But first of all I want to say a VERY BIG THANK YOU to Queri who generously have bought me a gift from the marketplace! I will now enjoy those nice scifi uniforms from Gorodin :o))))))

Then on to the new item: A morphing cigarette and a morphing cigarette pack. To avoid any copyright issues, this is a brand new brand G Koff

The cigarette has 2 textures, one as new and one as a cigarette butt.

Enjoy. As ever it's in free stuff :o)

Oh and THANK YOU, QUERI!!!!!!

Oh My God, these are just great, I bet they cost alot less then the real ones now, guess I should start taking up cyber smoking...LOL, thanks these are great...Sharen

Excellent!

Great work

excellent cool!!

Attached Link: http://www.koff.net/

heh well, but that a BEER...and a finnish beer... Nice link though. Can't understand a single word of that. Amazing how a language can be geographically so close, and yet so far far away :o)

With so much trash, you gotta be running out of ideas...perhaps a visit to the local dump will help stir your imagination...that is, of course, IF you are running out of ideas...which, looks not to be the case.

Of course, I can try to guess...(the crowd moans).

Now, let's see, you've done, ahem, a poop pile. A condom. I'm just wondering where the morphing puke-puddle is.

Puddles, there's always puddles, and old shoes, but I guess we could do those with a tennis shoe. I like those uniforms, I'm glad you like those uniforms. The thanks are for you, hon. They are too clean though, space is waaaay too clean.:)))) Emily You realize now, we can do prison scenes cause ciggies are money in prison.

Chuck, So you're not satisfied with stuff which has been chucked out, but want something chucked up, too? ::duck behind the dust bunnies::

hauks, you amaze me! I have personified you as a devout business person. Very astute. A veteran. Lots of stuff for up-and-coming artists to listen to. Nuts and bolts. And even differed on an opinon or two.....but you just blew me away!!!!! A pun artist, too? I fell down, ROFLOL...one of the best I have seen lately. Now, I will add "sense of humor" to the other things I have pigeonholed you with. Tks mucho!

You're really creating some very useful and great stuff here. You inspired me to grab different things and stick them in my scanner for scanning. I discovered how easy it is to scan a pack of cigarettes and even a cigarette. But then there is that old copyright concern.. I'm still looking around for things I can scan for fun.

First of all---Chuck, you have no* idea** what a punster hauksdottir is......! In fact, if punning were an Olympic event, she would be wading in gold medals, instead of dust bunnies. Or possibly in both...... Ernyoka, that cigarette butt is high art!! Why I didn't think to beg you for one is beyond me. I want to do a picture of an Urban Noir gutter (Yeah, I know it's weird) and no city gutter is without cigarette butts. And I love that pack, too--perfect! Thank you!

These are great, I have already used some of your stuff to personalise my Tardis, but not certain if the r bee has taken up smoking yet. Another idea, not certain what they are called in other countries but here in the UK you see empty "crisp" packets blowing around. Thankyou Ernyoka

Chohole, I know about crisp packets, they're floating everywhere here as well (only crisps are called chips here G) and I am planning to make one of those as one of my next projects, possibly my NEXT project in fact. If only I can make the material look as thin as I want it to :o/. The puke puddle ewww might also be awailable soon. Please keep the ideas coming, peeps :o)

Pat! ::shake head:: Shush!!! You'll destroy what little reputation I have left if they discover how frequently and with what enthusiasm I pounce upon a word and render it senseless. Chuck, If you thought that I was a serious business person, I'll have to apologize for misleading you. Whenever I'm interviewing for a job or a project, I drop at least one bad pun into the conversation. If it is thrown back with interest, we'll get along fine. If it is treated like a hairball on white carpet, I don't want to work there. About a decade ago I was employed at Accolade (a game company), and every night before going home I would leave a pun on our designer's monitor. (Poor fellow: can you imagine coming in to work each day and knowing that there is a pun of the most dreadful sort lurking in your sanctum?) When I took a week-long rafting trip, I didn't want them to miss me (sniff), so I brought in my life-size skeleton and seated her at my computer with 5 envelopes under her hand. Every morning Beckett (another artist - Pat knows her) would open an envelope and read that day's pun to our designer. ... And 3 states away I would smile my secret smile. BTW, I am not a nice person. Carolly

Um... How about a crumpled up "poser 4" box next? Drop some hints to CL for P5. :)

You little LIAR, hauks! You are a nice person. Witty, and enviable. Your little story was, pardon the feminine side of me coming out (of course, that's one of the reasons my wife loves me...'cause I sit and watch the Lifetime channel with her so much...but I digress) precious. I think that's very cool. God only knows a little jocularity at work makes the day go by so much better. Especially in a government job like I have...where the only source of fun is laughing at the latest stupid help call to our IT section. Puns. A pun is fun. Fun is never done. But, I have followed comments you make. Your name is an enigma to me, so it stands out. Your comments are intelligent and show knowledge of the business world. I respect your knowledge and humor.

hauksdottir, Yeah, what Chuck said. - but I know better than to cross swords with you. ~smile~ Hey, How many Engineers does it take to screw up a light bulb? - TJ

Oooh! With friends like you, my enemies list ought to be even more interesting! ;^) After being called a liar and a punster, there isn't much else this side of wretchedness. [cue the aimless melody in a minor key] Let's see, give an engineering team the task of designing a light bulb by description of its function alone, and up to 7, or maybe 8 members (basically whatever number can comfortably fit around a large table covered with bluelines), and you'll get your lightbulb... and it will function per the description. It may even be cost-effective. Once you get to the point where someone has to stand, however, that person will take charge of the whiteboard, and consensus and commonsense will both evaporate. Tempers will be the only incadescent objects in the room, as someone tries to position their water-cooled lighting fixture ahead of the double-threaded 2-headed burn-the-candle-at-both-ends boss pleaser. [Note: I think that I've actually seen a light bulb with 2 threaded ends pointing in the same direction, but can't remember where, now.] Oh, you meant a JOKE? That does give me another contest idea! Hey, Lyrra! how about "Designed By a Committee"? This way, people who have elephants or camels might have some slight advantage, but if points were awarded for originality and humor, that would vanish. There ought to be some indication of who the committee members are, or what their biases and desires might be like. Example 1) You know how the mecha warriors are all huge muscle machines with scrawny little drivers - often just children - acting out playground fantasies? A bunch of kids around a stack of coloring books with a half-built mech behind them and pieces from an erector set everywhere would tell a story in itself. Example 2) God-the-Creator type with head in hand as the delegation asks for a new animal, clamoring: "He must be BIG!" "And cheap to feed, we can only afford peanuts!" "And graceful enough to turn on a dirham!" "But strong as steel cables!" (etc.). Meanwhile the mesh of a circus elephant on tippy-toe forms behind him. Example 3) a logo ... no, strike that idea. There was nothing funny about having 5 people on the approval committee for a logo. Or maybe this would be cathartic. ;p Carolly

Attached Link: http://home.att.net/~knucklehead-47/dmann.htm

Bikermouse, Yup, wrong thread. (How did we get here?) I wonder if Lyrra will see these random thoughts or has been warned away by the liberal use of quarantine tape. ;) We'll have to await her pleasure, but it is summer, so whatever theme will probably be light-hearted. Mann's work is interesting. It is as much "outsider art" as the fantasy art in my living room and space art in my bedroom: it occupies another niche. The odd thing is that his charming ambiance is as American as Norman Rockwell, but not as stagey. Let's see what Lyrra drops upon us next. Carolly

hauksdottir, Darn - my server is trying to kick me off again. One of these days I'm gonna get cable. I used to look at the Saturday Evening Post covers when I was a kid. My grandmother had quite a collection which I think she saved for me between visits. So I know what you mean about Norman Rockwell. Next time I'm bringing a flashlight and a map case we get lost again. better go before the server cuts the connection again, - TJ

(Unless of course Lyrra is one of those paranoid people who searches the ENTIRE SITE every day for her name cough (or maybe she has spies (wait, what's that under the coffee cup? is that a bug?))) Fancy seeing you guys here :) Just for that Hauk I'm really tempted to give y'all only dark moody urban angst themes thphbht This months choice of three themes is ..... to be continued heh heh heh

Cool, thanks for a great prop. :) I even have a job for it. At my business, I watch too many people tossing cigarettes down on the ground here. I've been dying to make a sign pointing out the ashtray and telling people not to trash my property. >:( (not to mention we're in the middle of fire season)

Thanks again. (you do great work)

Kendra, Shhh! Don't mention fire season. We're dry timber out here in California, and there are still idiots who flick live cigarettes out their windows. ::grrrr:: Oh, hi, Lyrra! ::swish bug away from tabletop and jump when it goes clink on the floor::

Hi Lyrra, Nice to see you too. We were gunna copy the suguestions to the right place, honest. (bikermouse feels slightly guilty about the act of "not doing".) hauksdottir, That fire in Sequoia I still going on. We can smell the smoke in the valley sometimes. Pine needles make such good tinder. I started the fire in the picture on my homepage with pineneedles and a single match. It doesn't take much. - TJ (bikermouse)

Sequoia I = Sequoia is

Bikermouse, In small doses, it is a natural occurance. We need some wildfire to keep undergrowth down and also to germinate Jackpines and other trees. However, we don't need arson or man-made fire. When people build up in those valleys and then park their trucks on dry grass (I chewed THOSE kids out but good!), or play with fireworks, or just throw out those dad-burned cigarettes on the roadsides, the whole hillside can go up. And if the wind is right? ::shudder:: I still remember the loss of the Stanislaus. That October we had the most incredible lunar eclipse I've ever seen. Tuolumne Meadows about 1 AM, IIRC. A shield of blood red before it vanished... but the blood was the ash of millions of trees. There is no emoticon for that loss. Let's hope that some of this cool damp air goes towards the Sierras. It almost looked like rain, but you need it more over there. Carolly

*"Kendra,

Shhh! Don't mention fire season. We're dry timber out here in California, and there are still idiots who flick live cigarettes out their windows. ::grrrr::"*

Boy do I know. I'm in the California Sierras and so far we've had 4 fires this summer. It's unnerving. I know we need the natural fires but some of these were too close for comfort and none began naturally. :(

You have my sympathy. {hug} I used to live in Coarsegold (halfway between Fresno and Yosemite)... beautiful country. 4 years there, going up to Yosemite rather, ahem, frequently. :) 4 years before that in Visalia going up the Mineral King Road or to Sequoia just for the afternoon's hike. I'd go into the south of Yosemite quite frequently, too. Sigh. Next week I'll be in high country again. The fires which aren't natural will almost always be too close for comfort. Lightning strikes usually occur pretty far back, not next to some campground or a couple miles out of town. We'll hope to get through another summer.