memento mori // an icon journal

riddled — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:30:33 GMT

Curiosity killed the cat. I simply had to post this here. Check it out, please, if your own curiosity gets the better of you, too. A very lovely site~

Headkablooie domain

merky — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:27:07 GMT

I haven't really been up to date with things, so the headkablooie.com domain expired. I'm not sure if everything has been erased, or exactly what's happened, but I know it's because of my negligence that this occurred.

I'm not sure if I'm going to get HK back. I'm just not really interested in it anymore. Perhaps I'll just integrate it with ohrapture.net (my online portfolio) and go from there. I'm sorry for the inconvenience and all the trouble, but I guess it was just time to move on.

I won't be updating in this journal anymore, so if anyone wants it, feel free to e-mail me at mercy1.0@gmail.com. If any of the current posters to this journal wants to take over, they'll get precedence over someone random that I don't know.

I have to take care of some business right now, so...thanks for everything.

72 Tori Amos icons.

riddled — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:51:37 GMT

All bases. Regular rules apply.

teaser;
. .

TORI . AMOS

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67. 68.
69. 70. 71. 72.

5 more iconfiend100 icons

merky — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:17:36 GMT

Five more Lain icons.

Preview:

the rest are here

76 Liv Tyler icons.

riddled — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:12:43 GMT

Thank you, LJ, for upping the # of userpics available for paid accounts. Look what you made me do. >__>

teaser;
. .

LIV . TYLER

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67. 68.
69. 70. 71. 72.
73. 74. 75. 76.

Dash, Smart, and Kilcher. 86 icons.

riddled — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:57:09 GMT

stacey dash (actress): 30
amy smart (actress): 26
jewel kilcher (singer): 30
TOTAL: 72

Same old drill. Posting these bases all pretty-like to get rid of them. Normal rules apply. Commenting + crediting is nice, if anyone actually wants these. .... I'm going insane, aren't I? XD

teaser;
. .

STACEY . DASH (FFX: Dona)

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

AMY . SMART (FFVII: Scarlet)

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26.

JEWEL . KILCHER (FFVIII: Ultimecia)

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Note: Last 4 icons are photo-edited pictures putting Andres Segura and Jewel Kilcher together. They're portraying Final Fantasy characters in a RPG I'm in. DON'T MIND ME PLZKTHX.

35 Lene Marlin icons.

riddled — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:48:18 GMT

Yeah, I'm up to it again. Don't mind me. More bases -- this time Lene Marlin, a Norwegian singer. Blah blah usual rules babble babble.

teaser;
. .

LENE . MARLIN

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

28 Liv Tyler icons.

riddled — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:52:47 GMT

Just like the subject-title says. They're all bases - made for a Lulu journal, but I figured I'd put them up here too. :D Usual rules apply. Commenting and crediting is nice.

teaser;
. .

LIV . TYLER

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.

56 icons.

riddled — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:57:13 GMT

ffviii: 12
ffx/x-2: 24
other final fantasy: 06
drakengard: 10
random: 04
TOTAL: 56 ICONS

Mostly-video-game batch. Getting rid of these icons while I'm working on the iconfiend100 challenge. Hover over the icons for character and lyrics credit, if any.

teaser:
. .

FINAL FANTASY VIII
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.

OTHER FINAL FANTASY
37. 38. 39.
40. 41. 42.

DRAKENGARD
43. 44. 45. 46. 47.
48. 49. 50. 51. 52.

RANDOM
53. 54. 55. 56.

Lain Iwakura @ Iconfiend100

merky — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:53:59 GMT

I joined iconfiend100 and chose to do Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiments Lain.

# of icons completed: 12 / 100

Credits:
* Lain Icon Resources
* teh_indy's screencaps
* Anime Galleries

* 77words for patterns
* My Brushes

Please comment if taking any. No credit necessary!

001	002	003	004	005

kiss	forgiveness	soft	are you there?	loneliness

006	007	008	009	010

working	dancing	abandoned	a misunderstanding	vacation

011	012	013	014	015

hug	smile	tears	rain	sunshine

016	017	018	019	020

winter	innocence	so far away	silence	stars

021	022	023	024	025

in the moonlight	tickle	sweet dreams	blue	honorable

026	027	028	029	030

walls	happiness	sensual	food	over the rainbow

031	032	033	034	035

take your time	sugar & spice	holiday	beginner's luck	forgotten

036	037	038	039	040

misery loves company	comfort	candy	present	hold my hand

041	042	043	044	045

spiritual	starving	joy	heaven	31 flavors

046	047	048	049	050

silk	keeping a secret	open doors	lace	forever and a day

051	052	053	054	055

stranger (ac)	shadows (ac)	music (ac)	artist's choice	artist's choice

056	057	058	059	060

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

061	062	063	064	065

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

066	067	068	069	070

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

071	072	073	074	075

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

076	077	078	079	080

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

081	082	083	084	085

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

086	087	088	089	090

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

091	092	093	094	095

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

096	097	098	099	100

artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice	artist's choice

17 Random icons

merky — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 04:47:08 GMT

4 Serial Experiments Lain icons
1 Random Anime
1 Anthy Himemiya
3 Battle Royale
4 Dido
2 Kamui
2 paper eleven

Sample:
02. 11. 17.

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17.

Notes:
#2 won Second Place for Damien Rice - Cannonball at lain_icons
#3 won Most Original Design for Week 32 at anime_medley
#4 tied for First Place for Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched at lain_icons
#6 won First Place for the Pain challenge at utena_hush

Comment please, and no credit needed!

iconfiend100 challenge, selphie tilmitt

riddled — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:02:33 GMT

C H A R A C T E R: Selphie Tilmitt (Final Fantasy VIII)
C R E D I T S: Elena divergent for the table. And
icontemplation for their resources.

N O T E: If you haven't heard of it before, iconfiend100
is a challenge to make 100 icons of a chosen character
or pairing. It's cracky fun. Everyone should try it out. :D

C U R R E N T . C O U N T: 52/100
[x] LAST UPDATE: july 4, with 30 more icons


001. kiss	002. forgiveness	003. soft	004. are you there?	005. loneliness


006. working	007. dancing	008. abandoned	009. a misunder- standing	010. vacation


011. hug	012. smile	013. tears	014. rain	015. sunshine


016. winter	017. innocence	018. so far away	019. silence	020. stars


021. in the moonlight	022. tickle	023. sweet dreams	024. blue	025. honourable


026. walls	027. happiness	028. sensual	029. food	030. over the rainbow


031. take your time	032. sugar & spice	033. holiday	034. beginner's luck	035. forgotten


036. misery loves company	037. comfort	038. candy	039. present	040. hold my hand


041. spiritual	042. starving	043. joy	044. heaven	045. 31 flavors


046. silk	047. keeping a secret	048. open doors	049. lace	050. forever & a day


artist's choice 051. friends	artist's choice 052. O T P	artist's choice 053. like a painting	artist's choice 054. monochrome	artist's choice 055. ? ? ?


artist's choice 056. ? ? ?	artist's choice 057. ? ? ?	artist's choice 058. ? ? ?	artist's choice 059. ? ? ?	artist's choice 060. ? ? ?


artist's choice 061. ? ? ?	artist's choice 062. ? ? ?	artist's choice 063. ? ? ?	artist's choice 064. ? ? ?	artist's choice 065. ? ? ?


artist's choice 066. ? ? ?	artist's choice 067. ? ? ?	artist's choice 068. ? ? ?	artist's choice 069. ? ? ?	artist's choice 070. ? ? ?


artist's choice 071. ? ? ?	artist's choice 072. ? ? ?	artist's choice 073. ? ? ?	artist's choice 074. ? ? ?	artist's choice 075. ? ? ?


artist's choice 076. ? ? ?	artist's choice 077. ? ? ?	artist's choice 078. ? ? ?	artist's choice 079. ? ? ?	artist's choice 080. ? ? ?


artist's choice 081. ? ? ?	artist's choice 082. ? ? ?	artist's choice 083. ? ? ?	artist's choice 084. ? ? ?	artist's choice 085. ? ? ?


artist's choice 086. ? ? ?	artist's choice 087. ? ? ?	artist's choice 088. ? ? ?	artist's choice 089. ? ? ?	artist's choice 090. ? ? ?


artist's choice 091. ? ? ?	artist's choice 092. ? ? ?	artist's choice 093. ? ? ?	artist's choice 094. ? ? ?	artist's choice 095. ? ? ?


artist's choice 096. ? ? ?	artist's choice 097. ? ? ?	artist's choice 098. ? ? ?	artist's choice 099. ? ? ?	artist's choice 100. ? ? ?

Harry Potter, oh my!

discordia — Thu, 12 May 2005 01:30:40 GMT

6x Harry Potter (Harry, Fleur, Krum, Cedric & Luna)
1x Neil Gaiman
2x Rogue (X-Men)

Most of these have white borders.

1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

Art on #6 by xx_miyuki_xx. Please credit HER, not me, for that icon.

Credit for other icons is nice but not necessary. But please, comment if you take any?

Mostly APC, some random, and a brush set

merky — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:59:53 GMT

Hi! In this batch I have

9 APC
2 Battle Royale
2 Final Fantasy Advent Children
2 Random Anime
2 Squee
1 Mirah

Also, I'm just posting them the regular way and to hell with the bandwidth thieves. I'll just have to hunt 'em down.

Preview:

01 02 03

04 05 06

07 08 09

10 11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18

I also have a brush set. 4 brushes, 600x400, of mostly bamboo and some have clouds in it.

Download:
PS 7+ (1.01MB) || ImagePack (~600KB)

Please credit if using the brushes.

16 icons;

discordia — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:50:53 GMT

Some of these are quite old. :/

3x Constantine
2x Goran Visnjic
2x Trent Reznor
2x Cradle of Filth
2x Tidus & Yuna
1x Crispin Glover
3x misc
1x Gwen Stefani

Comment if you take. Credit isn't mandatory, but it's polite. Do not modify.

82 icons; final fantasy, shadow hearts, drakengard, neverwhere, etc.

riddled — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:04:24 GMT

-final fantasy vii/advent children
-final fantasy viii
-final fantasy x/x-2
-balto
-hellsing
-house of leaves
-mirrormask
-neil gaiman
-neverwhere
-shadow hearts/covenant
-drakengard
-random
TOTAL: 82 ICONS

... I have a real habit of saving icons up for one huge ginormous post. XD Normal rules apply. Comments are nice. <3

teaser:
. .

FINAL FANTASY VII/ADVENT CHILDREN
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.

FINAL FANTASY VIII
09. 10. 11.
12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17.
18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23.

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2
24. 25. 26.
27. 28. 29.
30. 31. 32.
33.

BALTO
34.

HELLSING
35.

HOUSE OF LEAVES
36. 37.

MIRRORMASK
38. 39.

NEIL GAIMAN
40.

NEVERWHERE
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.

SHADOW HEARTS/COVENANT
57. 58. 59.
60. 61. 62.
63. 64. 65.
66.

DRAKENGARD
67. 68. 69.
70. 71. 72.
73. 74. 75.
76. 77. 78.
79. 80.

RANDOM
81. 82.

Note on the Random icons:
81 = 'Mi media naranja' is a term of endearment in Spanish for someone close to you. It means "my half orange". Sort of like "my other half". So cute. <3
82 = Anberlin equals excellent music. The flowers are from one of their official wallpapers.

Brushes - Spider / Cob Webs

merky — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:50:41 GMT

This is my first brush set so here are some rules to using 'em.

* Must credit (I made these from my own photographs)
* Must comment
* And then I'd love to see what you make from these :)

PS6+ | image pack

Includes 12 brushes (there's 13 in the .abr but there's 2 versions of the same brush)

Example icon:

Hotlinking

merky — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:39:04 GMT

If you are one of the following Xanga users:
- Grotesque_Icons
- yeewing_vicvic
- ScarfaceCosaNostra
- cherry_skittle505

let me be the first to congratulate you on being complete dumbasses. All of you, in exception to yeewing (who hotlinked 3 of my icons nonetheless), hotlinked my Fight Club paranoia icon. I hope you'll like the nice large graphic that I substituted for the icon, and hopefully your readers and yourself will understand what happens when

a) you steal graphics
b) you redistribute them, and
c) you hotlink them.

Because of this incident I will be reforming how I distribute my icons at livejournal.

P.S. I apologize that there are no icons in this post!

Random Icons

merky — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:41:41 GMT

I was kinda bored of having these icons lying around. And some of these have illegible text. I feel like I've failed myself XD

Comment if taking any.

1 Random (images from sxc.hu)
1 Hero
2 Hikaru No Go
1 Incubus
1 Lain
1 Vermeer - Girl with a pearl earring
2 Virgin Suicides

82; square enix, shadow hearts, PotO & random

riddled — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:12:28 GMT

final fantasies vi-x and xii
kingdom hearts, drakengard, shadow hearts
phantom of the opera, random
TOTAL: 82

My normal computer exploded, and this one doesn't have PSP, so I figured I'd better post these icons instead of angsting over how I can't make any new ones. Take and comment -- normal rules apply. <3

teaser
. .

FINAL FANTASY XII
00.

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

FINAL FANTASY IX
25.

FINAL FANTASY VIII
26. 27. 28. 29.
30. 31. 32. 33.
34. 35. 36. 37.
38. 39. 40. 41.
42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49.

FINAL FANTASY VII/ADVENT CHILDREN
50. 51. 52. 53.
54. 55. 56. 57.

FINAL FANTASY VI
58. 59.

KINGDOM HEARTS
60. 61. 62. 63.

DRAG-ON DRAGOON/DRAKENGARD
64. 65. 66. 67. 68.

SHADOW HEARTS
69. 70. 71. 72.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
73. 74. 75. 76.
77. 78.

RANDOM
78. 79. 80. 81. 82. </centre>

(Erk, I just noticed the Squall/victory one is a couple of pixels too big. If there are any more, let me know~! I'll have 'em fixed by the end of the weekend, most like.)

Remember guys!

merky — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:17:21 GMT

NO HOTLINKING.

I just found someone from Nexopia called Moonbeam that's been hotlinking my and some of my friends' icons directly off of their servers. If you'd like to check if yours are there, please click here.

If I have not given permission for you to hotlink, THEN DON'T DO IT. Get an account at photobucket or something and hotlink from there.

Anyway, happy new year, guys! I've made a few icons already to get started with the new year, and hopefully I can finish all the icons I wanted to make.

Eh, I guess I'll give you a little preview.
[icon removed due to stupid Xanga hotlinkers]

Comment if taking!

Kurt Halsey stationery & some icons

merky — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 02:53:55 GMT

I changed the layout to a generic one, customizing the colors and whatnot. New default icon, and I come bearing a few icons and some stationery that you can print out.

1 Utena (won 2nd place at utena_chorus)
3 Random (variations of the same icon)
1 A PSD of KH Stationery (you must have Photoshop for this)

3.74 MB FILE
Save. Open in Photoshop and perform a test print. You may have to realign the elements to get it perfectly centered, though I'm not sure because this is my first try at anything like this.

I've found that when writing on this design, it's best to skip lines between paragraphs.

If you try out the stationery, please tell me what you think!

The Beatles, Kurt Halsey, House of Flying Daggers

merky — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:21:59 GMT

7 Beatles icons (I did them for a project XD)
2 Kurt Halsey
4 House of Flying Daggers

Preview:

01. 02. 03. 04.

05. 06. 07. 08.

09. 10. 11. 12.

13.

Nineteen icons!

discordia — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:40:27 GMT

5. 9. 13.

Comment if you take any, please do not modify without permission! Credit isn't necessary, but it's nice.

Sex Pistols;
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Björk;
9. 10.

Movies;
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Misc.;
16. 17. 18. 19.

Wow, another 44.

riddled — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:21:13 GMT

I'm so sorry for the extreme gap between updates. :D But here's a big batch for you!

x final fantasy: 26
x silent hill 3: 04
x chaos legon: 05
x jhonen vasquez: 03
x random: 06
x TOTAL: 44

Credit located below. Normal rules apply. Comment if taking~

* *

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.

01 = "Somewhere" -- K's Choice
03 = "Somewhere in Between" -- Lifehouse
05 = "Guilty" -- The Rasmus
06 = "The Beginning" -- Lifehouse
07 = "Zebra" -- John Butler Trio
08 = almost Griever's theme song
10 = "In The Shadows" -- The Rasmus
11 = "Drops of Silence" -- Akira Yamaoka
12 = "Waiting For You" -- Akira Yamaoka
13 = based off Saybia lyrics
14 = "In The Shadows" -- The Rasmus
15 = "In The Shadows" -- The Rasmus
16 = "Storm" -- Lifehouse
17 = "Vincent" -- Don McLean
18 = me :D
22 = "In The Shadows" -- The Rasmus
23 = "Rain of Brass Petals (3 Voice Edit) -- Akira Yamaoka
24 = "Psychopomp" -- The Tea Party
25 = "Oceans" -- The Tea Party
26 = "Soulbreaking" -- The Tea Party
27 = "You're So Real" -- Matchbox 20
28 = "You're So Real" -- Matchbox 20
29 = "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" -- Smashing Pumpkins
30 = "Yellow" -- Coldplay. Won 3rd place at ff_awards.
31 = "Quiet Mind" -- Blue October.
33 = "Drops Of Jupiter" -- Train.
34 = A children's book called 'Mr Bear', made by yours truly. XD
35 = Shakespeare.
37 = Quote from source picture.
38 = See above.
39 = some lyrics
40 = Got fish?
41 = "Magdalena" -- A Perfect Circle
42 = "Thinking Of You" -- A Perfect Circle
43 = "Humpty Dumpty" -- Aimee Mann
44 = see above