Going through the archives, and I found a couple of oddities that I think I might save…

The above is a design I made for a remoting layer in our switchboard application. It provided the means to transparently switch search facilities from a local, threaded approach to a remoting approach, each using the same database backend. (Having no threads means that the executable is less difficult to code.) Blue is the front-end GUI, green the application logic, and pink server-side stuff. I love that I painted a little shining sun in it.

(It’s not my real handwriting, it’s my hand-on-mouse-in-PaintShopPro-writing.)

In stark contrast, I guess, the picture I won the “aggressive” competition in our little photo contest with. It turned out so beautifully. The black and white effect is really nice – I probably used conventional CN-41 black and white film. The “blood” is actually ketjap manis, a soy-like liquid used in cooking. At first I placed drops of it on an old linen sheet – which quite didn’t produce the effect I hoped for. But when I suddenly smeared it out, I saw the picture unfold in front of me.

And with this one, I won the “odd locations” competition. Nuff said. :)