Desktop Wallpaper Meme
Jun. 8th, 2009 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiFrom artillie:
- Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper on their LiveJournal.
- Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!.
- Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!
I just about always have nature pix on my desktop at work, to help me be more calm and grounded. The weather is starting to get hot outside now, so this is a very cool, green picture, especially with the time-lapsed creek. I love trees and naturally running water.
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Date: 2009-06-08 03:24 pm (UTC)Sorry, boring! :D I dislike most wallpapers, because the busyness of the image interferes with my being able to see and read my icons properly. When I do have wallpaper up, like on my home desktop, it's designed so the area where the icons are is blank.
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Date: 2009-06-08 03:45 pm (UTC)This is my desktop background! Because Roger Federer won the French Open yesterday!1!! :D
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Date: 2009-06-08 05:26 pm (UTC)That's mine... Why do I use it. I don't know... because I like scifi, I guess, and apocalypse stories are interesting to me. There's a lot going on in this picture, and it makes me wonder things like: Are there any people left? How about animals? What happened to make NYC like this? Is the water drinkable?
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Date: 2009-06-08 08:06 pm (UTC)Those are two of my favourites from the jpop fandom, and they are also longtime friends. I really like this picture because it's been taken in an unofficial context, so the smiles are genuine and not posed, like in so many official pictures.
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Date: 2009-06-09 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 07:57 pm (UTC)this is my background, tiled:
White and light and bright, nice bluish green and clean and happy: Spring. Simple fractal repeating and becoming a synergistic, complicated whole- and the part is the whole.
I love fractals; they're like unbounded mandalas. The repetition of the symbol on the screen makes it feel like a charm, to ward off negative influences and attract positive ones.
That's the best explanation my brain can summon up today.
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Date: 2009-06-10 02:33 am (UTC)I really like various types of landscapes, but they're not usually the ones that have "Scenic Viewpoint" signs along the highway - I like being a little more up-close and personal with my woods and streams and waterfalls. This picture reminds me a lot of the woodscape in Rock Creek Park, where I played as a child. I can't find any really good photos of that, which is kind of bizarre, given what a fixture it is here in the DC area.
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Date: 2009-06-10 02:34 am (UTC)I can easily see what you're saying about the icons on a busy background, but that doesn't bother me for some reason. I think it's because I tend to be positional - I know approximately where all those things are, so I don't have to be able to read the labels or even take in the logos at a glance.
(Rogelio on your desktop)
Date: 2009-06-10 02:36 am (UTC)That was such a
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Date: 2009-06-10 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 02:38 am (UTC)I think that would depress me if I looked at it all day, but it is interesting.
The odd thing is, I'm given to mentally re-casting various scenes as post-disaster when I'm walking through them. I've had an entire post-civilization tribe living in the ruins of Union Station from time to time.
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Date: 2009-06-10 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 02:48 am (UTC)Heh, I was having similar thoughts. I need to get down there again sometime. (I drove by a tear or so ago ... the playground I frequented is still called "Candy Cane City," even though the equipment is no longer painted in red-and-white spiral stripes ... the creek is off behind the trees in those pictures.)
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:00 am (UTC)Hmmm, I've never thought of having real people pictures on my desktop! (Although I had a picture of Goku from Saiyuki Gaiden there for a while, just because it was so pretty.) I think I would find them too distracting because I have to interact with people ... .
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:03 am (UTC)Pretty!
I tend to think of my screen as another window, so I want a landscape there. My real window provides daylight but not much else because it looks out on the agency daycare center's playground. Little kids come up to my window and peer at me, so I keep the blinds semi-closed ... .
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Date: 2009-06-10 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:15 pm (UTC)the ones before that, btw, were much busier. had a Guillermo Del Toro thing going on. Hellboy was it for the longest, then wanting a change went to Pan's Labyrinth, then back to Hellboy, before moving to this one.
much quieter, this one.
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Date: 2009-06-11 03:36 am (UTC)Indeed, beautiful - but I still wouldn't want 'em as wallpaper!
De gustibus non disputandum est!
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Date: 2009-06-11 10:46 pm (UTC)Very true.
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:35 am (UTC)Well, you've seen my house ... (which has reached the point where it's distressing even me, actually).
The desktop is just like that - I know where the stack containing the icon in question is, and that's really all I need to know!
I should re-do the background color for the icons, though ... you know they all have to be the same, right? Because it's the desktop peeking through ... the beige was left over from a previous woodsy picture which was early spring, so it had more bark and dead leaves and stuff.
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:36 am (UTC)I mean, it would be boring if we all liked the same things ... .
(Rock Creek Park picture-taking expedition)
Date: 2009-06-12 01:38 am (UTC)I thought of that ... logistics would be involved. I presume I'd need to drive down to AX and get both of you. (The same would be true if we did a beach trip, which I was also contemplating.)
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:43 am (UTC)Now you've got me wondering about why I don't like illustrations/posters for that. For a while, I had a wallpaper from the official movie site for Neil Gaiman's "Stardust." But even that was basically a landscape (and they don't have that one anymore ... it was more simple than the ones they have now - just a misty morning on a foggy street in the village of Wall, with young Tristan walking along). I really do want something soothing on a gut level rather than something that engages my intellect (poster, book illustration) or social instincts (portrait).
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:48 am (UTC)But if I had art of characters I liked, I'd look at them! The landscapes are just there, soothingly. (As you know, I have calendars and posters up around my office - but not right behind my current task.)
I mean, I love most of those pix you have there on yours ... I might eventually put something like that here on the Mac (it doesn't have a name ... its hard drive is Dokugakuji, but that's not the computer's name), if I could get it in a high enough res. This monitor is 1680 by 1050 ... .
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 07:31 pm (UTC)Just wanted to see that I really love your background, it's so beautiful and peaceful. Makes me want to visit that place, wherever it is.
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