Tripping on Land

Mind altering landscapes by various kick ass Artists.

Lost by Kerem Beyit

Back Story: Greenpits region had always been the keeper of many secrets. Though, on that particular day one of its secrets was about the reveal.

Arbane was on a dangerous quest of looking for the loathsome orcs who had recently chose Greenpits' jungle as their new home and whose favourite hobby was to raid the unlucky trade convoys passing through.

Arbane was determined the slay those creatures, he wandered deeper and deeper into the woods and found something... Not what he was looking for but something ancient... There lied theTemple of Cellannor, hidden out of sight for over 500 years.

Kerem Beyit: "After months, I finally got the chance to make a personal piece, so here it is. Thanks to my sister for the little story...”

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Hidden by Hakubaikou

Hakubaikou aka C.W. Sun: "Hmm... This one was unintentional. Started out as the background for a very different idea I had. But the more I worked on it, the more screwed up it got, to the point where it didn't even closely resemble the picture I had in my head.

Figured that within this pic, the original concept was unsalvageable, so I didn't bother trying to go back to it. Just kept going with this as it was. I figure the end result isn't too bad, even though it's not at all what I originally had in mind”

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Pirates vs. Ninjas by Hakubaikou

Hakubaikou aka C.W. Sun: “Pirates killing ninjas. Ninjas killing pirates. So sad. Why can't they all just get along? Like these two slackers upstanding peace-lovers. Kicking back with some rum and sake. Peace and tranquility is good, yeah?”

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Black and White Ruin by Extollere

Extollere: "Black and White environment"

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Howling Forest by Hideyoshi

Hideyoshi: "Here is another one that I did for the EOW 100. Howling Forest from Neverending Story. It's refreshing to try new things and go a little more organic! But it's pretty hard to maintain proper microcomposition I feel...

fun info: there are 3 creatures in this pic..”

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Local Tranquility by Cain Pascoe

Cain Pascoe: "Title Says it all"

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29.07.08 by Apha-Photo aka Aphariel

Aphariel: "Basibasi, Pure Reason Revolution, Anathema, squirrel's invoker.”

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El perro by Cilantro

I'm an American Dad fan. They have an episode called "Roy Rogers McFreely". In the episode Roger, the alien, is obsessed with the "fictional" mexican singer Cilantro. Though Cilantro's album is mentioned many times during the episode there is only 1 song played, "El Perro".

If you don't laugh upon reading it, at the very least you'll smirk.

Here's a link to a clip from the episode. "El Perro" plays in the background.

Below is the Hilarious translation.

El Perro by Cilantro aka Dave Navarro

El perro, el perro, es mi corazon!

(The dog, the dog is in my heart!)

El gato, el gato, el gato no es bueno!

(The cat, the cat, the cat is no good!)

Cilantro es cantante, Cilantro es muy famoso!

(Cilantro is singing, Cilantro is very famous!)

Cilantro es el hombre con el queso del diablo!

(Cilantro is the man with the devil's cheese!)

El perro, el perro, nunca sin razon!

(The dog, the dog is never without reason!)

El gato, el gato, el gato es obsceno!

(The cat, the cat, the cat is obscene!)

Cilantro es caliente!

(Cilantro is kind!)

Cilantro es cariñoso!

(Cilantro is affectionate!)

Cilantro es carinoso mejor que su esposo!

(Cilantro is more affectionate than your husband!)

"Roy Rogers McFreely" has become one of my favorite episodes as Roger plays "El Perro" a few times and in some very funny situations.

Bottomline: I'm CTFU

Strange Strains

Surreal art work by various artists.

Trin by Alex Alvarez

Alex Alvarez: "Personal project, made with Maya/Zbrush/Photoshop. Started with a sketch, base mesh in Maya, sculpted in Zbrush, rendered with Mental Ray, tweaked in Photoshop."

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Meta-for by Paula Rosa

Paula Rosa: "There are metaphors that are more real than the people walking down the street. I had never used so many layers in a composition and I had never saved so many files of the same image. Trippy stuff with so many details. Hopefully I picked up the most updated file. This belongs to a series for a project I'm organizing entitled Earthchitectures. Thank you all very very much for taking the time to look at my crap.

Lots of love"

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Creature Portrait 4 by Erik Larkens

Erik Larkens: "Again a portrait of a monster/creature... but this time it has a background and a little bit of a story in it, (3d+photomanip) hope you like it."

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Smoking Freaks by Andrew Hou

Andrew Hou: "Thought it should go under mature content, a dark twisted part of my brain :P It's for a Freak drawing activity~

He's a true freak of nature... a smoking freak, he lays in his mountain of cigarette and cigarette butts and ashes, he is blinded from the years of burning smoke... fingers slowly rotting away, and his leg dismembered at the knee from the constantly ashing his cigerette on to his knees...

His purpose is unknown though rumors were that long ago...he use to be an artist...

artist block?

I'm bad at writing description hehe, c&c welcome"

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Four Heads By Imaginism Studios

Imaginism Studios: "randomness... Ball point pen on recycled paper, Bobby"

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Rotten by Joel Thomas

Joel Thomas: "……And stinky, too."

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Sharp shooter V for Veronica

(Just finished this short story. It was inspired by a real life event, the movie god Quentin Tarantino and "Natural Born Killers" the movie. Photo by DementedXbarbie . As usual do what you will with the character descriptions, for now. Hope you enjoy. Mali )

Sharp Shooter V for Veronica:

She’d been trying fruitlessly all morning to get her newborn calm. Finally, after hours baby Rose was asleep. Safe and warm in her mothers arms.

Gently Veronica places Rose into her pink bassinette.

She watches the mobile spin, singing a melody as the quiet of the afternoon adds to the awe that is this moment.

The sweetest thing she’d ever seen in her miserable murdering life lay before her.

And it lay peacefully because of her.

No one who knew V would believe, even if they saw, that this angel slept sound because of Sharp Shooter Veronica.

The only way V knew to silence anything was to put a bullet through it. Well, used to know, V thinks staring at her daughter with a smile.

She was going to give baby Rose the world and God help any one who tried to take it away from her.

Outside in the distance a Harley revs its way towards Veronica’s block. She hurries to each window shutting them in an effort to lock out the sound. Her efforts are in vain.

As the Harley nears, the roar of its engine resounds through the shut windows and reinforced brick walls.

For Veronica the sound crashes into her daughter’s nursery. It suffocates little Rose’s sleep until she screams out for air.

The world around V turns a deep dark red.

The newborns glass shattering cry amplifies grating against Veronica’s patience like barb wire.

And the bastard hadn’t even made it to her block yet!

“Fuck!” V yells slapping the bullet proof glass pane.

Without even a glance to Rose, Veronica stalks over to the nursery door. Grabbing the rounded steel lying at the doors base, she heads down the stairs.

On her way past the living room she shouts to her couch potato mother. “Watch Rose.” Veronica doesn’t wait for a response. She opens the front door just in time to watch the Prick fly past her.

Jumping in her 2 door, it starts in seconds.

Sharp u-turn and she’s headed towards her target.

5 minutes into the chase Sharp Shooter V pulls up to the right of the Harley.

Click, click.

“Hey!” she screams rolling down the window. The driver doesn’t hear her.

One more time, “HEY”!

The driver hears her that time. He slows a bit and turns his attention to Veronica.

“Yea”? He asks seemingly annoyed.

With a smile, screaming as loudly as she can Veronica answers “THANKS” aim, head, POP!

Driving off, “Don’t forget the diapers this time V, don’t forget the diapers.” The sound of a crash fading behind her.

Mali B.