Everyone will have to deal with rejection at some point and here’s one of my several rejected icon designs in the past.

“Oh my, you can’t reject me! I got a smooth and beautiful metal skin.” – Probably more aqua lotion is needed.

Reason for rejection: Lack of shiny Aqua gloss.

Constant rejection is always part of the job but sometime what gets accepted and what gets rejected keeps me scratching my head with wonderment. That said, I do love being rejected sometime and two reasons for this are: You can have your own personal museum of rejected works! It’s fun sharing them to your friends. Second reason, you’re free to “reuse” them in other projects without ownership issues.

I don’t usually post external links but wow this is good:

The World’s Most Photorealistic Vector Art

One of the vector arts: Cat | Outline

Who, me? Maybe. Read below.

I’ve been asked several times if I really did design the icons for Bare Bones‘ Yojimbo, the answer is both yes and no.

Toolbar, sidebar, etc. icons: Yes.

Various 32×32 Icons.

Main application icon (red moon with black silhouette): No.

I had several icon drafts on paper for main application icon but they did not want me to do any of them. Instead I was asked to gloss-ize a graphic file they sent me.

What I had in mind (and on paper): Continue reading…

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.

Xee (Versiontracker | MacUpdate) is a relatively known Preview.app replacement application. I discovered the app a few days ago and I’m liking it over Preview for its functions and speed. I wanted to give it a cooler icon but with similar position/perspective of Preview icon for better recognizability.

Eye is inspired from old Xee icon (Preview)

Status Bar icons are also changed (Preview).

Xee Icons Replacement

File Size: 404 KB

A Massively Multiplayer Online Game also known as World of Warcrack for its addiction.

Timeline for Art of Adam Betts Weblog

Why did I play WoW for so long? Three reasons: Continue reading…

Yes, that’s right, 9.3%.

Google Earth (Current icon preview) is an amazing software but there’s no question that its icon and interface are ugly. I’m going to make google earth’s interface beautiful (well that’s impossible) semi-ugly. There are some improved graphics for interface but I have no plan of doing them all. Not worth my effort unless I’m getting paid for it. Enjoy what I have for now.

Some more previews of what’s changed: Toolbar Icons, Placemark, Sidebar and Overview Map

Google Earth Icon & Interface

File Size: 644 KB

Testing their new store with one candy purchase and oh my, what a speedy delivery.

Product: Spree Candy
Qty: 1

Ordered: June 18, 2006
Item Shipped: July 27, 2006
Delivery estimate: August 10, 2006 – August 21, 2006

Yeah… This candy is so special it’ll take precious time to deliver. As listed on their product description page:

• Unique and fun candy that charges your taste buds and sparks the imagination!

You know you have to get the candy!

All projects and posts will be on hold until next week or so while I focus on health. Doctors and lot of testing…

Update 7/27: Echocardiography testing (for heart): passed, no problems (whew.)

I found out few days ago that I have hypothyroidism disease after going to emergency room last week for heart palpitations (rapid heart beating) and swollen feet. The disease in short is: Inadequate levels of thyroid hormone in the body. It caused many symptoms that I’ve long thought to be normal such as brain fog, increased sensitivity to heat and cold (very cold hands/feet even during hot day), dry puffy skin (like nintendo’s kirby), fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety, paleness, weak bowel movements, etc and most importantly lack of focus which is often misdiagnosed as ADD. This explains why I’m unable to work on projects for longer than few hours. Check wikipedia page for a longer list of signs and symptoms

Either changing body hormones or 1+ year of long sitting playing World of Warcraft triggered some of the serious symptoms. If latter is in fact what affected me, I’m glad it happened or otherwise I’ll never find out about this disease. For more info on this disease:

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/…

I’m taking medicines right now but Thyroid medicine will take 4-6 weeks to kick in. Any of you experiencing some form of Thyroid disease too?

It is recommended that you do not laugh at those icons made by me in 2000-01.

Nobody can beat the “photorealistic” magnify glass and application name inside window’s body, how brilliant is that!?

I used to go “Omg, this has to be my most detailed and beautiful icon. This icon will be the one that get Apple to hire me.” I really need to slap old Adam for even thinking about that.

“Hey, what if I insert ham instead of flag, what will happen?“