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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: Zeppelin Depot Description: Kyle says ” I hope it’s not too subtle, but here’s my latest one.” Thanks, Kyle! Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Made by Kyle. Based off the pictures:
There’s someone out there called ‘Druidy’ who has scrapped a handful of wallpapers from the site and put them up on several websites, all of which have happily covered up our URL with their own, and then propagated across the web.
Well, I suppose copying is the highest form of flattery, but I wish they’d have just used the Creative Commons licence that all of my wallpapers come with. Post them and say I made them with a link, or make your own version and link back to mine. That’s how it works.
Just snagging them and pasting a logo over mine is stealing. Bad, naugty netperson, Druidy!
(Note: some of these sites aren’t in any languge I read. If there IS a link back to this page, I couldn’t find it. Please let me know, and I’ll stop glaring at those ones. 😀 )
Title: Behold the Machine Description: From Myke “Wallpaper from the painting I did for the same-named Vernian Process CD.” From Mouse “:: whimper :: oh god, this is such a beautiful piece of art. The airship in the back makes me tremble. Thank you so much, Mike!” Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported, by Myke Amend. Myke also gave it to me as a PNG if you would like that, instead.
Title: Judith and Holofernes Description: I stumbled on Aly Fell’s work on CGPortfolio.com the other day, and was blown away by his paintings. The way he does faces, in particular, is amazing. I like his version of Harley Quinn, too, (though she’s not steampunkery,) and OMG Gomez! He was kind enough to let me feature him here. Go see more of his work at his website, Darkrising, or at his blog, Port Out, Starboard Home. He also reminded me of my childhood love of Duckula. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Copyright Aly Fell
EDIT: Changed all the ’she’s to ‘he’s, as Aly is short for Alister. Who knew?
Title: Simple Rust Description: I needed something dark and not too busy for a week of heavy icon use on my desktop. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Some textures by Grunge. Creative Commons licensed wallpaper.
Title: Steam-Powered Submarine Description: Kyle loves you even more and made three more versions of this. This one is lacking the water bottle. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024, Widescreen, 1680×1050, Widescreen, 2560×1600 Credits: Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Novel Exercise Apparatus Description: Kyle loves you and made two versions of this. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024, Widescreen, 2560×1600 Credits: Based off the following pictures:
Title: Pipeboards Description: Darker, less subtle and Interfacing 1 or Interfacing 2, but a bit more 3D ad well. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Hand made in Photoshop, but includes textures from Grunge and Smashmethod. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Steam-Powered Submarine Description: Cool new wallpaper by Kyle the Commenter (who’s kinda shy). He’s given me a few new wallpapers to post, and they’ll be sprinkled here and there over the next week or so. 🙂 I really like this; it takes a pretty simple concept (steam submarine, which I did here, but mine’s not so cool) and makes it busy and rusty and made of awesome. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Picture by Kyle the Commenter. Creative Commons licensed derivative. Based off the following CC licended Flickr posts:
Title: Interfacing 2 Description: Man, these are a blast to do. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Based off the picture by Curious Expeditions, again.Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Interfacing 1 Description: I always end up arranging my icons into little groups, and have been making ‘labeled’ icon box wallpapers for a while. Here’s one that’s non-labeled… and widescreen! If people like them, I’ll do some more. I have visions of ornate scrollwork fillagree’d boxes…. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Based off the picture by Curious Expeditions, again. I can’t help it; there’s just So much Cool Stuff… Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title:Geargrunge Description:Abstracty gear grungy thingymaboby. What? I just woke up. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Based off the picture by abbey*christine, with some textures by Grunge for spice. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Coffee Description: Yes, I know that almost nobody has dual WIDESCREEN monitors… I forgot. I’ll probably make a ‘fullscreen-dual’ at some point this week. This is a ‘love you’ present for all the caffinee soaked, twitchy people in my life. Type: Widescreen, 3360×1050 Credits: Based off the picture by Curious Expeditions, again (I can’t help it. they have amazing pictures. I want to have their Flickr babies.). Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Blue Watch Description: I have lust for this pocket watch. If I can’t own it, I’ll just stare at it a while longer… :: drool :: Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Based off the picture by Curious Expeditions. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
So, two things. My site stats have tanked. Badly. Clearly I’ve dissipointed the people who used to come visit the site; I went from approximatly 2,500 hits a day to less than a thousand, and just in the last two weeks. I’m endeavoring to get some more wallpapers out more often, like I used to. I did have a new person start helping me with the site, and the reception to his first photoshop attempt was… constructive, anyway, but seems to have left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths.
He’s helping me a lot, and honesty, his first photoshop was a lot better than mine. Mine was a cutout of a little girl on the moon, and I didn’t know you could select anything other than by using ‘shift’ and the magic wand… it took me about 5 hours to select her.
Of course, in my day (that should be read in an ‘old man’ voice), we didn’t have layers, and we walked uphill both ways to school wearing nothing but knickerbockers and onions on our belts.
Ahem.
The other thing I noticed is that the site was SLOOOOOOOW. SO slow. Slow to load, slow to change… backend was fine, so I knew it wasn’t my server. Turns out that there was a fragment of code left over from google anyalitics… once I pulled that, the load time dropped.
So. To sum up:
More Wallpapers
Faster load times
Comments are encouraged. Want to tell me off? Please do! Want to tell me exactly what I should be posting? I want that too. Feedback is what will make this site better.
Title:Leaky Pipes Description: I’ve been using this one to sort icons on my desktop. Top pipe is for really useful things (like Photoshop) and then I separate everything else out down below. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Hand painted in Photoshop, with textures by Grunge. Creative Commons licensed graphic.
