The Desktop Experiment

3/15/12

WE HAVE MOVED TO www.thedesktopexperiment.com

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1/23/12

"my right side's jealousy issues are well founded." RFS, Philadelphia, PA, USA

"Just a beautiful piece of NYC accidental art I stumbled onto." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"An old one of a shot I took while out in San Diego some years ago. Great times." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"My user privileges on my mac have been messed up for a while and I am stuck with this standard Aurora mac desktop. Can't wait to figure out how to fix this thing. Either that or I'm throwing out the computer." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

12/6/10

"Flies on a salt pile in a market in Tel Aviv. When the vendor saw me taking the picture, he shooed the flies and me away simultaneously."JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA 1/13/09

"my amazingly interesting work desktop" GR, NYC, NY, USA

11/22/10

"I change it several times a week typically." NB, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"I love that the icon for Reason is highlighted accidentally. I guess this one decided on its own title." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA - 12.03.08

I haven't posted any of my own in a while, and I will batch them all now with dates.

"Xevier Gallego Eyesorized my life." RFS, New York City, NY, USA

10/11/10

"feel the intensity..." AM, USA

8/9/10

Internet cafe. Santa Ana, Costa Rica

4/13/10

"This is my development desktop at work. Linux desktop= Fedora 11." AR

1/31/10

"so i cleaned up my home desktop, changed the image, and thought i should debut it here before it becomes a total mess again. the image is of bottles of wine being stored in a vineyard outside of pamplona, spain. it kind of makes me uncomfortable having a desktop this clean."
FM, Pamplona, Spain

12/18/09

SUNY Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn, USA

12/17/09

"This picture has so many things so very wrong with it, its beautiful!
My boyfriend and I share a computer, and he wants me to change it. Its
been like 2 weeks, and I haven't yet."
-L, Portland OR, USA

"Donkey on the way to Mount Blanc
Donkeys...they make me smile (even if they are dismissive French donkeys...I told him I was Canadian and he still didn't get up). PS I think he is just fat, nothing more, nothing less."
DA, Atlanta, USA

"I change my background almost weekly, I get bored easily. Even though I don't support Peta (I'm a vegetarian, I just disagree with much of what they do) I enjoyed this picture."
HB, Portland, USA

12/16/09

"I like to wake up and see people dancing. This shot is from the World Disco Championships of 1979."
TS

12/15/09

"i love spending my work day with the most famous faces of the 70's... it gives everything that creepy "disco-halston-54-warhol-glamour..." "

RDL in NYC

You are on a computer right now.
It has a desktop.
Share it with the world.

Send in desktops from your computers at home, work, school, etc. Check out the posts in greater detail by clicking on the images. Spread the love by sharing this site and/or stealing someone's desktop and sending it in with an explanation. Humor is always encouraged, but certainly not necessary.

SEND ME A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR DESKTOP WITH A BRIEF EXPLANATION AND YOUR LOCATION by following the easy instructions below. If it doesn't work, go here and figure it out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot

On a PC:
Minimize everything so that your desktop is showing. Grab a print screen of your desktop by pressing the "print screen" button (it's in the top right of your keyboard). Then open up microsoft paint (programs>accessories>paint). Paste the image in there by simultaneously pressing ctrl and "V". Save it as a bmp. Then send it over to me, thedesktopexperiment@gmail.com. In your email, INCLUDE A FEW WORDS ABOUT YOUR DESKTOP. Maybe you'd like to explain the background image, give an anecdote, or just include something totally random. Just make sure to say if it's a home, office, work, public, etc computer.

On a Mac:
Minimize everything so that your desktop is showing. Grab a print screen of your desktop by simultaneously pressing "Shift, Command, 3". This will save your desktop as a picture file on your desktop labeled "Picture 1". Attach that to an email and send it to me at thedesktopexperiment@gmail.com. In your email, INCLUDE A FEW WORDS ABOUT YOUR DESKTOP. Maybe you'd like to explain the background image, give an anecdote, or just include something totally random. Just make sure to say if it's a home, office, work, public, etc computer.

Tell all your friends around the world and tell them to tell their friends as well.

Join the FACEBOOK GROUP:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=84356825622

Thanks for the help.

xoxo
Jake

By sending in a desktop, you recognize that image may be posted on the internet and reproduced in multiple printed forms in the future. Your name will not be cited.