Desktop Magic: The Art of David Lanham

There are two challenges I face when getting a new computer: what to "name" it^* and how to make it as artistically appealing as possible. This always means scouring different sites for a fair deal of different desktop backgrounds and trying them on, much in the same way you'd try on an outfit at a shop before buying it.

Someone or something had pointed me to the art of David Lanham a few years back and I had, in order, downloaded a coupe of his backgrounds and promptly forgotten his name, much to my disappointment. Last week, in my usual "make-computer-look-good-easy-to-use" quest, I found him again - tell me you can't love these:






Between the scary, the surreal, and the sublime, he has it all wrapped up - desktops and icons that keep me subtly stimulated while I'm doing the mundane computational tasks that take up my day-to-day.

*: Jury is still out on the Macbook host name - my past machines have been named, in order: ark, axalon, bismarck, eldridge, zion, puck, and deck. All of these are very masculine names and I'm considering diverging from that convention in the same manner I diverged from Linux and Windows this time around.