Another Olly Moss wallpaper

This is Olly Moss's cover for the UK version of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (the American version is...not as good):



Penguin posted wallpaper sized version in all sorts of resolutions:



I've previously posted wallpaper-sized version of his Star Wars and Let Me In posters.

And his glow-in-the-dark and glow-in-the-day vampire t-shirt is $5 at Threadless.

Olly Moss's Star Wars posters as a wallpaper

You've probably seen Olly Moss's fabulous Star Wars posters for Mondo by now. I took the liberty of turning them into a widescreen wallpaper. (Check out the Star Destroyers lurking by C-3PO's torso.)

I don't think I really appreciated how cool Cloud City was as a castle in the sky until seeing this poster.

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Fallout New Vegas wallpapers

Six new Fallout wallpapers posted at the official site.

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Link roundup

1. Comment and win Sherlock and Dr. Who DVDs.

2. A whole lot of locks.

3. Battle of the Planets fan art.

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Star Wars The Old Republic wallpapers

Lots of wallpapers recently posted at the Star Wars The Old Republic site, including this one, featuring Malak and Revan:



A shout-out to a wallpaper created for the original Knight of the Old Republic:



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Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns

Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, tracing the path of airplanes, is beautiful to watch. There are several wallpaper-sized images at the link (scroll down).

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Link roundup

1. iPhone wallpapers by Dan Matutina.

2. Long article with many fascinating observations about Gawker's strategy. I highly recommend the read, but here's a few excerpts:

As a result, I suspect that Gawker Media’s pageview numbers will fall substantially when the new design is introduced. A lot of sites have tried to emphasize the primacy of audience metrics over clunky old pageview metrics, but the chase for pageviews stubbornly persists—even sites which carry no advertising have been known to do things like break stories up into multiple pages so that they can bask in artificially-inflated pageview numbers.

That’s maybe why no other major site has decided to adopt this kind of design, and it might also help explain Batty’s departure. The way that Denton explains it in his memo, he’s chasing audience while Batty was chasing revenues, and as a result “Chris and I diverge seriously over strategy.”

Denton spins this admission as a result of being “allergic to corporate boilerplate,” but it still sounds like corporate boilerplate to me. So let me try to be more specific still: if there was one area of disagreement between them which took long-simmering tensions to the point at which the two had little choice but to part ways, it was the fate of the sponsored post. Batty is a huge fan of the format.

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The CPM game, then, is looking increasingly like a race to the bottom, where publishers desperately try every trick in the book to boost their pageviews and ad impressions, just to compensate for the fact that their revenues per page are very small. The results — sensationalism, salaciousness, and slideshows — only serve to further erode the value of the sites in the eyes of advertisers, and put ever more downward pressure on those CPMs. It’s a vicious cycle, and Denton has decided that now is the time to break it: no longer does he want to deal with advertisers looking idiotically at clickthrough rates. “Clickthroughs,” he writes, “are an indicator of the blindness, senility or idiocy of readers rather than the effectiveness of the ads.”

To break out of the current painful loop, Denton has decided to emulate his beloved television and move to “a programming grid which owes more to TV than to magazines.”

That last observation makes me a little sad. I love magazines, and love blogs even more because they're basically magazines, only better. I never liked tv very much, and typically just used it as background noise for whatever else I was doing (playing gameboy, reading magazines, doing homework).

3. But speaking of TV, don't forget to watch the Twin Peaks episode of Psych tonight. It's the most excited I've been about a tv show in ages.

Link roundup

1. Collection of iPhone and iPad wallpapers. Via.

2. Zero Punctuation reviews Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. (Adult language.)

3. Gamasutra: "we present here our second-annual editor-chosen list of 50 important accomplishments of the last year-or-so, in the fields of art, programming, design, business, and evangelism, attempting to focus on the specific achievements of specific persons." (I wish this list had hyperlinks to the individuals' personal sites.) Via.

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The "I" in "Team"

The i in TEAM and Beard of Cloud - - two of this morning's new Threadless t-shirts.

Travis Pitts's Scooby-Doo design has been reprinted, too:



I turned Ben Chen's happy little cloud into a wallpaper:

Link roundup

1. Owl and cherry blossoms desktop wallpaper by David Lanham.

2. The romance novel-esque title card for the Nov 15 episode of Adventure Time is hilarious.

3. Relatedly, Natasha Allegri posted two great illustrations on her Tumblr.

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American McGee's Alice concept art and wallpaper

New concept art and a wallpaper have been posted for Alice: Madness Returns.

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Batman: The Brave and the Bold wallpapers

If you enjoy Batman: The Brave and the Bold, you should definitely check out this site, which has dozens and dozens of high-res stills from all of the episodes to date.

They also have clips and stills from tonight's episode, featuring Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters:




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Link roundup

1. Motherbox wallpaper for the iPhone.

2. Some clever animated gifs at this site, like this one, or this one. Via.

3. Vertigo poster.

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Sucker Punch wallpapers

The Sucker Punch trailer came out today. I took the liberty of cropping a few widescreen desktop wallpapers:










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Daft Punk Real Action Heroes desktop wallpaper

I previously mentioned Medicom's Daft Punk Real Action Heroes. But Tomopop posted better photos, so I whipped up a desktop wallpaper. (If your monitor's big enough, it's almost as good as having the figures, and certainly cheaper.)

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Cheescake pin-up from the world of Fallout

New Fallout desktop wallpapers posted here.

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Moebius art show, Star Wars Visions

Moebius art show:

From October 12, 2010 through March 13, 2011 the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents MOEBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition in Paris devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, known by his pseudonyms Gir and Mœbius. An icon of incomparable stature in the world of comics, an inventor of extraordinary forms and a brilliant cartoonist, Mœbius is an artist who goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Following the artist’s wishes, this exhibition explores the theme of metamorphosis, a leitmotif that runs throughout his comics, drawings, and film projects. In relation to this theme, the exhibition also presents the first 3-D animated film directed by the artist, La Planète encore, along with the stories from the original comic boards. With landscapes and characters in perpetual transformation, his drawings explore the boundaries of the unconscious and reveal an imaginary and fantastic world. Th rough often sudden and disturbing metamorphoses of a character or a setting, Mœbius reveals a world where appearances are not as stable as they may seem.

The gallery's site is a little frustrating, but with patience you can see lots of pages from the beautiful catalog:



And the landing page features an interactive squid monster that I turned into a desktop wallpaper:



Which all reminded me of this - - Mos Eisley by Moebius:



It's part of the Star Wars: Art Visions book that's on sale for 34% off at Amazon.

And proving that Rene and I are still shockingly well-synced, no sooner did I finish drafting this post that I noticed that he linked to a long Wired article on the very same Star Wars book. Wired has several more beautiful images, but here are a few:


Rancor by Arantzazu Martinez.



Young Lando by Alex Bostic.



Exorcism of Darth Vader by Rudy Gutierrez.

Again, here's the Amazon link.