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So... I've never done this before as I'm always a little skeptical of showing off my progress.. However, I've been having people asking me to show them what I'm working on & it's been fun to get critique ahead of time =)
SO! For Futurewave.. Finishing up the Modeling for it & about to start texturing. ♥♥
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This is really different from his style !!
Taken by me
Edited by © мίѕѕ.kίтκάт ♥
Model my bro bo nasser
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"birds can fly so high
& they can shit on your head
& they can almost fly into your eye
& make you feel so scared
but when you look at them
& you see that they're beautiful
that's how I feel about you."
explored!
Aprovechando que hoy celebra el día del orgullo geek y el día fue elegido en conmemoración del lanzamiento de 1977 de #StarWars :P
Hi everyone!! As promised, here's poster #1/2 of the items I have offered for Main Event!
Hotspot Wired Horns can be found at Main Event and has 8 different color-schemes to choose from.
ALL original mesh as usual!
Pop on over & grab these horns.. Then back over to the mainstore for the matching tail =)
tysm!!
geek. <3
Hey everyone!! I'm super excited about an upcoming event *tomorrow* Geek. was asked to be a guest designer @ AlterEgo's annual Blackout party! You all ready for it? ? You sure?? Make sure you got your VIP access from Toxxic Design Studios group!
Exclusives, gifts, partying, music = fun. Stuff your ipads & gaming headsets in a to-go bag & hop on over! Even geeks have a right to party =)
Blackout starts tomorrow and the entry price on the VIP group will go up tomorrow after it starts. <3
All original Mesh as always & can be found in 8 diff colors in the mask. ALSO, the tubes are color changing on click! =)
geek. <3
Amy Ishii catches up on some reading... I may have got slightly carried away printing out some 1:6 comicbooks ;)
Hidey ho all!! Here's my release for Perfect Wardrobe this round.
You can find these fun cute little rings in 3 diff colors for each style. <3
Enjoy!!!
geek.
Perhaps I should subtitle this photograph:
The Old and the New
or (just like the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons):
Nice Gneiss
This location is really exciting to my inner geo geek so, if you are like my daughters and wife, whose eyes start to glaze over when I start to talk about geology, just enjoy this panorama of one of the canyons emptying into the Badwater basin. But, if you would like to learn about the geology that created this vista, read on at your own peril:
This little canyon has exposed the contact between some of the oldest rocks in Death Valley (and the western United States) and some of the youngest in Death Valley. The right hand canyon wall is comprised of metamorphosed crystalline basement rock. These are very old rocks. They were formed and then put under a lot of heat and pressure and metamorphosed. The metamorphosis event has been dated to about 1.7 billion years ago so they were actually formed sometime before that. The 1.7 billion year date shows up a lot in the geology of the western U.S. That is probably because it is also accompanied by an extensive unconformity at its top that also covered much of the western U.S. So, to recap, the right hand rocks were formed and then deformed deep in the crust about 1.7 billion years ago then uplifted as part of a broad mountain building episode that covered a lot of the western U.S. The uplift caused erosion to remove any rocks that were deposited over the old metamorphosed crystalline basement rocks.
Eventually the uplift ceased and the western U.S. slowly built out the coastline in what we call a passive margin with just slow sediment deposition dominating the scene and no active uplifts. These rocks are largely carbonates (dolomites) and some pure quartz sandstones that occasionally flowed over the carbonate shallow flats and seas. These rocks are about 500 million years younger than the rocks in the right hand wall of the canyon.
I'm going to briefly summarize the next 700 million years. The western coast of the U.S. and the Death Valley area transitioned from passive deposition to active as the various Pacific plates began to spread. Compressive forces slowly began to squeeze the rocks in Death Valley and then volcanism began as the oceanic plates were stuffed under the western edge of the North American crustal plate. Some of the molten rocks erupted and some rose up into the Death Valley area but never made it to the surface.
Then about 75 million years ago something very special happened that changed this scenario. Many geologists think the Pacific plate that was being stuffed (subducted) under the North American plate somehow broke and instead of being pushed down toward the mantle, slid horizontally under the crust of the North American plate. This caused a ripple of compressive events to travel eastward across this region and then across the western U.S. all the way to the Rockies which mark the eastward boundary of the horizontal plate.
The compression that accompanied the shallow Pacific plate as it buoyantly rode under this area, folded and contorted many of the older passive margin rocks.
The deeper plate then foundered as the spreading center or mid oceanic ridge which was driving the eastward movement stopped probably because the spreading center finally began to be subducted under the North American plate.
In Death Valley, the compression stopped and a new round of volcanism began as the lower plate started to slowly sink into the mantle and melt. This sinking also began pull apart the western U.S. as the bulging area over the plate now began to sink also. We call this pulling apart extension and when the crust is extended like this faults begin to form that leave some blocks high but drop other blocks down along the fault to allow for the stretching. This faulting and movement started slowly and further east of this region - near the middle of the horizontally under-stuffed plate fragment. The high blocks and low basins caused by this stretching are called the Basin and Range province and cover the area from the high Sierras to the Big Bend in Texas.
The basin seen in the distance in this photograph is the deepest basin in this entire province and therefore, one of the youngest. The spreading started in earnest less than 4 million years ago. Spreading here allows the basins to fall faster than erosion of the surrounding blocks can fill them up. It is no accident that the highest relief in the United States is located here - Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountains on the western side of the basin is over 11,000 above sea level while Badwater Springs is almost 300 feet below sea level.
Now, back to this side canyon, the rocks on the left wall are young - deposited when the basin began to form around 4 million years ago. I am not sure of the formations that are exposed on the left but they look like the Furnace creek formation or the Artists Drive formation.
Those of you that have looked at the left hand wall enough probably have noticed the line that tilts upward at about a 30 to 40 degree angle in the middle of the wall. The line may represent a dis-conformity and may have initially been flat but tilted upward as the young sediments have slid westward and rotated over the crest of the turtleback.
What is a turtleback? A geologist named Curry first described them in 1938. He noticed three rounded (double plunging) rock outcrops on the western edge of the Black Mountains. He also described the contacts of the rocks within these rounded bulges and the overlying rocks at its edges and guessed that they very different in composition and age.
Some researchers believe that these rocks were first bulged upward during the compressional phase that I mentioned above. During the recent extension, these bulges were tilted down to east and exposed as Badwater basin sank past them. The overlying young basin fill exposed in the left wall "spilled" off of the turtle backs in fault blocks that all sole out along the back of the turtleback leaving the domed surface exposed and resembling a turtleback.
To those of you who read all the way to this point - congratulations - you far surpassed the eye glazing point!
I find this landscape beautiful and speculating on the long history that it represents, makes it that much more special to me.
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EXPLORED: #2 on 27/08/2009
Based loosely on the 'Beauty and the Geek' TV show, Kris and I thought we'd have some fun showing off our "beauty" and "geek" side and created this cheeky dyptych.
Strobist:
580EX through white umbrella behind camera for fill
x2 430EX's either side of us for rim.
Illustration for the latest issue of NEON magazine, for an article about the book Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, that will be published in german language for the first time.
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Can't say I'm a fan of my close up profile shots because I think I look a bit like a geek in a wig, which strangely enough is I guess what I am, but I liked the red with my hair, again thanks to everyone for the kind comments you all brighten my heart <3 xxx
I have issues...
5Dm2 + 24-105mm, AB1600 through softbox on each side and and gridded AB400 for the hair
Sample of images from a "Geek Chic" themed shoot, shot in fashion style with reference to reappropriation in visual culture.
Hey all! I forgot to post this piccy haha...
At Silicone this round (for the next 2 weeks) you can find 'Caffaholic'.. A super cute retro babydoll, off the shoulder. Named solely because I've consumed probably 2 tons more caffeine this week then I should. My feet have a perma-bounce. All for the good of mankind! <3
P.S. Oh yeah! All original rigged mesh made by me (as always), 5 standard sizes, one custom size with tango appliers included.
<3 tysm all!
karma