Pixel Destiny Special - The Planets - Space Art Wallpapers
Just WOW! I checked out the site listed in the footer of each wallpaper, PixelDestiny.com but got a parked page, so the previous owner must have let his domain expire and a drop catcher got it as it came back available to reg a couple months later.
It’s a real shame, there’s some seriopus hard work gone into these wallpapers and they look stunning as well as imparting many interesting details about your favourite planet or even our sun. There are 10 wallpapers all together, each covering what was known as the 9 planets and our sun and most space art fans will probably drool at the sight of them, enjoy!
Abstract Art 3 Steel Marbles on Blue Background Wallpaper
This is a nice simple, minimalistic wallpaper of 3 steel looking balls or marbles on a trendy blue background. I like the clean look and the shade of blue is very vibrant indeed. There is some reflective activity going on and all the colours, contrast and rendering is sharply displayed in a crisp fashion.
Penelope Cruz Wallpaper Special
Penelope Cruz is a Spanish actress that left her humble roots as a dancer who made her way into spanish tv and then onto hollywood. She has made a string of films in various languages and is currently one of Hollywoods top female celebs.
She was born on the 28th of April 1974 in Madrid, Spain. Apart from being blessed with incredible talent, beauty and grace, she is also well trained in acting and dancing she also speaks 4 languages fluently and has appeared in over 50 films in the last 16 years. Adored by fans and peers alike, Penelope seems to be set for the spotlight for a good time to come yet.
IMDB Page for Penelope Cruz
Wikipedia Page for Penelope Cruz
Mess with the best…die like the rest! These are the precocious words of an artist that has the ability to put in enough quality comical value in the art to actually pull it off, with Tux holding his fly swatter and poor MSN fluttering around oblivious to everyone outside it’s own world, it’s almost surreal 
A great wallpaper by any standards and proud Linux users would probably like to keep it in their collection just because it reminds them of the cusp in the devleoping OS wars that they have marched proudly to the front line of
Here is a lovely endearing wallpaper, set at night time under the rustling leaves of a solitary tree a single woman wishes upon a star for love and is granted an explosion of love. At least, that’s how I saw it, the colours contrast very well with each other and even though many people may see the same wallpaper differently it is a testament to the creator who made a piece that could create a different story in so many people’s minds.
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within is a sci-fi film dreamed up by Hironobu Sakaguchi (the guy behind the hugely successful chain or RPG Final Fantasy Games) and was released mid 2001 by Columbia Pictures. Although a box office flop at the time it has gone on to become a cult film for many and set a standard that even today would be hard to match.
The attention to detail in the film was amazing but the plot underwhelmed many although visually very few people had complaints. There were several well known actors that provided their coices for the film including Alec Baldwin as Gray Edwards, Donald Sutherland as Dr Sid, James Woods as General Hein and of course Ming-Na, the Chinese born American actress that played the lead role as the very attractive Aki Ross.
Aki Ross was constructed in incredible detail (as were the other main characters in the film), being constructed from approximately 400,000 polygons and had an amazing 60,000 hairs on her head, each animated and rendered separately, taking just under 1,000 Pentium III (Each 933Mhz) workstations one and a half hours to render each frame!
Well, I started off the day with a space art wallpaper of high calibre and then I got to looking at the other space art wallpapers I seem to have collected over the years and found several more of high calibre. It’s hard to say what my favourite ones are, definitely the 1st and last one but the others are very close runners up in my book.
Space art is a growing discipline on the net right now and proves to be ever popular with dreamers and visionaries alike, many adding a sci fi spin to the genre or maybe a different outlook on something we know a good deal about already. When in doubt though, the universe is such a huge canvas to draw from, pretty much anything you can imagine may have existed or will do so in the future if not the present, I think it’s amazing how those that have the talent give us a glimpse into what one day may be seen by human eyes sometime in the distant future, isn’t the thought of it just amazing?
The first wallpaper looks like a glimpse of Earth from Mars’ shadow, the colours are absolutely glorious and have a great depth to them, it is very easy to suspend your belief and believe that this is what it could really look like under the right circumstances. The second is actually a 1280×1024 pixel dimension wallpaper, entitled “Rendez-Vous” by what I assume was the author who has marked his name, Thomas Korczok in 2005 and looks like another Earth meets Mars wallpaper.
The 3rd is entitled Satellite Fusion by Robert Proctor and depicts a small moon clashing with a planet, the wallpaper aptly imparts the speed and level of destruction that the small moon is going to cause, a cataclysm of planetary proportions is the only option it seems here. The 4th is lovely wallpaper, it shows a distant shot of a space shuttle over a stylised coloured Earth and further off to the bottom right of our planet you can see several other trails in formation, whether they are a group of shuttles re-entering atmosphere or something else is unclear but the detail throughout is incredible.
The 5th is a darker piece and with the details hidden in shadows and the rising sun on the horizon of the main planet and lastly the 6th piece created by Patrick Pendalis with a planet rising over an habitable planet in the night sky, a true beauty
Here’s a great wallpaper for Windows fans It has the windows logo made from glass on a light blue background. The lighting, shadows, reflections and even refractions all look picture perfect but I don’t somehow you would find a Linux user displaying this wallpaper on their desktop, if even out of principal.
Josie Maran Bio
The 30 year old supermodel Josie Maran’s modelling career began when she was just 12, modelling part time as she studied in California, however, after graduation she pursued modelling full time and although her 5ft 7inch frame was considered too short for runway modelling she made a big hit in the advertising and cover industry.
She has appeared in several films since 2002 and even EA Games Need for Speed: Most Wanted as Mia Townsend, where she guides the protagonist through the game. Her love for the arts be it violin, acting or even singing are a product of hard work and dedication, commenting on the fact that she wants to taste everything life has to offer her.
It’s no wonder she has risen to the rank of supermodel, her fresh sharp looks retain a definite feminine softness able to switch from raunchy to demure in a single shoot and her girl next door approach to modelling endears her to many who would continue to be long standing fans.
What a wonderful space art wallpaper I have for you today An astronauts low orbit view of several planets varying in size from large to tiny, all with a blue nimbus hue to the entire wallpaper. As you may have realised I love space art wallpapers and blue is such a beautiful colour when the tone is right as it is here, where the glowing colours impart a life onto the planets that may or may not have existed in the artists mind at the time of creation.
The backdrop is suitably impressive, with distant stars shining from the blackness of space, gas clouds and another planet dimly lit by the far off twin suns of the system. It’s a very serene image and perfect on many desktops, especially for those that find electric blues pleasing to the eye