Showcase Your Art, Music, Literature, Etc.
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Shaper
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 10:02
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Do you make any form of art, be it audial, visual, textual, or something else? Here's your chance to show off! I think there was recently a thread here about poetry, but I don't think it went beyond that, and I can't find it going back a few pages anyway, so I figure it must have been long enough ago that I could get away with making a new thread. I made a bunch of stuff. I posted several samples of my audial art on Polaris, but there's not much interest there. I put that up to the fact that Polaris loses more members than it gains, and that there's about two people who are posting there regularly. Here's my post from Polaris, somewhat edited: ------------------------------- Here are several samples of my audial artwork. http://placeofstuff.250free.com/songs.html Please save them to your computer before opening them, so you don't have to download them more than once. I don't have much bandwidth on that site. "Life In A Fish Tank" is not music. It is carefully planned, non-musical sound. It is intended to be used as enjoyable listening material. Some people enjoy it, some people hate it. People seem to enjoy it more when they know what it is, so I'll explain what the sounds are supposed to be. First, you hear the bubbling of the oxygen thingy and the quiet hum of the water heater. Then someone taps on the glass. This causes a particularly strange fish to go nuts and start singing (that would be the sped-up bass). Eventually he calms down and the track ends. Here is a picture to go with LIAFT: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/The...ff/LIAFTori.gif After that is "Mr. Q's Mindrape". Like LIAFT, this is not music. It is carefully planned sound. However, unlike LIAFT, "Mr. Q's Mindrape" was not created to be listened to. I do anyway, but that's beside the point. I intentionally designed it to be unpleasant, although a few people have said they liked this one. Mr. Q is a face. A strange, evil face. He comes up with strange conspiracy theories and ideas. He also likes torturing people. Mindrape is what he does to people who piss him off. Here is a picture of Mr. Q: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/The...ff/MrQTrans.gif Then there is "Well, That Was Cacophonic". It is, as the name implies, cacophonic. For those who don't know what cacophony is, it is loud, jarring, dischordant sound. This track was created to serve as an alarm for those people who are immune to regular alarms. Be careful with this as it might blow crappy speakers if the volume is up too loud. This one, unlike the rest, is not meant to be listened to on a regular basis, as that would reduce its effectiveness as an alarm; however, if you have powerful speakers, no need for an alarm, and a wish to become deaf and/or insane, I won't stop you from listening to it. After that is "Three Internet Geeks Arguing While Driving In The Rain". This one is straightforward, and by far the least chaotic of the non-musical audial works I have made up to this point. It contains the sounds of rain, a simulated car motor, and a conversation. Even if you did not enjoy the previous sounds, you may enjoy this one, since the content is normal. The last one is actually music (Gasp!). It is called "God Damn Snow". It contains several bass lines, drums, and a man complaining about having to shovel snow. I made it on a synthesizer for an assignment in my Music Technology class. Again, the URL is http://placeofstuff.250free.com/songs.html . Please only download them once, because I have very little bandwidth. I hope you enjoy at least one of them. ------------------------------- Please tell me what you think about this stuff (even if you don't like it), and post your own artwork so we can all praise/carefully ignore/verbally abuse you! -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 10:16
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I wrote tons of music pieces, and I'm now composing my "first symphony." Movement one is finished, i'm bussy with movement two. if anybody wants to hear it , I'll have to send it by email. You'll need Finale printmusic to play it. just go to www.finalemusic.com and search for "printmusic 2006 download." -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 15:00
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I've started writing a short story as a parody of the little mermaid. I'll probably finish in a few days so if anyone wants to see the end email me. nicothodes (at) myway (dot) com It started on my twentieth birthday. It was the day I had to go to the surface. I had a big argument with Dad over it. The pollution is terrible up there, according to my sisters. I knew he could order me up there, being king of the merfolk, but he rarely brings that sort of thing into family life. In the end, he won, just as parents always do. Going to the surface is a ritual everyone does on their twentieth birthday. Actually it used to be sixteen, but there’s a rule that if you meet a human of the opposite sex, you have to marry him or her as soon as possible and people thought sixteen was a bit young. Dad didn’t get to see me off as he was busy with the sea-witch, who liked to amuse herself by stealing things like beauty, voice, and talent. I was going to just say I had gone up to the surface when I found out Uncle Fin was going to take his place. I started to swim up, followed closely by Uncle Fin until I couldn’t swim anywhere except up. My head burst the surface. There was so much debris in the water, I could hardly move. My attention was drawn to a small boat. When I saw what was going on, I almost screamed. It wasn’t fair! They were tossing out a man. The rules were very specific. I had to rescue him and bring him ashore. Then I had to wait until he woke up, tell him to meet me in the palace courtyard, go to Dad, get turned into a human, and marry the guy. I’d have let the idiot drown, except Uncle Fin was just under the surface and would’ve told. I took off after the idiot’s sinking figure. I mean, who’s stupid enough to upset people when you’re on a boat. I mean, come on. I reached him before he lost consciousness, which was good. I mean, who wants to sit around waiting for a complete stranger to wake up. I say, pretend that you don’t see him and let the next merperson save him. When he saw me, he smiled and gave a little wave. I began to doubt his sanity. By the time I got him to shore, there was no doubt about it. This man was lost to the world. Some would say that his looks made up for it, but the number of people is one, including his mother. His hair was blond, almost white, which did absolutely nothing for his dark skin. His eyes were blood red with flecks of gold and he must have been about twenty pounds under-weight. “Hi! My name is God. I can get you anything you like. Would you prefer beef or chicken?” he was saying as I heaved him onto the beach. I was beginning to see why he was tossed overboard in the first place. “Tell you what. Meet me in the palace courtyard at noon tomorrow,” I said, wishing that stupid law would disappear into thin air. I swam off, going underwater as soon as I could. When I reached Uncle Fin I almost screamed. I mean, there I was wishing there was some way to get out of rescuing the guy and it turns out Uncle Fin was asleep the whole time! I should have known! He always falls asleep. Now I was stuck having to marry the mental patient. I left Uncle Fin where he was and swam back home. After dinner, Uncle Fin came rushing in shouting that I had disappeared. Dad berated him for falling asleep and sent him home. I had to tell dad I had rescued a human. There’s something about being a merperson that makes us unable to stand up a human. It’s said that it’s because we used to lure sailors to crash into rocks. The Royal Wizard got tired of all these deaths and cast a spell on us so we had to stay on the rock until the sailors crashed. Combined with having to rescue all the humans and marry all the ones of the opposite sex, this spell was made even worse. It is generally believed that this is why we stopped doing it. I believe we stopped because it’s a lot less work to let them kill themselves. But anyway, somehow the spell worked for all arranged meetings between merpeople and humans so the king of the merpeople at the time worked it around to fit in with the laws of the merfolk. Dad was thrilled. He was all set on turning me into human and sending me off right then, but I asked to see the kingdom of the merpeople one more time before leaving it forever. Forever with the insane asylum escapee. That’s a scary thought. Dad, thinking I was finally being sentimaental, like he always wanted, agreed. Instead of going around the kingdom I went in search of the sea-witch. I figured if anyone could help me, it would be her. In the sea, when you’re set on finding something, you usually do quite quickly. It’s really annoying though when you’re trying to avoid someone. It’s impossible. Well, I found the sea-witch’s lair fairly quickly. It was a cave with the heads of humans staked at the entrance. Seeing those heads, I could tell the sea-witch and I were going to get along extremely well. -------------------- Do not underestimate the power of the mechanical pencil. Join the Dark side. We have cookies. Played in: Fiddler on the Roof Bye Bye Birdie "Hey, Patrick, feel this random pipe. It's squishy"-Nils Posts: 834 | Registered: Thursday, July 8 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 15:56
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One of my worst attempts at writing a novel is Shadow's Rising. I started it in November 2003 as a Nano, and while it began well it soon turned into a collage of everything a fantasy novel shouldn't be. I wrote more on it in 2004, but it really didn't get any better. I also participated in numerous roleplays, at least two of which are worth reading even though they are gone now from Spiderweb. One is Baltazar the Mad (it might be necessary to manually enter the page numbers because the links don't work. So go to page 2 by changing the address to page2.html etc). This was in August 2003, and it was a good one, considering its contemporaries and predecessors ended up in the flame pit. Another is the Avernum RP (I'm going to move it to my own adfree webspace soon but don't have time now). Arguably the best we have brought forth yet here. Not counting the Mountain of Shadows, if we finish that one, admittedly. (argh, need to post) Also, I sort of finished a novel in November tentatively titled Crystal Song. Finally, I like to play the piano. Brahms mostly. The piece is not complete, but I'm working on it. Also finally, I would like to close with a note to the doer of sel--- ah, stuff, who seems to have started this with no purpose beyond bragging with pieces of sound that have yet to achieve mediocrity. :rolleyes:  [ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 16:04: Message edited by: Gandalf the Green ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 18:15
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I was used to play piano too but my fingers are now stiffened out of lack of training :( I now only draw. Here's something I did a few days ago, for my mother's birthday.  edit: Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting [ Friday, December 30, 2005 15:26: Message edited by: gnoll ] Posts: 12 | Registered: Friday, December 16 2005 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 18:18
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quote:Curses! Foiled again! How did you know?! EDIT: Cool picture, Gnoll! Here's a picture I made of my nose. I've posted it several times before, fishing for feedback of course, but here it is again: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/TheAlmightyDoerOfStuff/NoseArt.png Also, here is a hand turkey I made for a hand turkey competition last year: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/TheAlmightyDoerOfStuff/HandTurkey.gif I made another hand turkey for this year's contest, but it's inappropriate. [ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 18:25: Message edited by: The Almighty Doer of Stuff ] -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 18:38
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Hessiithaatatos heep sepibainakhoth mooram rhegaas to, Doorh khaatiithakhathaas kairoith Hathnazriakh kseevon Ithkhakhathoon; staam theifa pefeireith kaalon so leikhon Ghiitorh ek khthooreith ithkhiithaithoon koi pereniithi. Aaleth nakh thiita sikoi bitoth, gaatho hepinth sepibainoth, Mooram khot theifam hentookhoth prim hessookh hessonekh poorhoom, Oss Hathnazriakh viidatha staat hessoith hot, "Narh Khalthas Thoo bitas?" voot thee dookhaamoot vis sithoot, de rhegaas khe Hessoth totaathi, "Ninaakh, thesos keelestoose rhegathoose." Preliminary version of a few lines of the Khalthanad, an epic poem in the classical slith tongue. Translation available upon release of Exodus. Hint for pronunciation: doubled letters are lengthened but otherwise not altered in any way from the pronunciation of the single letter. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, December 27 2005 19:06
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Hey your nose art made me remember I like pixel art... those cozy homemade, mouse-painted ones :) EDIT: feedback... hmm... feeling so sleepy can't be so helpful. Still, as they always say in Elfwood, keep it up! [ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 19:10: Message edited by: gnoll ] Posts: 12 | Registered: Friday, December 16 2005 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 03:48
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quote:ASLAN!!!! :P Sorry, I just saw the Narnia movie and that was the first thing that came into my head. It's awesome though. Great colours! :) -------------------- Do not underestimate the power of the mechanical pencil. Join the Dark side. We have cookies. Played in: Fiddler on the Roof Bye Bye Birdie "Hey, Patrick, feel this random pipe. It's squishy"-Nils Posts: 834 | Registered: Thursday, July 8 2004 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 07:29
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I really, really like this picture I took. I'd have posted it directly on here, but it's set to be desktop wallpaper, and would take up space. http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/695/bflybestresizedone6xx.jpg -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft A**wipe' Posts: 702 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 11:16
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 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Cartographer
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 11:19
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I sort of hope I could draw, but don't have any space to practice much. I mean my table is filled on both sides with so much stuff I can't clear enough space on the middle part to place a paper on it for drawing. So I just write, every now and then. I have stories on my homepage, but I think they're much too outdated to give a good example of my work all in all. I've got two pretty interesting stories under work (and I was just working on the other one, when I decided to take a break and waste some time here). It's unfinished, but still ... better than my current full ones, in my opinion. It's about a troll, mermaid and a centaur and their wonderful adventure to recover the stolen holy artifact of the merpeople. They join together by accident, but their friendship grows to be something beautiful and truly fulfilling... Well, something like that. It's on very early stages still. First chapter isn't even nearly finished, but you can look at what I've got so far. I worry it's too Pratchettian, you know? It isn't, though, is it? Probably not really, but still. The other one is also unfinished. It's about a team of people who get stranded in an unknown planet, possibly uninhabited, in a possibly uninhabited galaxy. Very scifi. That's not actually all of what I've written, but I figured I'd leave the difficult bits out, since I've gotten comments of them being too ... hard to follow. I don't see a problem myself, but then again, the scenes play out in my own head and I'm more familiar with the characters, because they're mine, you know? Yeah. Anyway, I don't want to spoil the big thing for you yet, in case you take interest and I some day actually manage to finish it. ^^; OH! And there's the avatars I've made, but I don't dare show them, because I haven't *actually* asked for permission to use the original artwork as avatars. That means they're not uploaded anywhere. I don't actually use them, either. They're just wasting away on my harddrive, but ... that's not as bad as outright stealing and claiming for oneself. I just like making avatars, even though I never use them. Unless of course it's a picture I've taken myself or something like that. Mmm. :\ EDIT: Alright, sent. :) (extra edit - whoops ^^; ) [ Friday, April 28, 2006 09:56: Message edited by: Fixator ] -------------------- "I'm not crazy!" "Well, whatever. Maybe you just ate something really questionable, or perhaps someone hit you on the head with something large, blunt and heavy just now. By the way..." Gil nudged Grul pointedly. Ooh! Homepage - Blog - Geneforge, +2, +3 - My Elfwood Gallery and DevArt page So many strange ones around. Don't you think? Posts: 1308 | Registered: Sunday, September 8 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 11:58
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Which reminds me, you mentioned an avatar at some point in the Nanowrimo thread earlier. Is there a chance you could email it? As long as I don't use it, I guess there shouldn't be a copyright problem... :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, December 28 2005 14:30
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quote::P We have a winner! [ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 14:30: Message edited by: Spring ] -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
