Pale Heretic is a digital and analogue media, concept design and social media company owned by Alan Lyes, working on both our own and bespoke projects. Our services include creative concepts, strategy development, web games, Second Life installations and character design.
We have an studio in Second Life where we run a successful fashion label and provide business and design consultancy services within Second Life. We are also offer free, open access meeting facilities.
Pale Heretic welcome the oportunity to work with you to develop strategies and beskpoke solutions. Please contact us to discuss how we can work together.
In Second Life Alan can be found working as the avatar Pale Janus.
What are PALE HERETIC is focused on right now...
11.07.2008 My focus is on Second Life and virtual worlds, including providing some tools and information with the specific aim of making it easier for people new to the technology to beign planning their first project. As part of this we have already made an open-access meeting space in the roof garden of our Second Life Studio.
Inspiration
Tokyo Plastic
Vinyl
Abuse
Eat
Poo Forums
Concept
Art Forums
Colour
Lovers
Style
Boost
New
Web Pick
Second Life
Second Life
Software and tools
OpenSUSE - Linux distribution
that worked when Ubuntus auto update to their new version failed. A solid and reliable distribution with a good community behind it and commercial backing from Novell. Everything I do happens on this platform.
Blender
- Open source 3D - Amazing, used for all the 3D work that PH produces.
Flock
- A web browser specifically designed to integrate with the social
websites you use, as well as sites like flicr or youtube, and has a
great on/offline RSS reader.
Articles, references and reviews published by Pale Heretic. Includes articles on design and interaction, second life, user experience and the ongoing experience of switching to open source tools on a Linux platform as a designer.
Get a look at new concepts, projects, designs and photography as it's coming together. Find visual and media references posted by Pale Heretic.
Pale Heretic Twitter Updates. Find out what I'm doing right now and get the latest new updates here. Top 5 posts are shown below.
The new Pale Heretic Second Life Building featues retail and studio spaces which over the next few weeks we will use to display some of our products and new projects.
We are committed to promoting Second Life as a communication and collaboration tool. As part of this, we have a publicly accessible roof top meeting space with an eight-seat board table and amazing views out over the ocean. This will soon be complimented by AV facilities so that you can display and work with your own presentations. I will also be providing a generic introduction presentation to help people begin discussing this type of technology as a business or educational tool.
To access the roof garden select it from one of the teleporters - located on each floor and at the landing area.

The Heretic Pixies are a fun bunch of characters that have set up home in one of the cupboards in our design studio.
We're busy trying to give them all names and clear up the mess .... take a look [here]
DOWNLOAD OCT 2008
We love SkullCandy headphones, and over on their site, the SC people are running a 'design a SC wallpaper' competition ... I couldn't resist ... this is my entry (two slightly different versions).
Skull Candy
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[ EeePC 900 ]
[ Nokia E71 ]
DOWNLOAD OCT 2008
The Second version.
Skull Candy
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[ EeePC 900 ]
[ Nokia E71 ]
DOWNLOAD AUG 2008
The final version of the Tentacles wallpapers.
Tentacles
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DOWNLOAD JUL 2008
A new version.
Tentacles
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A 'happy accident'. Done completely using opensource software, running on OpenSUSE 11.0 on my EeePC 900.
Tentacles
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[ EeePC 900 ]
DOWNLOAD JUN 2008
From photographs taken on outside the O2 arena in London, just as a storm was brewing.
Spire
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[ EeePC 900 ]
[ EeePC 701 ]
DOWNLOAD MAY 2008
Pale Heretic does the classic Dub van ... with our own special twist.
Dub
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DOWNLOAD MAY 2008
Jellyfish in a very dark tank with blue uplights. Mesmerising.
Jelly
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DOWNLOAD MAY 2008
This wallpaper is the first use of our new ph-uk logo. The new logo and this wallpaper have been completely designed using open source software - the Gimp, running on OpenSUSE Linux v10.3.
Twisted
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