bill, our keys aren't actually under that rock! It's an Aleutian.)

[gray]

I don't think you want to visit the Aleutian Islands this time of year Gary, a bit chilly. The Illusion Islands are much nicer. I've visited those a few times.
I remember those little Etch A Sketch toys. They were kind of cool.

[Gare]

I don't think you want to visit the Aleutian Islands this time of year Gary, a bit chilly. The Illusion Islands are much nicer. I've visited those a few times. :)
I remember those little Etch A Sketch toys. They were kind of cool.

As Unofficial Alternate Poster Boy for A.D.D., I must digress at this point.

Now, where was I?

Oh, okay: The first time I got tuned into a working definition of "SteamPunk", the movement was described as similar to the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in their role-playing, many times in real life. SteamPunk is an outgrowth of CyberPunk (futuristic fantasy to the extreme), But SteamPunk is based on the hypothesis that all technological development ceased on Earth the moment steam power was discovered.

Okay, StemPunk now embraces much more than an alternative future stalled by prehistoric energy development. In a way, my Etch-A-Sketch tribute a few posts ago would qualify as a SteamPunk artifact: imagine a totally mechanical computing device with which you drew photorealistic graphics by twiddling two knobs.

To take it farther, you've seen how many manufacturers have disguised USB ("thumb") drives as a pair of dice, a water faucet, Star War characters, et al? I love this one: a USB drive shaped like a 1950s power tube. It glows and everything:



If it weren't for the fact that I collect two of everything that's neat (one as a backup) and now have no room in the house, I'd definitely buy one (or two) of these drives!

My Best.

Gary

[Gare]

Top story today: two new minerals have been identified today: Russettite (Sp2UD2 ), believed to be related to Eye-Daho, discovered by Professor Gary Priester in 1789. And PomPomogranite (Si2SBu3MBaH2), discovered by Connie DeSalvo, a cheerleader at Oaks Woods High School in Missouri.






-g

[gray]

The glow on the USB drive looks good. I think you could sell a few of those.
I'd like to see the 3D molecular diagram for those new minerals.

[Gare]

The glow on the USB drive looks good. I think you could sell a few of those.
I'd like to see the 3D molecular diagram for those new minerals. :)

[Ron Duke]

Dog goneit Gare! Are you drawing these things? You'd better not be!!!!!

[Gare]

Relax, Ron; take slow, even breaths.

No, I'm not drawing these things. This is my Xara non-Art Gallery.

These are models, Photoshop retouching and photos...well, I use Xara for all the typography and a lot of the base meshes I then modify and enhance in modeling programs, but it's all assisted pixel-creation, man.

My Best,

Gary

[Ron Duke]

Relax, Ron; take slow, even breaths.

No, I'm not drawing these things. This is my Xara non-Art Gallery.

These are models, Photoshop retouching and photos...well, I use Xara for all the typography and a lot of the base meshes I then modify and enhance in modeling programs, but it's all assisted pixel-creation, man.

My Best,

Gary

Whew!
That was a close one!

[Gare]

It's "Yo-Yo" theme today. Later, I'm going to listen to Yo Yo Ma play the cello.

A tribute to Lennie DaVinci, a very funny guy once you get to know him.



My other tribute to things that go up and down on a string is more or less right here