http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com GORGEOUS FREE WALLPAPER FOR YOUR DESKTOP Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:30:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/mobius Easter is another one of those holidays with a colorful history, a lot like Halloween. On Easter Sunday the churches in America will all fill up. New clothes will be worn for the very first time. Christ is said to have arisen from the dead. A ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/the-pagan-roots-of-easter It seems fitting that the first new wallpaper of the year should be an image from the past. It was my birthday three years ago, a humble affair, a small group of friends and good cheer. One notable extravagance was the cake. It was expensive and exquisite, ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/you-may-eat-cake A tree does not grow in Union Square, but one has been erected there and festooned with colored lights. This is a close-up of that tree. I've made a habit of visiting the Square to see the Christmas tree pretty much every year since I moved to the Bay ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/christmas-close-up Neon signs are meant to be read at a distance. Come too close, and the symbols and letters become irrational patterns, or else mundane things, like glass, metal, rubber and plastic. http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/neon-abstract Of all the environments on Earth, the desert seems the least hospitable to life. It's hot and dry, and unprotected things do not survive. Because we know that deserts exist, we have a keener measure of the value of our lives. And because life is often difficult ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/desert-flowers Are you standing at the edge of a cliff with a stone in your hand? Have you drawn a breath and tensed the muscles of your throwing arm? Are you feeling strong and brave? Throw then, but take well your guard. For the smooth and perfect stone of your careful ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/infinity-repeat One thing leads to another. Day becomes night, night becomes day. Clarity fades into confusion. It's always darkest before the dawn... and then all will be good again, until it's not. LOL. If you persuade yourself to think of color as a state, and you ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/always-in-fashion It gratifies us as a species to imagine we are sitting atop some sort of summit. We use words like evolution to describe ourselves and our path as biological organisms. We use words like progress to describe our civilization and all the things we've made together as ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/metropolis Did you ever dream of being invisible when you were a little kid? Did you think -- and fantasize -- about all the things you might do, if no one could see you? I know I sure did. As a child, though, I never considered the downside ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/the-invisible-man Few designers bring high adventure to mere clothing like Giorgio Armani does. It may just be brilliant marketing, but when you don Armani you must allow for the extraordinary in even the most mundane of circumstances. http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/armani-mainliner Back in the late 80's, I was stopped at a red light in the Village in New York City on my way to school when I spotted an unlikely Sarah Jessica Parker walking a small dog. It was early, and frankly she looked terrible. No make-up, tired face, ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/sarah-jessica-parker-stretch I like assigning images to things that don't have them. Here's an excerpt from Ferus Rex and an abstract wallpaper that brought it to mind. "The pale disk of the moon slowly enlarged over the boy’s bed, casting the sleeping figure in a cold, yellow light. And when it seemed ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/night-blooming tASSy (05:02 AM) : i like the colour explosion of rainbow butterflies out of the non-coloured body. it implies that the head/brain/pleasure center/pain center is the most important and full piece of one's being...and the rest is transient and changes over time as we age.. tASSy (05:03 AM) : less important. ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/rainbow-remedy Evil, like many other things, is in the eye of the beholder... or of the victim, as it were. Sure, I reckon there are some things that qualify as absolute evil. But that's a pretty short list of things, when you actually think about it. But, alas, ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/relative-evil Abstraction is a subjective thing. What may be firm as rock to one fella, may be just the merest figment to the next. Art is the territory where the material and the immaterial dance right beside the subjective and the absolute. Now get this... both couples trade ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/what-the-hell-is-it Parallax is one of those fun words. When I think about parallax, it seems to hold both psychological and physiological significance. Though I can't fetch another example like it, I think there is a whole category of words like this. In the case of parallax, here is ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/parallax-view 3038 It's always fun when words and pictures collide. For me the verbal is surely the dominant side. Yet, I embrace the opportunity to supplement and amplify the meaning of my own words with an image. Here's one that brought into greater clarity for me a little allegory I ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/evil-spider-king Whatever you may think of her lifestyle, her politics or her choices, Angelina Jolie is undisputedly one of the most gorgeous women alive on planet earth today. Her appeal packs movie houses, stops TV remotes dead in their tracks and has made her face one of the most recognizable ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/angelina-jolie This neon sign is making a brave bid. It's doing the best it can with the letters it's got left. Bravo, neon sign! Do not go gentle! And props to the person smart enough to leave you lit. I saw you from miles and miles ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/neon-sunset We've all heard the expression: "Can't see the forest for the trees", but what does it mean? I hear people use it all the time, with apparent confidence and certainty that they are saying what they mean. But, what DO they mean? A forest, as we ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/forest-for-the-trees For men, the attention of women is a strange and mysterious thing. When we don't have it, we're miserable. When we have it, we can't decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. I think a few men understand that women can see right through ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/trippy-trio-of-women Most times, I think, a scene is lit with RED, the photographic consequence is PINK. For me, the essence of pink derives from its proximity to red. Red is fire. Red is DO. Red is NOW. Pink makes me feel easy, cool, ready and immensely ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/pink-obsession I'm big on reclaiming some of the lost majesty of the English language. Cliche, hyperbole, inaccuracy and misuse are the lamentable standards of the modern American tongue. The word gorgeous is, at least for me, a grievous victim of over-use. Not everything can be "gorgeous, dahling"... in ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gorgeous-sunrise It's not easy to find a plausible connection between The Fab Four and the approximately 60,000 insect species comprised by the order Coleoptera. The Beatles were a band of shag-headed Liverpudlians, who forged a magnitude of fame and cultural influence like no other "mere musicians" before them. Meanwhile, the ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/the-beatles I really like this one. She is a raver girl. She seems to be enjoying the dance. The position of her hands and fingers are especially noteworthy. I often see this type of gesture made by people when they are dancing. What does it mean? ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gorgeous-raver-girl I loooooove people -- lol. Of all that is unfortunate in human behavior, I would say that our most tragic behavioral tendency as a species is to over-persistently detect differences amongst ourselves, and then to find in those differences always something to hate. If we have developed this ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/alien-arrival The simple desire to "get across", to make it from A to B, to progress, to evolve... is centrally human. We all consider many challenges of different magnitude at many different moments of our lives. We pray we are sufficient to the task. We pray our struggles ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gorgeous-natural-bridge I've been a certified SCUBA diver since 1994. And I can tell ya without any fear of contradiction whatsoever that SCUBA is the closest an earth-bound human can come to visiting another world. I know, I know, it's plenty scary for lotsa folks... And I'm not gonna tell ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/red-sea-riot "Now, to properly understand how this is possible, you have to let go of the idea that to get something good you have to spend a lot of money. You also have to break from the belief that free stuff sucks or comes with a catch. I know, it sounds ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gorgeous-good Image courtesy of: spaceweather.com | acts of nature image gallery http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/the-weather-in-space It's his birthday today. joan miro nocturne | joan miro | joan miro | joan miro | JOAN MIRO GALLERY http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/joan-miro-nocturne Psychedelic Stars and Planets | Astronomy | Psychedelic Wallpaper http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/all-the-planets-and-stars The Automated Spider Wallpaper | Spiders | Spider on Web Wallpaper | Spider http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/mecha-arachnid Ever try to look through something thick and gooey? I sure have. They call it a glaucous moon, when it drips rather than radiates. Who knew! Glaucous Wallpaper http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/glaucous In the middle of my having-no-fishlessness, I made this wallpaper. I started with a photo I had taken in Cozumel while diving, an illustration I appropriated long after, and some filters I brought to bear with Photoshop. gaudy reef | animals wallpaper http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gaudy-reef plastic envelopment | cgi wallpaper http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/plastic-envelopment Ice on blue linen wallpaper | graphic design http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/ice-on-blue-linen My wife Lauren and I don't have any kids, but we sure do love our pets. Well, I should say... Lauren loves them like they are her kids, and I love them for it. At the moment, we have a long-in-the-tooth leopard gecko that's been with us as ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/psychedelic-cockatiel http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/big-red-bullfrog Brown Tarantula Wallpaper | Pictures of Creepy Bugs http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/eek-a-spider They say that hardship inspires fantasy. I believe it. During that time together in our cramped studio apartment in Berkeley, Lauren and I indulged in Fantasy as much as we could. We had to. Among the ways I expressed and enjoyed in the fantasy realm was ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gothic-princesses This one's from the Through a Window in Berkeley collection. It merits special attention for the uncannily jet-plane-shaped cloud, visible between the power lines. Cloud Jet over Berkeley | Through a Window in Berkeley | Berkeley Skies, April 2003 http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/cloud-jet-over-berkeley I was in a Miami Beach hotel room one morning, leaning out over the rail of my balcony. I liked the strong visual effect of the sea and the sand. I was trying to compose something interesting with my Canon Powershot, when suddenly this black crow flew in ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/miami-beach-aerial This one is one of my own creations. I had been impressed by some sculpture I kept walking past near our apartment in San Francisco, in a gallery window. The material the artist used was sort of like a wire mesh that he shaped into different things. ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/gecko-and-ruby This one is fun. They are ruber duckies with horns! http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/rubber-duckies More political and propaganda wallpaper. http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/mao-tse-tung Is it aesthetics or psychology? I am a Western Man who craves Eastern delicacies, like most. But, for the wife being demi-Chinese, I've had the opportunity to discover that all is not as advertised. If you wanna have a sense of how you'll be treated in the ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/an-illustrated-asian-woman Ever wonder about The Other Side? Most people do, whether they admit it or not. We all have fantasies about circumstances other than the ones we know. It's natural. Well, I hope the wallpapers I am placing in the "fantasy" category will do justice to your ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/the-other-side I took this back in '97. Me and then-wife went there, rented a car and tooled around the place a bit. I see this incredible scene in front of me -- these shallow temporary lakes that have formed in the volcanic fissures among these lovely green hills. ... http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/rolling-hills-of-costa-rica anime wallpapers gallery Anime Wallpapers http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/anime-wallpaper Sarah Michelle Gellar Windows XP Wallpaper | Windows XP Wallpaper | Celebrity Blog http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/sarah-michelle-gellar Psychedelic Mushroom Wallpaper | X-Ray Vision Wallpaper http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/psychedelic-mushrooms Gold Coins and Bars Wallpaper | Gold Theme Wallapers http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/dreams-of-gold http://gorgeous-wallpaper.com/girl-butterflies