your fscking desktop fall-winter '07

hmm...that's a good start - where's that image from?

Also who will have the first Leopard desktop?

photo (and explanation)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/images/fireandice/lightning.jpg

Muertos this Sunday...the celebration in touristy-town Mesilla that Cruces surrounds is kind of a yuppie embarrassment, chicks in borderland studies programs acting very self-important about their costumes. And a Frida Kahlo lookalike contest. All makes me a little sad somehow.

The Herb Garden at Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath, London

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/desktopautumn.jpg

http://www.clanfh.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/walter.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/desktop.png

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/1777298951_cc9beba11d.jpg

omg

Don't call the cops yet, it's her own kid. :-)

Whoa. That might just be heaviest desktop I've EVER seen. Talk about beauty. Whoa.

b.l.a.m. is that john goodman?

You've never seen The Big Lebowski?

(i.e. yes, it is)

I have still never seen The Big Lebowski. This despite the fact that two guys showed up dressed as the Dude at a Halloween party I once threw.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2232/1779648757_861351e290_o.jpg

It is a rendering of John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski. It has been by desktop since the John Goodman thread got my attention.

And I HIGHLY (pun intended, although I'm at work) recommend renting the Big Lebowski asap. It is worth three or four viewings immediately - it might take one that many times to catch on to the Coen's writing brilliance.

"His name's Lebowski? That's your name, Dude."

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/6/10/27/f_desktopspeem_53cb1df.png

Also who will have the first Leopard desktop?

Andi and me apparently...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2345/1796186656_a97318adf2.jpg

again, how do you print screen on a mac? thx

command-shift 3

thanks!
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l37/daharder/Picture2.png

ooh pretty. where is that?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/1797913345_f6f32d3c3b.jpg?v=0

I'd like to try this as my desktop image, but I need a bigger version to expand it to desktop size (clone brush & so on) - does anyone know who it's by?

http://i20.tinypic.com/27ypo4g.jpg

(the expo is in Switzerland, btw - info: http://www.ailleurs.ch/uk/expo_d.php?id=love )

http://perso.orange.fr/ff2010/Wallpapers/abba_wall_800_600.jpg

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jg1058/screen.bmp

that hp lovecraft poster has ruined my eyes

i can narrow the artist down to one of the following:

Albertine // Albin // Aeron Alfrey // Sylvain Amacher // Fred Bastide // Jose Antonio Bautista // Bénédicte // Noah Berlatsky // Stephan Bersier // Bertschy // Christian Bili // Enrique Bonet // Eric Braün // Benjamin Bron // Gabriel Br. // Giacomo Carmagnola // Paul Carrick // Caza // Daniel Ceni // Jean-Michel Cholette // Gilles Christinat // Cosey // John Coulthart // Marc Da Cunha Lopes // Brendan Danielsson // Guy Davis // Antoine Déprez // René Donais // Randy DuBurke // Antoine Duplan // Kevin Evans // Léonard Felix // Deak Ferrand // Grégoire Fontana // Mathias Forbach // Gilles Francescano // Fufu Frauenwahl // Fritz & Ángel Olivera // Hugues Lapaire // Stephan Gaudin // Gess // H. R. Giger // Thomas Gilbert // Goomi // Gnot Guedin // Antoine Guex // Alban Guillemois // Gwabryel // Karen Ichters // Anna-Maria Jung // Julien Kaeser // Jean-Philippe Kalonji // Thomas Koenig // Körner Union // Krum // Muriel Liénard // Guillaume Long // Denis Martin // Guillaume Mayor // Laurent Mettraux // Berivan Meyer // Yves Milet-Desfougères // Monsieur Mishimoto // Mix & Remix // Fabian Moreillon // Sebastián Mulero // Jason Murphy // Julien Noirel // Johan Nowasad // Noyau // David Paleo // Fernando Pascual // Nancy Peña // Yann Perrelet // Stéphane Pichot // Nicolas Pitz // Plonk et Replonk // Alexandre Pointet // Mark Prent // Björn Quiring // Richard Raaphorst // Nadia Raviscioni // Jeff Remmer // Émile Roduit // François Rouiller // Jérémie Royer // David Saavedra // Patrick Saradar // Rick Sardinha // Irène Schoch // Andrés Soria // Laurence Suhner // Erwann Surcouf // Olivier Texier // Jason Thompson // Tom Tirabosco // Tito // Régis Tosetti // Walder // Anne Wilsdorf //

actually: http://www.at-elier.net/ do all their design work

indeed - it's by that atelier, but that's where that picture came from :-)

Nevermind, I suck at graphics and thought I could just mirror the right half of the skull to get rid of the text thing, but then the background would be mirrored too & I'm way too lazy to fiddle with this any longer.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/OysteinietsyO/Screenshot.png

Derrick,

ooh pretty. where is that?

-- get bent, Monday, October 29, 2007 6:38 AM (Monday, October 29, 2007 6:38 AM) Bookmark Link

StanM: have whittled that image down to pixels, resize and fill as required...

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/lovecraft2.png

lol, thx!

ooh pretty. where is that?
it's on one of pennsylvania's abandoned turnpikes. i haven't visited; i stole it from a website that tells the whole story. in short, in the '50s, the state built a turnpike with a series of tunnels and later rebuilt sections of the turnpike to bypass the tunnels entirely. the tunnels and various other sections are still there, though. spooky.

it really looks like pennsylvania. i guessed that or upstate new york or connecticut.

i stole it from a website

Link plz.

Isn't it in Pennsylvania where they had to abandon an entire town because of gases coming up from the mines? It's still there too, all blocked off.

i think that this is the site that i found the photo at. if all of the NW US is this lovely i'd love to visit.

the modern ghost town is a really exciting thing!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/desktop.gif

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kermd/1803044656/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/1803044656_c51907257c_o.jpg"; width="800" height="500" alt="desktopOct07" /></a>

haha, idiot

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/1803044656_c51907257c_o.jpg

^^^ want

actually, that was fun. worked out that you had to resize it by a factor of 2n where n is odd for the best results (you need a diagonal in the pattern which you don't get with multiples of 4, which was my first guess). also had real trouble getting the stripes to line up as gimp doesn't seem to start tiling patterns starting in the corners like you'd think was obvious, had to keep shifting second pattern left a pixel at a time until they matched.

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/lovecraft_1280x1024.png (only 18k!)

FANTASTIC! thanks!

How bad is the headache this probably gave you? :-)

it is a bit of a headfuck, yes. sat here last night with an a4 printout trying to see where the pixels were, where the stripes changed direction basically, and you somehow can't do it looking directly at the image but by glancing away and back again quickly it's a lot easer. reminds me a lot of bridget riley.

i am now going to abuse this technique for birthday cards, christmas cards etc. wonder how it'll look in red and green... 8)

my desktop pic, btw, is a 1280x1024 chunk of that aurora / shooting star picture someone posted on the astronomy picture of the day thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/asdfghjkl.png

just made this my desktop:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0711/holmes_peris_big.jpg

Who is that naus? That's one groovy bathing suit.

That's an awful high proportion of Macs.

i don't know how to snapshot my desktop, but here is teh image:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2221/1814044343_7973e15f67_b.jpg

The Linux pic I posted earlier was my home desktop.
My work desktop is considerably more cluttered:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/OysteinietsyO/workdesk.gif

awes

Oystein is that Gutsy you're running above?

Yes indeed. It's actually my first go with Ubuntu, and it's quite the charmer. It was up and running fully without forcing me to go into a shell (or boot in text-mode) a single time. That's a first for me; I'm used to Linux-distros hating every damn component in every cursed computer I've ever owned.