The Rose's Grove

It's very warm (for Seattle) today - 91 F at the moment and supposed to stay that way through Tuesday, and in a sure sign that Seattle is still Seattle, the National Weather Service has issues a heat advisory to remind us that Seattleites are not adapted to temperatures above about 80 F. I know this isn't a big deal for a lot of people, and honestly I feel pretty comfy about it as long as I'm in my airy apartment, but we walked to the International District for breakfast and a little shopping this morning, and I definitely did not enjoy the hill (and the slightly mistaken detour we took) on the way home. Phew. I think I'll stay close to home for the rest of the day, probably.

While I'm at it, I thought I'd put up a quick re-post of the Secret Project that I posted to babylon5_love yesterday. With thanks to icepixie for the idea - I've been working on this ever since we talked about the Art Nouveau influences of the visual style on B5.

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Now that I'm done with that, I have one more day next Friday, for which I hope to finish something else I've been working on for quite a while (we'll see... it keeps fighting me). Writing this time, I'm afraid - as much as I want to do more complete art projects like this, they take a lot of time, and I feel like I've been letting myself get a little rusty with writing lately. I've been working, but things haven't necessarily gelled the way I'd like them to. I feel very much as though I'm in one of those awkward growth periods where nothing quite seems to come out right, and the only way I know to get through those is to keep pounding words and hoping that they start sounding better. So, we'll see.

In other news, I finally scheduled an appointment for a hair trim today. Totally new salon, just one that's a block away from my apartment, so I hope they don't... I don't know, chop off all my hair and give me a mohawk or something. It's just a trim, so it ought to be fine. Just a little unnerving.

I've finally finished the Torchwood Christmas wallpaper that I started working on last year. It's pieced together from the two halves of a Daily Mirror spread a few years ago, and... let me tell you, if I ever see that stupid wallpaper in the background of shot ever again, it'll be too soon. Seriously.


Click for the full-size version - it's 1440 by 900, so feel free to size as needed.

I think this qualifies as a "go me" post. XD



For only having started really working on graphics for the last year or so, I'm very pleased with myself. Especially seeing as how... that icon took me hours.

It never ends. Now that I can screencap reliably and efficiently, I discover that I can only do so in frigging .bmp format. Do you have any idea how chunky and ugly .bmp screecaps are? I do, now. These things are impossible to work with! They're hideous!

Please, by all that's holy - if anybody happens to a) know how to get PowerDVD to take caps that aren't in crap-format, or b) have a source for actually worthwhile B5 caps or pictures that aren't quite so obviously staged publicity shots, I'd be much obliged. I'm getting really irritated by having no resources to work with, here.