I'm always fascinated to see the images people chose to paper their desktops with (I'm especially fascinated by this on days that are really slow. Like today).

My own screen showcases Mike Matthew's spiffy office suite from City Beneath The Sea , complete with retro-bashed Jupiter 2 miniature visible in the perspectively-forced background (they certainly just don't make futures like they used to).

So what pix do you guys entrust your desktops to? Kindly limit your submissions to family friendly images only. ;)

None for me, but a nice choice for your PC, Rob!

I use a slideshow of my favorite famous babes — including some of my own "creative" Photoshop jobs which are definitely not suitable for display here!

Yeehaw!

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1244/westwallpaperva4.jpg

What a great illustration. Is that Bama?

That is very dynamic!
At work its a landscape photograph taken by a friend in the Environmental Office. Here at home I put one up for my wife, a graphic of Jeff Gordon and the DuPont 24 Chevy.

Just a little something I whipped together.

I'm always fascinated to see the images people chose to paper their desktops with (I'm especially fascinated by this on days that are really slow. Like today).

My own screen showcases Mike Matthew's spiffy office suite from City Beneath The Sea , complete with retro-bashed Jupiter 2 miniature visible in the perspectively-forced background (they certainly just don't make futures like they used to).

So what pix do you guys entrust your desktops to? Kindly limit your submissions to family friendly images only. ;)

eep. I spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter "H". What's that about?

If you're refering to the wee HAL icon, that's my hard drive.

Cool battle scene, J.P. :thumbsup:

What a great illustration. Is that Bama?

I have no idea who painted it. Got it off the web about 7 years ago (I have no idea where) and it's served as my wallpaper for a couple different computers over the years.

Hey, John! Couldn't you fit a few more shortcuts on that desktop?!

I have no idea who painted it. Got it off the web about 7 years ago (I have no idea where) and it's served as my wallpaper for a couple different computers over the years.

I thought it looked familiar.

http://home.blarg.net/~dr_z/Movie/Posters/Reproductions/OnceWest_Rep.jpg

Hmmmmm, I was thinking "My name is Nobody"......

I change mine almost every day.
Generally, It's Space stuff. Here are a few.

The Mars photo is from the Hubble Space Telescope, (I think).

This is what the latest I have on my screen is.

I thought it looked familiar.



Not accurate to the movie. One of the assassins was a black guy with a hogleg. [sawed off rifle]

Years ago digitalblasphemy.com had great images to download for free. Now they are gone, or for a fee. I still use one called adrift.

I thought it looked familiar.

Wow! I'm amazed you were able to find it Zorro! Any idea who painted it?

Wow! I'm amazed you were able to find it Zorro! Any idea who painted it?

AFILMDUDE, I did a lot of Googling, but no luck on the artist. Repros of the movie poster are available all over the net, but yours is the only image I've seen of what appears to be the original painting, unadorned. It does have a slight Bama quality, and also a hint of Frazetta (especially in the Charles Bronson figure) but I don't think it's either of them. I'm sure the answer is out there somewhere.


http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1244/westwallpaperva4.jpg

Hey, John! Couldn't you fit a few more shortcuts on that desktop?!

What, you LIKE to go thru all that "START/ALL PROGRAMS/YADDYADDATRYTOFINDME" crap?

I use some like this...

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/medium/Monocoupe_90_N1161_rfq.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/medium/ph9_2.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/mono110_jl_1.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/medium/J2landed.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/medium/611_back_in_Roanoke_Shops_63489.jpg

At the moment...

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w297/Zombie_61/Miscellaneous/Obi-Wan_Vader_50.jpg

BTW, they're wallpapers, not screen-savers. ;)

BTW, they're wallpapers, not screen-savers. ;)Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to. :rolleyes:

I'm still using the same HAL 9000 screensaver I've had for years.

Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to. :rolleyes:

Actually, two entirely different things. A wallpaper is not a screen saver, and a screen saver is not a wallpaper. But a potahto is still a potayto. East is East and West is West, La Choy makes Chinese food


SWING American!!

:D

AFILMDUDE, I did a lot of Googling, but no luck on the artist. Repros of the movie poster are available all over the net, but yours is the only image I've seen of what appears to be the original painting, unadorned. It does have a slight Bama quality, and also a hint of Frazetta (especially in the Charles Bronson figure) but I don't think it's either of them. I'm sure the answer is out there somewhere.


http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1244/westwallpaperva4.jpg

LAMP.com (Learn about movie posters) doesn't list any artist credits. It may have been a job from some Italian illustration studio. I check Reynold Brown sites but did not see it listed as one of his assignments.

Looks like something Everett Raymond Kinstler might have done back in his western/ comic art period, but I suspect you're right about the artist being Italian.

Damn good for a studio jobshopper (or whatever).

At work, it's usually the latest cool F-22 pic I find on the Air force website:

Damn good for a studio jobshopper (or whatever).

John, believe me, I'm not knocking it. I worked on a game for Avalon Hill back in the 80s where the color art was provided by an illustration studio in Italy - it was gorgeous, evocative stuff - loosely painted with alot of action.

Originally posted by Chris WI worked on a game for Avalon Hill back in the 80s :
Really?
Which one?
"Naval War"?
"Carrier"?

Oh, I wasn't suggesting you were knocking it, Chris, I was just expressing my own admiration for it!

btw, I've had that film of DVD for a couple years now, and I've never managed to set aside to four freakin hours needed to watch the whole thing. :lol:

Originally posted by Chris W
Really?
Which one?
"Naval War"?
"Carrier"?

This one was "Gunslinger". I started freelancing for them while I was in college, and continued on and off for a few years afterwards...

^^
I think I saw that game on the shelf at "Dragon's Lair" in
Hollywood, Florida. I never played it, though. Was always
playing "Naval War".
Or "Star Trek", "Star Wars", "Heroes Unlimited" role-playing games.