Or so the doomsayers would have us believe but I seem to remember dire warnings of y2k that never gelled — good times, big non-event.  And perhaps the two are disparate enough that they can’t/shouldn’t be compared, folks smarter than I can debate the merits of that.  I just get a good chuckle from this little dissertation of things to come…

What will hapen is that the Age of Aquarius is beginning.  Thus, we see so many nature disasters – flooding in Asia, flooding in India, flooding in New Orleans – that have everything to do with water. — Now, in some books (James Redfield’s ‘Celestine Prophecy’) it states that the entire Maya society has not disappeared, but gone to the higher vibration dimensions. — As we know it today, we are in the third dimension.  By 2012, the Earth will come up to the 5th dimension. — The ones who are not ready yet, will die by the nature disasters.  Yes, that sounds awful, but remember – death is just anther start.  Then, their souls will be transported to another planet with 3rd dimension, where they will level up onto 5th dimension with time. — As for the humans here, well it says that only 1/3 of Earth’s population will come up on 5th dimension.  You will see Light and you will have a choice to come up to the 5th dimension, or remain in the present 3rd one. — In 5th dimension, you will nave a new DNA string, you will be able to communicate by telepathy, et cetera. — Right now, many guardian angels, which are connected with each human on this planet, are preparing humans to awaken.  Many angels, elfs and space people have chosen to reincarnate here in these times.
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Point of curiosity.  Are angels, elfs and space people Mac or PC?

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5.5.  Composite image from two similar renders merged and heavily post processed in Photoshop CS.

Being a little mathematically challenged it may be best to let others comment on the mystery of π, I’ll take the easy way and point you towards a YouTube clip of the Pie Song.

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5.9.3.  Composed from three similar images merged in Photoshop CS.

It’s that time of year for us kids tripping along in the northern hemisphere; sweet, sweet Summer.  And while the official changing of the seasons isn’t due for another five days or so, we’ll celebrate early and greet her warmly; raising a frothy, cold ale whilst floating about the pool and gazing aloft as soft, puffy clouds scuttle ‘cross deep blue skies; finding that elusive place of nothingness; then suddenly it’s gone — someone cries out “Cannonball!” and our daydreams are engulfed by a giant arc of water.

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5.9.3.  Composed from two unique images merged in Photoshop CS; post processed for colour shift, contrast, layer duplication/rotation/blending. All that, and not one little pixel harmed or mistreated in any way.

A quick little side trip if you’d like to come along for the ride…

My Tuesday rock band, Mitchell Way, has transmogrified into a bit of more serious endeavor in recent weeks.  Heck, a few folks have gone all wonky allowing us to play parties, shindigs and BBQs for their besotted friends and neighbors.  Good times :^)

So being encouraged (or pushed along a little unwillingly) we dropped a band page on myspace and tossed up a trio of original compositions for the perusal of our families, friends and other fine humans we know.  Getting back to that little side trip mentioned above, we’d be pretty darn excited if you’d take the time to give us a listen or include us as a myspace friend.  In fact, that would be awesomeness to the nth degree!

Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

Zoozyq Purple Feathers desktop image in widescreen and normal screen formats by Zoozyq (Linda Hollingsworth), created with Oxidizer 0.4.3.  Open use without copyright restrictions intended, as long as users don’t sell the images as their own.

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Question: What the heck is a nanobyte?      Answer: 10 ^(-9) byte.

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Let’s call this one like it is; one part Oxidizer and a whole mess of Photoshop work.  Rendered back in November 2008 this one hit my bin of rejects and was promptly forgotten.  Then it found redemption as the header background image/texture for the violet variant of the site CSS.

Take a look at where it started — meh, pretty much a big nothing.  Question is; how to take something like this and push it to another level?  Fire up Photoshop and start toss it around.

Filling the canvas was the initial priority.  Duplicating several layers, blending them using ‘Lighten’ mode, and rotating them to various angles took care of that. Then, working with colour, contrast, applying gradients, merging new layers, filter effects, more gradients, blurs, more merging, even more gradients, etcetera infinitum…  Holy crap Batman, I do get a little carried away once in while.

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5.6.

Do you have Scott Draves’ Electric Sheep screensaver installed?  If so, you have access to files located within your User/Library/Application Support/ElectricSheep/content/xml directroy that can be opened and rendered in Oxidizer; just be sure to check the attribution guidelines for reuse prior to sharing/uploading derivative works, it’s a Good Karma™ thing.

At the very least, loading one of these xml files into Oxidizer offers an opportunity to learn a thing or two about complex genomes; kind of like dissecting a frog.  Tweaking these genomes along the path of evolution opens up a great range of possibilities and is recommended for those who’d like to push their skills a little further down the road.

      This image derived from a composition by the Electric Sheep; gen=”243″ id=”14583″ job=”566″.

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5.9.1. Post processed in Photoshop CS for colour and contrast.