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Why do YOU do it.....?

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Why do YOU do it.....?

Skin, that is.

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The other day I was leafing through old 'bytes' in a dusty corner of a forgotten harddrive, and came across some ancient skins I did for a forgotten proggy or two...

Got me thinking....

What got me into this?...that's easy...was shells - messing with the GUI the 'brutal' way....but that's not what has me here still....around 10 years later.

So that reminded me of a 'feeling' I had at that old skinz.org site..... when I realised that skinning was nothing more than a new artform, like painting, or sculpting, except for one small detail.....People doing 'it' in the mid/late '90s were at the DAWN of the emergence of this new 'artform', and THAT was something no painter or sculptor could lay claim to....[at least none still living].

It meant that even as an 'observer' what was being done was genuinely fresh, new and exciting....and if you also happened to 'dabble in it' yourself then the fun was even more acute.

So....a decade later...the world has changed, skinning is far better-known now than it was then, and a lot of 'new' faces have been attracted to it all.  [skinz.org membership probably just made it into 4 figures...Wincustomize is in 7]

Question is.....WHY...?

Casual time-killer or outlet for expression?

 

The 'sad' part is knowing the people who have moved on, departed the scene...over the years.  People you think of...often....of whom many now are oblivious.  The 'happy' part is those who come after...to swell the ranks, even though skinning is now more complex [harder]...and maybe quite less divergent [fewer skinnable apps].

[I digress]

So....

Why are you here?

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thats what i said Jafo... @ least thats what i meant


Don't worry about it, Skinhit.....when Jafo's in one of his 'correct moods', you could say: "Holy crap!", and he'd correct it with: "Divine faeces!"
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
  
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
when Jafo's in one of his 'correct moods


i wont hold my breath
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well I used to skin because it gave me something to do. I was never good at. Never did make my own skins.

I don't skin now because I relized how evil a company MS really is. Therefore for awhile I quit using MS products. However Linux dosen't play my games so I put XP back on the little Dell with no plans to upgrade.

I am looking forward to the release of Vista so I can say "I told you so" on all the new threads about how Vista is screwing people's PCs up. Should be fun.

Heck I might get back into skinning. I should make some new things.
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Holy crap!", and he'd correct it with: "Divine faeces!"


That is a good one Starkers! And by the way, I had to look up your spelling of it. It is correct, but is also spelled feces. hehe
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That is a good one Starkers! And by the way, I had to look up your spelling of it. It is correct, but is also spelled feces. hehe


Of course it's correct....I have an embedded memory of a teacher whacking me with a ruler for spelling it incorrectly (sh!t wasn't acceptable), so it's one of a few words I don't need to look up in the dictionary.

I am looking forward to the release of Vista so I can say "I told you so" on all the new threads about how Vista is screwing people's PCs up. Should be fun.


I dunno, what are we gonna do with you, Kona.....perhaps an extra propellor on that tinfoil hat, some ear plugs and ultra dark sunglasses 'll do the trick. Then maybe you'll hear no evil, see no evil and the extra prop'll confuse any evil trying to get into your head. Hopefully you'll then have pure thoughts...not continually looking for and thinking the worst of MS They did, after all, make a fantastic version of spider solitaire that takes some beating....I'll beat its 95% win record yet.

Actually, I've been running Vista since the first beta, and HONESTLY, it hasn't screwed up my PC.....and given the improvements with each updated edition, me thinks that if ya don't take up skinning again, you're gonna be twiddling your thumbs considerably more than writing in forums: "I told you so!"

Seriously tho, take up skinning again, I'd be interested to see your work and it'd help keep the 'just in' list ticking over, being there's been a few recent retirements.

Oh, and by the way, Cindy, faeces is the English spelling and derived from Latin. Feces is the U.S. spelling....apparently the A was dropped because there was some confusion with faces. Ah!!! So that's where the expression 'sh!t faced' came from.

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try reading Canterbury Tales in the original, then imagine being suddenly transported there and having to get food, lodging, and avoiding the faux pas with current customs. English?! Took English History two years in a row in high school, seven yrs. Latin, it all still sounds too weird...er..for words. "Wan wie the shilles ae th shoares soartes...lude synge cukoo..."
"Illegitimici non corborundum!" "faeces"? Faecuumm Sanctorum! Want fries w' dat, homes?
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Wan wie the shilles ae th shoares soartes...lude synge cukoo..."
"Illegitimici non corborundum!" "faeces"? Faecuumm Sanctorum! Want fries w' dat, homes?


Rough translation (I think)....A bird who sh!ts and eats in its own nest is not only unwise but a dirty, unsanitary little bastard.

BTW, Seldomseen...great move, confusing the buggery out of Jafo like that! Now he won't know which dictionary to pick up first...Ye Olde English Dictionary, the Latin Dictionary, the Welsh, Irish or Scots Gaelic Dictionaries or the Encyclopaedia Brittanica's Reference to Modern Slang.
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i love it
Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why did I do that? Hijack the thread, that is.
Hi, Jack!   
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why did I do that? Hijack the thread, that is.


Cos there's not enough threads around here going downhill real fast, perhaps.

BTW, Jack said hi back....woulda told you himself (several times) but reckons he keeps missin' ya cos you're so very seldom seen.
Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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was that seldomseen?
hi starkers!
Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hi starkers!


Hi yerself, Skinhit! Hope all is well with you, all fit n' strong like, being that ya need to be fit n' healthy ta ride these going downhill fast threads all the way.....can't have ya falling off halfway down n' possibly injuring yerself, now can we.

was that seldomseen?


Not too sure....don't see him often enough to make a positive ID anymore. Apparently, his missus couldn't even pick him out in a line up, such is his ability to blend into the woodwork.....bit like a shape shifting chameleon, really, thus very seldom seen.

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top
very


It might be handy to stand sideways in a crowd, so as not to be noticed....but you're gonna need a much higher profile if n' when there's 'some nut down on the corner giving five dollar bills away'
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmm


....isn't gonna get ya one o' them five dollar bills, even if you can/could be seen.

Speak up man....ya might even get two.
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top

IT WOULD SEEM THAT MANY OF THE  'ARTIST/CREATORS' ARE HERE; 

BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT, INCIDENT, OR DESIGN!    

WHATEVER THE REASONS,      I AM TICKLED PINK, YOU ARE!             

LOVE YOUR WORK, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE!   

Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
IT WOULD SEEM THAT MANY OF THE 'ARTIST/CREATORS' ARE HERE;

BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT,


Yup!! Word has it that when the weather turned real nasty a few years back, one was literally blown in the door.....stayed to seek Shelter from the Storm - and never left.

Stumblin' in is one thing, and so many are found wandering the halls many moons later saying 'there must be some way outta here'....but there isn't! Like the Hotel California, the 'revolving doors' out front only go one way...in, and the 'back door man' has lost his keys.

Oh well, since the place has really 'gotten under my skin' and 'I'm all shook up', someone else 'll have to organise the 'jailbreak'.
Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please no shouting...
Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please no shouting...


#70 ?? Me...well I've been in a musical mood just lately...so thank your lucky stars I didn't (try to) sing. Sounds much like a tail that's had its cat trodden on .....er, you know wot I mean

And seldomseen, I magnified that dot several thousand times....tut, tut....such language, and so bold too, especially brazen from someone who generally slinks silently in the shadows, with hand cupped over mouth to prevent utterances/accidental slips of the tongue

Okay, so your parents told you as a kid that you should be (rarely) seen and not heard, to speak only when spoken to....but isn't this taking it to the extreme.

BTW, tis nice ta see ya....the dot (as cheeky as it was) lets us know you're still around...well sort of.
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
IT WOULD SEEM THAT MANY OF THE 'ARTIST/CREATORS' ARE HERE;
BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT, INCIDENT, OR DESIGN!
WHATEVER THE REASONS, I AM TICKLED PINK, YOU ARE!
LOVE YOUR WORK, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE!


I'm sorry, didn't mean to shout,
just hard to contain my excitement, sometimes!!!