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GIP - Pyle's aliens muse about a cat
Apr. 18th, 2019 12:31 pmI have been enjoying Nathan W. Pyle's comic series on Facebook of funny little aliens adapting to life on earth. I especially love it when they interact with cats! This one tickled my funnybone so much that I had to make myself an icon.
GIP - Old School Songvids
Mar. 23rd, 2017 09:50 amI haven't made a Gratuitous Icon Post in so long, I had almost forgotten what it stood for!
Now that I've already made a bunch of posts about songvids, I finally got around to making a suitable icon! :-) It's an homage to the older vids that I've been digitizing, hence the stopwatch, VCR, and cascading pile of tapes. Here's to many future uses!
Now that I've already made a bunch of posts about songvids, I finally got around to making a suitable icon! :-) It's an homage to the older vids that I've been digitizing, hence the stopwatch, VCR, and cascading pile of tapes. Here's to many future uses!
Because "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" always reminds me of Person of Interest now!
GIP + Phineas & Ferb & Sherlock Holmes
Mar. 26th, 2011 10:48 pmTODS has added a keyword search for "Sherlock" to the TiVo to catch any Holmes-related shows that may pop up. For several weeks in a row it kept bringing up an episode of Phineas and Ferb, which we ignored because we were unfamiliar with the series.
Then one day![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metherion asks whether we have ever watched this great show called Phineas and Ferb, so we watched an episode with him and learned that it is basically a show about metherion at six years old, if there had been two of him and they had had access to power tools. It really is very amusing. So we went ahead and recorded the Sherlock Holmes episode, in which the boys' older sister Candace uses Holmes' methods to try to find out what her pesky siblings are up to.
There's a very nice tribute to the Sacred Canon, as Candace and her best friend, visiting Candace's British grandparents, are bored because there's nothing to do. The grandmother invites them to read Sherlock Holmes books, which they initially pooh-pooh ("Aren't books what people did before they invented fun?") but reluctantly try ... and stay up all night enthusiastically reading the entire collection!
And now there is an icon.
Then one day
metherion asks whether we have ever watched this great show called Phineas and Ferb, so we watched an episode with him and learned that it is basically a show about metherion at six years old, if there had been two of him and they had had access to power tools. It really is very amusing. So we went ahead and recorded the Sherlock Holmes episode, in which the boys' older sister Candace uses Holmes' methods to try to find out what her pesky siblings are up to. There's a very nice tribute to the Sacred Canon, as Candace and her best friend, visiting Candace's British grandparents, are bored because there's nothing to do. The grandmother invites them to read Sherlock Holmes books, which they initially pooh-pooh ("Aren't books what people did before they invented fun?") but reluctantly try ... and stay up all night enthusiastically reading the entire collection!
And now there is an icon.
GIP - SQUEEEEEEE!
Jan. 24th, 2010 02:01 pmI was lucky enough to win an auction on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti, where naturalbluicons had offered five icons of the winner's choice.
I know blu likes working with Disney images, and as much as I love Alice in Wonderland in all its myriad forms, I didn't have any icons from the Disney version of Alice.
Now I have FIVE!!!!!!! ( click to see! )
help_haiti, where naturalbluicons had offered five icons of the winner's choice.I know blu likes working with Disney images, and as much as I love Alice in Wonderland in all its myriad forms, I didn't have any icons from the Disney version of Alice.
Now I have FIVE!!!!!!! ( click to see! )
Thanks are due!
Dec. 10th, 2009 02:19 pmThanks to st_crispins for the new Christmas ball icons (she also made me an Azkadellia)!
And thanks tonaturalbluicons, maubast, archon_mentha, lionille, st_crispins, and moony_blues,for the snowflake cookies!!!!! *munches happily*
And thanks togblvr for the Santa Cthuluclaus!
st_crispins for the new Christmas ball icons (she also made me an Azkadellia)!And thanks to
naturalbluicons, maubast, archon_mentha, lionille, st_crispins, and moony_blues,for the snowflake cookies!!!!! *munches happily*And thanks to
gblvr for the Santa Cthuluclaus!Icon contest pimping!
Feb. 8th, 2009 03:50 pmThere are some seriously cool icons this time around; theme is "Realm of the Unwanted."
http://community.livejournal.com/tinman_stills/52074.html
Go vote, y'all! (You do not have to be a member of the comm to vote.)
http://community.livejournal.com/tinman_stills/52074.html
Go vote, y'all! (You do not have to be a member of the comm to vote.)
icon weirdness question & an observation
Nov. 29th, 2008 02:10 pmI noticed a couple of things while I was putting together my responses to the icon meme.
The question:
The first Tin Man icon that I made for myself had the keyword "Glitch" and looked like this:
When I was going through my icons for the meme I noticed that it had been replaced by this image:
WTF?
Moreover, I couldn't simply reupload the old icon to the keyword "Glitch" - it would tell me the icon was successfully uploaded, but the new one was still there with that keyword and the number of icons had not changed. (Normally the more recent upload would appear with the keyword and the earlier one would still be there but with "pic #xxxxxxx" instead of the keyword.) I tried changing the new one's keyword but it wouldn't change. I uploaded the old one to a new keyword and when the dust cleared, the new one was there under the new keyword! Finally I just deleted the new one - I was pleasantly surprised that it worked - and had no difficulty uploading the old one to its original keyword.
What on earth was that all about? Is this some kind of nuisance hack going around?
( and an observation )
The question:
The first Tin Man icon that I made for myself had the keyword "Glitch" and looked like this:
When I was going through my icons for the meme I noticed that it had been replaced by this image:
WTF?
Moreover, I couldn't simply reupload the old icon to the keyword "Glitch" - it would tell me the icon was successfully uploaded, but the new one was still there with that keyword and the number of icons had not changed. (Normally the more recent upload would appear with the keyword and the earlier one would still be there but with "pic #xxxxxxx" instead of the keyword.) I tried changing the new one's keyword but it wouldn't change. I uploaded the old one to a new keyword and when the dust cleared, the new one was there under the new keyword! Finally I just deleted the new one - I was pleasantly surprised that it worked - and had no difficulty uploading the old one to its original keyword.
What on earth was that all about? Is this some kind of nuisance hack going around?
( and an observation )
I forgot I had another crossover icon - Tin Man with text from Alice in Wonderland:
( a few more strays )
( a few more strays )
Support the Cain love! Vote!
Nov. 16th, 2008 08:10 pmThe current theme at tinman_stills is Cain, and there have been some gorgeous icons submitted. They never seem to get enough votes over there, and you don't have to be a member to vote - y'all go!
http://community.livejournal.com/tinman_stills/46143.html
tinman_stills is Cain, and there have been some gorgeous icons submitted. They never seem to get enough votes over there, and you don't have to be a member to vote - y'all go! http://community.livejournal.com/tinman_stills/46143.html
Confetti all around!
Nov. 6th, 2008 01:43 pmHere's a gankable version of my Tin Man Star Confetti icon, in case anyone wants it!
direct link: http://pics.livejournal.com/amedia/pic/0003kezy
The coloring is in a slightly different pattern than the one I use; the base is the same.
If you'd rather have the base and do your own coloring, here it is:
direct link: http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/81306981/976828
Comments are love!
direct link: http://pics.livejournal.com/amedia/pic/0003kezy
The coloring is in a slightly different pattern than the one I use; the base is the same.
If you'd rather have the base and do your own coloring, here it is:
direct link: http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/81306981/976828
Comments are love!
I've been submitting Tin Man icons to contests for a little while now, but the competition out there is brilliant! It's been a while since I won anything.
Challenge 28, "Home Video," attinman_stills just inspired me - it was an awfully clever prompt and fun to play around with. It also happened to coincide with my determination to learn Photoshop. So I submitted some icons, made chiefly with Photoshop this time, and I thought I might just have a chance ...
( banners! )
Challenge 28, "Home Video," at
tinman_stills just inspired me - it was an awfully clever prompt and fun to play around with. It also happened to coincide with my determination to learn Photoshop. So I submitted some icons, made chiefly with Photoshop this time, and I thought I might just have a chance ...( banners! )
By George, I think I've got it!
Sep. 28th, 2008 09:00 pmWhatever the technical issues may be, it looks like, if I decouple the Heisenberg compensators open the icons in Photoshop, save them, and re-upload them, they come out all right.
Case in point - the icon above.
Here's what it looked like before:
Can y'all verify that it looks okay now?
Case in point - the icon above.
Here's what it looked like before:
Can y'all verify that it looks okay now?
Question: Icons in Firefox
Sep. 28th, 2008 08:16 pmGiven that Internet Explorer is Evil, and Mozilla Firefox is Good, why do my icons look like crap in Firefox? Do they look that crappy to everyone who uses Firefox, and you guys are just too nice to tell me?
( the horror, let me show you it )
( the horror, let me show you it )
I won third place and best text in the roborents challenge on tinman_icontest! Eeee!
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tinman_icontest! Eeee!( Read more... )
