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Metaphysical Journey
1 July 2009
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Art Digital Magazine interview
29 June 2009
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Between horizons
8 June 2009
Imagine you are traveling through undiscovered dimension. A dimension of unfolding soundscapes and abstract visions. A hypnotic journey during which time ceases to exist... |
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Cosmic awareness
4 June 2009
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Special Deal - Free shipping on Zazzle
30 May 2009
The fine print: To qualify for this free shipping offer, one or more Zazzle products must be purchased with a net sale price equal to or greater than 55.00 dollars. The coupon code SHIPSFORFREE must be entered during checkout to receive the offer. The free shipping offer is for standard (or economy if standard is not available) shipping to U.S. addresses only. Shipping charges will apply to oversized orders and orders being shipped on an expedited basis or outside the U.S. Offer is valid from May 28, 2009 through May 31, 2009 at 11:59pm PT. Your order must be placed during that time to qualify for this special offer. This promotional offer may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or discount offers. |
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Unsolved Mysteries - UFOs
29 May 2009
 DVD collection. Unsolved Mysteries was a popular TV program investigating real-life mysteries, missing persons, conspiracy theories, unsolved crimes, and unexplained paranormal phenomena like alien abductions, ghosts, and UFOs. The program was hosted by Robert Stack, and was shown from 1987 to 2002. I occasionally watched it during the late 1980s and early 1990s and even taped a few episodes. In 2004 a "UFOs" DVD set was released which contains all the best UFO segments from the program (26 segments on 4 DVDs, 360 minutes). The Unsolved Mysteries team investigated many famous UFO sightings including the Rendlesham forest incident, Allagash Abductions, Roswell, Area 51, Phoenix lights and many others. I really enjoyed watching all 26 segments, some of which are very captivating. They are all high quality - especially the actual reconstruction of events based on eyewitness testimony is impressive. All stories investigated are presented in a serious, free of sensationalism, and a fairly objective manner. If you are interested in the UFO phenomena you will most likely enjoy watching this UFO DVD collection. |
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Star convention
24 May 2009
By the way, all posters on Zazzle are up to 70% off. Just enter the code "MEMORIALSALE" at checkout - the sale ends this Sunday! |
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Dimension unknown
20 May 2009
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Special Deal - Wallpapers on sale!
16 May 2009
By the way, I got in touch with the ambient music maestro Matt Hillier (of Ishvara and Ishq fame) and he readily agreed to participate in the upcoming promo videos with his highly creative ambient works. So I started the production yesterday and the first video should be online in a few days. I'm also working on the new surreal piece - now going through the preliminary-renderings phase. All looking good. |
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Surreal WIP
14 May 2009
I also plan on doing some more promo videos as they seem to be quite popular. There will be at least two more: one abstract and one surreal and possibly mixed ones at a later time. Finally thanks to all who send in their words of support after reading about the hate mail I get.  |
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Future Visions
9 May 2009
Have you seen the first promo video? Cosmic Voyage has already been seen over 500 times since its youtube debut some 3 weeks ago. A must see for all space art and Anosphere fans! |
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Endless stuff to do...
8 May 2009
promotion and research - very time consuming and usually boring, sometimes gruesome, but always taxing. This often revolves around reading some marketing "gurus" blogs who are full of it most of the time. Books tend to be far more reliable for this. Currently about half of my time is eaten up by doing online promotion, analyzing stats, improving ranking, endless experimentation and research. But the good news is that I keep getting better at it, so in the future maybe only 10% of my time will be allocated for this grim necessity? email stuff - customer communication, artists, attention seekers, AMAZING deals for artists (ha, ha..), etc. Sometimes I end up spending a few hours a day in front of my mailbox. Usually it's less than half an hour though, and I try to keep it to a bare minimum. site maintenance - I often get ideas about new features to add, or need to restructure some code, optimize it, or fix a bug. I don't mind doing this part, I enjoy most of it, but it sure can eat up a lot of time. There is always more code to write! misc stuff - writing invoices, news posts like this one, contract agreements, license agreements, managing online stores, uploading new artwork, sending out newsletters, + a ton of other stuff that my overheated brain can't recall now. art stuff - let's not forget the most important and enjoyable part! Typically one image takes me 4-6 days of work. First there is getting into the specific mood of the image and generating ideas, then picking the best ones, then doing preliminary renderings until I arrive at what I like. Finally I do the hi-res version (usually around 7000 pixels wide) so all of you who buy those huge posters I sell can enjoy a crisp and sharp picture on the wall. How is that for a premium service? My 2do list is currently 1063 lines long of neatly categorized stuff that needs to get done. Even though I constantly delete the done stuff, new stuff keeps creeping inn all the time! This is one of those unsolved mysteries that I yet need to figure it out... |
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The Starchild skull mystery
2 May 2009
The Starchild skull is a very unusual humanoid skull which has been found around 1930 by a girl in a long-abandoned mine tunnel in Mexico. The skull has been dated to be 900 years old, and beyond its visible external anomalies has many unusual characteristics like very thin and light bone that is highly durable. These and other characteristics suggest that the skull could be of alien origin. The only way to determine the Starchild's skull genetic heritage is through DNA analysis. So in 2003 a fragment of the skull has been cut out for the necessary DNA extraction procedures at Trace Genetics in Davis, California. The end result showed that the Starchild's mitochondrial DNA was easily recoverable and turned out to have a human mother. However, the lab could not recover the nuclear DNA, so a new recovery technique has been suggested which only recently became available. If all goes as planned the results are to be made available this year. Personally I hope that the new DNA results will prove that the skull is a hybrid - alien father and human mother. Such discovery will be of enormous importance and will make it easier for the mainstream science to start taking "the little green men" more seriously. |
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Hate mail
22 April 2009
Hate mail regarding my textures having a logo on them is almost a weekly occurrence. People want to use them in their games, virtual worlds, websites, etc., with total disregard for copyright. Actually I get about five times as much hate mail as fan mail these days. What a wonderful way of showing appreciation! It's disturbing that some people don't understand that quality work takes time and effort to produce. Worse yet, they only want to take and never give back. Such people are the nasty parasites, and there are hordes of them online! |
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Cosmic voyage
16 April 2009
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The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
5 April 2009
 - a unique documentary about the artist's life. The entire narration consists of Vincent's letters, and the visuals of his paintings and drawings and the places he lived. Such rare combination of visuals and artist's own words makes this documentary especially valuable. There is no distortion here - you get the input strictly from the source. Almost. I had no idea that Van Gogh was such a talented writer. His letters are fluent and clearly describe the complex struggles of his life as an artist and human being - some of it I know all too well myself. Especially this quote is valid for me too: "It is basically true that a painter is a man too absorbed in what his eyes see, and is not sufficiently master in the rest of his life." During the last 10 years of his life Vincent produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Two years before his death Van Gogh cut off part of his left ear during some sort of seizure. Possibly caused by a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. He committed suicide at 37 years of age by shooting himself in the abdomen with a revolver. He sold one painting during his lifetime. |
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Kinetic elements
1 April 2009
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Sadhus of India - the solution to western insanity?
24 March 2009
What I find especially interesting is that the Indian society allows such behavior - since there is no equivalent mechanism in the western culture that offers as much freedom. One could become a monk, but for most people the monastic life would probably be just as imposing as the regular western life. Yet the sadhu life is relatively free for someone who finds the mainstream cultural norms meaningless and a source of misery. Estimates vary but there might be up to 10-15 million sadhus out of the 1.1 billion Indian population. How many are true sadhus (those who focus on spiritual practice) and how many adapted the sadhu life for other reasons is an interesting question. In any case, I wonder: would 1-2% of the western population readily renounce their everyday life in exchange for a western equivalent to sadhu life? Since there is no easy way out of the western mainstream culture, could it be that many of those 1-2% westerners end up mentally and physically ill because of that, and at what social cost? Would a western equivalent to the sadhu lifestyle, act as a sort of social safety valve that could prevent the mass killings going on in schools (etc.), and perhaps even lower crime rates in general? I'm not saying that the sadhu life is easy to practice or implement on a social scale. It has its negative and positive aspects, but for those who readily adapt such lifestyle (for whatever reason) it seems to offer an improved and more meaningful existence that potentially also offers more benefits (than drawbacks) to the rest of society.  The books I can recommend are Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men  by Dolf Hartsuiker (has lots of photographs) and Wandering With Sadhus: Ascetics of the Hindu Himalayas (Contemporary Indian Studies) by Sondra L. Hausner (more in depth). And a couple of interesting video documentaries are Naked In Ashes and ORIGINS OF YOGA: Quest for the spiritual . And here is an extensive sadhu gallery. (Photo credits: andycarvin and Sukanto Debnath)
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Edge of perception
7 March 2009
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Arthur C. Clarke's paranormal TV series nostalgia
12 February 2009
To remedy the situation I started watching my old collection of VHS documentaries which I recorded in 1980s and 1990s. Amazing the difference it makes to watch a documentary with steady footage and an intelligent and unobtrusive narration with fitting music. An enjoyable experience that also leaves room for thinking. Since my VHS collection is rather small I started looking for older documentary series on DVD. I found two of my favorite paranormal shows that I used to watch years ago, and they are certainly as good now as they were back then. Actually they seem even better as they are free of all those annoying effects. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World is perhaps the best known of Arthur C. Clarke's TV series. Thirteen episodes investigating the unexplained from around the world: UFOs, Stonehenge, Bigfoot, lake and sea monsters, Nazca lines, the Tunguska event and many others. Some of the sequences and their eerie music are deeply symbolic and full of mystery, which really adds to the mood and atmosphere. The series was first shown in September 1980 in UK and is available on amazon.co.uk for only about £10 (13 episodes on two DVDs). Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe  is another well known TV series investigating the unexplained and paranormal phenomena. It was first broadcasted in 1994 in the UK and had 18 episodes. Unfortunately the DVD edition only contains 6 episodes but they are still worth their high quality. Finally there is the Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers from the mid 1980s, which goes deeper into the paranormal. Unfortunately I could not find this one on DVD. Hopefully it will be released in the near future for the audience who enjoys quality documentaries. |
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Excellent online pool game by Chameleon Games
3 February 2009
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