so i updated one of my tiling wallpapers to be a bit more… bang, i guess you might say.
same style (mind bending overlapping squares) but with a more pronounced series of grandients. on the nerd level, the three gradients (each associated with a layer) sort of loop, such that one is cyan to yellow, one yellow to magenta, and one magenta to cyan (with black represented in the X). anyways, once i get there, i think ill be selling each variant, one bright CMYK, one “southwestern sunset” shall we say…
doesnt the bright one seem sort of mucha-like in its colors? i really like it.
so ive been thinking it might be nice to break up the heavy pattern action of the wallpaper. even though its a small room, mind bending patterns might not be the most *ahem* friendly in the morning, nor for any other time when youd want to shower. you know shower, pleasant time, peace, whatever.
so ive drafted up some sketches of what id like using some found imagery on the net. basically its a three panel triptych with the widest being the middle that runs the length of the shower. the images dont necessarily have to match, so much as give the impression you are showering in an awesome space.
trying to make some rad wall paper for me bathing room. i always like mind bending stuff, although because i can make it me self, there is very little time commitment. heres some proofs.
a one-to-one zoom on the print i have up now in test phase – need to see if it gets the “girlfriend stamp of approval”; tradition, made of some floral elements i rotated (illustrator > effect > distort & transform > transform), plus an ink blot, a lion, a stag and some upside down stars -hail santa!:
and heres one i made today, thats a little more geometric, less floral, less traditional, and totally more mind bendy! (thats the loopable image, but it will be about 4 feet tall when printed):
actually the hardest part – which im sure is all math – is figuring out how to draw the boundaries, so the graphic loops. i think one of my next stops is to make an incorrectly looping image, but whose incorrect loop is ALMOST unnoticeable.
One of todays headlines speaks of space shuttle Atlantis (STS-whatever) returning from the last scheduled hubble-maintenance flight, which should keep Hubble aloft for another 5 years, they recon. At nasa’s images of the day website, there are a number really sweet photos covering both this most recent stellar trip, as well as highlights spanning the agencies career. i grabbed this one and pshopped it up to desktop size because its just to damn awesome, its great in its minimality and its really humbling.
The image in question was (somehow) taken of the shuttle passing across our sun, which must have been digitally enhancified or something. Very reminiscent of Sunshine, and other sci-fi movies depicting near-sun encounters.
Please enjoy!