This guy has some pretty nice stuff if you like scenery type
backgrounds...
http://www.forkemania.de/
| --==( Christopher Allen said these things on 20001123.0337 )==--
|
| On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Timothy Bolz wrote:
|
| > trying this. He had this some great background. He told me the web site.
| > http://www.digitalblasphemy.com /dbhome.shtml
| > There are some beautiful backgrounds. Check out the site. If you have a site
| > with similar pictures post the address. Thanks Cory
| OK.
|
| http://ekholbrook.com
| similar stuff to digitalblasphemy, much of it not as good, some of it
| outstanding. 2 1/2 stars
|
| http://www.deaddreamer.com
| photomanips of extremely messed up looking girls and just plain
| hyper-talented artwork of a dark future with some heavy adult comic-book
| influence (no pr0n; if you don't know what adult comic-book means, go to a
| comic book store). No cheesy landscapes here. Very dark in subject matter
| though often literally blindingly bright. The artist is named Misery in
| Motion and you'll know why after you visit. This guy has his own style and
| has to be seen to be believed. 5 stars
|
| http://endeffect.com
| very cool stuff. Friends with misery, these two guys are into
| graphic-design-type artwork. "Graphic-design-type artwork?" you
| say? Yes. You know, like, lots of lines and angles and basically
| architecture from the depths of craziness while looking like 22nd century
| magazine advertizing. Many shots annoyingly bright, but it's good stuff so...
| 5 stars
|
| http://www.seire.org
| one of the endeffect guys organized seire which is an underground art
| group doing all the latest stuff. And lots of stuff there is, though I
| can't be sure since I can't seem to get the archives to open for me in
| Nestscape -- I can only view the current month's "release pack". Lots of
| potential, but so far they haven't thrilled me. 2 stars
|
|
|
| http://deskmod.com
| all about modding your dektop. Many things here but we're interested, of
| course, in wallpapers. From the home page, scroll way way way down
| (inside) until you get to "wallpapers". Not dozens, not hundreds, but
| thousands. Many thousands...of which many ones are bad and few are
| good...relatively speaking. But only because of sheer volume there are
| actually lots of goodies in there. Good luck and may the DSL be with you.
| 1 star for average quality, 5 stars for brute mucho-ness
|
| http://www.roninillustrator.com/
| blade runnery photomanips with many works having goth and occult
| influences. Some just plain fantasy. Some look like they could
| accompany that great 80s RPG game, Traveler. (Yeah! Remember
| Traveler?) Creepy stuff. I've had to endure much bad creepy stuff. This is
| good creepy stuff. Also, I linked to his (Christopher Shy's) official site
| because it tells you all about him and lets you see his other work, but
| the good digital stuff is mirrored in larger sizes here:
| http://www.artshrine.com/nav.html?shy.html~Main
| But, actually, even these larger sizes are way too small for backgrounds
| so what I do is use the GIMP to put several on one 1600x1200 (my
| screen size cuz I'm 1337) thingy and put different filters on each one.
| 5 stars for quality, 2 1/2 stars for size
|
| http://kitty.seire.org/mainmenu.htm
| Kitty Muzzle is making a name for himself, herself or itself (A.I.?) in
| the underground art scene. Gets respect from digital artists, which is
| strange because Kitty doesn't use the computer but instead uses things
| called pennseuls (I hope i spelled that right) to make his straight-up
| goth/horror. Favorite instrument is a bic pen (don't laugh, take a look
| first). Even smaller than ronin's stuff, you will have to use the GIMP to
| make this usable. 5 stars for quality, 1 1/2 stars for size
|
| http://www.themes.org
| this is where everybody unix gets their desktop themes. Why am I telling
| you this? Because every theme (almost) comes with a background or
| backgrounds. The only problem is, most of these backgrounds can be found
| at the above-mentioned places -- but perhaps you'll find something
| interesting here. 5 stars for it's-good-for-the-OSS-movement
|
| -Chris
