Wallpaper eye candy

August 12, 2007 7:08 PM

Social Wallpaper. A community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.
posted by Mitheral (22 comments total)

Cool idea.
posted by delmoi at 7:22 PM on August 12, 2007

Very nice.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:27 PM on August 12, 2007

Mitheral, your woodpecker on a fence is quite nice.
posted by rockhopper at 7:27 PM on August 12, 2007

Thanks, it's a great wallpaper because of all the white space.
posted by Mitheral at 7:28 PM on August 12, 2007

Nice idea.
posted by beautifulcheese at 7:36 PM on August 12, 2007

The "most populars" tend to run heavily towards space and fantasy themes.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
posted by yhbc at 7:40 PM on August 12, 2007

I was bummed that there's no grouping by aspect ratio, considering that landscape vs traditional 4:3 monitors splits a good percentage of the audience down the middle. Also, weird that there's no organization by pixel size.
posted by jonson at 7:42 PM on August 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

WLLPPR
posted by BrodieShadeTree at 7:43 PM on August 12, 2007

And I knew I could find at least one lolcat waiting to happen.

Again, nothing wrong with that. I have my own cats on my wallpaper as we speak. Urm, type.
posted by yhbc at 7:43 PM on August 12, 2007

For those in search of nice wallpapers, one of my current fave sites for them is interfacelift, which jonson's wish made me just remember.

Why do we put 'wallpaper' on our 'desktops' underneath 'windows', anyway? It's all too surreal.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:47 PM on August 12, 2007 [7 favorites]

jonson, if you're on any of the browse pages you can filter by a particular aspect ratio by clicking "Nothing" next to the "filtering" label.
posted by Riki tiki at 8:03 PM on August 12, 2007

A couple other wallpaper places.
posted by puke & cry at 8:03 PM on August 12, 2007

Thanks, Riki!
posted by jonson at 8:39 PM on August 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

ooooooh, pretty.
posted by oddman at 9:09 PM on August 12, 2007

Does anyone know where I can get decent pirate related wallpapers in 1600x1200? There seems to be a dearth of them lately.
posted by IronLizard at 9:27 PM on August 12, 2007

Did someone ask for high resolution images of smut?
posted by porpoise at 10:13 PM on August 12, 2007

yep!

I really want to try the stuff but haven't been able to find it in Vancouver.

I had a Path(ology/Plant)535 class where the professor told us that the swollen smut-infected corn-seed was teh yummy, but smut-infected stalk tasted like - corn stalk.
posted by porpoise at 11:24 PM on August 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

nice.
posted by juv3nal at 11:29 PM on August 12, 2007

For the lack of widescreen, the kingdom was lost.
posted by oxford blue at 2:11 AM on August 13, 2007

Mandolux. That's where you go for interesting, widescreen (and dual-monitor) wallpapers. But I like many of these too, thanks Mitheral.
posted by iso_bars at 3:26 AM on August 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

For the lack of widescreen, the kingdom was lost.

*ahem*
posted by juv3nal at 4:39 PM on August 13, 2007

I did have a look through those, thank you. However the problem is those vector wallpapers seem to me to be a COLOUR!EXPLOSION!WHOOOSSHHH! and look like they where designed by someone on something. Cutesy name aside, most of the stuff on Pixelgirl looks like its for a 12 girl in Harajuku.

InterfaceLIFT (sorted by 1680x1050 and most downloaded, but there are other sorting options) site isn't bad.
posted by oxford blue at 5:33 PM on August 13, 2007