Steppenwolf

I cant see the pic

And is this a real name for a battlemech? In germany this a word that can be used to offence one. (comes from mongoloid aka down syndrome)

I cant help. somehow all your new shots look blurry. is something wrong with your focus? has your cam a macromodus and you didnt used it? you wrote in the other thread that you have a new cam. i would check if everything is ok with that thing. You can expect much sharper and more brilliant pics from a canon.

The motive is very cool tho.

its funny how people say it looks like this game and that game. in reality it looks like the middle east like all the other modern warefare games too.

oh wait we have ripped the middle east!

what do you expect how a iraq themed map should look if not like the middle east?

yep

peris map is teh coolest, rest is like abit to generic? D:

but its all damn nice.

You havent seen the highlights of the other maps yet.

sooo cuuuute

IR there is too much lighting on your last textures imo. This could look weird on dark places of a map or with a lighting coming from a different direction. I suggest to only take reference photos on cloudy days because of this.

colors and details are really nice tho.

Dude your nutsack is strange shaped!

here is my quick try:

I currently try to get some practise as liveact. mixing oldschool acid techno sounds live with Reason and Rebirth.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=26Z4FHO8

Mushrooms actually made me (if indeed it is possible) more of an atheist. Realsing just how much our perception of the world is shaped by our brains pretty much knocked it on the head for me. Truly crazybonkers though, I can't even really describe some of it, but having your brain inform you that your hand feels cabbage and that everything is tricycle and utterly believing and comprehending both things while at the same time not knowing or understanding any of it is pretty mental.

well mushrooms only bring on top what was already in you all the time. i grow up as atheist but maybe there was already a form of spiritualism in me and i just didnt know. For me the shrooms opened that hidden door. For you they obviously opened a different door.

Also the trip can be different every time. After my first trips i thought the small little mushies are the key to heaven on earth, love & peace for everybody and all that hippie stuff but later i have learned that they can also be the key to a very bizarr hell.

RD: i dont make experiments with such drugs anymore. Its a few years ago now.

Peri: nobody can know what is real and what not. You can just believe it or not. And believing doesnt mean to know. Its completely relative like everything else in life. Nobody can know if god exists and nobody can know if nature laws are real or just a imagination that only works in our dimension of reality. Even if scientists find the world formula it would proove nothing. We would be stupid as before if we ask us the question "are we real?" or "does god exist?".

Guess you missed the smilie. I don't mind drugs, or who uses them, at all. I just found what you wrote to be the most pretentious drivel I've heard in a long while.

Drugs the deepest experience ever? Perhaps for a teenager. Life has more to offer in the long run.

What is your picture of drugs? Im sure you think of drunked people, junkies etc. You should know that there are very different drugs out there. Most of them are useless to have a deep or spiritual experience but some of them (entheogenics like Mescaline, Psylocibine, DMT, Salvia to name a few natural ones) are the most powerfull tools the nature (or god if you believe in him) has given us humans.

This can only understand who knows the experience. Shamen of all cultures have used these substances over thousands of years to get in contact with god or "travel through time and space". There are theorys that these plants were the reason at all why people started to develope the idea of god.

Before i made my experiments with these kind of drugs i was an atheist who only believed in science. Now i still believe in science and things like the evolution theory but i have also learned to believe in the existance of god. I know now that there is more behind reality then we could ever imagine in our usual state of conciousness.

I'm too lazy to write more now. I know that most people will never understand it and will laugh at it. But who wants to know more can read here:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/lsdmenu.htm

Its a online library full with books and texts about psychedelic experiences, sciene, analysis etc.. They have also the book from famous Albert Hoffmann.

yeh i have played a bit with the colors on the first and third pic. photos can look really cool with a bit of surrealistic colors

You are right

camera: Olympus E-10

The frog wasnt that big. i would say 7-10 cm. i have hold the cam very close to him and made the pic in the macro mode.

Kosmo i never started an argument. I told my opinion and my experience then other people laughed at it and told me that i talk shit. That annoys me and its hard for me to shut up in such a situation.

I accept that other people have different opinions but i dont like it if someone thinks he has eaten intelligence with spoons.

Hahahaha...okay, bring this up in a new thread where I can smash it down piece by piece at my leisure and stay on topic.

You will not be able to smash it down because you never made a psychedelic experience (i assume) and i'm in philosophic, religious, scientific discussions for years. I know all the arguments of people who believe in this and that.

A own experience is more worth then knowledge that comes from a book someone else wrote.

Your problem is ignorance against other point of views. A problem that many "intellectual" people have who know everything about the world only from books. many people who believe in a religion have the same problem too by the way.

I havent photographed much lately. These are the only pics worth to show:

Tequila just because you dont know what i talk about doesnt mean that its shit. You better read some books or make your own experiences before you call it shit.

"Albert Hofmann: LSD - My Problem Child" is a good beginning.

If you dont like drugs try it with meditation or holothrophic breathing.

Like breathing walls and imaginary ants on your skin. Psychadelic drugs are about as deep as a kiddy pool.

LOL you dont know what you talk about. There is no experience in the world deeper then a psychedelic trip. What do you think why so many people become mad after tripping? If it was so easy to say "hey that was all just a stupid film in my brain, nothing real, nothing i have to think about" they would do it...

And nobody believes everything he sees on a trip, if you belive this. Its more that it makes you think about how real the whole thing including our normal reality is when it is so easy to change it dramaticaly with just a few micrograms of a substance in the brain.

For example i had the experience that there is no materialistic world outside, everything is empty or some kind of pure energy, nothing that could be touched in real. Thats hard to understand for people without such an experience but modern science seem to proove it and some religions like buddhism have this picture of the world too.

Another thing that i learned from psychedelic drugs is that our concept of time is just imagination. A minute can also be feeled as a month or a year in the right condition of the brain.

It looks nice. Only the lighting needs more work. When i think of italy and venice then i have a bright sun, nice weather and strong colors in mind.

Some really nice pics!

If this gets Valve's titles on tv commercials, then yay

hmm i have seen a tv commercial for half life 2 a few times on german tv...

Thats a nightmare!