Posted on May 9, 2002

• Hi folks. The past week has been pretty rough. My step-mother, Janna, passed away last Saturday after a year-long bout with melanoma. Jessie and I left Sunday for Illinois to attend the funeral and spend some time with my father. We returned to San Diego late last night.

  No doubt some of you have tried to email me over the past week. Unfortunately someone, somewhere, thought it would be fun to send out a zillion Spams with a return address “@digitalblasphemy.com”. My server was overwhelmed by the volume of bounced mail and my email server was down from Saturday afternoon until late Tuesday evening. Any email sent to me during that time bounced back or was lost. Spammers truly suck.

  I had planned on starting a new project last weekend but instead I will try to get started tomorrow and work through the weekend. I can’t say when I’ll have a new wallpaper up, but until I do I thank you for your patience and understanding. My email is working again (I think) so please feel free to write if you have any questions.

Posted on May 2, 2002

• I’m working on a new way to integrate the Pickle Jar with the rest of the gallery. Images with alternate versions in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 galleries will now have a “Picklejar” link which will take you to another page with a thumbnail-listing of the alternates. Hopefully this will be a little more user-friendly than the old way of navigating the Jar.

  There’s still work to be done (the pre-1999 galleries, for example, are not represented in the Pickle Jar) and the formatting is still pretty rough. Have a look around and if you have any suggestions or feedback please feel free to drop me a line.

Posted on May 1, 2002

• I’ve posted one last update to “Spellcraft“. Those of you interested in the earlier posted versions can find them inside the Pickle Jar.

  A lot of you have asked if there will be a “Spellcraft” poster. The answer is yes. I’d like to have one myself. I’ll post here as soon as it’s available.

Posted on April 30, 2002

• I’ve added a new render of “Spellcraft” this afternoon. Some of you rightly noticed that the lighting was a little strange in the first version so I’ve tried to remedy that. Some of you also wished for a different camera angle, but I’m going to stick to my guns on that. The straight-on and level view just didn’t have the same impact for me. Basically, enough of you seemed to like the first version that I didn’t want to make any radical changes. Still, I’ll probably post a few Pickle Jar versions before I move on.

Posted on April 29, 2002

• I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent most of mine working on a new wallpaper, entitled “Spellcraft”, which is now up on the New Images page. It’s not completely finished, but I think it’s to the point where I would like to hear your thoughts. Hope you like it!