Rocket (thanks to Mike Wenz)

[iamtheblues]

Here is a screenshot of my desktop, which includes a rendition of my space rocket. The fill for the rocket was suggested to me by Mike W, when I asked how to make a fill conform to the irregular shape of an object, and he came up with the brilliant idea of using the blend tool.
The screenshot is basically my life as it is now, inasmuch as it shows basically all my main interests, Music (the Canned Heat Future Blues album cover) - which seemed to work well with the desktop motif. The rocket was made using Xara, the starfield using Illustrator plugin Colliderscribe, a fixture list of rugby matches and a digital clock which I use to time myself on my exercise bike. The other clock was pretty much accidental, as it was close to being the right size for the window of the rocket, the clock not having the option of increasing/descreasing its size..
As this is for wallpaper, I was thinking of the chimney breast in the house I lived in as a boy, where there was a shelf over the mantlepiece where a clock used to sit.
It wasn't too much of a stretch of my imagination to think of ornamental carriage clocks and give the idea a retro/modern twist. That the clock fitted on the rocket's window was a happy accident.