Hullo maru dubshinki,
Sorry, I almost missed your notice, but a quick peek into my mail
directory & I just had to open up yours and Dave's thread. My ISP is
on holiday and this left my domain server down a few hours this AM.
It's all up and dandy now. Try again.
I said, 'Enjoy' and I mean it, dammit!
- Jonathan -
PS - once again, staging via
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Final domain will simply be www.wraptures.com, but will auto-magically
redirect once this is all public.
Dave,
Thanks for the kind words.
I enjoy the gift society model wherever I can apply it and I am hopeful
this catalyzes positive changes in my recent {lack of} career.
I'm counting on the panache associated with this long-gone resource
being on tap will stir the hearts of graphic professionals enough to
throw a few nickels in the tip jar out of teary nostalgia & loosen
billfolds {ever so gently} for the stimulating new stuff. Back in the
day these were considered overkill and I often heard their 1024x512
pixel resolution called "monsters", but they seem almost quaint now. I
aim for my new ones to get as many rave reviews and to be even longer
lived.
Addendum: for those familiar with Wraptures I'll note that not all from
the original collections are available - yet. I'm simply not sure what
would happen to my old school chum running the server {gratis} if some
sunny morning a sizable portion of DTP shops in Asia start downloading
them when some notable blog makes mention. Almost all the 512x512 are
up, but time+space+ISP costs are yet to be determined & I am a tad more
tentative about all the 1024x512 as planned at the outset. I will get
there eventually, however. I went ahead and bit the bullet by putting
the high-res ones up to measure demand.
- JG -
Aside: Just between you, me, Killer B's, and the NSA, I worry my son
will have no college fund. This was tough though doable when I went to
school {$11K/yr Tulane 1986}, but costs are so vastly more expensive
now {$43K Tulane 2006} that I worry how any of our off-spring will
finance upper education in the coming decades. Immigration to Europe
-or- Australia is a serious consideration for us.
On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Gibson Jonathan wrote:
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Way back in the early days of multimedia I had heady sand castle
dreams
of ROM baronies built on a foundation of seamless, tile-able,
textures.
Walking around the first MicroSoft CD ROM conference {hard to imagine
hosting one today} I was enthused about converting my lifelong
penchant
for visual patterns with recent eye-candy three-d work I'd been doing
and determined to expand & refine the growing tool chest for sale to
other graphic professionals.
Those of us who either (a) worked at or around Apple in the early 90s
or
(b) toiled at multimedia in the halcyon days of HyperCard remember
Wraptures well.
When it became clear that the Jonathan Gibson of Brin-L was /that/
Jonathan Gibson, smiles spread across the faces of those of us who (c)
both worked at Apple in the early 90s /and/ toiled at multimedia in the
halcyon days of Hypercard.
Thank you for your gift, Jonathan!
Dave
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On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:38 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
.......
Gigabytes of fun. Enjoy!
- Jonathan -
For what it is worth, your link is down for me.
~maru
Jonathan Gibson
www.formandfunction.com/word
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