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yereverluvinuncleber
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[2012-01-03 14:50:12 +0000 UTC]
"Widgets of some Worldwide repute"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 455; Deviations: 734; Watchers: 1140
Watching: 105; Pageviews: 175768; Comments Made: 8719; Friends: 105
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: John Constable, John TennielFavorite movies: Zulu, Battle of Britain
Favorite TV shows: BBC's The League of Gentleman, Game of Thrones
Favorite bands / musical artists: The Undertones, Imogen Heap, Punk Rock and Eighties synth-pop.
Favorite books: Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Third Policeman
Favorite writers: H G Wells, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Flann O'Brien
Favorite games: Colonial Conquest, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, Rome Total War I
Favorite gaming platform: Windows 7 64bit & XP Pro 32bit
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop, soldering iron, Konfabulator, javascript, VB6, pen tablet, brain.
Other Interests: Quad amplifiers, history, Triumph Spitfires, beer, stilton and port.
# About me
My alter ego is yereverluvinunclebert. You'll find me around the web. Where you find steampunk design I won't be far away.
I focus on Steampunk Design, why do I do it?
Well, I can't bear the look and feel of current desktop computing being so locked into a 1980s 'modern' paradigm. Current GUIs deriving mostly from Microsoft's efforts have a basis in the GUIs from the late 80s and early 90s and despite the regular changes they still haven't moved on much. Do you run XP, Vista, Win 7, 8 or 10? Well, if you do, that means under the skin you are still running NT5 or 6, all basically the same fundamental o/s. The only real differentiator is the GUI that MS foists upon you. Now, a GUI is a GUI and should not be confused with the underlying operating system. You should be able to decide which style of GUI you want to run.
A GUI should be independent of the o/s or at the very least the o/s ought to be very easy to theme and to customise as you wish. This just isn't the case with any Microsoft operating system as the default 'look and feel' provided with the os is really the only thing that really sets it apart from the previous version.
You'll see a massive example of this with Metro or Material Design, the UI that comes with Windows 8 & 10. The underlying os is still good old NT6 and operates much in the same way that Win7 does. However, the whole user interface has been modified to try to get you to use live tiles on the desktop as you would on a Windows phone, to make you use 'apps' rather than programs as you would on the desktop. This schizophrenic approach to a desktop o/s is hoisted upon you as Microsoft has no decent tablet-centric o/s and instead are trying to squish Windows onto tablets - it isn't working, look at the death of windows phone and even more recently, the death of Windows on tablets. They are trying to get you to adopt a new GUI so that you conform to the business plan they have in mind for Windows. That business plan is now a failed model but you, the consumer is still suffering for it.
My aim is to help you break out of this corporate mindset and to think of desktop customisation as a natural thing to do, much in the same way that you decorate and design your home, make the desktop your place to live, to work and operate.
So, with this in mind, I set out to create a series of wallpapers, widgets and icons for an o/s interface that meets the aims and needs of a small but thoroughly dedicated group of chaps and ladies known as steampunkers.
I have set out my steampunk design skills in this way to demonstrate what I can do.
Whether or not you are a steampunker yourself, with these widgets and icons you can thoroughly steampunk your desktop.
You may use any of my images in any of your own creations but commercially only with my permission. In all cases I require a credit using my name or pseudonym - and in addition a link to my DA account or my own site.
Do me a favour and don't send me a Lllama. I don't know what these bloody Llama things are for in any case and I don't give them myself. IF anyone can enlighten me as to something concrete that I can do with them I'll be pleased to hear it.
# Comments
Comments: 536
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How delightful!
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Thankyou!
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Greetings and tidings of good fortune on this celebratory day of your birth upon this wonderful planet.
Even though you are now very old I hope you enjoy your day
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Very, very old indeed.
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But of course not as old as me .... sob sob ....
Anyway, what groovy plans have you got for a fun filled day ?
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I've had my birthday. I had a meal at Cosmos in Norwich with my family (eat all you can) and I bought myself a metal lathe. I have a bottle of Tamnavulin to drink later. That's it!
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Sounds wonderful and a lathe is something I have toyed with getting for some time so good on you for going for it.
The Tamnavulin I have no clue about but then I am a heathen when it comes to drink.
I hope you have a wonderful day though
This looks like it could be a decent stab at WOW dramatisation:
www.youtube.com/watch?time_conβ¦
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I've been waiting for it for months. It was meant to have been released by now.
Try the Tamnavulin.
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You mean you drink rocket fuel !!!
It would be the end of me I'm afraid. Never developed the taste for it or any spirits really.
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hi mate
happy birthday today, getting younger every year.
bill
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Thankyou Bill, most kind.
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Hello sir. As requested on a number of your widgets and icons I am here to comment upon them since I am currently making use of them. I supposed this general method of commenting on your publicly facing page was perhaps the most effective means of doing so, as I have obtained and at least attempted to utilize quite an array of your iconography and widgetry. I have recently expended a large sum on a machine for the primary purpose of perusing the goods of a prolific vendor of steam-powered amusements, and I found the original packaging and setup to be rather minimalist and boring. Your widgets have served the ample purpose of livening up my desktop with a charming array of clicks and ticks and clangs and hisses and whistles and buzzes, and your icons have been a joy to look at. I am particularly fond of your glass folders, and am disappointed only that the set lacks a representation for the storage of photography and imagery.
One thing I particularly appreciate is your desktop hole sorting widget. Who knew intentional damage could be so useful! simply stick all the junk accumulating on the desktop in the hole and the oh-so-useful mechanicals figure it all out for me, with some gentle direction on my part of course.
A marvelous job all around, and I will recommend your products to anyone wishing to festoon their amusement or calculation machines with the finest in brass, glass, and clockwork stylings.
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If you have an idea for image storage then feel free to sketch a visual representation of what you are looking for and I'll see what I can do. I am already working on a steampunk explorer.
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Ensure you post the results on your own page. I'm sure the world would like to see your creation.
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Thanks old chap. Most should be working with only a minor bug or two . New versions of several are in the pipeline though progress is slow due to other projects
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Hey, thanks for that fave and I havn't forgot your suggestion
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Hi there~ Total stranger but I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting all of the War of the Worlds: Goliath art and concept art that you have submitted. Been working on a few fans projects related to it, or well, at least ideas, and it really makes things easier when explaining it to people when you have the pics that you do! You wouldn't happen to know of a place where its all together or in a folder would you? I've tried looking through your gallery and the war of the worlds fan club but I can't seem to find them.Β
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Sorry but no, I was in touch with one of the artists and he gave me a link to the page where these were hosted. I took copies of as many as I could before they disappeared and posted on them on DA to a particular group but not so they would appear on my gallery, I didn't want anyone to think they were mine.
The result is they aren't in my gallery and the original location? I don't know where that is now I am afraid.
All I can suggest is that you find one on DA and look at the associated images on the right, you'll eventually see links to all the others if you click around.
www.deviantart.com/yereverluviβ¦
I have the originals on a drive somewhere but they are the same as posted here on the wotw group you discovered yourself.
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Oooh, I got you, that makes sense. Yeah I was like, "Oh I can totally use these as reference but shoot I can't find them" But thank you very much for the clarification.Β
Yeah, that's what I have been doing, though I just wanted to check. And well to say thank you. Me and my brother are huge fans of the movie and its really nice to see how it went together~Β
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oh man, and I'm again to late, but I'm not so often online here in the last time. happy birthday and all the best for the next year.
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21 again eh
bill
psΒ steaks look good.
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They were ever SO tasty.
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THANK you.
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Good god man slow down you're catching me up!
I wish you all the very best for a splendid birthday
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Thankyou, a fine b'day so far.
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Happy Birthday In A Few Days My Friend,
May God Bless You With Many More.
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Bloody Hell, I forgot.
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You Are Most Welcome My Friend.
Happy Birthday, My Friend.
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