Happiness

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

And the recipe is.....
Simple. Look for a wall with graffiti. Take photographs. Go home. Import your images in Paint Shop Pro XI. Resize the images, use the caleidoscope filter and play a little with the settings. There you go, the results are amazing, at least they surprise me every time again. Here I used three separate images to make one. Enjoy!

Ultra Fractal, PSP, Blade Pro

2009: The Year of......
For the Chinese 2009 is the year of ox, but it's also the year of science and it is astronomy year. Don't forget Darwin (I should have started with Darwin because 2009 is rightfully his year, his impact and ideas deserve it to be commemorated and honored) and Calvin. For many more things 2009 is the year. For music lovers 2009 is the year of "Tommy", the first ever rock opera. Tommy , a double album by the Who, was first released may 23, 1969. So 40 years ago. Reviews at the time of release were mixed. Nowadays it's considered a masterpiece. It elevated the Who to stardom and really made their name and fame. Quote: "In 1998 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value." If you want to know all about Tommy, take a look here at Wikipedia, they have a large piece on it, its history, chronology, an analysis, recoginition and stuff like that. Right now I'm listening to Tommy. And every time again I'm amazed by the beauty of the music. It's not much of a story, but heck, most opera's are thin in that department, but the music...........it's awesome. Through the history Tommy has been staged by several (opera) orchestras, a movie has been made, a musical, and now Di-rect, a Dutch band is performing Tommy, in a dutch translation, in theatres in Holland. So, all you people who up until now have been missing out on Tommy, it's getting time for you to right that omission.

UltraFractal
UltraFractal is a software program which enables you to make fractals. Together with FractalExplorer they are the two programs I always use to create fractals.
Combined with Paint Shop Pro they offer endless creative possibilities. Throw in a few plugins and filters and the results can be just awesome.
The other day I was playing with UF and PSP and came up with what I call "a jewel". You may also call this abstract, I don't mind. Hope you'll like it.

Quotes 2
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.