Duisburg Innenhafen seems to be becoming a second home for me ;) I was there quite often in the last few weeks. Went there with half_lit_world a while back and then went again for a Lomowalk. I have three albums in my lomo home. I used a redscale film, an x-pro and a normal iso 100.



Also yesterday, we celebrated book232's birthday at Mongos there. I don't think I've eaten that much in a long time. It was great fun and I met some nice new people. And of course I got to see book again ;) And talk about Fringe and Lost and stuff ;)
We also went to Legoland, to the store only, where I purchased 3 Star Wars themed keychains!!! I got Admiral Aackbar, Boba Fett and a Stormtropper. For some reason I really like Ackbar. It's a trap!!! I think it has to do with Robot Chicken Star Wars. So awesome!!!! Anyway, check it out here at 3:34.
Also also celebrated half_lit_world and in_arcadia_ego's birthday on saturday at the fabulous Flurklinik.

For some recs I've been meaning to share this site and I'm not sure I did that already. Lost and Taken has the best Textures for grapics work ever!!!

I also found several video turorials for analogue painting that I liked.

Anthropoligie has three new dresse that I LOVE. But they are way too expensive!

my new baby!!! I finally got it. Bought from bday present monay. My Lomography LCA. It's so pretty. And look at all the stuff that was in the package. And the wonderful box it came in!!!





Only one and a half weeks till Scotland. It is kind of scary. I found these stunning pics of the Isle of Sky and I cannot wait for it.

Cuteness overload: Dragonfly. This makes me wish I had more talent in crafting.

For you lovers of graphics who want to learn the basics: A very awesome Photoshop basics video training course. And it's free.

Non fannish awesome Tumblrs:

• Brickhouse
• Clients from Hell
• Convoy
• Book cover Design
• The Burning House
• Miss Moss

• James van Der Memes
• My collegue Sarah just showed me this game Heavy Metal Robot Unicorn Attack
• I now have a tumblr of my own. I think it's all charlidos fault. Please add me if you have one.
• Wil Wheaton is coming to Fedcon. I think my 11 year old self wants me to go now.
• For all you geeks: create a superhero is adobe Illustrator.
• Some nice grunge Textures for download. They are extremly cool.
• legoline has Harry Potter and the deathly hallows icons.
• iconpraise has a post of fabulous icons of 2011. I really like the choices there. Put together by alisea_dream
• I really really really want this dress. And maybe also this. Only I just bought a car!!!

Remember I said I want to catch up? The entries for sga_art_santa have finally been revealed and well here is the preview to mine.

Please keep in mind that I didn't have a lot of time, haven't manipped in over two years and well, it's kind of off to me. Has it really been december since I created any art?

I've been meaning to share this with you! The amazing animotus made this for me for christmas! Isn't it just amazing!



Anyways, I've been collecting some absolutely brilliant fannish recs!

• SGA, McShep: Escape Velocity by aesc and dogeared
  This is an entry for artword's astronomy challenge and is a bit based on spoilers for the episode Vegas. The way it's built up is really cool.
• Merlin/Arthur: Of the earth by newkidfan
  Visially one of my favorite fanarts in quite a while. Mixed media. I just love the composition a lot!
• SPN: Thorn in your side by animotus
  Brilliantly composed and textured SPN art featuring all your favorite characters (Dean, Sam, Cas and Daddy Winchester!)
• SGA, McShep: Be my yoko ono by dayln03
  This music vid is just sweet fun without any hassle.
• SGA, McShep: Casa MShep by berlinghoff79
  Just look at all those amazing details!
• SGA, McShep:The Touchstones of Our Characters by velocitygrass
  A nice AU. Rodney is a scienteist working for Wraith management. He meets John at a conference and since his room appearantly hasn't been booked has to bunk with John.
• SGA, McShep: Heart Arrhythmia by lavvyan
  Well, I have a sore spot for Shepard and McKay/Keller fics which later turn into McShep. I love suffering John as long as he gets his man in the end. Rec me some if you know any.
  The cover, even as a printed version can be found here by newkidfan

animotus told me to share more ;) And well, I've found this webpage a while back and then...lost it again and since it's a just such a huge source of inspiration, that made me really sad.

I love browsing stuff like this and I always think, I want to be able to do that!

FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!

My Own Spires Entry, Projects, To-Do List

My own Spires idea took a turn into a completely different direction than what I planned last night. Odd how that is, since I'm enjoying it quite a bit but it's so very different. Far more friendly and less technical then I had initially planned.

Also, since it's supposed to be John centric, do you think they'd mind me sneaking other characters in?

I'm amazingly awake considering the fact that I only slept for 4 hours. I got a large portion of my first Spires entry done as well as a lot of Tweaking on svmadelyn's Heroes project.

Art Recs

As you probably know paintedspires has started and the first entries have started flowing in. Here are a few I truly enjoyed.

• Detective Noir by leyna55 impressed me the most. The Amount of work and detail that went into this is stunning. It's been painted ith a graphic tablet it seems and well, just go look for yourself.


• The Electric Things Have Their Life Too by steammmpunk. And no, it's not a Terminator AU at least I think it's not. I also found this Bones SGAAU in her lj that I find quite stunning.


• Wonderful comic like artwork by astridv. It's got Todd and Ronon fighting side by side!


• Then there is Uncounted by aesc. I always have this notion about thinking and processes taking place inside of us when I look at her pieces. And the theme for me, fits this.


• Not Spired related is this Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Artwork by lambent. It was done for me as part of the Flash fiction. The prompt I gave was Tin Man.

The Ollian

I also watched a large portion of the Ollian vids again and have decided that you all should suffer with me. I'm hopeless ;) frogspace got my hopelessly readdicted to the German soap Opera "Verbotene Liebe." Or rather, the pairing Oliver/Christian.

It always took just one pairing ;) Its basically a coming out story, but I think for a soap, the language aside, it's wonderfully done. And really you should all watch it. People make it easy for you.

There are clips in chronological oder with and without subtitles on youtube. And there is already a wonderful community which helps you with where you need to start. Find out more here


Placebo is my Overall Top Artist on last.fm. That is so very wrong!

ETA: I accidentally killed my layout!!! It's very dead and this is an old one... which I'm not sure if like :/

I wonder when the point will come that I cannot watch Rising ever ever again. For legoline it's almost an injoke. She says noone's seen it more than me! Not that it matters much. But Monday night, I decided that rewatching Stargate Atlantis Season One is a really good idea and I plopped in the DVD into my laptop.

I lovelovelove this pilot so much! It's when I fell for John and to a degree, Rodney. It's when I decided that Stargate might not be that crappy after all. It was almost like coming home to an old lover. And it had Jinto and Stackhouse (what happened to that guy, mmm) and Craig and the chair and well..I just love the whole thing to bits.

That said, I was veeery sorta fannish this weekend and made a ToDo list for all my challenges and prompts and stuff. I'm participating in

• Painted Spires I've chose two prompts here and one in particular I really look forward to!
• Sarah Connor Chronicles Flash Fic and Art Challenge
• SGA Big Bang I'm not writing, bcause I'm really bad at it, but doing an artwork for one of the stories that gets done.

Also, I read some wonderful fic and got some recs for you to take a look at.

• First is a John and Ronon music vid called Red Sun, which is really the best music video I've seen in a long time. It's simply, not many effects in it, no boombast, but it's realyl awesomely cut and the scenes were well chosen and I love the music a lot. I don't want to say more because I think it might give to much away.
• The Mona Lisa Box is a Sarah Connor Chroniclas/Stargate Atlantis, McShep crossover which merges the two universes and has great characterization.
• a ficlet with cuteness overload and icecream!
• Books are hot: The John Sheppard Book Club
• Sleepless, which is Sleepless in Seattle Atlantis style with Great phone conversation and characterization.

Also, sophie0 as completely hooked me on Rome. God Rome, I feel like pulling out my hostory books. If you haven't seen it, it's really good and even though you know what is going to happen, it's really suspenseful. And it's got Mark Antony and Pullo. *grins*

We also watched Juno in the cinema ysterday and that was such a great movie. Go watch it if you can :)

I'm also doing a Sarah Connor Chronicles Lims community. If anyone has pointers or ideas for that I'd be most happy.

Waaaaazaaa!!! I am the dust bunny destroyer! They are all gone gone gone!!!!! Yes, I'm fine! I finally, after two weeks, decided it was a good idea to pull out the vacuum cleaner. Well actually, the decision was made before, but I kept shoving it off! And now, clean clean clean.

I watched an episode of Smallville last week and I have to say, ( this... )

• There were means to save all your lj entries discussed. Can anyone refer me to something? Also, how do I use several journals on my semagic?
• I'm also considering using wordpress on ex-posed.com just so it's easier to update!
• Also, I got my mom hooked on Jericho! She just agreed to a ten-minute sneak-peek. Well. Three episodes! *cough*
• I read this absolutely brillient fic yesterday (McShep, naturally): Decreasing Radii by cathalin. It's long, it's angsty, and totally awesome!
• 40 amazing free fonts.
• A page curl in photoshop
• Terminator;: The Sarah Connor Chronicles have probabnly been picked up!!!
• Friday Nigh Lights got sort of picked up as well
• charlidos brings Jason and Joe and that picture is so gorgeous. And has possibly been taken by Jasons mom!
• Also, I've been waiting for ages for someone to create a music vid to The Klaxons: Atlanis to interzone and omg, this such a fast frantic song and the vid that was created omg that is just sad, because it totally isn't.

Pick 15 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 15 of your own. God, why is this meme making me choose! So I'm glad subtle tweaked the numbers. *g* Thanks for the peeps whot put me in their list :)

( 15 <3 )

Well, since it's Valentines day, let's spread some love. And a 20 Minute Photoshop. With my brand new super-awesome brushset.


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Oh, and I'm still on this sorta hiatus, randomly checking in and I don't expect that to change right now, because we are VERY busy at work.

ps: tardis brings you mcsheppy love stories

If you guys haven't done it already, like me, go head and spread some love at svmadelyn's valentines day game here.

Tonight is the last chance :)

Feels need to sport sexy John icon by newkidfan. This is what a good icon looks like. *sigh*

Well in any case, let me remind you to join lantis_lims, the coolest lims community there is? Sign-up are here.´It's about Stargate Atlantis if you couldn't guess.

I usually don't like weird fic where people turn into plants or animals, but this series by beadattitude is really cool.

As a rather direct answer to the Fanlib thing, please join fanarchive. For more information, check here.


( a little general heroes question )

I'm also very amused, that someone at GateCamp called me Elli Pirelli without knowing the whole story. Not the first time! *giggles* My colleguer at work did it too.

Anyone elseo not getting LJ comments?

Also, do any of you have recommendations for twitter.com use?

ETA: Heroes Season Finale Spoilers in the comments. Be careful!

You know iharthdarth? sooo last season, now there is the new and improved isaymckay!!! Go check out... it rocks :)

And I also meant to pimp iconpraise. If you love icons, it is THE place for you.

I'm sure there was more pimpage going round, but I don't remember.

Except, do any of you know a way rto repair damaged photoshop files, I would be forever grateful, cos 90% of the files I recovered this weekend are damaged.

And do any of you know a source for Stargate Atlantis screencaps that are not epsiode review posts that show only like... 10% of the scenes?????? I will love you forever!!!!


ETA: I think it would be cool to collect the TV-show specific screencaps sites. If you know one... put it in here :)

ETA2: half_lit_world just reminded me that I have to pimp the coolest com ever. nrw_rockt!!!!! It's all the cool gigs in North Rhein Westfalia!!!! woooo!!!

ETA3: Slod brings the NEWS

I'm still feeling queasy...urg.. All day long. I hardly ate, too. It sucks.
Today mostly consisted of meetings. And I made a purty layout. blue and Green. lol.. and seriously, the client wanted it this way, blue and green.

And since it's the best vid I've ever seen, view this by newkidfan. I could talk about this vid for hours and hours, but see for yourself and tell her what you think. Even if you don't like SGa that much, just watch it for it's brilliance.

ETA: The day is looking up. Shamelessly snagged from meivocis--> SGA spoilers pics...

newkidfan rocks my socks!!!

Mel, why are you so awesome!!!!!

----> this is why.... mind you..not the only reason <3<3<3