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I have also seen a host of other things too. Demonic things like u won't believe, in the form of dinosaurs, tall men with painted faces, naked men carrying load,talking animals especially Lions etc My dream life is something I won't give up anything for, every night

Well I have seen actual angels in my dreams, about ten feet tall, African, long hair, white robe, seamless gold girdle about their waist. Giants, really. Oh, plus gold swords in the hand of each. Details of the dream are classified, but I saw them

I have led a group of angels before on horseback too, I have seen evil angels with suits pretending to be real, we thank god for my pastor in real life who showed me from the bible that that angel brought bad news, angels don't bring bad news.

On other ocassions in my dreams,they have saved me, I didn't see them, I only heard the report from the mouth of the enemy. Yahweh is mighty.

thanks a looot both of you I will think more on this. I appreciate

martinekwe(at)yahoo.com

thanks a lot Aseye. but the thing is,I am getting into other creative things like movie script-writing and 3d modelling. I believe that landing a full-time work will make a mess of me

I really understand the need for fulltime work(constant pay) but, *sigh.
I was offered a job earlier, and they said it involved doing magazine layout. as a freelancer,i have turned down magazine projects because I find them weirdly mind-numbing and boring. so,I have put the agency on hold while I consider it( I prob won't take it). as a maverick,I am all for doing what makes me happy. what makes me happy is Photomanipulations and Logo design. its just unfortunate that I have almost nil professional network. every now and then,someone stumbles on my work and wonder why they hadn't seen me before *sigh

DZ wot I hope to work on now, a professional network so I can come up on the radar of people looking for design services. Any ideas?

I wud like a job, but I so wouldn't. I do this freelance thing,but I am not good at it one bit I have no idea how to go about it,but I need the money badly now more than ever. sometimes, I forget I am a designer until I get a call on my phone.Lol. can Velo advice me on how he gets contracts?

ha! 35k. lagos only o. I am in lagos.

35k

pictures for the Desire. comes with original HTC charger.

looking to sell my neatly used HTC Desire original. android 2.2. selling cos I wanna buy a BB. price is 38k.
pictures will come up later,as soon as I can get a camera to snap it with
the number to call/text is 08187897769

jus did this one yesterday. I dare say am proud of it, such a long time since I last designed something!

Am stay at Sun City, near games village abuja. here, you cant depend on any network's internet connection to save your life

mtn - a very slow HSDPA

etisalat - slow edge and most times, No Network at all.

only Multilinks gives any semblance of efficiency. its what am using to post this!

it is really fraustrating, i cant wait to get back to lagos. i have never seen 3G logo on my phone since i arrived here a month ago.

what exactly is the story??

I am a BB die-Hard.

the General is not eloquent and i must confess i was disappointed when i heard him speak at the NN24 debate as he kept goin out of point. it is true that we excuse his lack of eloquence in sometimes unconvincing ways, but do you really expec us to change our political alliance because of a debate? you want us to abandon the loyalty that we have built up over the years because the man did not speak well for an hour?

remember, To whom much is given, much is expected. compare the general to GEj who is sposed to have a PHD in zoology or something but who cant make convincing arguments and who rattles on about impossible PDP strategies in the next four years.

but you see, I am not voting for Buhari because he will solve all of Nigeria's problems (i dont believe anyone can do so much in four years), i am voting for him because of his antecedents. he has shown an anti-corruption fervor that cannot be ignored if we are truly interested in moving this country forward.

what we need in this Nigeria is a brand new culture of disclipine and accountability, not good road, not electricity because without discipline being practiced, even the foreign firms clamouring to buy PHCN will ruin it witout fear of repercussion. we need an iron fist that will lift us out of the quagmire of skin-deep corruption and set us on the path to the promised land.

there is no accusation that  can be leveled against the BB team that has not been acted out by PDP.
we have had over 600 political assassinations in this country in twelve years, spent $16b on non existent electricity, spend our collective patrimony as salaries for the Abuja legislators, given our leaders "Hardship allowance", depleted our foreign reserve from $46b to $4b in six months, have nothing to show for all our oil profits despite high oil prices, are the 6th largest Oil producing country but also the largest refined petroleum Importer in Africa,have a budget that will be serviced by borrowing from the world bank and thereby plunging us into more debt, largest generating set importers in the world and so many shameful things.

our present leader GEJ during the NTA debate actually had the temerity to advocate community refineries! as tho he wanted to opportunity to set nigeria ablaze with one matchstick. need i remind you that all the refineries in existence were built by Buhari?

My people, it is essential that we are reasonable in our prejudices and objective in our decisions. i see no reason to cast my vote for GEJ because a vote for GEJ is a vote for OBJ, IBB, ATIKU and others of the PDP cabal that have made Nigerian leadership a do or die affair. please vote wisely

Buhari for Change.

lil advert

Just something I had to cook up in 3 hours for an events outfit

to be fair, i must add that the cow, horses, girrrafe and snake are less than perfect.

i especially love the robot car , you have a gallery or facebook account? am ekwe martin. good work bro. nigerian?
you can see my attempts at manipulations at http://www.eziaha.deviantart.com/gallery/

this is the sort of inspiration i need for my next great manipulation, but am not there yet.

cheers

guddy,

don't be deceived the HTC HD2 is not an android phone.it has the outdated Windows 6.5. very stupid phone. I wanted it first! you want a good deal, go for the HTC desire. daz the one am using now. brand-new is now 63k and UK used is now 43k at affordables! I bought mine UK used last year Nov at 60k but you won't believe its not brand new if you see it now
their number is
08023458077

hey peeps. been out of the circuit for a while.my stupid phone(HTC desire) gave up on me.there is no HTC office in naija so I had to work it out myself.all good now. err,

@ugo nope I haven't seen your render.can i?

@1one

thank you for your cheerful commentary.we thank God for grace to design, there you are being jealous and here I am wondering if I am any good in light of the type of work I see from fellow Nigerians even on Facebook.such is life.
I used photoshop for every photomanipulation and illustrator for the logos. the phone design was made entirely in photoshop from scratch.

I normally combine a bunch of images for the manipulations. I get most of my images from deviantART.com go to my page there and you will get to see links to the individual images I used to create each manipulation (www.eziaha.deviantart.com/gallery/)
am in recession now.am afraid I have designers block. can't come up with anything to design.scares the crap outta me!!!

am always happy to teach photoshop, you are welcome to call whenever.
thank you.

oh, and about the dream, gives me gives me shivers each time I read my own account of it. am a bit of a Blogger too, haven't had much tome to come up something recently tho.working on it. writing makes the boredom go away.
(www.ekwemartin.)

they recently acquired their £g licence from Dangote. Dude bought one when everybodyelse was buying it and sold it cheaper to Etisalalt.they are still working on the logistics, i think.

trying to learn maya for the 100th time. gonna stop photo manips for a while, if i can. i really need this 3d animation skill but i get so sleepy each time i begin watching tutorials. i think i need two screens, one for the tutorial and one for the practice. if only we had excellent 3d schools in naija. mcheww

*watching the action with a pepsi*

I swear, I wonder how the page views is increasing so rapidly with no one deeming it fit to comment. the thing tire me o.*now hoping subsequent visitors would take the cue*

*takes a low bow* na God o.nothing like prayer and hardwork. I didn't see the photoshop software until January 1, 2008! wonder the sort of thing I will be able to create in two years,

am working on that tutorial thing. my site is still being developed by a very busy friend. will begin creating some tuts now to upload on the site when it debuts.

if anyone needs a job done,am still reachable at martinekwe(at)yahoo(dot)com

hmmm, this all the attention I get for my hardwork? LOL.

if you are serious,, martinekwe(at)yahoo.com . am a photomanipulator. the name is martin ekwe.08067522553

just photoshop. i use illustrator for the logos.

hey,I see the views piling up but no comments,

look for km player. its the best I have used and its free to download.just Google it. been using for over a year.

I can see the views piling up but no comments.come on people, encourage your guy now.

this is an edit I made. a critique said the previous one is too distracting from the main focus, which was the phone itself

Two days ago, i stumbled upon http://cutelittlefactory .com icon creation tutorials i had downloaded to my computer months ago. Its an awesome site by Andrea Austoni, an Italian graphic designer, for vector enthusiasts who would like to learn to create everyday objects using photoshop or illustrator. I was really impressed and inspired by what i saw there and decided I was gonna learn how to replicate my HTC desire on screen.

This morning, soon as I awoke, I switched on my ever-present-beside-my-bed laptop and got to work., right after saying a little prayer for inspiration and perseverance because in first-time projects like these, faint hearted designers are wont to give up halfway, their estimate of their skills reduced in their mind’s eye.

Spent a lot of time holding the phone up to light in order to understand how to render the curves and highlights in Photoshop. So I started, it was a rough start, I had to download an image of the phone from google in order to pen the outline. The going was really tough, until the damn power went out. I was glad I had saved moments before, else I would have been discovered hours later by my sister, smiling wildy and scratching my head as I fell deeper into the well of insanity. I would wait for about eight hours before the epileptic power would be restored.

I swotted over my keyboard and mouse, using this tutorial as a guide until I came up with this! To make the look more authentic, I visited the android market and downloaded a screenshot software with which I got a screenshot of my actual phone screen. With regard to my proficiency with drawing, this was the most difficult art work I had done in 3 months, after my last photomanipulation. You can see all my photo manips here.

The result, after a messed up layers palette and brute force guess work, though not perfect has boosted my image of my skills and the power of my determination.

For aesthetics i resolved to make it like a promotional advert for hte device and used the seven home screens-which by the way is an extremely cool feature- as the selling point. I have resolved to create more objects to consolidate my new mindset and better myself in graphic design generally. Thank God!

PS, none other but my HTC Desire was man-handled, bent, held to the light, dropped on the table and dragged on my bed during the making of this design. If your HTC desire looks like the one drawn, that is simply because the company thought to make copies of the phone after a lot of midnight meetings.

just did this as a sort of promo for my proposed design agency.am still looking for contract o, call me 08067522553.
ekwe martin.