Special Graphic Post:
Highway in Darkness
Published 7/30/2006 11:49:00 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2006
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Good morning, Dark Wraith.
The graphic is very well made, but dismal.
34 to 37 children and 12 or so adult women killed from a missile dropped on their building in Qana.
Isreal says it's Hezbollah's fault, because they fired rockets from near the building, so the missiles from Isreal, into Qana, was response to Hezbolloh's response to Isreal's response to Hezbollah's response to Isreal's response to Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid.
Now, Rice isn't going to Beirut, after all. According to Aljazeera.net, "the Lebanese government told her she would not be welcome."
Scary stuff, when will it end...and how?
Good evening Dark Wraith:
Dark indeed. One of the things that has me most troubled is the amount of miscalculation and surprise that is almost across the boards on this. I'm used to Bush and his crew being "surprised" by things one would expect the rational to anticipate. The way that this has been unfolding seems to have taken almost all the other participants and bystanders by surprise. That's "Guns of August" territory. When things happen in such opposition to conventional wisdom the participants tend to become much less calculated and more reactive in their subsequent courses of action.
Did that big floating skull at one time ride upon the shoulders of an Arch-Duke? How many heads does that dog in background have? Drat that whole "fog of war" motif anyway.
Good evening, Old White Lady.
We shall travel down that highway quite a bit farther before the end of this nightmare. The fact that we cannot see what is in the darkness down that highway will be no deterrent at all: that is and always has been the nature of the road we are now on.
The Dark Wraith just wishes all the children weren't being taken along with us.
Excellent reading of the graphical artwork, Minstrel Boy.
The Dark Wraith was a bit worried that the subtleties would be lost in the haze (as is often the case in armed conflict).
Quoth the Dark Wraith:
Condoleeza Rice's 'birth pangs of the new Middle East' seem to be proving that a lousy Secretary of State makes for an even lousier midwife.
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born"?
Hmmmmm
I suspect you are playing with us.
I suspect that this is actually a picture you took of the inside of an Armageddon 2006 refrigerator, to see if the light really goes out when we close the door and walk away.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Of course the light goes out in the Armageddon 2006 refrigerator when you shut the door: the oxygen supply runs out very quickly, so the bulb filament has no fuel to stay lit.
The Dark Wraith deals with the science questions about the EndTime.
I always wondered how the light knew when to turn off. Many times I experiment with my refigerator to see when the light turns off. I never have figured it out, but in the sense of determination, I keep trying. Damn! Almost saw it!! I also try to figure out why so many folk are so stupid as to vote against their best or only interest. It must be gawd. Gawd says "vote against your best interest for then I shall hold you dear".
Must be the medication, I had two crowns put on today. By my Dad no less.
I promise to shut up if these temps will stay on for a week.
Good Morning...
The graphic makes great wallpaper, but I wonder how long I can stand having it up. It is also really cool if you invert the colors-very wraithly.
Well done, as always, sir.
Good morning, Wild Clover.
Well, thank you: I didn't think about turning the graphic into wallpaper, but now that you've mentioned it, I see that it really is pretty cool that way.
What I'll do is reconstruct it into the standard monitor resolutions and add it to my sidebar section of Dark Wraith's Computer Wallpaper.
I'm going to start offering posters of some of my graphics, so this one will eventually be a selection in that medium, although I'm not at all sure it will sell like hotcakes.
Come to think of it, I've never sold more than a handful of any of my various bumperstickers, either, so I won't be suffering from high expectations about poster sales.
Oh, well. Most art is never appreciated until long after its creator is dead and gone.
The Dark Wraith just got a bit depressed by that last sentence.
Good Evening, Dark Wraith-
This is a very nice graphic... even a considerable background. Reminds me of where we're all heading in this life towards the next...
Good evening, Dark Muz.
Ah, there you are. I rather wondered if you would favor this graphic.
As I told Wild Clover above, I'll be turning this one into a computer wallpaper at various resolutions. That won't be too difficult, although creating the original graphic, itself, was one of the more challenging projects I've undertaken to date, despite the minimalism in appearance of the final result.
I've completed the large-scale, "meta-graphic" for my next post; and I'm here to tell you that I hit the wall several times on my computer's abilities. I actually lost the entire graphic, about two-thirds completed, at one point. I had already lost about half the RAM in my machine and about a fourth of the hard drive, and this latest project cooked off another 64 megs of RAM. I had to stop about every 45 minutes and shut down the computer to let it cool off, and that's very hard to do for me because I like to let my obsessive personality take over and just keep plowing until I get what I want. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that, so the project has taken several days; but finally I'm finished with the major work, and now I can work on details and carve-ups for various zoom-in depictions to illustrate the article I'm writing.
I have to tell you, this digital age is giving me amazing opportunities to create informational resources that employ both written and visual components. It seems to me that, in retrospect, we of the Ancient Geek Society knew this time would come, and I'm just glad I have a few years remaining to enjoy the opportunities it affords me.
You, Dark Muz, have considerably more time to take advantage of this new world... provided, of course, the world endures in high civilization mode; otherwise, it's back to cave paintings.
Those can be fun to do, but rendering graphics on rocks is rather tedious.
Almost as much so as rendering graphics in Photoshop.
The Dark Wraith rambles away into the night.
Good even, Dark Wraith-
Yes, we all have our moments of rambling. I apologize for the absence; I've been trying to get my bearing before school starts yet again.
The time line of graphics has been eventful. Like any type of technology or medical improvement, things appear then become obsolete. I'm afraid one reason I don't keep up with graphic, besides drawing and editing scans, is that I know I could never keep up with Photoshop & such. I'm amazed by those who can.
Those how far graphics have gone is something to muse about, even for the Dark Muz. Heh.