Out of Ambit
Graphic and plastic arts
Rather cool: Star Wars-y polygonal art for laptops, iPhones
This gent does some very nice polygonal (and other) art. Some of it’s distinctly Star Wars themed. I kind of prefer the designs that cover most of what they’re put on. To my eye, the iPhone ones look the best (cf. the “Dark Lord” iPhone case here). The “trooper” one here is nice too. I [...]
A couple more snapshots from the “A Wizard of Mars” book trailer
Here are two more wallpapers for those who might be interested in DL’ing them. Once again, these were produced in the wonderful Terragen 2.2. The location is in Syrtis Major, and that shiny object is the “superegg” that the wizards find buried in a dune by an outcropping there. (I have removed the sand in [...]
The past, buttered up
About twenty years ago we were living in a different house in Ireland, and we had analog satellite rather than the digital that’s pretty much all there is here now. That analog system meant we had access to a lot of the satellite stations that broadcast “in the clear” from Germany. I was just starting to [...]
A couple of wallpapers
If anyone’s interested: here are a couple of 1920×1200 wallpapers of Swiss alpine scenery generated with Terragen 2. The first is one of a number of studies of the north end of the Great Aletsch Glacier in central Switzerland: specifically, the area where the three glaciers running down from the Eiger, Jungfrau and Monch converge, [...]
Ebooks: a note from the pro-am self-pub frontier
I just want to direct everybody’s attention to Chris Meadows’ article here, which is brilliantly expressive of some of the problems I’ve been noticing a lot more acutely of late from early sorties into the production end of ebook management. Some of you will have noticed that I’ve been overseeing a project whose time (I [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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