I followed a short method to make a pencil in Photoshop and added a few flourishes:

Pencil Tutorial via BB

So, 30-40 years after the severe psychedelic patterns and colors of mod went out of style, and 30 years after the dense shag carpets and wood paneling of the 70’s, I’ve seen some great stuff that combines the feel of the two recently.  Damien Hirst from 2007:

If you can’t tell, those are (real) butterflies.  Onto the less sadistic, macramé from 2008:

As I mentioned about gradients recently, I like that dense patterns/textures are around.  It’d be pointless for these higher resolution screens to exist if there wasn’t more information-per-square-inch to have them display.  Speaking of high resolution displays….this is what 10 million pixels looks like:

Coming to a living room near you in about 10 years.

Another old illustration/HUBBLE space telescope (both in public domain, one because it’s very old, the other because it’s paid for by the government) Photochop I did: