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The Fool presents "Magical Wallpaper 2007 part 1"

 
 
the Fool
04:42 / 09.02.07
Sort of a continuation of the sigils I did last year, reworking them into my life more directly. The second one is now my wallpaper at work. This is the first of 3 sigils I will rework as wallpaper to put in my face (and yours if you want ) to provide a focus for these major changes I want to occur in my life.

Sized for 1280 x 1023 screens. Clicky on images below to get the full sized versions. I can make ones for other screen sizes, let us know if you want one.





 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
09:19 / 09.02.07
Gorgeous as ever, Fool. In a way I like the middle one best, it's so simple and calming to look at.
 
 
electric monk
11:52 / 09.02.07
Indeedy. I've grabbed the middle one for the work screen. Thanks for sharing, dude!
 
 
Papess
12:19 / 09.02.07
Moi aussi! Trés Bien, Fool! J'ai choisi la troisième image!

Merci!
 
 
saintmae
13:10 / 09.02.07
Potentially obvious question, but what are these sigils for?

Also, out of curiosity, how are you sigilizing your intent? Other than whatever magic(k)y stuff is happening there, is there anything going on that cannot be seen (invisible layers in the image, text behind another object, etc.?)?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:52 / 09.02.07
Salut Fool! J'ai choisi le deuxième. Vive la minimalisme!
 
 
EmberLeo
15:39 / 09.02.07
Potentially obvious question, but what are these sigils for? ... how are you sigilizing your intent? ...is there anything going on that cannot be seen?

Maybe obvious, but they're exactly the questions I was going to ask.

--Ember--
 
 
AnonProphet
21:10 / 09.02.07
Magical intent aside, as a fellow graphic artist I love your vector technique.
 
 
ghadis
21:30 / 09.02.07
Fantastic stuff the Fool. As always!!

For those people who are newish to Barbelith.It is great to go trawling through the old Temple threads hunting down fantastic Fool Sigil/Images.

I so love, LOVE!! Fools portrait of Ganesh...

here:...
 
 
the Fool
05:34 / 10.02.07
Potentially obvious question, but what are these sigils for? ... how are you sigilizing your intent? ...is there anything going on that cannot be seen?

This sigil relates to character design, action figures and associated goodness, and achieving the potential that this area of my interests has. Sorta opening opportunities for myself as well as focusing myself on this area of what I do. It was originally embeded in my giant world with all the characters and ganesh at the centre. Here I'm being more blunt, and just working with the sigil itself. After I did the first one, I just striped everything off. The second two were going to be just colour and sigil.

The green second one is my desktop too
 
 
Benny the Ball
06:54 / 10.02.07
nice work, Fool - I've gone for the 1st one!
 
 
Ticker
13:41 / 10.02.07
second for the home PC.
thank ya!
 
 
Papess
14:00 / 10.02.07
My boy likes the first one. I hope it is okay to take more than one!
 
 
Disco is My Class War
14:35 / 10.02.07
I'm enjoying the third. Something about the character holding the world in hir hands that I really like.

Thanks, Fool.
 
 
Frank Fress
17:02 / 10.02.07
I did something similar a while back. I took a bunch of old sigils that I had lying around and created a grid of them with the specific purpose of making a background image for my blog. The grid becomes a tessellation when tiled. I did it by hand then scanned it and manipulated it slighty in Photoshop. While it may not be as clean as Fool's, I'm pleased with the result aesthetically.

 
 
Princess
18:29 / 10.02.07
Oh how lovely! It's like stained glass in a church.
Please tell me that the sigils where all to destroy the o-zone layer and kill your rivals, that would be perfect. That would be SOOOOOOOOO perfect.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:00 / 10.02.07
I think these are beautiful. It used to worry me slightly having someone else's sigil on my computer, but I have come to the conclusion that in a way it's like SETI harnessing the power of lots of random computers downtime by using them to run data searches, but in our case we're using our mental downtime (random moments gazing at the screen without really knowing what we're looking at) for whoever happens to have presented the sigil, currently the Fool.
Which of course is fine by me, my eyes have been pleasured so over the years!
 
 
Frank Fress
19:26 / 10.02.07
When I created it, I used this as an experiment in charging sigils by way of cyber-space. That by inserting them into the web, I was planting them into the collective unconscious so to speak. They're so old now, I can't remember what they are. But I assure you I only ever create sigils to destroy the ozone, enlarge my penis, or frighten small helpless children or animals.
 
 
saintmae
21:16 / 10.02.07
My current desktop is a sigil of sorts, but instead of the traditional way of creating a glyph, I used a ton of images from the Google image search on terms related to my intent and put them in different layers and merged them together. The result is mostly grey with some images that you can sort of see through the grey. I think it's helping, but it's harder to forget what it was about.

I once did an experiment with sigilizing LiveJournal, where I created a sigil to use as my primary icon on all my posts there for a month that was intended to work on everyone who saw it. I did a little measuring afterwards, and came to the conclusion that while no one felt an absolute compulsion to "make more art" as the intent was, it did have the effect of generally upping creativity in those who read my posts. Interesting stuff.
 
 
the Fool
03:05 / 12.02.07
I really like the idea of a magical SETI networking system, probing ideaspace for reality shifts...
 
 
thane
10:59 / 18.02.07
Cool wallpaper. About SETI...I know a project that use "distributed computing" to create graphical/fractal screensaver in a not good know fashion(at least not know for me) with the partecipation of all the users connected. This project is called Electric Sheep.

Take a look.
 
  
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