I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education... ~Wilson Mizner
27 September 2007
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Published on September 27th, 2007 @ 02:07:03 pm, using 413 words, 595 views
The Vastitude b2evo template is a design I completed a couple weeks ago but never got around to posting about. It’s a design inspired while looking through a series of photos of the Grand Canyon and the wide open flatlands of Arizona.
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This b2evo skin was designed to give the look and feel of open expanses of red clay desert under steel grey early morning skies. The completed blog template has something of a somber, melancholy mood, which was unintentional, but I think the overall design turned out nicely.
The Vastitude skin for b2evolution follows closely in the footsteps of previous b2evo skins released in the ‘Smoothe’ series and is 100% XHTML Transitional compliant. It uses valid CSS 2.0 style sheets. Additionally, as with previous releases in the ‘Smoothe’ series of b2evo skins, Vastitude has been designed for 1024x768 monitor resolution.
b2evo skin Vastitude released for download
The version of the Vastitude skin available for download here is more current than the version available in the skin repository on b2evolution.net. This copy contains a revised _lastcomments.php file and accompanying CSS styles for smoother display of most recent comments.
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23 September 2007
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Published on September 23rd, 2007 @ 04:58:19 pm, using 338 words, 5218 views
in·ter·sti·tial (ĭn’tər-stĭsh’əl)
adjective
1. Relating to, occurring in, or affecting interstices.
2. Anatomy Relating to or situated in the small, narrow spaces between tissues or parts of an organ: interstitial cells; interstitial fluid.
This is the first in a series of cyberpunk art and graphic designs on which I’ve recently been working in my spare time. I’ve decided to call the series ‘Kybernetik,’ and am attempting to diverge slightly from what I would consider more typical examples of cyberpunk artwork, and its abundance of dark shadows and neon shades of green. I’m a fan of the cyberpunk genre, but I find certain aspects of it to be played out.
This graphic design project is intended to show the shedding of skin, revealing subtle cybernetics and wetwired circuitry beneath… a more subtle and organic blending of man (alright, woman) and machine. This series utilizes an original set of techniques, some of which came about through trial and error as I worked with various custom brushes and textures in Photoshop.
[click the thumbnails to view full-resolution swatches from the design]
This photo-manipulation project was carried out entirely in Photoshop CS2, and makes use of high-resolution stock photography layered onto the background image. I added several layers of organic textures to the overall design, and made extensive use of Photoshop’s masking tools to gradually add layered textures. The photograph of the model making up the background of the composite is 2657x4000 pixels. The finished graphic design has a resolution of 100dpi and prints at approx 2.25 x 3.5 feet. Total time for this project is unknown as it was developed during my spare time in the evenings over the course of two or three weeks. The Photoshop .psd file for this project is 327Mb.
Other images in the Kybernetik Series:
kybernetik: techtonik
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping…
Infected Mushroom - Artificial Visualization
This post is the creative work of Yours Truly and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
09 September 2007
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Published on September 9th, 2007 @ 10:15:23 pm, using 365 words, 721 views
B2Evo Skin: Route 53
The Route 53 template is the newest design in the ‘Smoothe’ series of b2evo skins. This design was born of memories of Sunday drives along colorful country roads in autumn.
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The Route 53 b2evo skin follows closely in the footsteps of previous template designs released in the ‘Smoothe’ series and is 100% XHTML Transitional compliant. It uses valid CSS 2.0 style sheets. Additionally, as with previous releases in the ‘Smoothe’ series of b2evo skins, Route 53 has been designed for 1024x768 monitor resolution.
Thanks go to Trisha for naming this b2evolution skin.
b2evo skin Route 53 released for download
The Route 53 skin available for download here has been reduced of extras and will function smoothly on a base b2evolution 1.10.x installation. This copy contains customized stylesheet entries for the Search Cloud plugin available from the b2evolution website.
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The Vastitude b2evo template is a design I completed a couple weeks ago but never got around to posting about. It’s a design inspired while looking through a series of photos of the Grand Canyon and the wide open flatlands of Arizona.
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