Now I Don't Mean To Be Mean, But...

I saw this today and literally almost choked on my own saliva.

What you're looking at is the result sheet from a tutorial posted on a website. This tutorial is designed to teach people how to 'shed pounds' using photoshop. Now, I haven't tried the tutorial but, looking at the result, the poster did a bang up job of it. What you're also looking at, however, is a Dove ad.

I don't know how many of you know this, but if you've accidently turned on the TV some time in the last six months, particularly during the day, you've probably seen a Campaign for Real Beauty ad from Dove. Their latest marketting gig has teamed up with Oprah, it seems, and is designed to use real people - not runway models - to market their product. Now, don't get me wrong, I've yet to see a housewive in her oatmeal stained bathrobe, but they have at least embraced the fat chick.

If you can't see the irony by now, i'll hit you over the head with it - they've taken someone who was embracing her outer fat chick on tv and in print and made her into a skinny chick, ya know, so she feels better about herself. They airbrushed an ad campaign based on not airbrushing.

Dove, I think you have more work to do.

Merry Christmas Accomplishments

Okay, so I made a blend...if I tell you it was my New Years Resolution to learn, would you believe me?

Trojan Man

Well, here's some good news for you - McAfee Spam Advisor gives me the thumbs up.

Reasons I Love Nick

Nick is me...except he's a boy and his forte is PHP where mine resides firmly within the cozy confines of Adobe products. (Except Flash. Fuck Flash.)

Tonight I was working on a new skin and I showed it to Nick to see if he had any complaints. He's never expressed any particular interest in fanboying after me, so I assume he's not inclined to lie. The next thing I know, the lovely man is putting together a skin selector script that works around all of my admittedly insane tendancies toward cruel and unsual designs that change colors depending on what buttons you push :)

What's that mean? Well, if he can get it working and refrain from beating me with my own stupid stick, all of my old skins will be selectable, with the new skin and they'll all be updated and shiny and it will be wonderful :) Or at least better.

But yes, I love Nick. I love him so much, in fact, that i've refrained from giving him a nickname for his continued mental health.

Passive Resistence

As a sign of passive agreessive behavior resistence against santa butting in on halloween, i'm butting in on christmas this year and not taking down the halloween skin.

Or, possibly, i'm just busy.

Cheeky Owner Say What?

So uh, about being a bad site admin and not keeping up with things. If you're looking to write a book on one, I have some thoughts :)

Sorry guys and gals. I'll get back in here and get the skin updated soon-ish, i swear. I'll at least take the halloween stuff down before christmas ;)

In the mean time, I am, at least, keeping up with...well, TDA :P

Update: Gilmore Girls

So i did something I never thought I would actually do - I managed to get the bases and icons, in their normal quality and quantity, out less than 24 hours after the episode released - meaning I have over a day until Grey's Anatomy comes out - and even longer until caps are available in good quality to tka e abreak from episode caps. And, hey, I went and took care of my rollerblading already today, so i'm on a roll. Now if i could just squeeze in some sleep between the laundry I have to do within the next three hours, i'd be set.

Yes, there's a party goin' on.

Anyway, bases and icons from 7.04 - S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous.

Come Again

I've gone nuts

Rockin' The Reskin

Hey, I'm a stuff accomplishing fool of late. Check out the halloween reskin :P

Soooo Many Updates

So it's been a while since I gave an update and lots of things have been done since then :)

A new sub-gallery was added to my avatars gallery that, at the moment, houses quite a few Grey's Anatomy Icons. The icons there are made from the Grey's bases I made and released yesterday. Which, did I mention, oodles of Grey's Anatomy Icon Bases. These are from episodes 3.01 - The Time Has Come Today and 3.02 - I Am A Tree. There are a ton and there are more to come as the episodes come out.

This is a pretty late announcement, but speaking of icons made from my bases (how many speaking of which's can I put in one post?), I finaly got around to taking my Gilmore Girls bases and creating the usual episodic icons from them. A link to the lot from episode 7.01 - The Long Morrow can be found here.

Lastly, in addition to all of that, I was bored and tinkering with a blend. (Of late, i've made it my mission to be able to make them - i've never been any good at blends in their true form. They seem pointless and we all know how well i deal with that.) Anyway, I decided to turn it into a desktop because - duh - that's what I do...plus, Logan is so dreamy :P In any case, the desktop can be accessed in four formats here.

Keep your eyes peeled for bases and icons from GG 7.02 - That's What You Get Folks, For Makin' Whoopie later on this week and, of course, Grey's Anatomy Bases and possibly icons after the episode airs.

New Resources

There are some new resources available here. I got ahold of some great screeners for both Grey's Anatomy and some mediocre ones for Gilmore Girls. In that vein, I am releasing cuts for both shows.

Gilmore Girls [Episode One]

I'll get back to you when Grey's 1 and 2 are ready to be posted :)

*sad girl*

So I suck at the countdown but, hey, you'll notice that TDA has been getting lots of attention so shhh!

Remember That 100 Themes Challenge?

Talk about flakey, I think I give on accomplishing that- at least, that particular list. I'll get back to you. ;)

43!

Metal ;)

44 and a Quarter!

I come, today, at least, to bring good tidings!

No, all right, I haven't made any updates to Cheeky Resources or Cheeky Graphics or deviantART to speak of and, true, I haven't found anything new to feature as of yet, but I do have good news...I just don't have all of the details yet :P

Go read the Wall Street Journal or, I suppose, you could wait until I get back and edit this with more details.

[Wall Street Journal: Rewriting The Rules of Fiction]

You may not be able to see the many many interviews with several of the HPFF staffers, but they're in there.

The Countdown Begins

Updates to Cheeky Resources

I haven't made a lot of updates to the graphics side of the site since I last posted - save one set that I'm currently using, but I did do quite a bit in terms of resources over the last few days.

Also, did I mention a ton of new light textures? I'm not sure if I did.

Art Drives Pain

It appears that I threw my back out on the fourth and, after several different pain killer/caffine/calesthenic combinations have been successful to varying degrees, I thought it might be important to, not only take a minute to bitch about how badly my spine hurts, but also to note that I probably won't be making any updates as I have yet to find a single way to sit in front of.....well, any PC without wanting to throw up because it hurts so badly.

If it's any consolation, I did start a piece to represent Introduction. The concept is literary - I'm thinking along the lines that the most educated of men will never have the opportunity to meet the most influential people in their lives.

I'm also rolling my eyes at the TV slam ad's for local government races. But, ya know :) And, hey, in case you wonder how, if being in front of a PC hurts, i'm posting this, i'm on a laptop sitting in my livingroom in the most ergonomic chair I own with a towel supporting my neck.

Who wants a martini?

100 Themes Challenge

I've, of late, been uninspired to pursue pieces for my own enjoyment.

(You can always tell when I start filling requests and challenges out of sheer terror that my skills will deteriorate.)

In any case, the beau helped a bit with some very basic desktops made out of some rather attractive females. (Customarily, this would be the point at which I would give you a link but, I'm reluctant to admit that some of the images used as stock were sort of...not stock ;) So I won't be sharing because, while I can't always say I respect the "no use" rules, I at least never put "no use" images, made for personal use, online.)

Anyway, with that abysmal news looming on the horizon and me staring in terror of even so much as embarking upon the task that is creating a new Author Page note, I decided to jump on the trend-wagon and give a go to this 100 Themes Challenge.

I can't gaurentee that they will all be the same thing, or that I will even accomplish it, but I'm going to give it a try out of pure boredum. And then, when I get done, i'll set my own challenge - the 100 Styles Art challenge because, yes, I am cruel and hateful ;).

Hell, even doing the 50 or so that aren't "huh?" will probably tide me over until i'm inspired to do something else :)

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

Typos

I gotta feel the love.

There's a typo on my index page and, i assume, all of the other pages and no one told me :) Course, now i'm not feeling ftp-ish but later i will be and Cheeky Grphics will read Cheeky Graphics.

Congrats PEEJ

If too much press could be bad, PEEJ would probably be sick of me blogging about them, but I wanted to congratulate (and fortify) HPFF's new friend, Del Harvey, on her recent successes in California, along with the staff of Dateline, several police departments, and the rest of the team at PEEJ.

There are 30 fewer pedophiles on the streets :)

Perverted Justice.

Queen Sabreen: Featured

I thought it was going to be a smidge longer before I was ready to do another artist feature but I should've known better. True, not all of the TDA artists really suit my fancy, but I never make it through a months promotions without passing something that grabs my attention.

[Queen Sabreen @ TDA]

Perhaps i'm just feeling fluffy tonight or maybe it's the pretty pinks, but I'm not usually a fan of colorizations and I really enjoyed this image: (so, yes, i'm duty bound to mention that the skin looks a unnatural in the ears and the hair tone around the eyebrows has gone a bit orange, but the rest of it - the eyes!)

Goofy Signature

I made the goofiest signature today and I thought I would share it for the masses to enjoy...er...poke fun at :)

Fun, huh :)

I also updated my dA journal, finally got around to making my Post It's UFG...well, at TDA anyway.

You know, now that I post it, it doesn't seem like such an accomplishment.

Oh well. You know, I did find a lot of nifty vector stock today and hentai references. That should count for something :)

A Little Deviant

A few days ago, bored out of my mind, I decided to play a little bit with vector and wandered out a new deviation. Not good, by any means, and surely not my best work but, hey, at least I did it, right?

It was fun and i'm now inspired to do something with my software, which is good since i've been fighting the worst kind of block for a while now - boredum.

arnistotle: Featured

Since I'm on a new blog and I needed a reason to post, I thought i'd start a new tradition - the infrequent feature.

Once in a while, in browsing Deviant Art, I hit an artist whose designs (whatever medium they may be) are so impressive, I can't help but take pause. A few days ago, I ran across one of arnistotle's sketches and had to stop.

The one I found, in a search, that caught my attention can be seen below and found here. I think what entrapped me was the lines on the blonde females face. It's fantastic.

If I could draw like this, I wouldn't be blogging right now ;)

Saving Physics

The time has come, the Walrus said, to think of many things - and one of them is cycling out of an old blog :)

Thus, as my first post - I tie into the old version to an article I referenced about how the US is rescuing physics.

[CNN: Can This Machine Rescue Phsyics?]

Yes, my first question upon seeing this headline over Mike's shoulder was; "What's wrong with physics?"