Author: Ryan
Posted on August 8, 2009
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I had hoped to have my render all ready this morning (as I have to go out of town for a couple of days) but a nasty Vue d’Esprit bug reared up and ate it. Completely unusable. I’ve started the render over and will be as careful as can be to have it up when I return Wednesday morning.
Unfortunately it seems crashes and lost renders are part of the game when you try to push the envelope with 3D software (especially with Vue d’Esprit). I think the project will be worth the wait and I hope you will agree. Unless my computer is struck by lightning the render will be up on Wednesday.
Posted on August 8, 2009
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Believe it or not I have saved every news post since October 1999. That’s almost 10 years of Digital Blasphemy!
If you are interested you can now browse the news archive by year. Just mouse over the new “news archive” link on the left hand side and pick a starting point. It runs backwards because I always post the newest news at the top.
Highlights include: “Ryan has major surgery” (a nadir really), “Jason is born“,”We move to Illinois“, “Ian is born“, “I’m going to be a Dad!“, “Ryan and Jessie get married!“, and last but not least “First house!“.
There’s a lot of posts and I certainly don’t expect everyone to read it all. Just want you guys to know that it was there.
The new render should be up tomorrow (fingers crossed).
Posted on August 8, 2009
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I have added a “New Images Only” Twitter Feed this morning. If you are only interested in when new graphics are posted to the gallery and don’t want to hear anything else from me, you can follow at http://twitter.com/dbnewimages or subscribe to this feed (“http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/66129689.rss“) using your RSS reader of choice.
This page (along with the “main” DB Twitter account and Facebook Page) will have posts that are a little more in depth, more frequent, and not always related to my graphics.
All additions to the gallery will be documented as they have been before, but the new feed will be for those who are only interested in the gallery updates and not posts I make in between.
Posted on August 8, 2009
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What would guys think if I added a smallish thumbnail to my status (see right-hand column) displaying either a tiny version of, or a crop from, the current project I am working on? People could then track a project as it evolves from germ of an idea to “finished” wallpaper.
The biggest snag that I can foresee is people not liking the direction a project is taking and trying to suggest that I follow their vision rather than my own. Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there and see what you guys thought.
On a related note: over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to make a post of some kind (on Facebook, Twitter, here or the free gallery) every day. These aren’t always directly related to my work.
I enjoy checking in from time to time and reading the comments that accompany the post. Since I work out of my home I only have Jessie and the kids to keep me company while working. They are great but I like to hear other viewpoints from time to time.
Interacting through DB, Facebook, etc helps with the isolation that comes with going it solo. If you are only interested in reading my my wallpapers efforts then I hope we can find a way to make the updates less intrusive but still “discoverable”.
Posted on August 8, 2009
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After receiving the umpteenth email regarding the “Fireflies” Firefox Persona (“is this stolen?”) earlier this week, I decided that it would be a good idea if “MaDonna” just transferred the Persona to my fledgling account. I wrote her(?) and asked if she could do it.
She wrote me back saying she would just remove the Persona, but this was not a good option. It had become the number 3 theme popularity wise and the link she had added to the description was bringing me some nice traffic to my Free Gallery.
I was sorry to see the link go but happy I would not be receiving any more emails regarding the manner. Then, somehow, the staff of the Mozilla project stepped in and said they would move the file to my gallery (popularity intact). Sweet! The move was made last evening.
To celebrate I’ve renamed the Persona back to “Summerwood” and added “Autumnwood“, “Winterwood“, and “Springwood” versions. Big thanks to the folks at Mozilla Labs!