far from finished but im out of space :(...hoping some kind mod will grant me some extra..

i guess references is very obvious...lady of shalott by john william waterhouse is one of my all time favourites :)

Edit :marking as finished to clear some space

this is my first try on advanced board...up untill now ive not been brave enough to go near!! i hope this turns out good enough...

Comes a time when you look back. I remember times before I discovered this site and many many more before it, before the internet at all, and my life had more quality. I spent my time persuing other intrests but I had balance. It seems to me that this has become an addiction, make no mistake, every bit of an addiction as drugs or alcohole ever were. I have a compulsive personality and when I find something I like, I tend to become obsessed and it consumes my thoughts and time. My family, my self image, my quality of life have all suffered as a result. I know how much I disliked it whenever someone would write a note and say goodbye and I swore I would never do that, that if it ever came my time to go I would simply go. And of course there is always the risk of making a fool of yourself by doing this and then comming back. We'll see. A fond farewell to you Marcello, and everyone with whom I've come to know or interact with. Wish me luck.

Dan

place holder

bonk

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From a photograph taken by my friend Thurston (ATSnapkik on aol)

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I don't like the face.

Never ever ever

This is one of many ideas I've been trying to come up with lately to make a tree-based community that includes large, tall trees, a sense of fantasy, and still gives them enough horizontal space to walk around on and doesn't put them so high up that the force of wind blowing them off the tree would be a risk. Also the higher up on a tree you are the more the tree will sway in the wind, and I don't want them to get motion sickness everytime the wind blows.