the hidden meaning of your desktop image

Mine is a sign that says "Don't die wondering".

work = Ellen Allien's living room (aspirational, cleaner than desk)
home = two-color cartoon figure (??)

My work pic is a picture from my brother's wedding. My home pic is the default Vista background.

I aspire to be eaten by a crocodile?

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/eat-a-bitch.jpg

i would like to sleep w/ sade circa mid-80s in a recording studio

I wish I were as clever as Lewis Carroll.

When I was employed, I had a picture of my daughter, Charlotte, on my work computer (and I was still job-eliminated).

At home, I have a picture taken by renowned rock shutterbug Godlis of the No Wave Class of `78 (Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Jim Sclavunos, Anya Philips, etc.) lounging against a parked car in front of CBGB on an endearingly scummy Bowery evening. The hidden meaning is this = New York City sucks now. Remember when it was cool?

i am constantly searching ebay to buy really fucked up records to play on my really broken record player

I'm a cloudy volcano freak?

it's not a secret, this is the best dog ever (even if he is getting old):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/1986258847_c8cc2b92c1_b.jpg

I wish to remind the world that I share the same nationality as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Toto (the actor, not the band).

At work, I'm a weird cloud freak?

oh wait - both contain clouds!

i guess the underlying message of it would be "i'd rather be sitting in the sun with this dog than sitting in this cubicle in a windowless office".

Laurel I interpret that as meaning you would like to buy a crocodile and use it as your daily transportation.

Like the dudes whose office desktop is a sweet motorcycle

Actually, I do in fact want to have a dueling bass contest with Tyra Banks. I would so kick her fat ass.

That dog looks like a cat. BARF.

I think the hidden meaning of mine is that I like to just sit back and look at the sky.

hidden meaning of my work desktop is that i'd love to buy a lake at night

according to both computers i want to live some kind of japanese cartoon magic-realist-like countryside existence

i mean don't we all

not the countryside bit.

i was joking

it would be kind of a freaky way to live all in all

i was joking when i said i was joking

http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/uploaded_images/partisans-713195.jpg

^ the office

jesus that's creepy!

deeply disconcerting

but what does it mean? do your farts smell very bad?

so most people's desktop background pictures seem to fall into one of these two categories:

1. photo of offspring or family etc

no offspring or family...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1414/906531222_34e1789c68_b.jpg

...just a pic i took myself.

so most people's desktop background pictures seem to fall into one of these two categories:

1. photo of offspring or family etc
2. photo of aspirational purchase (car, vacation spot, musical instrument)

I swear to christ on the goddamn goalposts you kids are fucking remedial

i don't own the building, i don't go to here on vacation, i work near it and i can't play it.

why so angry tombot?

my desktop image is actually some tombot network diagram from a while back... many laffs.
m.

why so angry tombot?

functional illiteracy epidemic sweeping the globe. "aspirational" - look it up. some of you who even bothered to read the original question may also be surprised to find out that michael strahan is not, in fact, my son.

msp: sweet. did you see the internet fantastic one?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombot64/361828025/sizes/o/in/set-72157594210487968/

ok tombot, i get your point.

The hidden meaning of my desktop (@ work) is that there is a scary monster made of vegetables who cannot eat magical ghost mushrooms because the Three Muskeplaneteers are cold blocking his ass.

and you brought him into this world

Mine is just plain black.

"Don't you believe in ANYTHING maaaaaan?!?!?!?"

I just have one of the standard Windows ones on my laptop - it's a nice low green hill with a very blue sky and mountains barely visible in the right background. It looks a like I remember Sonoma Valley (may in fact be Sonoma or Napa Valley) which is where I proposed to my wife. But I also just have it because it's a soothing image.

On my mac I just have a current world map whose colors I like - the only message is that I have a terrible visual memory and need to be constantly reminded of world geography in order to have any sense of it.

seriously it's awful. If I'm not careful I start to picture Turkey as being south from Italy

http://i35.tinypic.com/23upxmu.png

ok armchair shrinks

Right now: home, a high-contrast B/W photo of a ruined church.
Work, I have four: two of steam trains, one of my gf, one of a graveyard.

Desktop: I want to move to a research station in Antarctica.
Laptop: I have sired a purple nebula/quasar/whatever that thing is.

http://www.seriouseats.com/eating_out/images/200805001-rapanui-completo.jpg

(but actually I have a whole folder of desktop images at home; one gets picked randomly on each login. Brief descriptions: 12 colour pictures of Imperial Russia from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection; a wallpaper of GPS traces in London from openstreetmap.org; a whole heap of B/W pics I took as a teenager, another similar heap of B/W ruined churches from a university project; a couple of Vermeer paintings; a few Scott Pilgrim wallpapers; a latex fetish site wallpaper; an Optic Nerve poster; and a page from the Book of Kells, scanned in from a facsimile edition)

work: picture of my daughter, sheila sim, enjoying the view in a canterbury tale
home: sketch of a set design by frantisek troster that i would like to live in one day maybe

Work, I have four: two of steam trains, one of my gf, one of a graveyard.

do you wish your girlfriend would die so you can come out of the closet?

I am hilarious...

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5169/1fc09cf4e5dfkt3.jpg

do you wish your girlfriend would die so you can come out of the closet?

I don't get the steam trains/gay connection there

Of the home images, this is my favourite: http://shop.openstreetmap.org/p26518367.html

apparently, i aspire to visit the marin headlands. already done that, good times.

apparently I aspire to visit the home of the Chicago Fire on a more regular basis than I already do

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2669668486_a0fd25022d.jpg

currently mine is of a lovely ladies bare bottom. I guess that means i like womens sweet ass.

home: i live in brooklyn

work: my favorite color is blue

i wish i was this dude:

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS1321438-02A-BIG.jpg

home: i aspire to own Scarlett Johansson

work: i gave birth to a bonsai tree and promptly set it afloat on a body of water ala moses

work and home: default blue image. tho at work it's de facto Outlook

mine is a pic from this scene in Logan's Run - the specific frame where a line of people are holding their hands up & you can see whose palm-crystal is black & whose is red

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/red.sky/logan/carousel.jpg

the meaning of the pic is that I am goth scum thinking about death all the time. I will probably trade this pic out for yet another mercyful-fate-related pic when I go out to tour in the fall.

oh fuck, that Alex Moulton album is possibly one of teh worst things I've heard all year.

ur insight would be more helpful on the alex moulton thread

work:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/251/458189302_a3240cd87d_b.jpg
home:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/289678768_ec2cd00fe5_b.jpg

Laptop: I like earth toned retrofuture interior design of the early 1970s
Work: I like heavy cumulus clouds, traffic lights, and overhead wires.

Overall: I like desktop images that aren't garish and provide nice contrast to whatever window I'm working in.

Work: I work for $COMPANY and haven't bothered changing the default wallpaper.
Home: Kenan takes pretty pictures with a lot of negative space.

Work/Home: I guess I wish I could be a perpetually-five-ear-old otter.

five-YEAR-old

I don't get the steam trains/gay connection there

c'mon, that's freud 101

hidden meaning of my current desktop (a macro shot of olallieberry pie): i like pie.

Home: I gave birth to the Large Hadron Collider.
Work: One day, when I've got enough money saved up, I will buy Ellen Page.

fuhhhk, I don't know. You tell me.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/HAVETODISCO.jpg

Home: Kenan takes pretty pictures with a lot of negative space.

HEE! Which one?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2583642937_9204f7ba94.jpg

fair i went to earlier in the summer

(obviously bigger)

gotta fix that bit of dirt on the lens :/

That's very pretty. (And with a lot of negative space, to boot.)

I can't remember the last time I had a desktop image on my computer. but now I feel like I'm missing out, so I'll probably spend the next hour scouring the internet for the picture that's cool enough to be my first desktop since, like, middle school.

That's very pretty. (And with a lot of negative space, to boot.)

-- kenan, Saturday, August 2, 2008 11:24 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

thanks! and, haha, i thought the same thing after i read jaymc's comment!

This is mine:

http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa205/cherry2000_rocks/?action=view¤t=ld.jpg

I don't know whether there's too much hidden meaning there.

work: close up of polished red/pink/orange agate.
home: some astronomy picture of the day shit.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa205/cherry2000_rocks/ld.jpg

I gave birth to Agnes Martin

visit Mars in the midst of the terraforming process

hey Tombot, did you play Alpha Centauri? They have it(& its expansion) for Mac...

i gave birth to twin kristen bells

http://xs330.xs.to/xs330/08310/screenshot385.png

big hoos, i didnt really figure you for the type that puts glamour shots of hot celebs on his desktop.

not that there's anything wrong with that.

home and work (laptop): solid medium-dark gray

hmmm...

ha its the kinda thing i leave up long enough to take a screenshot and say i had it up

"for the lulz" as they say

can't get away with it at work and gf does not approve at home so it's mainly the large hadron collider and bonsais etc

work: I am the father of a very handsome donkey who lives in ireland, in field by the coast
home: I look forward to purchasing a very nice moog and driving it to the office

btw HOOS "lulz" is now off limits as troll terminology thanks to the NYT

also "large hardon collider" is funnier

i'm takin notes here

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/lhc.small.jpg

^^new desktop image

that's not big enough for a desktop image

tile!

http://www.reckonings.net/photos/uncategorized/pace_of_pogos_swamp_5.gif

This is not quite what my life is like right now.

At work I aspire to be at home (landscape shot of the countryside near my house). At home I aspire to be in a spiral galaxy falling into a huge black hole.

ha its the kinda thing i leave up long enough to take a screenshot and say i had it up

I have, seeing her twice have an entirely different concept of screen shot now. In zee middle.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2731206853_918e3e17f5_o.jpg

I want my kid to be Val Kilmer. She feels the need, the need for speed.