Tadd Mencer

Third installment of this lovely feature called ‘free desktop wallpaper’ *play theme music*

Ok, I need some theme music. I’ll get right on that.

This weeks installment is an older design. It was originally called ‘TV is the Devil’ and was made just as an expression piece. But I resized and pushed it around and TADA! Here we are.

Enjoy.

The Lost - 1280×1024 (1.28 MB)
The Lost - 1680×1050 (1.58 MB)

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Description:

The life of a simple family man named Farmer (Jason Statham) is changed forever when a horrifying army of animal-like warriors known as Krugs who are controlled by the evil Gallian (Ray Liotta) invade his village, murder his son and kidnap his wife. Farmer sets out on a momentous journey to get his wife back and along the way, encounters magic and adventure as the quest soon reveals his real destiny in the kingdom.

Ok, let me start of by saying I know nothing about ‘Dungeon Siege’. At all. I came into this movie not expecting anything, especially since its full of big names. Usually those are floppers.

With that said, I’ll talk about the positives of this movie. It was very entertaining with a lot of great ideas and very much a good watch.

While this felt like it was suppose to be much more epic I think it … failed. First of all, the acting in general just was not the best. Which was a surprise. It felt like the actors just … didn’t care. Like it was something they were doing in their backyard for fun. With the exception of Leelee Sobieski it felt like what it was. A B-Movie with A-listers. We’re talking about Jason Statham, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Burt Reynolds, Claire Forlani … all of these people have been in MASSIVE movies and are definitely not B-listers.

The effects felt like they were stock from Xena. The main baddies, Krugs, looked .. horrible. If it was a still shot it would be fine - but the masks they wore pretty much looked like cheesy Halloween masks. No emotion, no movement. Static. Not only that, but the sounds they made were completely lame and didn’t really make any sense to their animalistic ancestry (from what I gather in the movie). The end is a typical story end with a few things just hanging in midair.

The music … it’s generally goofy feeling. Just not what you’d expect to hear from a medieval fantasy.

I guess there is a petition to stop the director Uwe Boll from directing anymore. Kind of makes me feel bad for the guy.

However, as long as you don’t try to take this movie seriously it may be a nice diversion and a good two hour watch. Again, they feel like they’re just goofing off, but there is still some nice action here or there.

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Let’s start by linking you to the official CNN report HERE.

Now, since most of you won’t go read what was said there, let me recap.

They really are sending out stimulus checks. Yes, I know - it sounds amazing.

And we can use the money! Bills don’t pay themselves!

However, my largest concern was that it would come out of our next year’s tax refund - or just be taxed to crap. HOwever, according to CNN author David Goldman we won’t.

Will I have to pay it back?

No. And here’s why.

Your stimulus payment is a one-time tax cut - an advance on a credit you’ll receive on your 2008 return. You will not owe tax on your payment when you file your 2008 tax return, and it will not increase the amount you owe or reduce your 2008 refund.

They go on with some weird reasoning that I can’t wrap my non-numbers brain around:

“If you were supposed to receive a larger payment than you did, you will get the extra money,” said Treasury spokesman Andrew DeSouza. “If you received more than what you should have gotten, you will not be penalized.”

So there you have it folks. ‘Free’ money. Of course expect to hear people grip about how much they got or how the government is spending too much and so on. I doubt this will really make any real difference on the economy, but I’m happy to have it.

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You may not know this about me, but I’m a pretty bitter person. Not to the point that all I do is dwell on wrong-doings or something. But to the point that I get angry about certain things and senarios.

For instance, I spend about five years of my life trying to upgrade the image of something … when I left it was on the rise. People signing up to the mailing list because (they’ve literally said this) the design was nice and wanted to learn more. That made me feel good. Felt like I was really making some changes that was going to HELP.
I’ve been away less then six months and the changes I made for the better are being erased one at a time. In less than a year it will look like it did before I started my work. Old style, very plain and (in my opinion) badly designed.

And that makes me bitter. Bitter because I feel as if what I did was never good enough for the powers that be. Bitter because for nearly 5 years I worked like mad to upgrade the designs and feel only to be bashed down left and right. Bitter at the egos that told me I was doing it wrong because “twenty years ago when I worked in marketing …”
I know I’m not the best of the best. But I know my current design trends and I think that my knowledge of marketing is a little more up-to-date than two decades ago.

However, with all this bitterness (this is just one spot .. I have more .. oh so many more ..) I realize that I’m wrong. Yes, I’m wrong to be bitter and angry about this. This was 5 years of my life serving God in the only capacity I know how. Design. God called me away from that ministry and if He has something different planned for it - so be it. I should be happy. Honestly, I should stop paying attention.

But more importantly, God says it greives the Holy Spirit (aka - God) when I have bitterness.

In Ephesians 4: 30-31 it says: “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.”

You can’t get any more plain then that. Get rid of the bitterness and the anger. You know what else? It’s actually a HEALTHY thing to do! Studies show that when you’re bitter and angry you have more physical problems such as ulcers, acne, migraines .. it just isn’t worth it. Let’s not forget that people don’t want to be around someone who’s always mad!

The Word of God continues in Ephesians with “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:32)

So, God as my witness (literally) - I’m going to try and get rid of my bitterness towards people and circumstances. I’m going to try and let it go. It’s not worth it.

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Well, here is a new piece I created for my imaging class. I love dark art, and I think this piece is a nice .. happy .. dark piece of artwork. It really kind of strikes me … this is how I feel at times. Like dreams are something for children. Adults can only deal in reality.

Photoshop CS and a slew of textures and brushes. I’ll be turning this into a wallpaper later.

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