Update: The Gallery

I don't know if I posted this but the lunchroom smells like Jenny Craig stir fry and my brain - it's the fuzzy. In any case, the gallery is well on it's way to being fully updated. I've re-uploaded everything but the icons and the resources - lets be honest, those are going to be a lengthy process so please be as patient as possible...not that I really care if you're impatient because nothing in my daily plan is going to change :P

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

I know i should have fixed the gallery by now, and those of you clicking through to look at my icons are probably sick of getting a big fat nothing but that's not the point. The point is that I don't have time. Hopefully that will change soon (like maybe tonight) but, if not, you can at least count on the fact that sometime Saturday morning I will find the time. (Yes, I like italics today. My entire day has been about numbers and it's fun to use the letter buttons sometimes :P)

Crisis

Well, today I got the itch to update my g2 install and, as it seems to go this way everytime, i wasn't entirely surprised when I started getting error messages and nick informed me that I needed to delete and go for a fresh install.

Ladies and gents, that's what i'm doing.

All 1400 icons, all of the sets, the tutorials, the...everything...it all has to be re-uploaded, re-cagatorized and re...everything.

Fortunately, I'm working 9 and a half hour days...oh, wait, no - that's an unfortunately. Anyway, i'll get everything back up as quickly as I can. Tutorials first, then the small galleries, like vectors, etc...

icons100 Update

I posted batch three tonight. God am i starting to loathe this project.

Guess What I'm Posting For.

Yes, that's right, more updates.

Cheeky Resources Image Gallery: I'm not sure how this happened but, somehow I managed to have this great big image gallery and no Matt Damon??!?!?! I don't know how it happened and I think I probably personally owe the list an appology for ignoring one of it's decade long residents. So, with that, there's now a Matt Damon Gallery with 17 pages of yummyness (and a few faggy turtleneck pictures). And, yes, Matt Damon can pop collar. I don't personally know anyone who can pop collar and not look like a moron, so I'm proud of him and personally impressed. That and, last night I also updated the Justin Timberlake gallery because I had high hopes that whatever Black Snake Moan - no matter how fucked up a movie it turned out to be - might produce some good production stills with fatigues followed by me dying. They didn't, but I did find some other high-res shots so there you have it.

Icons 100 Challenge: I posted batch two of my icons100 challenge with 10 new Guys and Dolls Icons. As usual, I'm not particularly impressed but there you have it.

Delayed Update: So there have been a lot of male additions to the gallery and, in the spirit of fairness, and the fact that she's pretty, Olivia Wilde (The O.C. and, now, The Black Donnelly's) had been added and has her very own home in Cheeky Graphics. [NOTE: if you're reading this immediately after it's latest timestamp, the gallery is probably empty. I still need to make the upload.]

Updates!`

I've been lazing a bit on the update announcments over the past few days so I have a rather lot to make

Cheeky Images: Two new additions to the image gallery over the last few days - those Boston Boys have been killing me all over my TV so I went on a binge. Jonathan Tucker (Stateside and The Black Donnellys) and Bryan Greenberg (One Tree Hill and the soon-to-be October Road)

Cheeky Resources: Gilmore Girls bases are up to date for 7.15 - I Am A Kayak, Hear Me Roar! but I still haven't finished (or started, for that matter, 7.16 - Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?)

Cheeky Tutorials: I added this earlier this week because someone who shall remain nameless mentioned that they weren't clear on how to get that icy blue color just right so I thought I would write up a quick method tutorial. I don't know if it's the exact icy blue they were talking about but it is icy blue :)

Cheeky Graphics: I took on an icons100 challenge for Guys & Dolls (the movie) and I'm into my first batch - 10 Guys & Dolls Icons. Well, frankly, they suck, but that's kind of OK with me :) I have to admit though, I'm totally phoning in the stupid themes thing. "I uh, sure that could be about love...yeah...I meant it all along *shifty eyes*"

Project Update: In addition to continued work on The Light, my pursuit of learning G-Mesh in Illustrator, my icons100 challenge, updating my portfolio as I create portfolio worthy work, my off interest in re-skinning the site, i've been playing with hand sketching and manga in illustrator. So, ya know, just to keep you posted ;) Maybe i'll have to reopen the hentai project.

Image Gallery Updates

More images of Milo Ventimel....yeah...

Uplaoded

Lots of Updates

There are a lot of updates today. Obviously, it you're reading this, you probably scrolled down and noticed that I blogged about the obsessive amounts of light textures being used but, if you didn't, here is a link.

UFG: I added a new up for grabs banner today. It features Hilary Burton and Dan Radcliffe (one of the new shots from the naked play everyone is in such an uproar about :P) and, for now at elast, it's called due.
Cheeky Resources: Then, in addition to the other days additon of Hilary Burton, Bethany Joy Galeotti and some major updates to the Kristen Storms gallery, I've also made a huge update of all high-res photos to Isla Fisher's folder.

Cheeky Designs: There's also a major gift for you Godfather fans out there that I have stuck in the gallery. Namely tons of icons from The Godfather. More to come from the first film and, maybe, if i still like you, more to come from II and III as well :)

Cheeky Resources; Image Gallery

The image gallery, post-massive deletion, is being updated.

In addition to adding Hilarie Burton and the chick who plays Hailey on One Tree Hill to the gallery, i'm also moving into a new category system and adding some general descriptions to the descriptions feilds. Please be patient.

Thus far, A & B of hte female celebs have been moved.

Launching The Portfolio

For those of you that check my gallery for updates, you probably haven't seen a lot of late and there is a key reason for that - I haven't been making any.

It occured to me, when I started trying to decide what I would show off to potential clients, that I absolutely do not want them looking at my actual gallery for all of the crap that would innundate them. I did, however, come up with a solution.

http://www.portfolio.bitterepiphany.com/

There really isn't a lot of new stuff there but there are a lot of things most of you haven't had the opportunity to see.

I've also been making a lot of uploads at deviantART.

Updates To Cheeky Resources

A lot of you probably noticed that the Resoruce Image Gallery lost all of its Harry Potter images this past week. The zips are available for download for a limited time - if you need to know where, leave a comment and I will get you URL's. More importantly, however, there have been major upgrades to the Cheeky Resources Image Gallery where OC's are concerned. Significant uploads of high-res photos have been made to

Chad Michael Murray
David Anders
Johnny Depp
Justin Timberlake
Matt Czuchry
Michael Vartan
Orlando Bloom

There are more updates - namely for, ya know, females, but I had some dog washing duties to handle today ;)

Thank You

With the reach of the 1,000,000th review at HPFF, I've been organizing a few things there and it's made me think quite a bit about my own reviewes and reviewers.

I have been a member of HPFF for a few years now and I've been a part of their staff for nearly as long. It means a lot of things in the day to day, but one thing that it doesn't mean are many thanks - so, for as much as reviews can mean to a person - to a staff member, they are inclined to mean much, much more.

As of this note, I have been the lucky recipient of 373 reviews on two stores and two one-shots and, while it certainly isn't the largest number the site has ever seen, I appreciate it all the same.

I've had some comical reviews - ranging from the short and obviously confused ("wow......very um.....deep") to the outright attempts at offensive (""). It's almost a pity that I've deleted the story now but, when I recieved my first flame, I threw an e-party - because you're not really a fanfiction author until you annoy someone to the point of leaving a snotty review. (I"ve gotten a lot more of those since.)

Knowing that I can't mention everyone, because there are a lot of reviews and quite a few regular reviewers, I feel compelled, still, to mention a few of my favorites. if you've been left out of the list, I assure you, your input was still appreciated.

As great compliments go, there are few reviews more flattering than the one Guilded Sorcerer left on Chronicles of Life. In fact, I found it so flattering that I was afraid to answer it for months on end - because I was terrified to find out that this person secretly harbored a deep seated pathology and was secretly an idiot or - worse, just screwing with me. steve34 was responsible for a very lengthy e-mail delving into the characters featured in COL and, as much as e-mails that compare me to my characters usually freak me out, it's nice to know that a person can find your characters so real that they feel a need to get into them further - to better understand.

Of course, one can scarcely mention great reviewers without giving a nod to timeturner, PhoenixStorm, and Crystal Allen all of whom, at various times, have followed my stories and left great reviews.

All in all, thanks to everyone who has reviewed and, here's hoping, to everyone who will review in the future.

New Pieces

I have a new desktop out - Adam Brody, of all things.

it comes in all four sizes.

Valentine's Day Graphics Pack

I've been looking for a way to distribute my stocks in a manner that don't require me maintaining them and, this, for now, seemed like a good solution so - introducting the graphics pack. Images, brushes, fonts and even quotes for making great ____. In this case, Valentine's Day

[Valentine's Day Graphics Pack]

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.

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.