What is on ur desktop background and how do u relate to it?

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08 Feb 2012, 3:42 pm

It might have been done before, I am not sure, but what is your desktop background at the moment and why did u choose it?
I am putting this here in this category because I think most people have some form of art, a photo, painting and so on as their background. Here's mine, I like it because that's how I feel as a person somehow, plus I love gasmasks and steampunk.
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08 Feb 2012, 6:56 pm

This is my wallpaper. I don't really relate to it in any special way, other than it isn't super cheesy like the other ones I've had, and has interesting textures to it!

[img][800:640]http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/annettahanson/Steampunk_Wallpaper_by_cosmosue.jpg[/img]


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08 Feb 2012, 7:00 pm

My wallpaper is the Windows logo.

I think this means that I am an extremely pragmatic person.

EDIT: It probably also means that I spend very little time looking at my desktop. I always have several windows open, and I use the start menu and taskbar to open programs.



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08 Feb 2012, 7:19 pm

Blackness. Because I'm a dark tortured soul.

Actually, it's because I screwed up my Linux and lost the background somehow, because I lost the program off the taskbar thing and no longer can set my background without finding the program. Yay.



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08 Feb 2012, 10:18 pm

It's a big close up of a flower, basically all in shades of orange and with a lot of blurring around the edges. I prefer vague, fuzzy backgrounds so that I don't get fixated/distracted/zoned-out on the little details when they're between my app windows.

As for what it means? I guess it could be over-compensation for not having spent more time developing the 'right half' of my brain. So, I choose something ethereal and fuzzy instead of distinct and 'linear.'

Or something like that.



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08 Feb 2012, 10:23 pm

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It's complicated. Not sure how to put it into words.


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08 Feb 2012, 10:28 pm

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is awesomez


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08 Feb 2012, 11:01 pm

AnnettaMarie wrote:
This is my wallpaper. I don't really relate to it in any special way, other than it isn't super cheesy like the other ones I've had, and has interesting textures to it!

[img][800:640]http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/annettahanson/Steampunk_Wallpaper_by_cosmosue.jpg[/img]
is this a moving clock telling the actual time? your background seems steampunk to me, I love steampunk!



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09 Feb 2012, 2:42 am

Varies, but it is always a picture I took myself, so I associate some personal experience with it:
For a while I've had this on my laptop, from Las Palmas:
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On my big iMac I have this, from Mauritania. This road goes all the way to Timbuktu:
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(this is from the very last roll of Kodachrome I got to shoot, and was sent to the lab within only a couple of days of the deadline. I miss Kodachrome)

I change background every few months...



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09 Feb 2012, 4:13 am

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I took this myself. It a 'Poorinda Royal Mantle' Grevillea, a cultivar of G. laurifolia and G. willisi.

Plants are elegant but uncomplicated lifeforms. They just absorb sunlight and water, grow, pass on their seeds, sway with the breeze, then die. I envy this existence.



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09 Feb 2012, 4:17 am

Mine is of the cover art of Ian McCulloch's 'September Song' single. I relate to it because I think he has a beautiful voice. :D


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09 Feb 2012, 2:06 pm

your desktop background is now also my desktop background, I hope you don't mind!

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
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It's complicated. Not sure how to put it into words.



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09 Feb 2012, 2:32 pm

Ta-da.

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09 Feb 2012, 2:46 pm

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I like the way stealth's look.



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09 Feb 2012, 3:58 pm

Suspie wrote:
your desktop background is now also my desktop background, I hope you don't mind!
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
This...

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It's complicated. Not sure how to put it into words.


Not at all. ^_^


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09 Feb 2012, 5:34 pm

My desktop's desktop is plain black, because Avast killed Steam the other day and in a fit of pique I decided to reinstall Windows completely and haven't thought of anything to put on there yet. My laptop has a picture of the valley Thursbitch that I took last year, which says I'm a fanatical Garner fan. My work laptop is also plain black, just because. My phone has the nearest to plain black that was in its standard options.


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