Downtown Wall at Sunset

A lovely evening downtown in Eugene, Oregon. This is a wall next to a parking structure. I liked the color.

3D Desktops Again...

Some more Bryce renders. Nothing fancy, primarily done for certain colors or textures.

Brass Rods Reflected
Chrome Plates
Yellow Discs

Some More 3D Desktops

Some more Bryce renders. Nothing fancy, primarily done for certain colors or textures.

Aqua Glass Arches
Rough Glass Curls
Brass Rods in Water

Some Holiday Desktops

A Christmas and Easter desktop. A little late, but early for next year.

Christmas Lights
Easter Eggs

Fun with Easter Eggs...

Usually I color Easter eggs with my niece and nephew, but this year they were with their father so I got to do them all by myself. I didn't get out in time to buy coloring supplies, they were all sold out. So had to make do with what I could find around the house.

I used food coloring and syrup for color and vinegar, cooking oil, salt and water to as part of the process. The results were very interesting and very cool. Some turned out darn right sweet.

I have posted many of them here. It was also a nice experiment in bulk image processing and creating a gallery very quickly.

The shape of things...

There have been few updates to smhill.net recently for two main reasons. First, I have been very busy. Second, I have rebuilt the site from the ground up.

The new site will be http://wandermind.com and will have a bit more narrower of focus. Like many people, I started out with a general blog and really didn't have all that much to say. I am narrowing my focus of the new site to be primarily a portfolio/showcase and a web development and design/illustration blog. These are the things I do for a living and are my passions.

This site will exist in some format, mostly as a personal posting area. My icons and desktops will move to wandermind and it will also contain a portfolio and an expanded section of links.

Wandermind is hosted at Textdrive and built using the Ruby on Rails framework. The more I use the Rails, the more I loath going back to php. ;)

I will post here when it goes live. Thanks for stopping by.
Scott.

Candy Hearts

Built a couple of these for a t-shirt design contest, and just went nuts and made a ton of them. There are two sets, BitterSweets and GeekySweets. Built primarily in Fireworks with a little help from Illustrator.

Shirts available at shop.smhill.net
GeekySweets Candy Heart Shirts
BitterSweets Candy Heart Shirts
Blue Sun Candy Heart Shirts

Additionally the icons are available here:
GeekySweets at Pixelgirl Presents (love that site!)
GeekySweets at Apple.com
GeekySweets at InterfaceLIFT

Web 2.0 Compatible...

Is your site Web 2.0 valid?

This site (smhill.net) gets a 10 out of 10!

Transparent Mac Screens

First saw this concept at MacBidouille a while back. They started a group on Flickr for the same thing. I thought I would give a shot at it. listed below are my three tries at it. The first looks the best.

iBook on table
iBook, iMac and Nano
Hand held iBook

UFO!

Much like the Darwin fish emblem, this is a play on that concept. Shirts are available here : http://shop.smhill.net

UFO with dark background
UFO with light background
Plain UFO with dark background
Plain UFO with light background