One Fire To Another...

(The "Angry Eyes" Blacklight shirt)

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It would be nice if the laptop would run the drawing tablet again, but until then I'll just have to do things in the photoshop i have... which is ...old.

SOFTWARE? Photoshop. I did that design in photoshop. I have Photoshop 6.0. Yeah, I know. Well, what are you doing with YOUR version of Photoshop? I'm using what I have... that will actually work. As mentioned above, I have a drawing tablet that works well, but THE HORSE is THE HORSE, and when it doesn't want to run things (which is usually when I need them most) then it WON'T. So, I have drawing tablet, but... not.

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THE DESIGN? Old grizzled man but faded into a skull, like aged away, but the eyes and the fire in the eyes remains. It's like a "you can't kill wisdom, or ideas" thing. I started with a pic I AI'd of the Old Grizzled Man, and then the Skull picture. I had to make sure the eye sockets lined up. Then it was just stacking copies of the layers on top of each other, and erasing, like fading them away. The old man Is on the bottom I think, with multiple layers of skull on top, but those skull layers are erased, masked, and filtered so that they all fade more and more. The old man can be seen more on the left side, and is blue (MATTER), while the skull is mostly on the right side and is red (MIND). No, it's not directly related to the game. It should be, but... no, I wasn't thinking of that. Doing the eyes was the most fun part, and tedious. It pays to use AI to make your own stock photos that you can use. I did that with the fire, and I had some of eyes, so I basically cut the fella's eyes out, like a Batman mask, and then blacked all around the inside in a lower layer. So it's Skill on top, then man-face, then highlights on the eyes, then fire, then eyes, then masked fire underneath for extra glow but kind of muted to look more natural (under the skin of the eyes-- yes your eyes have skin. I had a metal splinter, and a splinter of fiberglass in my eyes before-- trust me, you eyes have skin), and then black to fill in the eye socket, and then more man face beneath that to seal it.

A quick bit about Artist and Art vs Content Prompters and AI... Yes, Content Prompters. You're not even content creators anymore, because you don't create anything. AI does it. You just make a prompt. And you can even get AI to do that. It's sad. And disturbing. Seems like a bit of work, but when this is one of the things you DO-- like know how to do, love doing (for your self, not so much for others), and are actually good at, then you don't mind experimenting and actually putting in work. It's a process, a journey-- it's fun. SADLY, there's folks who just want to make content for sales. There's no logic, no skill, no talent, no real effort, just a prompt, and if they had any know-how, it's which AI bots to use for marketing so the folks who actually DO THIS, but don't know all of those tricks (because we're too busy working) get lost in the huge pile of CONTENT STREAM CRAP. That's a sad thing about artists and art-- especially in this day and age. It gets lost. The soul people are looking for is out there being expressed, but it's drowned out by all the AI screaming for attention, because you're looking for the soul you drowned out with your content for likes and money-- because you've lost your soul ... to the computer world.

VARIATIONS... There are currently 3 different variations of this shirt. There's the 1 - WOMEN'S (All Over Print) and a 2 - MEN'S (All Over Print), both of which are in a set called the Splash Series, because of the splash of color strip on the bottom. The last one is 3 - The Unisex (Mens & Womens) Bella canvas tee. They're all pretty soft and comfortable, but the Bella Canvas one is more plain, with just the front image. It's printed a different way also. The ALL OVER prints are actually white shirts and the entire shirt is printed, so it's almost dyed black (printed black), while the Bella Canvas shirt is a black shirt with the image printed on it. I'm using PRINTFUL at the moment to do the print-on-demand, which is why the price is what it is.

Anyways, BACK TO THE DESIGN... The skull part was annoying. It was tricky to balance because the man's face was so grizzled, but that's what I wanted. Look at that guy. He's been through some stuff. Doing the guy in Blue, as in MATTER, was a bit of poetry, mostly on the side of the Skull being in Red, representing MIND. Why is the Skull the dominant Mind? Because our bodies pass away. The fire in the eyes is what moves on. So in a sense, the skull is more of a solid reminder of who and what we are, beneath the skin and age and scars. The fire in the eyes is the cleanest and most solid thing, so that cuts through everything. Since it's faded and masked on top of the blue, it comes out purplish, which is cool, because it's got a bunch of Blacklight Philosophy on it, so, that works. Speaking of which.....

THE WORDS?
"ONE FIRE TO ANOTHER
1. Consider until you Understand until you Know until you Are BEING.
2. No one or thing that is conscious to the point of being, thinking, and expressing, does anything unless they get something from it... and the thing most sought after is the experience that yields a knowing of divinity of self in the now.

3. Be Honest. All Ways, Always.

4. You are BEING: (1) WITH a Spirit, (2) HAVING a Spirit, or (3) IN a Spirit.

5. Everything is something to do.

6. You can't help but judge. Try not to condemn or glorify. Everything is what it is. Nothing More, Nothing Less. There is Divinity in all things and moments, despite your perception and opinion of it.

7. Know The Word. The Word is GOD.

8.Walk YOUR Walk. It will take your entire eternal conscious being to know your self.

9. You are BEING here for a reason. All WHYS, WISE, and Y'S are universally the same. Know YOUR WHYS. You know all, as all is in you. Here in this "Reality" of deception, illusion, distraction, division, etc... you are made to be thinking of what you know... but you still know.

C'est la vie, la guerre, et le jeu."

One Fire To Another is a phrase that you may see here and there in the Samurai Ruach philosophy writings. The rest of the words are have a clean Blacklight edge on them. "They block a lot of the face!" Yeah, they were supposed to. The idea is the ideas. The face behind the ideas is the face behind the ideas-- get it? I've done a few Blacklight Philosophy or Blacklight themed shirts. There's a BEING SYMBOL shirt which has a blacklight edge to it, the Skull Version is heavily blacklight in style. What's "Blacklight?" You must not have hit that link. Here's another one to get you caught up, but basically the philosophy is a style of being who is balanced in a way most things might not agree with or understand. It's a true "Honor Thy Father (Mind/ Fire/ God/ Red/ Divine Masc.) and Thy Mother (Matter/ Water/ Spirit/ Blue/ Divine Fem.) so that your days (knowing, illuminations of being-- which creates time) will be long..." The balance of the two sides expressed as an unlocked Pure Being is Blacklight fire (red & blue balanced fire) which is one of the hottest, and also least visible. It's a way of being, and an honesty and knowing of self that most will actually fear, and misjudge it a lot. It's rooted in "seeing the light in darkness, and the darkness in light." So, not being fooled by anything, and seeing everything. As it was once said in the movie i like a great deal, GHOSTDOG: The Way Of The Samurai, "Power, Equality... Always C Everything."

The videos are there because I'm lazy and tired. I made a template and fill in the pages, so the videos were just down there. You might find something interesting in there so I left it. AND I was thinking about how I have to do this page AGAIN to format it for phones, which just drained me, so... lazy also, and tired.