01 November, 2006
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Version: 5
Title: MUSIC (MAKE)S ME (BELIEVE)
Date: 01 January, 2007
Description: Features Koyuki from Beck, extracted from a scan by Mangascreener. As far as originality goes, this one features the least amount of original work, seeing that the scan is the main focus of the layout. I like the bold colours though, which I actually stole from the scan as well. Hehe. This layout is similar to version 3 in that both have the coloured stripes, but this time the background doesn't tile properly because I couldn't be bothered.
"Aprilesque" can be seen edited onto Koyuki's pant leg, which I thought was cool.
There's nothing much to say about this layout actually. I made it so I wouldn't have to stare at my magic schoolbus in the new year. LOL.
Version: 4d
Title: my magic schoolbus of escapism
Date: 01 May, 2007
Description: Why version 4d? This was actually my fourth attempt at remodelling. The other attempts are either half-done or too horrible to put up, so I won't. :P The actual layout is really simple. a bit too simple, actually, for my tastes, but it works. There's no fancy gradients or anything. I did liberally use brushes, textures and stock images though. I am however, proud of the schoolbus I drew, because it's just so cute and awesome!
Let me indulge a bit in explaining what it represents: There are two ways of looking at it. One, the bus is running away from its tedious everyday job of driving on roads day in, day out, polluting the environment, etc., and it wants out. So it develops wings and flies away from it all! Hence the theme of escapism. The way of looking at it is a bit more morose. There are red splotches on the wings which can be blood, and it might have died from some unknown injuries and is thus flying up on angel's wings to heaven.
Then again, you can say it represents me going forth into a new phase of my life. :D
Credits: Brushes, stocks, textures.
Version: 3
Title: strips & leaves
Date: 25 January, 2007
Description: I got tired of the purple layout. :P Besides, I was inspired by a colour combination I saw at COLOURlovers, so I made it. As with the previous two layouts, this one required a LOT of tinkering before I got it to look right. I like it though; it's probably the best out of the three layouts I've done for my new blog so far, although it is a little generic. PLUS, I used a brush. AGAIN! I'll try not to use any more next time and return to my old philosophy of creating everything myself. :D
Credits: Brush.
Version: 2
Title: fly me a rainbow
Date: 18 December, 2006
Description: A refreshing purple colour! I seem to be spending a lot of time on my layouts at Blogspot, while previously on greyprism, each layout usually took me 1 to 2 hours max. :P But I really really really love the header image for this version. I especially like how the clouds turned out. I was searching high and low for a nice cloud brush, but most of what I could find were those "grunge" type brushes, which are absolutely not my taste, so I drew these clouds myself. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the most important thing: the birds. The lark was the first thing that inspired me to make the layout, and I had an image of it soaring in the skies. The rainbow came later. But I love the effect I achieved!
Credits: For the first time, I need to credit other people. I guess I got sick of my own inability to make proper things, so I had to steal other people's to assimilate into my own and pass it off as mine. D: But anyway. I got the lark picture here and the bird brushes here.
Version: 1
Title: The Thief
Date: 16 November, 2006
Description: First layout for my blog. Inspired by Relient K's The Thief. Features a doorway with light streaming into a dark room, with a fox peering around the corner. Predominantly black and orange. The fox was a photograph which I re-CGed, and the doorway drawn extensively in Painter. I liked the actual image but not the overall composition of the layout, which I had some problem with and only settled on after quite a lot of tweaking.
A collection of layouts from the defunct greyprism.org is below:
Shade: 19
Title: none
Date: have to find out
Blah: Finally got a screenshot of it up. This is the only layout I used for greyprism which "violated" the rule I set for myself: to only use things which I have created. I--horror of horrors!-- downloaded the picture of a tree somewhere and manipulated it. Yep. It's a simple layout I felt no particular attachment to. It lasted for a really really long time because I didn't have any time to remodel, what with A levels and all.
Shade: 18b
Title: blue skies
Date: 11 March 2006
Blah: This features a photogaph I took with my Nokia 6020, so the resolution isn't that great, but it's a lovely picture of the sunrise. The location's somewhere near my house, and I was on my way to school in my dad's car (yet again... the car seems like one of the places where i take the most photos). The buildings you see are actually a primary school. I absolutely love the colours of the sky though, and this picture makes a great phone wallpaper because my profile name just comes right above the dark coloured land. Heh. This layout looks a bit more professional, if you ask me, and it has really teeny text. I dunno. I was in the mood for teeny text. I actually wanted to go with big, readable Georgia, but somehow, it came to this. Often it's the design that's taking you for a ride and not the other way round. I made another layout prior to this, hence version "18b", but the other layout was too restricting. I might put up a screenshot of it sometime.
Shade: 17
Title: seventeen summers
Date: 28 January 2006
Blah: Features lyrics from Robbie William's King of Bloke and Bird, which I have been obsessing over for some time. It's lime green, bright and cheerful and all that. I don't like it personally, but it's refreshing. A tree is in the main picture of this layout. For some reason, I have a liking for trees. I drew one in version 14 and 7, and there's a Christmas tree in version 2. Heh. Nothing much to say about this layout, really.
Shade: 16
Title: By The Lamplight
Date: 29 November 2005
Blah: Greyprism really really needed a remodel. Very badly. As you can see, it's been about half a year since I remodeled anyway, and it being the holidays, I don't think I have much of an excuse. The layout keeps the same... layout. O.o Just changed the picture and the colour scheme. Oh, and I used Photoshop to make the title picture for once, and only used Paint Shop Pro to draw lines, something I still can't figure out how to do in Photoshop. >.<
Shade: 15
Title: Clouded Stars
Date: 22 June 2005
Blah: The cloud... thing was done on a whim. I don't have much to say about this layout, though it's rather similar to version 5 where I used the same stars in the same colours, plus a so-called night theme. Except that that was grey. This one's more bluish-purple. And I brought back the side bar, plus put up SOME form of content. Haha. I kind of like it at the moment (because I just made it). I don't usually do write-ups just after I make a new layout, usually just before I change it, but I was doing up on for version 14 so I was thinking, let's just do 15 too. XD
Shade: 14
Title: Aflame
Date: 01 May 2005
Blah: I love the picture. It's of a burning tree, hence the title. The layout almost didn't turn out like this. It was going to be green and hilly, but Painter 7 screwed (correction, my computer screwed) and I lost my picture because silly me didn't save. Yeah, so in the end I came up with this. I can't say how much I love the picture. It's gorgeous. Haha. I seem to be flattering myself. But that's not the point. Er, this layout was rather hastily done, no content at all, just my blog and the lovely layout. Yes.
Shade: 13
Title: ## here comes the rain again //
Date: 15 March 2005
Blah: The picture I used was one of the very first I took with my dad's digital camera, and fits the title perfectly because it's of raindrops on a windshield. The lyrics and title are both from Greenday's Wake Me Up When September Ends, which is a hugely awesome song. I like the colour scheme on this one, and how the yellow complements the grey. Somehow a bit like me, nowadays, when I try to brighten myself up by wearing brighter colours even though I'm just as dull as all the grey in the world.
Shade: 12
Title: g.org
Date: 10 December 2004
Blah: I made this to try my hand at looking professional. I was intending to expand the site and add a lot more content, but in the end I didn't due to lack of time and pure laziness. Also, my server went down for a month (the whole of January and some) and that wasn't exactly a big carrot for me do to anything more to it. I personally liked this layout a lot because it was clean, and it was also the first time I had a calender in my blog. Nothing much to say about it though, because it didn't really leave a deep impression on me.
Shade: 11
Title: { checkmate ;
Date: 23 November 2004
Blah: This layout is made because I wanted to incorporate a chess piece in it. The picture of the knight in the shape of a dragon can be found here. I like the picture itself, but the layout isn't satisfactory. Ah well, at least there's something I like. ^.^ Um, I tried to get the "goth" look, but apparently I can't do intricate patterns. Yeah. So it's a little plain, and it's still red and black. Red and black are one of my favourite colour combinations. Okay I'm digressing. This layout uses layers again. I could have done this with tables, but some screw up with the HTML made me change to layers. When I was done, I couldn't be bothered to code it back to tables again, so there you are. Oh, and this layout will not view right on an 800 x 600 resolution, I'm sure.
Shade: 10
Title: t r a n s i e nce
Date: 01 October 2004
Blah: Again, did a new layout because I was sick of the last one. It was made to sort of celebrate the end of my preliminary examinations, so yeah. It features a splash page, one which greyprism didn't sport since the first version. It's very minimalist and white, with a touch of mauve. If you ever bother to try and read the lyrics on the splash page (it's unreadable in the main pages), it is part of the song "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. I think it's an awesome song. ^.^; Odd that it's blue eyes and the layout is... mauve. Or purple or red or whatever you want to call the colour. I like this layout, personally, and it will stay because I'll be mugging for another month or so until the end of my GCE 'O' Levels. Yup.
Shade: 9
Title: illumina
Date: 01 August 2004
Blah: Was getting sick of the yellowish-brown of shade 8, and I haven't remodeled in eons, so I put up a sort of filler layout. It wasn't difficult to code, actually. It's just a simple table with three rows. Yeah. The picture above was made from two photos overlayed. Um, yeah. Nothing really special about this layout though, except that it's probably the first layout in tables that I've done in a very long time.
Shade: 8
Title: t e s s e r a c t
Date: 23 May 2004
Blah: Inspired by the novel "Factoring Humanity" by Robert J. Sawyer. The colour's not what I usually do - it's a sort of dirty-yellow - but I think it's good. The tesseract itself was a little painful to draw because I simply couldn't get a perfect cube out right. I have calculation problems. XD Well, I love it, and I can't deny it, because it's so simple, yet... nice. Yes. Haha. Okay, this was not a good description of the layout, so sue me.
Shade: 7
Title: g r e e n
Date: 03 May 2004
Blah: It's green! And it's supposed to feature a potted... plant. If you couldn't tell. No particular thing that inspired me to make it. Just drew it. ^^ Gotta love Painter7. It's the most super-duper. WEEEE. It's nice-green, isn't it? My absolutest favourite shade - after grey and blue, of course!
Version: 6
Title: sea of blue
Date: 10 April 2004
Blah: Did this in 5 minutes. Almost. Coding took me about 20-30 min. Basically because there were some bugs in my coding and I had to weed them out. *nods* It's a light-coloured layout for a change, haven't had those in a while. The window for text is pretty small, though. Well, I don't really have anything to say because this layout was a spur of the moment thing, so yeah. We'll leave it at that.
Version: 5
Title: ~ bahn j'ahk ~
Date: 15 March 2004
Blah: The Korean words on the image read "bahn j'ahk" (romanisation), which means "twinkle" in Korean. ^^ *starts singing the nursery rhyme in Korean* It's so cute. Yeah anyway, the whole thing is grey to represent gloomy skies. Because I like gloomy weather. Haha. The only hint of colour would be the tiny yellow stars which represent hope! Wee. I like this layout because it's got Korean on it. Haha. Might stay, mightn't. Depends if I have to time to remodel. ^^
Version: 4
Title: / xpacemen
Date: 01 February 2004
Blah: For the first time, greyprism.org debuts as it is, not Dementia, not anything else. Wee! And it has it's own little logo. A grey prism! <- just in case you didn't know what the triangular thing was. The Blue Circles and Stars represent the Spaceship in Space. The Spacemen are in those Spaceship. And the words, even though you can't see them, are from the song Superman by Five for Fighting. Awesome song! I kind of like this layout, personally. It would stay for a long long time. Yeah.
Version: 3
Title: graphic manipulation {magic wand}
Date: 01 January 2004
Blah: I was rather fond of this layout, at first. Actually, I still am. It's so... pixelly! Actually, I stole hte magic wand from PSP7. SHhhh! Don't tell. T.T Anyway each of the sections had it's own colour scheme, like blue, red brown, etc. It was really pretty. However, the server ate everything, and I decided it was time for a remodel too. So this one went. I made it with a thought it my mind that it would last. It would have, but circumstances have shortened it's lifepsan. Aww.
Version: 2
Title: have.yourself.a.merry.little.christmas...
Date: 30 November 2003
Blah: This layout is courtesy of Elyse as part of our Xmas Xchange! Thank you for the wonderful layout! I appreciate your effort! XD
Version: 1
Title: morningroad
Date: 23 November 2003
Blah: This layout used chromeless windows, and had a splash page, though there was an option to use a normal popup should the browser not support chromeless ones. Made use of a picture I took on the car along the SEMBAWANG flyover on my way to school via Mandai Rd. I love the colours in the picture and the effect of the sun. First layout that uses frames that I have made in a long time.
Dementia was Greyprism's previous incarnation, and these were my past layouts. Hover over images for version number and layout title.
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