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"Bortimg.jpg"

Created: 07/13/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10-15 mins

Story: What started as a silly inside joke of "Bort" - died. But later, when I was tinkering away at Photoshop with text effects, BORT seemed like the perfect word to try it on.



"Name.jpg"

Created: 09/20/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 20-25 mins

Story: Not 1 month after I moved to this "Westlake," I decided to give a name to myself. This image - the first sighting of the famous "Techno Dots" in my work - was plastered across my folder and gave me an identity.



"SphereZeus.jpg"

Created: 10/07/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 20-40 mins

Story: A crazy experiment attempting to make a reflective sphere. It's a Sphere. It says Zeus. Yep, it happens. (It's green too...)



"PlastikOimg.jpg"

Created: 10/08/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 30-40 mins

Story: Another crazy experiment to make a plastic-like object. The "O" was in the font Exocet. Looking back, it looks a little off. I can't quite put my finger on it. Hmmph.



"dots.gif"

Created: 11/20/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10-15 mins

Story: Created as a sidebar for a Powerpoint presentation in English 11H. A simple iteration of the now well known techno dots, my teacher still refused to believe it was not part of a template. Poo.



"BG2BlueFlame.jpg"

Created: 12/09/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 5-10 mins

Story: Image from cover for Polar Geometry project - text was taken out, lens flare added. The cover (with it's project) later traveled to Las Vegas at a Math Teacher's convention.



"lightningstorm.jpg"

Created: 12/15/01 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10-30 mins

Story: Random image testing if I could still create convincing lightning effects. A little too dark, but... it's cloudy.



"BGlayout.jpg"

Created: 04/12/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 15-20 mins

Story: Picture made for an Art History Final project at Moorpark Community College (Darn UC art requirements). This picture, when shown to Joe Chin, made him question my skill and caused me to create joey.jpg.



"joey.jpg"

Created: 04/13/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 2-3 mins (12:13 AM)

Story: While chatting with a friend one day - talking about back home, the like - I showed him some of my newer pieces. When he challenged my methods, this was my response - a quick work to prove my manhood (or something like that).



"AKA1.jpg"

Created: 04/18/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10 mins

Story: Picture made for friend's logo on website.



"virusimg.jpg"

Created: 05/07/02 (Photoshop for Text/BG, Lightwave for Virus)

Time: approx. 30-40 mins

Story: Started out for fun, now decorates my mom's office (Biology Professor).



"AKA.jpg"

Created: 05/07/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 1 min

Story: A quick picture made for friend's logo on website, just a modification of AKA1.jpg, but different text and a background more similar to virusimg.jpg.



"AKAimg.jpg"

Created: 05/10/02 (Photoshop for Text, Lightwave for swirlies)

Time: approx. 10 mins

Story: Another quick picture made for friend's logo on website, testing out a new Lightwave technique.



"FLOimg.jpg"

Created: 05/11/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 40 mins (12:38 AM)

Story: A froody experiment in froodiness - a lot of duplicated layers on "Screen" and "Overlay." Green is a cool color.



"AKAimg2.gif"

Created: 05/14/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 1 min

Story: -Xa- again.



"bluness.gif"

Created: 05/24/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 30 mins

Story: Several experiments molded into one... created during a AP Chemistry Lab.



"virii.gif"

Created: 05/27/02 (Lightwave)

Time: approx. 10 mins

Story: Just plopped a few "Virii" without textures into a dome and rendered.



"techno-dots-twirl.gif"

Created: 05/28/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10-15 mins

Story: Another froody experiment made after a Cisco test. Muy Interesante... or something like that.



"thuglet.jpg"

Created: 06/05/02 (Lightwave)

Time: approx. 30-40 mins

Story: Created for Animation extra credit, made by putting my character Thuglet's 3d head into a dome and rendering. Yep.



"crystal.jpg"

Created: ??/??/?? (Photoshop for Text/BG, Lightwave for Crystal)

Time: approx. 20 mins so far...

Story: Current project, if I ever get back to it. Note: I have stopped working on this. Hooray for non-completion.



"WordToUrMother.gif"

Created: 07/31/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 1 min.

Story: My first image created on the laptop. Made just to record the Wind 4-ways action, then I toyed around to put text in. Electricity wouldn't fit, so Elextrix it is.



"trip.gif"

Created: 08/03/02 (Photoshop for Touch-ups, Lightwave for Shape)

Time: approx. 15 mins.

Story: Another spikey shape, but this time I used lines to outline it. Then fixed the lines in Photoshop. This was for a sample design for Ranko. Hi Ranko!



"swoopyswirly.gif"

Created: 08/05/02 (Photoshop for Touch-ups, Lightwave for Shape)

Time: approx. 25 mins.

Story: It's swoopy. It's swirly. Lyndell said it looked like green smoke, so yeah. This is of green smoke. This was for another sample design for Ranko.



"BG1.jpg"

Created: 08/13/02 (Lightwave)

Time: approx. 10-20 mins

Story: The current background for this site as of... 8/15/02. Yep, it's just a jittered virus image then with different surface effects. Froody? Why yes, it is.



"parasite.jpg"

Created: 08/20/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 20-30 mins

Story: Uhhh... this one and grunge.jpg are on the same PSD file. I started working on this, then ended up working on a grungy thing...



"grunge.jpg"

Created: 08/20/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 30-40 mins

Story: This makes up the other layers in the grunge_and_parasite.psd file... It's kind of my first REAL try at grunge. I had some grunge brushes I wanted to try out. Some of the border is brushes, and the center stuff is all me.



"skeletal.gif"

Created: 08/22/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 20-30 mins

Story: Argh... made this trippy little treasure with a brush of a butterfly. Put it on Yaxay, and no one liked it... it looks like shoelaces. =(



"sig_yaxay_1boxes.gif"

Created: 08/23/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 10-20 mins

Story: This is my current sig on the Yaxay forums, as of 8/25/02. Hey, at least people liked it! And done without any 3D Program! Even though it would have been a lot easier to edit if it was...



"tentacle_soup.jpg"

Created: 08/26/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 15-20 mins

Story: Made from a tutorial to make tentacles. I came up with this effect, and thought it looked neato. Neato = good. Some people said the purple boxes were bad though, but what ever. This is MY portfilio. >.<



"scream3.jpg"

Created: 09/04/02 (Photoshop + Stock Photo)

Time: approx. 20-40 mins

Story: Yay! I made this with the emboss filter, it looks pretty creepy to me. Not for anyone in particular, I was just happy at the stuff that I found at www.webshots.com. Great Site, by the way. This was probably one of my first photo manipulations, although I did not really change the original photo...



"boxesboxesboxes.gif"

Created: 09/05/02 (Photoshop)

Time: approx. 2 mins

Story: Quick filter, just some boxes is all. I like the colors though. I later made something out of it *scrolls down*. Yep.



"boxes_woman_smooth_hole.jpg"

Created: 09/06/02 (Photoshop + Stock Photo)

Time: approx. 30-40 mins

Story: Its a lady! I was looking to do something like this for a while, but now I did! I think I did a pretty good job w/ the photo manipulation. Although the outer glow kinda makes it weird, oh well. I learned some more about the Smudge tool also, so that's good.