I Have Returned

OMG! I didn't know!

Well I have to say that I read a lot of articles there, but I never joined up, but that was because I never really had the time and wasn't online so much back then. And when I was, I was running some yahoogroups and I did a lot of photo manips. Here's one that I made of Xena in her Cleopatra garb http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/display_photo.aspx?id=1210.

That's from an old MySpace style site that's featured on MadMusic. I can't link to my old MySpace page of photos that I put on my profile because MySpace literally ripped out everyone's blogs and pics. It's like I still have my account, but there's nothing there anymore. And they did this to everyone to make the site less individual and more corporate so everyone lost their pics.

But here's the entire folder or page as it were http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/myphotoalbums.aspx?id=12224 I put up at MadMusic.

So you see, I was literally in other cyber and digital realms and missed out on a lot because of that.

I sure hope Whoosh stays up forever though. All these homes are places that need to stay in existence!

It's so weird how we were all aligned in ways and never met!

Whoosh is rich in info of all things Xena & Herc.

And I have all the seasons of Xena & Herc on DVD! I also have a small collection of the Xena magazine but not all the issues unfortunately. The very first edition featured dual covers. One with Xena and one with Callisto. I was never able to get the Callisto one though.

I have all the CD soundtracks released from the show. They need to release a CD with M'Lila's song though.

I really miss Xena and Hercules.

I made a few Xena-related animated gifs, back around that time. A member at Adrienne Wilkinson's message board had Livia as her avatar, so I animated her to yell, "I'm Livia!" I also animated an image of Callisto from The Bitter Suite, like this one except round, making her hands move up and down around the circle like she was spinning it. I have no idea if those animations have been preserved anywhere, but it was in my early days of image manipulation.

It looks like we have quite a bit in common.

OMG if you find any of your manips, or gifs, let me see them!

I always loved that sort of thing and Callisto in that episode was perfect. I really loved the outfits from the Tarot cards they represented. There's a scene in an old obscure movie called 'Shadow Play' that has scenes where two of the actors are using them.

That's the only other place I've ever seen them used in any way.

And if you have links to old pages that had the gifs, you might be able to find them again on the wayback machine.

I loved Callisto in every episode she was in.

Speaking of The Bitter Suite, that's where I got the name of my message board, Temple of Illusia. I haven't been keeping it up, though, and it has gone quite dead.

If I find the animations I'm talking about, I'll let you know.

Here are some others I made years ago. Too bad the black doesn't show up on this background.

If I do any more animations in the future, I'd like to use APNG instead of gif.

That name sounds very cool and I too, have places that have went dead. But I keep them around because of the history.

One day we'll be able to have all these rooms up and running again. Once they make 48 hour days, LOL!

I love those little gifs. I had the spinning chakram on one of my yahoo groups at one time, the group is called Riddles & Stories.

Here's a somewhat screen-grab of it before that horrible yahoo takeover with it's horrid neo design. The group itself is still up, but it's been quite an experience through the years.

If we had 48 hour days, I'd be working 80 hours a week and still wouldn't have time for anything, lol.

I'm glad you like the gifs, and it made me smile to know you were using the chakram.

It's a shame Yahoo seems to care more about their bottom line than their members. From what little I can see in the screen grab, it looks like you put a lot of work into your forum, and I'm sure you're not the only one who did.

Thanks for the compliment on the name of my board. The topics of discussion had nothing to do with Xena, but that name just seemed perfect.

Yeah I was using a lot of gifs to feature on the group. I did a lot of homepage cover changes and then just kinda stopped at one point just to keep up with content and adding stuff before realizing that blogger was where I needed to put all my poems and lyrics and all that other stuff, and I could have as many blogs as I wanted to organize things in that way. Like my youtube channels, one for music videos I was inspired to put together, one for just movie clips, another for other randomness.

Wish youtube would let me redirect already uploaded videos, I got to re-organize some videos and when something already has more than 2 comments I really hate to delete and re-upload on another channel. Blogger actually allows dates and times to be what you want them to be, wish youtube was the same or to give you a way to re-organize the order of videos on your list of videos.

Yeah I think we'd all get the 80 hour treatment should we ever get a different orbit to going lol!

Yeah I was using a lot of Xena stuff for at least two of my groups, mainly Riddles & Stories. I had found another spinning chakram that was much bigger and used that one too, right before putting that torchbowl gif with the moving flames on there.

But did you know there's a site like wayback machine that does nothing but crawl for imgaes only? It's called TinEye and you can run any image or gif through and a lot of times it will point to where the image came from, what websites or pages they were originally on.

If I could remember the URLs to some of my old images, I probably could have found them on Wayback Machine. Sadly, I have no idea where I stored them, much less their old file names.

It's such a shame that back then, I never even thought of backing stuff up and wished I had. Of course I saved my artwork and stuff like that, but I wish I could have saved links to a lot of stuff that I'd never be able to find again, and trust me I've looked over the years for stuff but just didn't know where to find it.

I put a lot of images on imageshack and now that site has gone to crap. And tinypic is fixing to go under.

Well.

There go the goddam cookies.

Hey psst. I made another one. I didn't plan on this one, it just happened. It planned on me!

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Hey psst. I made another one. I didn't plan on this one, it just happened. It planned on me!




Haha, great song choice. Adam Sandler doesn't even sound bad doing a reggae song.

I know! And he does it with ease...I think the fact he's using the language that most people use is what makes it flow. It's natural. And something that everyone can relate to!