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The future of visual art is the desktop background
Until I got my camera jacked at a party because I was intoxicated and relatively inattentive, I took pictures everyday. Of everything. People always asked me why I wanted to take pictures of such mundane things, and I almost always replied, “It would make a nice desktop.” For instance, check out this picture of a rusted fire hydrant. The full resolution version (I had only a 3 megapixel camera at the time, I believe) makes for one of my favorite desktops ever.
Honestly, I spend so much time in front of my computer that it’s really important to me that it be a visually pleasant experience for me. So understandably, I was quite thrilled when I found this masterpiece, which now graces the altar of volume icons that is my desktop.
Epic or what? It seems this is a portrait prepared by Todd Lockwood for a World Of Warcraft card game. Something tells me we’ll never see it implemented.
(As always, click images to see a larger version.)
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- Feb 25 2008 / 18:25
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- musings
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