lol eddie, how did you know that was human skin?
I hope someone continued to the right and made johnny a real ugly girl.
uglier than that dude on the photomanip quilt :)

Eddie:

You never cease to amaze me.
really sick.. but im voting 5.

jm

John, Greg and Hendrik,
Thanks guys, for stopping at my tile and for giving me that essential shot of self confidence, a pickup that we all need from time to time. I was restless the other night and missed my minimum daily corel, I longed to do a tile again and there went Johnny! This fucking war has got me going stir crazy and I'm stuck in the deepest rut of my life! I think back to a time before this war, back to September when I was here on the board and settled into some heavy duty tiling. Those were the days! I loved each aspect of it, the wonderful and constructive way that tiling was beginning to sharpen my skills as an artist and ice., also served to round me out as a person, it was such a good thing in my life. I almost wish that those terrorists did not have power over my love for the craft, my love of screen graphics but when they came, they turned my head in another direction. I began to spend my time satisfying other needs within me, to express myself in a different way than with the sweet, tiling ritual. I always loved the transparent background here at ice., the comments and the underlying undertow, the people behind the pixels. There, I even found a measure of enjoyment in jousting with Judy Schmidt over petty bullshit. My wandering spirit has always been content with every media of self expression, the art and the writing and the music and as each of these calls out to me from time to time, I answer them. Tiling is a beautiful thing for placating the need to be appreciated for the simple or complex creations that we make in the bitmap program. I came to the computer for engineering, my vocation is an AutoCAD detailer, a creator of blueprints and visual plans. I soon saw the power of the personal computer and it's potential for electronic imagery. Back in '92, I started using the 386 at work, my boss made the office computer available to me and I had an early graphics composing program called "Instant Artist" and used it for composing some very primitive handbills and office documents, into which I could add editable clipart too, CGM metafiles. It was a DOS program and was as cumbersome as could be. By '94, I was getting deeper into the computer and was working in Windows 3.1 and a DOS drawing program, "GeneriCAD",an Autodesk economy program for those who could not afford "Autocad", the Cadillac of engineering programs.
Today, I am doing my tiles in Corel Photopaint and I have always been a Corel user. I have a copy of PhotoShop but I have never taken the time to get familiar with it after having gotten to a level where I saw any advantage over staying with Photopaint if I wanted a mighty Bitmap editing program.
I also love to write, another means of self expression, that unlike bitmap creating,allows a different plane of communication. Life is more than making tiles and some of us are just freemoving spirits, we flit from one mode to another, hot one day and cold the next. Ice. com has become a quiet friend of my spirit, a place where I can come to channel artistic expression and as in Gecko's case,my need to contest the thoughts of others seems to appease two beasts in one effort. My interplay with Gecko satiates other needs that are joined to the cause of tiling, the need to express the feelings beyond the pixels. I am serious, to the level that I can be taken seriously and I love it and I'm happy with that. I remember the night that I did that tile above, that partial face that Hendrik did such a fine job on and the ear that came into picture, Greg's edge that looked liike an ear when I pulled down my bordering square. Greg, I couldn't have seen it as anything less than skin! Thank you both, John and Greg because you are both accomplished as artists but more than that you have both done much to encourage others who don't come up to your own levels of skill. You also always make me feel like I'm being watched and being noticed just for the pixels. I see my score mounting although many times I step back to my own tiles and reduce my score out of conscience. That's what I love about Ice. com, you can always go back, whether it is to add a tile or change a score, that you can do this.The management is great here and if I had the bread to donate to help keep these quilts coming, I would do it in a heartbeat.I hope that I haven't bored you guys but it never hurts to check on the feelings of others and often there are a limited amount of people who seem to care. I always appreciate the encouragement that comes from you two and for that, I can't thank you enough. Eddie M.