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Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
Title: Nanowrimo Wallpaper 1 Description: A somber, brown wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month, where a bunch of us go insane and each write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Sound like fun? Join us! (pretend that last part isn’t spoken like I’m a zombie, will you?) Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: mostly straight PS work, with some textures overlayed from Lost and Taken (I think.)
I first ran into Ursala Vernon’s work through the appearance of a biting pear when I joined a new tabletop RPG group. The creature attacked one of the longtime players, and everybody started cracking up. I, of course, didn’t get the joke… until somebody pointed me at her DA page. And I fell in love.
She does what she calls Gearworld, a rich and bizarre land full of amazing sites, and half-glimpsed history.
I’ve showcased some of my favorites here. They’re not big enough to be wallpapers, but she does have some available for print on DA. Check her out; she’s phenominal.
Note that I didn’t hotlink to her images, though you can get a slightly bigger one by clicking on the thumbnails here. For the full image/print, check out her DA gallery.
Title: Steamtrain, leaving the station Description: Minor manipulations and tone/color washing, but the train and steam are genuine. I fell in love with this picture when I came across it on Flickr. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Creative Commons Licensed derivative of infomatique‘s beautiful picture “Steam Train – Leaving Connolly Station”
Title: Boiler room, part 3 Description: Exhaust steam from computation engine enters from the pipe on the left, and proceeds to the smokebox, whereby the pressure is directed in an upwards direction through the smokestack and out into the atmosphere with ample velocity. This drafts the fire, in accordance with the air-less space vacuum state this places on the inside of the smokebox, and helps eliminate problems with pigeons roosting on the top of the smokestack. And, for those of you who happen to be running Compiz-Fusion, here’s the other side of the cube-like visualization device.
Title: Spelunk! Description: Made to be a low contrast “movie poster” wallpaper, so that icons show up well. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Based off the picture by magikstock. She has neat stuff.
Two things: First, I’ve added a “Related Wallpapers” section down at the bottom of the page. Because of the way it displays, I may go back and rename the whole lot of wallpapers and put the format at the end (so, for instance, it’ll say “Lit Rust, Widescreen” instead of “Widescreen, Lit Rust”.) This should help make the naming clearer.
Second, if you have any improvements you’d like to see TO THE SITE (rather than the wallpapers), please let me know. I’m trying to make the site as useful and fast as possible.
Title: Tophat Description: A chapeau for those with discriminating tastes… Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Textures from Lost and Taken. Tophat source from rattified.
Title: Walls2 Description: Exciting name, isn’t it? Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Textures from Lost and Taken as well as Grunge and Filter Forge.
Title: Catch Description: Ahoy, lads and lasses! Here be a holiday wallpaper for ‘ye. Think ye be fast enough to catch me present?
(Originally posted September 19, 2009 – Talk Like a Pirate Day. Not in chronological order like the rest up to this point have been. Revised later to include another size.)
Title: Lit rust Description: Got inspired by the iPhone rust one I posted on Saturday to make this one. Type: dual, 1280×2560 Credits: Rust from Grunge and a cool new site I just found, Lost and Taken
I promise to post a little more often. 😀 (Everybody thank kyle for poking me with a copper pipe until I started posting again.)
Thank you for all your comments about what you want to see with the site. We heard you. This one is a simple iphone sized paper. I wanted something that icons would show up against. There will be more papers, more COLOR, more detail, more dual (and larger) wallpaper, among other things.
Thank you all for your patience,
Mouse
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Title: Simple Rust2 Description: Someone wanted an iPhone wallpaper. This one is very, VERY simple Type: iPhone, 320 x 480 Credits: Grunge textures and my own brushwork.
And with that last post, we have a new wallpaper. However, I’ve noticed that we’ve been somewhat hit-or-miss lately. So I had some questions for everyone that I’d like to hear opinions on:
Do you like backgrounds that have a lot of detail, or do you like less detail so your icons stand out more?
Color or B&W?
What kind of a feel of you like more: fantasy-based, realistic, dystopian, or something else?
Transportation, technology, people, architecture, or impractical inventions?
What operating system are you using? Mac, Windows, Linux, or something else?
What else could we do to improve things?
Basically, I would just like to know what you would like to see. Thanks!
Hey, all. I know that I’ve been MIA, but I’m still working on some things. Still taking submissions, though. 😀
Site is NOT dead. I repeat, the site is NOT DEAD.
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Title: CyberHippie’s Steampunk wallpaper Description: Great, simple wallpaper from CyberHippie. Thanks, man! Type: Fullscreen?, 1398×916 Credits: Copyright CyberHippie. (http://customsteampunk.com/ looks like a landing page. Cyber, is that the correct URL?
