Too Many Icons, To Close Together! by TwoPynts
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" ~ Laurence J. Peter
It is certainly a wacky Wednesday! You can thank Hopalong for today's completely out of the blue creation. His post today, Render Bastards, and the commentary that ensued, inspired me to make this image. Especially the comment about his Bryce and Poser icons being to close together. That made me think of my own desktop. So I dusted off Bryce and created a quick image for the screen background. As you can see, I have a serious problem with icon overcrowding. I even created a folder for miscellaneous desktop clutter, which does little to help. You would think with 1920x1200 pixels of desktop real-estate, this wouldn't be a problem. Well, if the Earth has a problem with overcrowding, then why not my humble computer? I'm not sure what inspired me to do another capture of the desktop again, with the first capture floating over it, but there ya go. All told, at least six applications were used to create this one image. A fractal program for the Bryce texture, Bryce for the 3D scene, the OS's screen capture utility to capture the desktop view, Photoshop to process it, Image Ready to ready the image for the web, and Safari to upload and view it. Whew! ----- Thank you for all of your tangled comments on my last upload, Chihuly Twists.
----- Made on a Mac (675) Sponsored by: Kramer Kreations
Comments (28)
Lenord
Thought mine was bad, it's the Sahara compared to this. Excellent Idea, love it
Hopalong
Hehe--hilarious, with beautiful color and depth down the middle! I have always suspected that internal and external clutter are inversely proportional. Those neat and uncluttered on the outside, for example, often seem to need external order to quell chaos inside. And, mutatis mutandis, vice versa. Whatever one looks like on the outside, for example, there is a minimal internal order and discipline need to think clearly, or to do mathematics or logic, and many other things. Then there was the time I saw one of the European Ballets (no names to protect the guilty, and they may be better now). Bump, thump, smash, oops. They say Rockne had his backs take ballet classes. These dancers could have used some practice sessions with the 49'ers....
goodoleboy
Goodness gracious, look at all those icons....jpegs, folders, even a dock at the bottom! Excellent collage or montage. Is that the image of Darth Vader there? That was some job, combining the results of all those art applications. Great creation!
Digimon
LOL!!!! Where do I start!?!?!?! I thought the background was an Englewolf original, but goat-dang!! That's be-a-utiful!! Well done!! Now about that desktop....they say the more space you make, the more you fill it up! What is your desktop set to? 12890 X 8976? Surprised you can still read the little buggers! I like the toolbar, very revealing!! Many good weapons (Of choice) in your arsenal!! I don't know why, but I am surprised (Pleasantly) to see the Apple logo (Now official)!!! G5? Yes I thought the professor was right on the money!! Still working on my reply, this is of course "Spot-on". Good work old bean!! Carry on!!
RodsArt
Ohhhh noooo, You're one of those Evil people. After Windows 3.1 I ditched Desktop EYE-CONS. Damn things'll give you a headache. Good luck trying to convert to a cleaner enviroment.NOT!!!!! hehe
Zacko
OH MY GOD!!! You cant be serious??? I have 4 icons on my desktop...and i think THAT is crowded, LOL. That is one beautiful background by the way. Looks like something out of "Alien". Showing off your multitalented side i see. Well done Sir. Have a wonderful humpday. #:O)
acclaude
Ho! Damned! how have U captured my desktop image???? lolll EXcellent post & mood!! is that the GIMP icons? Thks 4share & 4 Ur humoristic way of artworking.. xxxxx
Valerie-Ducom
I have the same in my house!!! And I'm sure to one day my computer go to open a new mesage where i can to read "GAME OVER / I DON'T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU MORE TIME" lololololol... Excellent my friend and very funny and yes, i understand you, is a big problem :)))) Good day and hugs ;)
jif3d
A render bastard here...click and click again...oops, wrong file opened ? looks like organised chaos to me ! who needs a desktop when you have a human brain and a wrist to write notes on ? just check Acclaude's Avatar...Cheers
npauling
Wow you must have plenty of gigabytes to run all those!!! How would we manage with out our desktops. I love this work you have here.
hotracer2
That's my desktop, and I know were everyone is and goes..NOT.....LOL.LOL...:):):)
stick
WOW, must have a tough time finding what you want. Great peice!
Martinez
Oh, what a crowd ... ;o) Very interesting picture, lol.
marybelgium
great idea ! interesting picture ...
sharky_
Totally lost in icons, lol. Excellent......... Aloha
Denger
If you stare very carefully at your screen, then step back until the three icons nearest the center appear as one, you will then perceive the missing line in the Da Vinci Code. Terrific!
BBarbs
OH MY GOD.....if my desktop looked like that I would go mad !! LOL. This is so funny. I have seen people's desktops that do look like this. If I manage to get on their computer when they arent around, I cant help but organize it. LOL !!!!! All ya gotta do is right click and click on line up. lol. Wherever you want them to be.....right or left center or both. LMAO !!!! Please, please do it. This is causing me great stress to not be able to do it myself. :-) This is great. I love it !!!! One of your most amusing images. Makes people take a look at themselves. I wonder what desktop organization means about somebody's personality. Too bad Freud isnt alive anymore. LOL ! Excellent work !!!!!
Angelsinger
Your background is awesome! I take my laptop to work sometimes, and someone asked me, "Where are all your icons?? How do you find anything??" LOL, I wonder the same thing when I see crowded desktops. :P
Radlafx
Too many icons on your desktop can bog things down big-time. They take up so much RAM and you don't even realize until you look at the activity monitor. how about keeping a "Stuff" folder in the dock & control clik it when ya need sumtin from it. (aside from the fact that you dock is way cluttered.
rayburg
Love your desktop image. can you post it without the clutter?.....you need a sexatary to get that in order...
squirrel2005
HEHEHEHEHEHE!! Really a fun shot! I would go mad if my desk look like that... Fun done......and I love you backrgound bihind there:))
Chaos911
lol, thats a full desktop ^^
nongo
That would make me insane!!!!! I only have one icon and that's the trash bin in the bottom right corner!!! Eeeeeee Gaaaaads!!!!!!!!
evilstoy
What a really cool shot. Love the background on the mac. Very creative. +++
Punaguy
Dang! I'm sure my puter would moving at the speed of smell if I had this many icon's on my desktop...Man you can hardly make out the picture through the icons...But it makes a for a quite interesting image...Aloha Bra!
oscilis
Your entire personality revealed in a screenshot! I have 117 icons on my desktop and no I don't know where everything is.
wizardangel1
What do you Mean --DUSTED OFF Bryce !!!! AAAAHHHHHH ----!!! BLASMAFER !!!!aaahhhhh !!!! But other than that ,i compeleatly concer with everything else, ---So how many 2gigs harddrives do u have as storage files ??? They seem to hold up a bit better,,,heee...shameless advertizing ,,isn't it..heeee....
iMacabre
"Doing okay" you say? Don't think so... I've never gone this far... :D Cheers!