About Me
Greetings, restless Internet surfers, clients, family members, or brethren and sisters of the one church, my name is Adam Humphreys and I’m 23 years old. I have an older brother and sister, but I’m more or less an only child. If I seem to have neglected updating this page, let me know (don’t let the dynamically updated age fool you). Now, let me break things into groups for convenience.
Religion
I don’t work to promote my religion because I don’t have one. I’m a New Testament Christian as defined in the Bible and was baptized Sept. 7, 2003. There is one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. (Ephesians 4:4-6) See www.gbntv.org and/or www.roysecitycoc.org for more details.Why I use anthropomorphic art
As far as my interest in anthropomorphic beings, let me explain my position concerning the matter. I don’t consider myself a “furry” based on how loosely the term may be defined with the many available negative connotations or any other perceived definition. I propose that my ties to the “furry community” are limited in their perspective and deserve explanation. Thus, I like anthro characters because they are more visually interesting apart from humans and animals. Probably my base establishment for this resides from the animated movies I grew up watching. Among those were The Rescuers, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Fox and the Hound, Aristocats, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Land Before Time, Oliver and Company, Cats Don’t Dance, and many others. I like the animation and the stories behind them. I even like the Danger Rangers! I also enjoy games such as Sly et al, Jak and Daxter et al, Ratchet and Clank et al, Spyro et al (the new series doesn’t seem that good, but I’ve only played “A New Beginning”), Legend of Kay, and even the Darkest Faerie. Does being a “furry” or “furrie” mean adopting a way of life centered on anthropomorphism? I don’t know, nor do I wish to try and define the term. I simply enjoy the concept of an anthropomorphic being solely for the purposes of entertainment, but certainly not illicit or otherwise. Unfortunately at the same time, by portraying humans and human activities in the form of an anthro, ties to the atheistic or theistic evolutionist view that we evolved from animals can be made manifest. Generally, I think the commonly held idea with these views, (or the logical conclusion), and certainly with those called “furverts,” is “we’re a bunch of animals, it doesn’t matter if we (you name the sin).” I conclude this based on the multitude of anthro art portraying some sort of sensual seduction with lack of proper clothing. Although certainly not all anthro art is like this, and this is why I have chosen the genre of “furry” art to portray the things I do as opposed to much art of this nature, which seems to downplay morality and Biblical standards too often. As I said on the ArtSpots forum: “I don’t usually use forums of any kind except on very rare occasions. The only Internet communication I really use is e-mail, and I don’t get very many messages. That being said, usually when I do say something, it’s about something significant to me. I’m glad this subject was brought up. To throw in my own 2 cents, I simply consider myself an individual who in their artistic efforts likes to employ the usage of non-human characters for their unique visual interest. Nearly every game I own only uses non-human characters, simply because they’re more visually interesting. Humans on the other hand, well, you see them every day. I suppose I also like the fantasy elements. I remember when I first discovered this type of art. Someone e-mailed me a question. (My first response was “wow, someone e-mailed me and it wasn’t junk!”) They asked me if I did “anthro art.” My response to that: “What’s that?” It is also very good to know that many are aware of the negative connotations that can be attached to such a simple adjective as “furry.”-ALH”
Where I started in web/graphic design
I think it all started back in 1998 when my dad bought a brand new top of the line Gateway with a ripping Pentium II @ 400MHz, 16MB of memory, 10GB hard drive, 16MB video card, ISA modem, Windows 98, 17” CRT monitor, Boston speaker set complete with 5” sub (still very nice speakers), printer, scanner—all the stuff you could want. It can still run today with Windows XP (with the right amount of memory). My first interest was icons for some reason—the little pictures that represent programs, files, and shortcuts—then cursors—the mouse pointer. Later on I found this fansite of my favorite movie. It totally blew my mind. For some reason or the other I wanted to have my own. My very first web page was produced in Microsoft Word 97 (won’t make that mistake again)! The images were offset and that bothered me, so I popped it into Notepad to see what was behind the scenes.1* I didn’t understand much at all about what I was looking at in my first HTML file, but I could tell certain things were definitely wrong, so I fixed them. My first site was first hosted by Ann Davis, one of my high school teachers in a computer science class. Later I found a free place at Netfirms with a 20MB storage limit (though at one point I was able to store 80MB of photos on it). Still have an active account with them too, a redirect to my current website. You can find it here: http://sawyersplace.netfirms.com. I made art and content for my fansite, but after a while it got old and I moved on. About the same time, I got my own domain registered with a host that rocks: 1and1.2* It was pretty simple for the longest time, but in late 2006 it got a face-lift. Before then, this page didn’t exist! I was really to myself, but now I want people to know about me so people actually know the person behind this site. My site got another major face-lift in early 2008 using a div layout and more CSS and the self portrait was added on Mar. 15, 2008.Computer/OS preference?
I regularly use a PC for everything, but Macs are fine too, at least with iMouseFix. The only reason why I don’t think I’d want a Mac is because people might associate me with pride or think higher of me than they should because too often people associate the Mac with high class. What I’d really like to do is get a mod that’ll allow me to run the Mac OS on the PS3! Another reason I don’t think I’d want one is the funny hardware. The idea of having all the hardware inside a single piece is very disturbing. All-in-all, owning a Mac would be okay with me, but buying one... not gonna happen (unless something just crazy). I do use Microsoft Windows just because I’m used to it and there’s so much available for it. I’ve read the claim of one who uses PCs and Macs saying “I create in a 100% Microsoft free development environment using Adobe products, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL and PHP 4” and wonder what merit could possibly be applied to that! If you have a problem with Microsoft, then you should also have a problem with Adobe, Google, and others. Although, maybe this person doesn’t have a problem with Microsoft but thinks it as a plus for his business for those that do. I think it goes back to the pride issue. What if I said “I create in a 100% Apple free development environment,” would that be any different? There’s no merit there! I think there would be merit if you worked in a 100% Adobe free environment—that would be impressive since there aren’t too many programs up to snuff with Adobe, especially since they bough Macromedia. The only thing I really hate and absolutely despise about Windows is that sorry click sound!! I mean, as if the mouse alone doesn’t make enough noise. I just go straight into the media directory under the system and delete it.Favorite software for different uses
Rocket DockWinamp
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8+
Maxon Cinema 4D
Adobe Photoshop
SciTE
WAMP Server
Audacity
PC Tools AntiVirus (Free)
Nero Burning Rom
OpenOffice.org
SWiSHmax
High-Logic Font Creator
Microangelo Value Pack
iMouseFix (When I’m on a Mac) Generally, I’m a BIG fan of freeware. Photoshop is too expensive, but luckily I was able to get it under retail price. I don’t understand Photoshop in that it carries such a high price tag, yet it doesn’t even support icon .ico or cursor .cur file formats! That’s just sick.
Likes
Wholesome Biblical preaching and teachingFaithful Christians
Freeware
Tootsie Rolls
Music: Classic Rock, Big Band & Swing (Yes I like that really old 30s and 40s stuff!), Celtic, some Country, some Techno… I like a little bit of every genre. I’m sure I missed a bunch here, but oh well. For those of you who shun freeware, you’re missing out on a lot.