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A formal intorduction. - 9/15/2005 11:13:06 PM   
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Well, what Can I say. I love it here on EBSQ, I have been a member since late March. EBSQ has allowed me to get my work in front of the masses. By the way if you have not had the chance to see some of my work go here, http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_6356_profile.htm  Oh almost forgot I'm Christopher R. Wacker and I am a very prolific Digital Abstract Artist. Many have compared my work to H. R. Giger, but lately I have took a different path  much darker and less sexual. I paint the demons that I see in my dreams and places. Its like looking into my personal version of hell. And, for the most people really enjoy it. It is my way of getting rid of my problems, therapy in coolest way. I am also Disabled mentally and I hate the stigma that is attached to us, I fight for my people, I try to encourage fellow mentally Ill people to come forward and show people what makes them tick. I have had numerous galleries want to display my work, but like the rest of the starving artist getting the images printed and framed and even sent is beyond my means. I promote myself nightly over the Internet trying to make a name for myself. I have a cult following of a small group of people that pass my name around. Looking to make new friends everyday/night. I also help other artist when they ask. Mostly about digital art and elements in adobe Photoshop. If you have looked through the digital art section you have more-then-likely seen something of mine. At the moment I am looking forward to the polls of the top 5 abstract artist here at EBSQ. But I do not think I will make it one reason being is I do not say anything about my work. I feel that you will see what you see you own interpretation. Then call it what you want. The depth of my work and complexity of each piece is something rarely seen. I may work in digital but most of my art looks like it was painted.

Well, thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you.
Christopher R Wacker

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RE: A formal intorduction. - 9/15/2005 11:58:23 PM   
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I like 'blood red'.

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RE: A formal intorduction. - 9/16/2005 8:11:22 AM   
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Welcome Christopher, I know we have talked in the digital section, but it is interesting to read your introduction here.  I am also disabled mentally (bipolar with lots of depression) and understand what your talking about. 

I love your work and am especially drawn to your crimson series...love Crimson Archway..and another one in that series, that looks like it is composed of part fractals.  Very interesting work. 

So glad to have you in the digital section..........

Carolyn

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RE: A formal intorduction. - 9/16/2005 12:59:02 PM   
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Fire eyes is my favorite.

It's true Chris (can I call you that? or how about Mr. X) people with mental health issues are stigmatized.

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RE: A formal intorduction. - 9/16/2005 2:39:10 PM   
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I regularly go through the Digital Art section of the EBSQ galleries, and your work really stands out. I have wondered who is behind this amazing work and I'm happy to meet you.

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More about me. - 9/17/2005 9:56:28 PM   
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OK some would like to know how I make most of my art. Well, I wrote my own Photoshop plugin. It is fractal based, I always loved fractals. I wanted a way to use the mathematics on my own art. It took a lot of work and I had to find some open source codes to put it together. I am sorry to say It is not for sale. A painter would not sale his prized brush. But, if I were to find an adequate apprentice I might would teach them how to do it when I am old and gray. I have a totally new series I am working on now. I usually do about 30 images the same style then move on. Some people tell me "Your work looks a lot alike."  All I say to them is these are the images I found that I liked best. I have 1.6 terabytes of art, and I only post a few at a time. At the moment I would like to be one of the top 5 digital artist on EBSQ and a Plus artist. What ever comes my way I will gladly accept.

And, yes we do get a bad name. Being mentally disabled is not fun, but we learn how to survive. I am one of the not so better off person with mental illnesses. I run the gamut of mental disabilities. I am also autistic just a little, I am great with numbers and I am going back to school soon to get my masters in physics. I just love knowing how things work. Even as a child I took every thing apart all my toys even the kitchen table (got in trouble for that one). By 6 I was fixing electronics and building my little science experiments. By 18 I had my Microsoft Certified System Engineer Certificate. By 20 I way teaching others never got my MCT though. But by my 21st birthday I started my first manic state, I was diagnosed Bipolar and I am a very rapid cycler its like one month awake the next month asleep. The I started loosing time and having hallucination, later diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Sizzo Affective disorder. And I am a bad OCDer I shower sometimes 15 times a day. And test my blood it the twenties a day. I am a diabetic too, type 1. But that's not bad It doesn't keep me awake at night the visions do. Everything you see that has a dark tone to it "a feeling" I had created while hallucinating. If I do not create every day I have sleep paralysis and cannot sleep at all. I see the demons or shadow people, you know what I am talking about if you see them too. They give me my best inspiration. One night I had a conversation With Lucifer. A very whimsical fellow and beauty beyond compare. I am not a Satanist nor do I condone those who are. But, many of my personalities are demonic and go by names of fallen angles or older religious deities. Its hard to explain this to anyone, even doctors have been very much afraid of what they have listened to me speak, well not really me but the others.

I try to help anyone with a mental disability, get the help they need. And tell them about medications, which I have been on over 50 different kinds over the past 4 years. When I go to a new Doctor they usually tell me they do not know "WHAT" I have nor do they accurately know how to treat me. Most of the time I am treated like a rabid animal, unclean, condemned. I have even made clergy men loss faith. I have studied everything from "Alister Crowley to Zen Taoism." People that see me nerve make eye contact with me. Think of a time when you felt a really bad vibe from and then add the bad feeling of being in a hospital. And that's what its like to be around me.  I physically drain people. I do not mean to but its just that way.

But, I am not a bad guy. My family loves me more than life itself and I love all my family and friends enough to fight to the death for them. I have never hurt anyone but people always think I am going to. You could easily say I was born in the wrong time, I would fit in perfectly in the days of old. I am also part native American actually 1/16 on one side and one 4th on another. But you could nerve tell it by looking at me, I am one beast of a German. And compete in the Scottish Highland games, clan Mackenzie.

If you would like to know more now is the time to ask.
And yes you can call me Chris.

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Own a flash movie of my Crimson Series - 9/17/2005 10:01:13 PM   
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http://www.flipdrive.com/download.php?file_id=2930&code=a41feba1aea7160c00dcc5b75251d740&show

Its up for 10 days only, and only 5 downloads a day.     Its 12 megs zipped and it is really good. I will be making flash photoalbums of my new series Called "Bio Luminescence". The pictures will be posted in a week or less and the movie will be done soon.

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New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/19/2005 2:56:59 AM   
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This is a must see, a big thanks to "Tina Maravelis" for putting her twist on an image of mine. This in turn sparked my creativity.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/19/2005 3:26:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: TheXArts

This is a must see, a big thanks to "Tina Maravelis" for putting her twist on an image of mine. This in turn sparked my creativity.


Where is it?

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/19/2005 4:38:28 AM   
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http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_6356_profile.htm   but her twist on my image is not on my portfolio, I have not asked her yet if I can post it, or if she would rather it be hers alone.  Which is all right by me

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/24/2005 11:14:29 AM   
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Wow.  That's all I can say!
Will you use that as your avatar in the forums?

And to think, all I have is my cute doggie.  Maybe I should change it.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/24/2005 1:41:57 PM   
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I like your cute doggie.

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RE: A formal intorduction. - 9/24/2005 10:47:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: TheXArts
I have had numerous galleries want to display my work, but like the rest of the starving artist getting the images printed and framed and even sent is beyond my means.


Hello Christopher. I like the intricate delicate lines in your work.

Have you thought of selling copyright usage licenses so people can do their own printing? You can do that on a digital delivery server, like payloadz.com. Take a look at what I'm doing with Download-to-Print imagery: http://evedom.com/shop.html . The license is linked to the images.

In my case, I'm long finished with them and allow people to use them in various ways and sell what they print. You can restrict your license terms to whatever uses you're willing to allow.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/25/2005 2:20:07 PM   
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I like your cute doggie.


Thank you.  I like the green mask.

Chris, did you ever email your vote for favorite abstract artists?  They are due this week I think.
  Include me in your nominees.  I think you can do more than one.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/25/2005 8:28:11 PM   
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Ok loretta, I will see your work and then vote but If you can vot more than once I think that to be an unfair advantage  But I will see ::wink wink:::

MK  I am going to look into that In a few mins but that sounds great. Thanks for the imput.

Ok on my alvatar I can not get it to work, I have tried. I have done this on many other fourms but this one is giving me troubles.

an info on image limitations   size kb/size   I will look myself again but we will see.y

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/25/2005 8:45:31 PM   
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Mk   on the payload site, It looks to be a good Idea but my images are such a high quality  300-1200 dpi at, at least 5x5 inches It would take a lot of spase to hold my images, on their servers   I have no money at this time to invest, and one image usually is more than 5 megs. some images are 1.5 gigs or more. I do not wish to sell a low quality print of my work. I like the Idea of quality over quanity. I could seel from my own site but I have no monye for hoasting or domain name. At the moment I do not know month to month if I will have the $9.94 for my ISP. The only reaso I am on EBSQ is because someone bought the year for me. But it this way I just backed up all my art And it took 1.6 terabytes to fit it all on. I have 4 dvds of just Jpgs on them. And money wise I am haveing knee surgery soon, if not full knee replacement.  I need an investor to back me. that is the only way I could sell any thing. also i have ne credit, my cerdit score is prob in the double digits   its really low.   I have no idea what to do.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/25/2005 10:12:46 PM   
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Ok loretta, I will see your work and then vote but If you can vot more than once I think that to be an unfair advantage  But I will see ::wink wink:::



There are five slots open so that they can put up 5 nominees.  It's the round after that where we start sweating each other.   Oh and of course only vote for me if my stuff doesn't make you puke.

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RE: New Series is up now "Bio Luminescence" - 9/25/2005 10:51:51 PM   
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I never say anything about some ones work, neither good nor bad. I just don't some one looking at me and thinking "Who do you think you are buddy?"  So I like everones work. Some people put there heart and soul in a piece and then someone comes along and stomps on thier dasiys.   Let me say this I really like the trees. I love the fall because things die or go dorment, and then there is the rebirth in spring. the cycle of birth an death.  

I do not want to toot my own horn but i know I am in top 5. But there is one person here  and she knows who she is. that I consider much better than me.  At the moment she is doing a tarot card deck. She invited me into her yahoo group a bit back.

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