Most of the wallpapers on this site are Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 licensed. Check each wallpaper for it's individual license; some are copyright their original owners (in the case of guest wallpapers or featured artists)
Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
However, one has found me!
Ewark made the brushes used in several posts.
Posted by Mousewrites on September 4, 2008
Title: Blotter with plans
Description: Oh, good, the plans are here. Now where is my soldering gun….
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Ben Cooper, our favorite guy! Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on September 3, 2008
Title: Bottles
Description: This picture (slight modified) was just too pretty not to share. EDIT: Just realized what was bothering me about this. Scientifically, the light beams from the sun are so close to parallel that they effectively are. Which means… this isn’t sunlight. It’s a very bright light at a much closer distance. I’m pretty sure it’s the headlight of the machine working next door. >.>
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Theorris. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on September 2, 2008
Title: The Copernican System
Description: From the photo of the same name. Ben Cooper is STILL my favorite person. This one is in the same style (shutup, I’m not being lazy, I’m being cheap) as Mechanics of an Orrey, Map to a factory Long Gone, and A Second Clue.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Ben Cooper. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on September 1, 2008
Title: Model aPod
Description: Jose didn’t seem to like the new music machine, but when his grandfather tried to get him to take off the Audioator nubs, he screamed something about no one understanding him and went to his room for three hours. The next day he had plastered his room in posters and was wearing lampblack under his eyes…
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture of Jose de Sousa Magano, Fall River, Mass. by Lewis W. Hine, 1916 (LOC) via PingNews. Rocket Robby gets mass credit for the Model aPod workings. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 31, 2008
Title: Grunge Abstract
Description: Teaching a class today, so I’m posting an abstract I’ve been working on.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the textures by jbushnell. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 30, 2008
Title: Decorated Airship
Description: On her virgin flight, The Painted Lady carried on board no less than three bottles of Champane, 2 bottles of Brandy, and 16 bottles of some kind of moonshine Edgecrumb purchased from a street merchant in Vienna.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture from the Bain Collection (Library of Congress) via Pingnews. Flames by SplaTT. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
EDIT: Decided I liked a different version, so I swapped them out.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 29, 2008
Title: First Day of School
Description: It took a while before Sarah made it to school, but eventually they figured out a way for her to take her Special Machine with her…
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based off the picture by PingNews. [No Known Restrictions: Girls Leave Factory by Lewis W. Hine, 1910 (Library of Congress)] Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 28, 2008
Title: High Flyin’
Description: Ah, those were the days. Of course, twenty minutes after this, the Pirates attacked, and McGee lost part of his mustache to an exploding autogyro. He was never the same after that….
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the pictures below:
Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 27, 2008
Hello, all.
Due to a pressing family emergency, I won’t be able to finish my wallpaper tonight (another propaganda poster for the Aerocorps. They amuse me to no end).
I refused to miss a day, however! If any of you have a wallpaper you’d like featured on the site, please comment in this post! I will offer many thanks, favors, and possibly a free ‘request a wallpaper’ token.
Hopefully someone out there would like a bit of exposure (get your mind out of the gutter), and you all will get a treat!
Posted by Mousewrites on
Title:Abstract
Description: Rocket Robby stepped up to the plate, and gifted me with something for you tonight. I also had a few others; expect them to pop up sometime soon. Thank you all so much!
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the pictures by Rocket Robby (what url, man?). Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 26, 2008
Hey, all.
So, I’m trying to make this site as friendly as possible (access wise) and wondered how many of you are reading this through an RSS reader. I don’t want to make the ruling that most people are using Firefox 2.0 (for instance) when a whole batallion of you are using Safari though an RSS reader or something.
Posted by Mousewrites on
Description: Do you Tire of Being Confined to this Dismal Earth? Do you Envy the Birds their Careless Flight? There is Hope! Enlist in the Aerocorps Today! Penetrate the Very Firmament! See the Wonders of the Sky! You Will Fly, Guaranteed.*
*Landings not Guaranteed.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture by Dogseat of the World Moustache and Beard Championships. Background based on a picture by ThomWatson. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 25, 2008
Title: Mechanics of an Orrery
Description: From the photo of the same name. Ben Cooper is my new favorite person.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Ben Cooper. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 24, 2008
Well, today’s wallpaper is ready, but something’s hinky with my posting thing. I’m going to wait an hour or so to see if the post shows up. If not, I’ll post it again. Sorry about that.
Posted by Mousewrites on
Title: Submarine 1
Discription: I know, it’s the most original title ever. Shut up. I’m having a bad internet day. 🙁
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credit: Sub credit: Diver Meg. Porthole credit: Leo Reynolds. Room credit: oobrien. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Edit: IT WORKS YAY! Whatever weirdness that happened before, we managed to fix it somehow. Edit 2: well, I figured out what happened. Let’s just say I’m a moron.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 23, 2008
Title: The Courier
Description: “Yes, ma’am. No, ma’am. I assure you, ma’am, our courier will deliver your package on time. I know it’s breakable. Yes, ma’am. Uh huh. Thank you for using Nightflyer for your shipping needs.” click. “Damnit, Edgecrumb, get Rupert’s telemetries up on the scope. I think he’s after dormice again. We really need to work on his hardware; this is the third time this week he’s gone off course.”
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by *Pete and Bragg. Also, a tiny bit of a previous wallpaper. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
EDIT: Totally forgot credit for the eyepeice! D’oh! Sorry!! Eyepeice is from FantasyStock.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 22, 2008
Title: The Workshop
Description: Sometimes you just have to retreat to your workshop and think about things for a while. And then wonder where that crankshaft went…
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the phenomenal picture by JF Sebastian. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
(oh, and it’s extra brown, because I know a certain viewer who loves that)
Posted by Mousewrites on August 21, 2008
Title: Pipe Organ
Description: Well, the last two have basically struck out. This one is more traditionally ‘steamy.’ I hope to have a little more time to work on any of the four that are more involved than these nightly ones.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture by ario_J. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 20, 2008
Title: Impulse
Description: I’m in a weird mood tonight. This is the same kind of mood that produce Disasters can be Beautiful, though, and people seem to like that one. I’ll just post it an hope I don’t get stoned off the internet. Oh, wait, am I typing or thinking this?
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture by wiccked with a rivet by mag3737. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on August 19, 2008
Title: Warning Light Activated
Description: Damnation! I thought we had lost him in the clouds! Bring the net guns around!
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture by Bleicher. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
