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Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
Title: Gas Station Description: Flying H Aero-Type Gas – Purveyors of Quality Protium since 1840.
If it’s too subtle, please leave a comment and let me know. I’ve already had to explain it to about six people that I’ve shown before posting, so I tried to add a few hints. Comments are good!
Title: Industrial – Rusty pipe 2 Description: I got an email from an awesome builder of Steampunk computer systems, Woodguy32. He requested a few wallpapers to display on his amazing monitors, and I am delighted to do so! Also, check out his auction for his latest keyboard (ends Mar 07, 201018:56:28 PST, so hurry!) Type: Widescreen, 1600×900 Credits: Textures from the following:
Title:Snowmobile Trail by Kyle Description: Kyle is back! YAY! Here’s a lovely subtly steampunky wallpaper you could get away with in a corporate invrio; Oh, look, a nice snow scene… wait, what crossing? Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial.
So, I understand that book publishers leave all the promotion up to the authors, and I understand that authors, even best-selling ones, aren’t generally rich.
But as far as I can tell, almost every image in this promotional video for Katie Macalister’s Steampunk romance Steamed is used without credit:
My background is at :51, at least: Gears and wrought iron, and I’m fairly certain the blurry mechanical bits under the word “Victim” at :08 are mine too.
Note to self: new theme is terrible for searching. Fix that.
Anyway, both images are Creative Commons Licensed, which means Penguin is violating the license in three ways: they’re using it commercially, didn’t attribute me, AND didn’t release their work under CC.
I’ve moved my Creative Commons License info up to be more noticeable, and I’ve written them a email as well. We’ll see what happens.
… I’m flattered, though.
Edit: this is a long and complicated blamechain. Still working it out.
I’ve been scrubbing at the site a bit, and one thing people have requested is a way to view more wallpapers. Enter the Top 100 Wallpapers section of the website, and the sidebar showing the Top 10. The wallpapers are displayed by number of views since 1/25/10, so they will have a period of “shuffling” before they settle into a true “best of” list.
Please give it a look, and let me know what you think.
Upcoming features:
Fixing the broken Contact Us page (should be done very soon)
Visual index of ALL wallpapers, with content filters so that you can narrow your search. (This one is hard. 😀 )
Title:Industrial – metal wall with poster Description: More industrial stuff. Found the poster on the web, and then again at the Arizona Gold Rush page. I am 99% sure it’s genuine… of course, the 1% is gonna bite my ass, you watch. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Base texture from a filter from Filterforge, but I dinked with it a lot. 😀
Title:Industrial – Metal Plate Description: I’ve been asked for some more grunge/industrial wallpapers, so i’ll be going slightly off-topic for a few posts. This one is a rusted to hell diamond-plate, with some mood lighting. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Base texture from a filter made by Crapadilla, with Filterforge.
Title:Tan Remix Description: Some of our long-time viewers may remember this wallpaper. I decided to play with it a bit. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: PS work with a texture from Lost and Taken.
Title: Repeating pipes. Description: Holidays are done, back to wallpapers! Type: Seamless, 256×256 Credits: This awesome picture from Elsie Esq is Creative Commons. 😀
EDIT: uploaded the wrong one. Finished one is now showing. 😀
Thank you for your patience as we work through things. Theme is still odd; we’re working on it. At least it’s not erroring out now, yes?
I give you a simple wallpaper in penance; my desktop is so full of icons from hunting down the bugs that I needed something non-distracting. Enjoy!
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Title:Simple Walls, 1 Description:Simple wallpaper in cool colors. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: mostly PS work with heavily modified textures from my files.
Title: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob Kleeman Description: Rob was kind enough to let us post this. Isn’t it awesome? I love the watercolor look, as if some inventor was scribling on his blotter and grabbed a brush to quickly rough in his designs. Nice job, Rob! Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Created by Rob Kleemen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Hey, all. Something happened to the backend of the website, and we had some Unauthroized Code running as of this morning. I think I have caught it all, but if your system is flagging the site, that’s why. I’m trying to get Google to scan it to make sure I got it all.
Title:Nanowrimo Wallpaper 2 Description:More wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month! One day till the madness takes us! Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: mostly straight PS work, with some textures overlayed from Lost and Taken. Again.
Title: Nanowrimo Wallpaper 1 Description: A somber, brown wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month, where a bunch of us go insane and each write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Sound like fun? Join us! (pretend that last part isn’t spoken like I’m a zombie, will you?) Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: mostly straight PS work, with some textures overlayed from Lost and Taken (I think.)
I first ran into Ursala Vernon’s work through the appearance of a biting pear when I joined a new tabletop RPG group. The creature attacked one of the longtime players, and everybody started cracking up. I, of course, didn’t get the joke… until somebody pointed me at her DA page. And I fell in love.
She does what she calls Gearworld, a rich and bizarre land full of amazing sites, and half-glimpsed history.
I’ve showcased some of my favorites here. They’re not big enough to be wallpapers, but she does have some available for print on DA. Check her out; she’s phenominal.
Note that I didn’t hotlink to her images, though you can get a slightly bigger one by clicking on the thumbnails here. For the full image/print, check out her DA gallery.
