teflonpaladin

On one of the 3D related lists I watch, someone pointed to a site called 3D Rivers. Once you register, they send you an email with links to free models each week. There were 10 free models posted this week, and one of them really got my LOTR geek going - a nazgul riding a fell beast! Its not rigged, but it is textured and has materials, and is in obj format (among others). The site is 3D Rivers - http://www.3drivers.com/ Seemed too cool not to share!

Every now and then, I just *have* to create. The monkey jumps on my back and pounds me about the head and shoulders, and there's nothing for it but doing something creative. When this hit me a while back, I was fortunate enough to have had some very recent inspiration. We were working at the ren faire for our local SCA group. I found myself fascinated with the silk pennants that my 'foster knight' had made - watching them cavort on the wind as I worked in our Photo Booth. And I also found myself fascinated by a dear lady friend who was dancing - the pure joy and abandon I saw on her face, and in her movement, transported me. In my warped lit

A while back, an author friend of mine posted an interesting commentary on authorship. Her wrap-up thought stuck in my mind: "Instead I'll close by saying that the demonization of sexuality is sheer laziness. So all you writers (to return to my initial concept) who think that you can get away with signaling to your readers that Mr. Z is a bad guy because he enjoys spanking his girlfriend? Work harder, damnit." Stuck there, in fact, until I had to write this little scene to make it drop out of my head. What if current societal norms were turned on their head? The piece feels vaguely Heinlein-ian to me, but so be it... Perversion Two more h