Cluttered desktop folders become art

32 Comments on Cluttered desktop folders become art

Wes on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:18 pm


Holy cow, what resolution are you running at?

mikel on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:28 pm


you can shrink icons in osX

Michael Piantedosi on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:35 pm


check out this old masterpiece… s

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21567640@N02/2127629331/

Danny Thomson on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:50 pm


Heres Mine…Skateboarding…
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9721/picture1gz2.png

Torley on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 9:41 pm


Good gosh, I’ve never seen something like this before! I wonder who was the first person to do this? In any case, it’s beautiful!

Torley on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 9:42 pm


BTW, I see TWO reCAPTCHA forms on this page! o.O

danpat on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 9:51 pm


This one is for real!
Perhaps the inspiration as it got the the front page of Digg.

http://flickr.com/photos/danpat/262640851/

Johnny on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 10:27 pm


Wow..really creative. Now I know what all these mac guys are doing in graphic design school…

Chimpo on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 12:31 am


timelapse of the folders being arranged:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

Gary on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:35 am


Desktop artist may want to download Desktop Icon Manager (it work on Intel Macs, running 10.4 anyway)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1193

Acronyms on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:37 am


Where is the play with color? That’s when you create real art!

BEST ONE YET on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:41 am


http://www.flickr.com/photos/keelay/2251454020/

Tadpole256 on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:59 am


Whereas I completely agree that these look awesome, and are terribly creative, it also seems as though this guy has a lot of free time on his hands. I cannot help but wonder if he actually did these by hand, or had the help of a script of some sort…

Andy on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 4:42 am


try that on windows and explorer.exe will crash like a dead bird

Phil on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 5:09 am


this really makes me want to get a mac. i mean look how creative these guys are, and they must be really good at what they do to have so much time on their hands.

RespondtoPhilGuy on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 10:19 am


We have a lot of free time compared to Windows users, don’t have to deal with BSoDs or Virus Scans…

CHill on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 10:48 am


You can also shrink icons and grow em in linux. And i have like 500 folders in my desktop lol. gotta upload pic

Matt on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 11:09 am


I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure those patterns are copied directly from the movie Finding Nemo.

Mnaira on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 11:43 am


If you can be creative with a Mac you can be creative with a PC, Windows or Linux. Hell, you can even use an Amiga if you like. You can also shrink Icons in Linux (Ubuntu, at least).
If you are good at math, its becouse you have learned it, not because you have a fancy pen or a book.
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at Johnny: [quote]Wow..really creative. Now I know what all these mac guys are doing in graphic design school…
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Its not because they use Mac`s its because they are in graphic design school, thats why they are good at what they do.
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at Phil: [quote]this really makes me want to get a mac. i mean look how creative these guys are, and they must be really good at what they do to have so much time on their hands.
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Again, ist the user not the equipment, thats creative.
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Anyway, really creative Dr.Macenstein. Good job

Anonymous on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 2:09 pm


Heh, I used to do that until I realized that desktop icons were almost entirely useless and unnecessary.

BeyondRandom on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 3:00 pm


some ppl have too much time on their hands…still cool though

Scott on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 3:33 pm


@Andy

No it won’t. That’s just preposterous. Are you seriously suggesting that resizing icons and positioning them in a non-grid fashion will cause Explorer to crash? I’d be surprised if even Windows 1.0 suffered that sort of problem.

If so, you are a retard, or such a fanbois that you don’t know your arse from your elbow.

Rafi on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 5:33 pm


@ Scott

I guess you forgot how most Windows OS’s behave. While Windows should be able to un-align from grid and resize, We all know that most people OS’s are corrupted from spyware, so I wouldn’t be surprised if most people’s Windows would crash and give a explorer.exe error

darrell on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 10:54 pm


anti-apple-reaction posts. check. rickroll youtube link. check. elitist - you can do that on linux-quote. check. there you have it. this sites been ‘dugg’. sadly that basically sums up every digg users comments on every apple front page story ever posted. i wonder how that ‘i love him but hate how kevin rose uses a MacBook’ inner conflict is working out for them.

bob on Tue, 15th Apr 2008 7:42 pm


@Chimpo

GAHH!!! ive been rickrolled!!!! GARG!!!, and for the art, cool :D, but im a pc guy

Andy on Wed, 16th Apr 2008 2:38 am


@Scott
it isnt the fact about how to arrange the icons - it is the mass of icons and I am sure “my” windows pc will crash when I will do that - too many folders on the desktop or what ever. I saw that after unzipping a pakage with a lot of folders inside - all of them went onto the desktop and when I tried to move them all inside a new folder explorer has a really odd behavior and finaly crashed. After a explorer restart I tried it again and another crash happened. Ok, I should perhaps reinstall my windows - thats what windows users do one time a year or often more to make it possible to work on windows. But I better work on my Mac

David Greiman on Sat, 19th Apr 2008 2:08 pm


I’d like to see more colors and different icons mixed in.

Internet Quiz on Mon, 5th May 2008 2:58 pm


The most I have done is spell my name I am now officially jealous

Rob Owen on Mon, 8th Sep 2008 2:59 pm


This reminds me of the IT joke where the man could not find his accounting folder because the icon used to be at the tip of the p*nis.

Phil E. Drifter on Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 9:20 pm


What a wonderful (not) way to waste metric asstons of RAM.

Terry Lee on Fri, 23rd Jan 2009 9:23 am


That’s very cool. There is no point to it other than for art’s sake. Nice.

Patrick Gallagher on Sun, 25th Jan 2009 1:54 am


Good golly Ms. Molley. I think I’m going to shut my office door for a few hours this week and try this out.

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