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Survey: What's your Wallpaper?

We look at it far more than we realize on our computers, the background picture is always there, but is it something you make worth looking at, or do you just ignore it? One isn't better than the other, we just want to know: whatchu lookin' at?

How often do you change your wallpaper?

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My wife and I use pictures that one of us has taken as we're both amateur shutterbugs - sometimes it's family and friends, sometimes a landscape. It all depends on our mood.

posted by SpaceMonkeyX on April 5th 2007 at 4:25am
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I've liked Mandolux as a resource for screen backgrounds.

posted by sciencegeek on April 5th 2007 at 4:38am
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All photos of Monica Bellucci and Anna Falchi. I have a thing for Italian Earth-Goddesses. Thankfully my wife finds it endearing.

posted by Max on April 5th 2007 at 5:08am
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An off-the-shelf wallpaper from Taschen's website, showing a bunch of hands of fatima on a wall in Morocco.

posted by Michelle of Montreal on April 5th 2007 at 5:41am
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I always have to match my wallpaper with whatever theme I have running. Everything has to be clean to me. Maybe i'm just a tad anal about that. :)

posted by twofish on April 5th 2007 at 5:43am
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My rotating collection includes some of my own photos, some from flickr, some from http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/. They are mostly landscapes and animal pictures (pigs, cows, birds, and cats).

posted by Jeri Dansky on April 5th 2007 at 5:56am
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This is on my home computer:

http://www.pirelabladedesign.com/blog.f/blog_pics.f/Splint/DSC01200.JPG

joel maria pirela
blueantstudio.com

posted by joel maria pirela on April 5th 2007 at 6:13am
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I used to get great calendar wallpapers from Veer.com, but they stopped for some reason. Photos.com has some, but now I make my own. I like to have a calendar on my desktop that isn't full of notes and to-dos.

posted by pelicolina on April 5th 2007 at 6:23am
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I use a lot of stuff from plan59.com, and some from todaysinspiration.blogspot.com -- mostly vintage illustrations. I use one for a month or two until it stops making me smile every time I see it, and then I scroll through my collection until something else makes me happy.

posted by Joan A. on April 5th 2007 at 6:39am
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i have a picture of the highschool i went to in france. lycée st. just a lyon.

posted by elizabeth in AL on April 5th 2007 at 6:57am
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ugh....why can you not use the accented letters!

lycee st just in lyon. that's what i meant to say. :-)

posted by elizabeth in AL on April 5th 2007 at 6:58am
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mandolux; me too.

posted by Laurie on April 5th 2007 at 7:02am
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My wallpaper is one of the latest floral/fauna photos that Matt posts on AT. They're stunning.

posted by anne on April 5th 2007 at 7:48am
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A lovely picture of Eddie Izzard. Yesm.

posted by gretchenkjer on April 5th 2007 at 8:21am
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A cheeky/sexy graphic from a UK sex toy online retailer called Curious Nature (found via Fleshbot a few years ago).

posted by Enrique on April 5th 2007 at 11:55am
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If by wallpaper is meant desktop, I've used one of my own photos of a camellia to carry out an appropriate theme for my 24" iMac.
http://tinyurl.com/2d8doo

posted by ebrown on April 5th 2007 at 12:10pm
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My desktop is picture of the empty Marian Goodman Gallery. It helps me think. :)

posted by Blue_roses on April 5th 2007 at 4:08pm
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I went on a photo shooting spree while in Japan. I took a picture of a temple gate in Shinguu, Wakayama while living in the prefecture.

http://tinyurl.com/2j7tah

posted by seika on April 8th 2007 at 10:21am
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i like using b/w photos for my background. these are my favorites, of clark gable and frank sinatra

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c122/zantacrus/Picture2-2.png

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c122/zantacrus/Picture2-1.png

posted by christie on April 8th 2007 at 8:04pm
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correction! i posted a photo of the beatles rather than the one i meant to post, this one of frank sinatra

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c122/zantacrus/Picture1-3.png

i do use that beatles photo a lot too, though!

posted by christie on April 8th 2007 at 8:07pm
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