A web site popped into my head today for some reason.  It's a website I haven't visited in a long time but it looks like it's still going strong.  deviantArt is a digital art community that really showcases a lot of creative talents on the net.  Back in my day, I actually submitted 3 items to the site.  For those interested, here they are:

Dermagine: This is a 3d rendering of a pill bottle with a label that says Dermagine on it.  Dermagine was a user interface engine that I created that supported such things as XML based UI definitions, runtime scripting, and the showcase feature “skinning”.  One of my magazine articles sort of detailed the constuction of the engine.  However, the article was supposed to be the first in the series outlining all features of a UI engine but due to complications was never finished.  Anyway, Dermagine, which was a research project, was picked up by my team here at HP and is now in a shipping product.  My current work is a continuation from Dermagine but is much more advanced (think XAML with the ability to switch from native GUI look and feel to HTML based UI's on the fly).  The code name for my current engine is Luka.

Plastic: This is a poem I did on a whim.  It should be pretty obvious what I'm talking about.  I took care not to add fluff lines.  Each line has significance.  Not my favorite, but it works.

Object Lesson: This poem is based off a short story I did back in high school.  The short story just rocked in my opinion.  I received a lot of positive feedback from it, but I eventually lost it.  This poem tried to bring back the essence of the story but it's just not as good.  I wanted to hook the reader in at the beginning and try and elevate the suspense while reading only to shock them at the end once they realize what is actually going on with this little boy.  The last few lines give you a hint (don't read ahead) as to what was actually going on.  Again, I wish I still had that story...it was pretty hilarious.

As far as the rest of deviantArt, there is some pretty amazing stuff.  I'm going to try and find some of my old favorites but I honestly don't remember what they were called.  The ones I remember are (all digital art pieces):

• Futuristic Nazi soldier (no I'm not a Nazi but that piece was just so awesome looking)
• Monk in a jungle.  The colors in it were just something to behold
• A lost city in a jungle (made by the same author as the monk)
• A mural that in a very wide landscape mode that looked something like DaVinci drawings

If anyone knows any of these, let me know.