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My submission for sga art santa
Feb. 9th, 2009 10:51 pmHere's the piece I made for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beeej for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_art_santa I'm happy my recipient seemed to like it, and I really wanted to try an historical AU this time, so I had fun with it. John and Rodney are set in a Turn of the Century (19th) AU. I like to think they are enmeshed in some spooky mystery - Hound of the Baskervilles style. It's titled Turn of Centuries because Rodney and John's wardrobes are from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively. My original idea was that John had time traveled to Rodney's time and then through their adventures together, fell in love and lust!
ETA: Oops! I am so bad! I forgot to thank my darling betabluespirit_star for her wonderful eye and great advice in improving this! HUGE BUDDY HUGS! This piece would have been not nearly as good without her!
( Turn of Centuries )
You can find the Master List here!
Plus, I'm totally snagging back the icon. Waste not, want not! *g*
In other news, I've been following the news with the Vic. bushfires. It's just indescribably awful!
beeej for sga_art_santa I'm happy my recipient seemed to like it, and I really wanted to try an historical AU this time, so I had fun with it. John and Rodney are set in a Turn of the Century (19th) AU. I like to think they are enmeshed in some spooky mystery - Hound of the Baskervilles style. It's titled Turn of Centuries because Rodney and John's wardrobes are from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively. My original idea was that John had time traveled to Rodney's time and then through their adventures together, fell in love and lust!ETA: Oops! I am so bad! I forgot to thank my darling beta
bluespirit_star for her wonderful eye and great advice in improving this! HUGE BUDDY HUGS! This piece would have been not nearly as good without her!( Turn of Centuries )
You can find the Master List here!
Plus, I'm totally snagging back the icon. Waste not, want not! *g*
In other news, I've been following the news with the Vic. bushfires. It's just indescribably awful!
McKay/Sheppard art gifts
Jan. 28th, 2009 04:18 pmLook what I got! saldemonium made me a wallpaper! Isn't it lovely? I think woobie!Rodney is waiting for John to come rescue him and fretful!John is worrying his airforce socks off about where the heck Rodney has got to, and is he hurt?! Clearly, and eventually, Rodney will need lots of kisses to make his bruises better, and John's devotion to duty will include covering Rodney's whole body with 'kiss-it-better' kisses *g*
Andbluespirit_star made me my very own icon *points at post icon* from her wonderful Mile marker 36 ~ Montana 'verse, in which the boys spend lots of happy holiday time together taking snaps of themselves, groping each other's bum and gay cavorting in the snow *g*
I also grabbed this one too! Yay for bum groping in the snow! *ducks and hopes Bluespirit doesn't hit me on the head before she replies*
*Hugs you, lovely ladies*
♥♥♥
saldemonium made me a wallpaper! Isn't it lovely? I think woobie!Rodney is waiting for John to come rescue him and fretful!John is worrying his airforce socks off about where the heck Rodney has got to, and is he hurt?! Clearly, and eventually, Rodney will need lots of kisses to make his bruises better, and John's devotion to duty will include covering Rodney's whole body with 'kiss-it-better' kisses *g*
Click on image for full size!
And
bluespirit_star made me my very own icon *points at post icon* from her wonderful Mile marker 36 ~ Montana 'verse, in which the boys spend lots of happy holiday time together taking snaps of themselves, groping each other's bum and gay cavorting in the snow *g*I also grabbed this one too! Yay for bum groping in the snow! *ducks and hopes Bluespirit doesn't hit me on the head before she replies*
*Hugs you, lovely ladies*
♥♥♥
The Hat(s)
Jan. 24th, 2009 10:46 pmI had to jump in on the hat fun! Bonus cookies if you can call the album (which has nothing, as far as I know, to do with Aretha Franklin).
I'm duelling banjos at the moment .. playing the S05E20 aired version in Media Player Classic alongside the pre-air in VLC. Both versions seem to have the same definition but there's a very slight, different colour wash, but they seem more equal with the aired in VLC and the pre-air in MPC . The aired has a greener cast, whereas the pre-air has more magenta, but mostly in earlier scenes involving skin tones.
I swapped them around in the players to make sure and yeah, the skin qualities in the aired have had the pink reduced and they are either greener or whiter and sometimes the uniforms are greener too ... It's splitting hairs maybe, but artists might be interested to know. There're the credits to deal with in the early scenes in the aired, the Sci-Fi logo and an advertising banners for shows as well. In the TEMP VFX scenes, there were a few differences - a couple of smoke plumes were different (maybe?), a bit more red on the outside of a spaceship in one scene, different background colours in a few shots - not really that noticeable unless you are comparing them directly, but there are some subtle differences and SF geeks might like to know.
No one not in SGA will probably even recognise the figures but click for my very blurry impressionist version of a very dark, "unrecoverable" cap from The Shrine"
( ... )
I swapped them around in the players to make sure and yeah, the skin qualities in the aired have had the pink reduced and they are either greener or whiter and sometimes the uniforms are greener too ... It's splitting hairs maybe, but artists might be interested to know. There're the credits to deal with in the early scenes in the aired, the Sci-Fi logo and an advertising banners for shows as well. In the TEMP VFX scenes, there were a few differences - a couple of smoke plumes were different (maybe?), a bit more red on the outside of a spaceship in one scene, different background colours in a few shots - not really that noticeable unless you are comparing them directly, but there are some subtle differences and SF geeks might like to know.
No one not in SGA will probably even recognise the figures but click for my very blurry impressionist version of a very dark, "unrecoverable" cap from The Shrine"
( ... )
SGA Farewell!
Jan. 10th, 2009 02:04 pmWell, it's finished. It's had its highs and lows and I'm going to miss the boys, that's for sure, but not so much what the PTB do with it, so the boys are safe now ... untouchable, except for what OUR porny little minds will do with them *g* and not counting any movies, of course. For that, I'm relieved, as it really did hit some bad patches in S5.
Goodbye Show!John and Rodney! Live long and prosper in fandom!
Here's a quick manippy-pic of a couple of my favourite faces from Echoes.
Goodbye Show!John and Rodney! Live long and prosper in fandom!
Here's a quick manippy-pic of a couple of my favourite faces from Echoes.
Happy New Year!
Jan. 1st, 2009 12:17 pmI'm not really on time here - 12 hours late but ...
I hope everyone on the much loved f-list
has a wonderful year! *HUGS YOU! *
I hope everyone on the much loved f-list
has a wonderful year! *HUGS YOU! *
A couple of things
Dec. 31st, 2008 01:59 amHere's a zipped .mp3 of a bbc radio 2 show about Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"called "The Fourth, the Fifth, the Minor Fall", that I came across. The zip includes a pic of The Man himself.
Also, one last gratuitous manip post for the year
Click for full size image!
Also, one last gratuitous manip post for the year
Click for full size image!
sga_reference
Sep. 27th, 2008 07:31 pmOkay, I just looked at the last post on sga_reference and ... umm, it was in April, so anyone on the much treasured f-list out there who knows .. what was the ep (and season) where John headslapped Rodney? I always get those BC forest eps confused (originally thought it was Runner, but I re-watched it and that wasn't it) ... I know I probably have the file on disk, but can't for the life of me remember which ep it was ... haaalp!
sga_reference and ... umm, it was in April, so anyone on the much treasured f-list out there who knows .. what was the ep (and season) where John headslapped Rodney? I always get those BC forest eps confused (originally thought it was Runner, but I re-watched it and that wasn't it) ... I know I probably have the file on disk, but can't for the life of me remember which ep it was ... haaalp!
I've uploaded a zip file of 480 caps from The Shrine on Megaupload.
ETA: The caps are huge They were huge in my photoviewer, but turned out not to be as big as I thought opening them in PS. Still they are bigger than the usual. /ETA
They're from a 1.09GB video file, although they are not high res. Even so, I think they are better than the caps from the usual 350MB files on offer. Er, I might have focused on J/R a bit, because I just adored the boys in this - John was always reaching for Rodney and Rodney was desolate without John, always calling for him. John was his touchstone! But there's plenty of everyone else as well. Comments are much appreciated!
( Picspam (13) of The Shrine which is not dial-up friendly )
ETA: The caps are huge They were huge in my photoviewer, but turned out not to be as big as I thought opening them in PS. Still they are bigger than the usual. /ETA
They're from a 1.09GB video file, although they are not high res. Even so, I think they are better than the caps from the usual 350MB files on offer. Er, I might have focused on J/R a bit, because I just adored the boys in this - John was always reaching for Rodney and Rodney was desolate without John, always calling for him. John was his touchstone! But there's plenty of everyone else as well. Comments are much appreciated!
( Picspam (13) of The Shrine which is not dial-up friendly )
I can't help myself ...
Aug. 10th, 2008 11:21 pmYou know how once you let something go (as in publish it?) you then feel relaxed enough to play with it ... and sometimes when you do that, the results are better, or at least pleasingly different? ... Yes, I lost the neural interface that was integral to the fic but I played around spiking Sheppard's hair which is always waaay satisfying!! Here are the results of my tinkering (in Sheppard-speak about what McKay does) with my original cover art for ... Indelible. Do go and read it when you have time.
( tinkering )
( tinkering )
LJ McShep icons Cute!Squee
Mar. 24th, 2008 01:45 pmI've been noticing these cute little SGA mini-icons around the place and the lovely berlinghoff79 linked me up to blimey_icons post here.
I snagged John/Rodney (square)
but she has another series of all the characters where they are rounded 
.
Plus, the team!
and a puddlejumper 
*ggg*.
Hee! I'm chuffed! With my pitiful css foo I still managed not to screw it up, although it took me a while to match the background colours in my external stylesheet that show up behind the user names themselves in different sections of my journal.
I wonder if there is anyway using css to use different icons for individual users and the team for communities, for example. I would love that!
berlinghoff79 linked me up to blimey_icons post here.I snagged John/Rodney (square)
but she has another series of all the characters where they are rounded .Plus, the team!
and a puddlejumper *ggg*.Hee! I'm chuffed! With my pitiful css foo I still managed not to screw it up, although it took me a while to match the background colours in my external stylesheet that show up behind the user names themselves in different sections of my journal.
I wonder if there is anyway using css to use different icons for individual users and the team for communities, for example. I would love that!
Manip icons
Mar. 16th, 2008 08:03 pmHeh, yes, I know that NOT THIS many people requested icons ... okay, I'll admit it! I kinda went crazy making so many but I've been looking for an excuse to use Ze Icon Table Generator for ages, so that's why ...
but see, here's the thing .. some piece of my heart went into the "Need You ..." manips and I want anyone who does perchance, want an icon to feel like it's a personal present ... that it's their's ...
Also, monitors are so different and sometimes icons look darker/lighter depending on resolution, so that's why the iconsaren't extraordinarily creative but are basically only three crops, yet all are slightly different opacity/rendering/selective colour wise. I wanted to stay within a range that was faithful to the manips, but each one IS unique.
So these are the RULES ... please read carefully!
1. Comment on the one(s) you want on this post. If you're the first to claim it (them).. then it's your's and only your's ... (if you want more than one, you might have to deal ...)
2. No credit necessary because it's a gift.
3. If the one you want is claimed, and you want something like it but a bit more .../ a bit less ... / with / without text ... then just ask me. I'll do my best.
4 These are NOT BASES. Please don't alter them - I purposely didn't want to make them too "arty".
ETA: There's only 16, 17, 29 and 33 left, if I'm not mistaken.
( Need You icons )
but see, here's the thing .. some piece of my heart went into the "Need You ..." manips and I want anyone who does perchance, want an icon to feel like it's a personal present ... that it's their's ...
Also, monitors are so different and sometimes icons look darker/lighter depending on resolution, so that's why the icons
So these are the RULES ... please read carefully!
1. Comment on the one(s) you want on this post. If you're the first to claim it (them).. then it's your's and only your's ... (if you want more than one, you might have to deal ...)
2. No credit necessary because it's a gift.
3. If the one you want is claimed, and you want something like it but a bit more .../ a bit less ... / with / without text ... then just ask me. I'll do my best.
4 These are NOT BASES. Please don't alter them - I purposely didn't want to make them too "arty".
ETA: There's only 16, 17, 29 and 33 left, if I'm not mistaken.
( Need You icons )
John/Rodney Manip
Mar. 14th, 2008 07:13 pmThree 600x manips behind the cut - they're all the same pic - just with different effects and colours.
ETA: Please do not distribute these manips or alter them in any way.
( John Rodney almost kiss )
ETA: Please do not distribute these manips or alter them in any way.
( John Rodney almost kiss )
Food for political thought from Ann-Marie Slaughter, U.S. security expert on
ABC's Big Ideas ... a vision of our complex global future.
You can listen online or download the audio at the link. Such big ideas always give me hope ...
In other news, I spent the day swapping between doing administrative paper work for the three universities, I'll be working at this year and house cleaning, since the weather is so nice. I'm a bit anxious about getting time off for when my Mum visits in June for my BIG! Five-Oh! I should be able to wangle it though ... it's just I'm new at two places so I need to work out what their way of dealing with personal days taken is. I also have so much to do in the way of planning for all these courses, it's daunting, but I just have to ... not procrastinate!
I also rewatched Sleepless in Seattle after re-reading An Affair to Remember by Tira Nog *sighs* Such a warm and lovely romance with "tragedy barely averted" story that always makes me feel complete and so very happy. Anyone who hasn't read it, (not that that's likely...) should get thee to it! *g*
ABC's Big Ideas ... a vision of our complex global future.
You can listen online or download the audio at the link. Such big ideas always give me hope ...
In other news, I spent the day swapping between doing administrative paper work for the three universities, I'll be working at this year and house cleaning, since the weather is so nice. I'm a bit anxious about getting time off for when my Mum visits in June for my BIG! Five-Oh! I should be able to wangle it though ... it's just I'm new at two places so I need to work out what their way of dealing with personal days taken is. I also have so much to do in the way of planning for all these courses, it's daunting, but I just have to ... not procrastinate!
I also rewatched Sleepless in Seattle after re-reading An Affair to Remember by Tira Nog *sighs* Such a warm and lovely romance with "tragedy barely averted" story that always makes me feel complete and so very happy. Anyone who hasn't read it, (not that that's likely...) should get thee to it! *g*
Here's 50 zipped HD screencaps of the first scene in Quarantine ... you know, that one where John's heart gets broken?
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=44SHKNSA
( 13 caps under the cut )
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=44SHKNSA
( 13 caps under the cut )
Fanart - SGA, McKay_Sheppard
Dec. 26th, 2007 02:47 pmThere were some wonderful pieces of art made during the sga_art_santa. Thoroughly inspiring! I thought I'd see what kind of wallpaper I could make with some of the effects there, some new brushes and a couple of PS tutorials I read yesterday.
Feel free to take for personal use. Comments are muchly appreciated!
Is Not My Time
sga_art_santa. Thoroughly inspiring! I thought I'd see what kind of wallpaper I could make with some of the effects there, some new brushes and a couple of PS tutorials I read yesterday.Feel free to take for personal use. Comments are muchly appreciated!
Is Not My Time
