All At Sea

This is inspired by a Jamie Cullum song by the same name (off of the album "twentysomthing"). The song is about just getting away from everything, and while listening to it, this just kinda popped into my head. For me this is what summer is all about: just getting away and really relaxing, so this is an (over) idealized escape. I don't get the opportunity to get away, so I often do into my own mind. It's a unfortunate contradiction that that my life seems to be both about escapism, and yet I never seem to escape.

The skin for the moon is actually a image of the moon's surface from NASA (public domain). The render was created in Blender (first one with 2.42a, it has some nice improvements) using the internal render engine. Vary little post-processing was done in the GIMP (adding my name and such, as well as converting from PNG to JPG.