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Thanks for the correction.

because i referenced a picture, sampling colors and scaled it.

Figured one thing out today, namely where this picture
http://koti.mbnet.fi/el_tonic/kuvat/dreamtwo.jpg
came from. Made it a couple days ago from part of a dream I had. The influence was Zladislav Beksinski, either 023, 026 or some other crucifix painting of his. Guess his crusifixes are so tall that they resemble telephone masts. The pictures in question are at the following link. http://www.twilightsite.com/Fantasy/Old/Beksinski/Beksinski.html
Oh yeah. Other than that, Franz Marc's painting foxes is amazing. Drew a stylized fox curled up like a dog (dont know if they do that) on paper when I saw it.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/marc/foxes.jpg

Most excellent! You noticed! You have now progressed to level 3.

In a alternate timeline, Americans weren't the only ones who had access to nuclear weapons during WWII.
They did, however drop the bomb on Hiroshima, unaware of the progress made elsewhere.
Our protagonist awakens in Hiroshima a few hours after the bomb was dropped. He is in great pain, a large portion of his body is covered in radiation burns. There are no other signs of life to be found in a few miles radius. Shortly thereafter, Japan unleashes a counterattack, resulting in a global nuclear war and an atomic winter. Our protagonist frantically seeks help as the bombs fall, but before he can reach the nearest city, three quarters of the world's population are dead. Over a period of weeks, he sees everyone around him die from radiation-related causes. Finally he attempts suicide, and succeeds.
His exposure to radiation has begun a cancerous process, for now it works in his advantage. Days after impaling himself, he yet again awakens, thanks to the cancer that regenerated parts of his vital organs.
With no other choice, he swears to have revenge upon the people who dropped the bomb and begins a journey across the world. He is in a constant state of change, his body heals itself like a salamander that grows a tail, but also in great pain and the changes aren't always positive.  He soon comes to understand that chance seems to keep him alive, the constant mutations find new ways to start organs shutting down, rendering him nearly invulnerable, but they also sometimes shut him down as they produce various blockages in his brain and visceral system. As time progresses he resembles less and less a man.

Then why are his powers useless?

Because he doesn't know yet that he is the last person alive. He cannot exact revenge, or take his own life, since radiation continues to mutate his cells and breathe life into his corpse.

"As we are speaking, a giant homicidal lego man with my lunch is on the loose. So I was thinking if  I could have dibbs on that sandwich."

Used a random image of Venice as ref.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod
You are free to do whatever you wish except the title of your song must include the name of an arthropod in some way.

In sound collage-type music, many artists have the DJ prefix in front of their name.
Examples: Dj Vadim, Dj Cam, Dj Spooky, Dj Krush etc. In some cases the music doesn't even rely on sampled material.
Otherwise, nice mix, airy/minimalist feel, maybe a little slow and even. Did you jam the whole thing out in Ableton or just fade between complete songs?
Got a turntable myself, have mostly used it for listening/sampling. Loads of people have old crappy records they want to get rid of, unfortunately they are almost always overpriced (around 1-2 euros/piece).

If you use a vocoder, you can practically ignore singing in key. Else use autotune or some other plugin. I woul'dnt be surprised if almost all of the pop music on radio had some minor tweaking applied to it.

I frequently stumble upon music, books, movies, generally stuff that seriously impress me. But sometimes when I've had a persistent creative block (I paint, draw, compose, write, think alot of shit that will never be of use to me) and I experience something, a 15-year old fanboy wakes up in me, and makes me do awkward stuff. It's kinda like from a Radiohead interview I vaguely remember, when they said that they were influenced by Dj Shadow and tried to make music alike his (could have been planet Telex), however the final outcome of that song was in their style, not Shadow's. Ã, Luckily I have grown old and lazy, so I escaped the alternate universe where I have a 200 page Star Wars fan-fiction on my computer (actually used to know a dude who had written one). The stuff I make nowadays gets scrapped/discontinued in half an hour if it's unoriginal (= fanboy stuff or just crap), but sometimes it evolves into something better.
The thing that i'm interested in is: WHICH SONGS/ BOOKS/ MOVIES etc have made you want to create something of your own (who/what inspired you and what did you create)?

Some recent things (that made me feel creative/awestruck/inspired):

(song) The Go! Team - Get It Together : The drums reminded me of giant explodingdog.com robots stomping the ground, so, I started making a animation with enormous robots (which got scrapped after I thought that it's retarded to draw a animation to someone else's song).

(movie) Primer: A time-travel movie, shot with something that looks like it could have been a dv-cam. It made excellent use of the viewer's imagination (practically no special effects or fancy stuff, kinda like the film Stalker by that russian dead guy). Primer made me want to film a movie of my own (made shorts in the past), but it made me think that it could be actually possible (to make a decent film that isn't neccesarily a B-splatter), without shoveling in loads of cash.

so you want a battle?
http://koti.mbnet.fi/el_tonic/hc/homogaystorande2.mp3
YOU GOT SERVED!

Stumbled upon http://www.plasticflesh.com/.
Especially love the 2-player game and mmmmm short films.
Go check them out. If you know any similar stuff, feel free to post links.

freaked out. I looked at that picture and saw drowning people, trying to pull themselves out of the waves.

You are standing on the bridge-like construction outside the service entrance of the crab-people's palace.
Sadly you do not have the time to admire the view or the gorge below you since you have to flee for your life. Next time you might think twice before poking a crab with a crown on it's head in the eye.
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