JohnnySmum

Out of interest, is anyone here using Bryce to create the sig? I'd be really appreciative if someone could help me to use it :) .

I would make the background more vibrant with the Hue and Saturation dialogue. I agree with other people's comments about the text being hard to read. If you addressed those two points it will be good :) .

I started off with PS, so it's my favourite of the two. Be warned that it isn't too user friendly for newbies, although there is a lot of online help available through Google.

And so it begins. A future with sins. But there's life within the empty promisses of the old broken bin chocolate flavoured hobnobs falling sweet, loving voices calling the echo of noobs, begging and balling..... and little babies crawling and people simply drawing... and i come out. from said to shout and shout to pout I called to dad cursed him out. Without no doubt Until I seek sight By the gentle moonlight Where all seemed right But yet, still quite Purple short people running out of my dreams and into my life all making the world Life beautiful with love but something is wrong In the eternal song Something with ping pong It might have been you have something to chew. For what is not A dream I forgot A crying little robot Captive of insidious plot Beneath the dreaded spot Cows in a feedlot And so it begins. A future with sins. But there's life within the empty promisses of the old broken bin chocolate flavoured hobnobs falling sweet, loving voices calling the echo of noobs, begging and balling..... and little babies crawling and people simply drawing... and i come out. from said to shout and shout to pout I called to dad cursed him out. Without no doubt Until I seek sight By the gentle moonlight Where all seemed right But yet, still quite Purple short people running out of my dreams and into my life all making the world Life beautiful with love but something is wrong In the eternal song Something with ping pong It might have been you have something to chew. For what is not A dream I forgot A crying little robot Captive of insidious plot Beneath the dreaded spot Cows in a feedlot More often than not

Very nice, but I would beef up the hands a little - they look a bit withered and weak (unless that's intended, like a T-Rex's?)

And so it begins. A future with sins. But there's life within the empty promisses of the old broken bin chocolate flavoured hobnobs falling sweet, loving voices calling the echo of noobs, begging and balling..... and little babies crawling and people simply drawing... and i come out. from said to shout and shout to pout I called to dad cursed him out. Without no doubt Until I seek sight By the gentle moonlight Where all seemed right But yet, still quite Purple short people running out of my dreams and into my life all making the world Life beautiful with love but something is wrong In the eternal song Something with ping pong It might have been you have something to chew. For what is not A dream I forgot A crying little robot Captive of insidious plot

2: Since we cannot observe or prove how the universe was created, that leaves open the possibility of God, among other things. I agree with this, and I don't even consider myself agnostic. There are so many possibilities, an infinity of possibilities, for how the universe was created, then. (Unless you believe, as I do, in the infinity of the beginning of time... but that's a different argument.) It leaves open the possibility of God, but its place as 1/infinity hardly warrants special consideration, and even if it did, if God is outside of the universe and thus beyond our comprehension, isn't there something utterly futile about speculating Him? I find it fascinating that people are more interested by where they came from than where they're going. By any view, it's far more profitable to consider what lays ahead than what's already happened. Whether you believe God or the Big Bang created everything, it's important to realise where you're going.

I was thinking is was the Gex character out of the PSX games. Very nice!

I'd disagree with that. Drawing on my own experience, I've never met an atheist who fully bases his/her life on a practise of "higher morality", if you will. I suppose it's because if a person has no motivation to actively do what a religion says is good, they'll eventually give up. Moreover, most religions have as a central command that you worhsip their god, and that all the other good things you do are useless without this.

By the gentle moonlight

:o I like! Am I the only person who thinks that the left of the pice looks a little empty though? Perhaps if you extended the light patch in the centre to the left, it would improve the composition? Apart from that, it's really nice :D .

Very nice - I never have the patience to do pixel art. Was it done in Paint?

Heya :) The purpose of this post is to allow everyone to post their favourite poems. Hopefully it will help to reveal some good pieces and show an aspect of poetry that you haven't seen before :D . I'll start the list off with a couple of my favourites. First, there's the famous Wilfred Owen poem (he wrote this a few weeks before he died in the trenches of the first world war) - Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And floundering like a man in fire or lime.-- Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. And another of my favourites, a poem by Malcolm Boyle. He wrote this before the D Day invasion, and was killed in action less than a fortnight later - If I should never see the Moon again Rising red gold across the harvest field, Or feel the stinging of soft April rain As the brown earth her hidden treasures yield, If I should never taste the salt sea spray As the ship beats her course against the breeze, Or smell the dog rose or the new-mown hay, Or moss and primrose beneath the tree, If I should never hear the thrushes wake Long before the sunrise in the glimmering dawn, Or watch the huge Atlantic rollers break Against the rugged cliffs in baffling scorn, If I have said goodbye to stream and wood, To the wide ocean and the green clad hill, I know that He who made this world so good, Has somewhere made a heaven better still. This I bear witness with my latest breath, Knowing the love of God, I fear not death. So join in and post you favourite poems or works of literature :) .

Heya Ryl, I'll fire up Bryce 5 and Ps7 and attempt a siggy for ya. I have a problem uploading images though, so I'll send it over MSN.

Heya L337 :) . I like the detail in your sig - would you mind sending me the .psd over MSN pretty pleash? I was formerly Johnnysmum 8) .

Was that produced in Ps7? "Not bad" (check out my litotes :)) for a first attempt, but I find the background insipid. Stick to poetry as your medium of choice (Y).

I agree with the colours. Port it into PS7 and hit Ctrl+U (check the "colourise" box), and all your problems are solved :) . Other than the colour issue, the actual formation and composure of the piece is nice (Y).

Wow... at first glance, they looked like they had been made in Bryce (which would require very little skill), but if oyu made them solely with 2D programs, my hat goes off to you!

Yea I believe in the Christian God, but more than that - He is personally my Saviour and Lord.