Shout out to those who made backgrounds for me!

Last week I made a tweet looking to see if someone could make a background image of all my Video Thumbnails and whoa!!  I got some GREAT responses!  So I decided to showcase them here:

First off we have a couple images from @DawsonFever who made a beautiful pink background one as well!

Next up, @eren_yilmaz made these great images:


Next up, @paralysedbeaver (great name, must have had a bad run-in with a beaver, right? – jk ) with this:


Then @iOhioCountryboy made one:


The @PattyPur1980 also made (a BIG 12MB) one:


@derheusel made two:


And finally, @bofika made 6 collages!


You guys all ROCK for making those!  I REALLY love them all and will use them in some capacity shortly!
Again, thank you so so much!
- Marina

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  • http://www.savannahvideocentral.com PaparazziKid

    #1 :grin:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leoNard

    cool :cool:

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Very nice work. I like those collages.
    Very interesting arrangement of the thumbnails.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    I see a lot of new changes to the site since early this afternoon.
    Very nice, the Twitoaster avatars are showing up as the originals
    instead of substitute icons. I like the recent members and the online avatars sections.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    You made me one as well, right? I can’t find it arggh!

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Yes, but just for Fun & Giggles. :lol:
    http://twitter.com/pedantickarl/status/12234768477
    Check it out to see if it has potential.
    I can tweak it any way you wish. :-)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    I was just looking at the Twitter widget over there on the right. It looks great. Love that widget. At the bottom it has thumbs of your followers. At this moment, the first thumb is a guy in the red shirt and glasses. That’s Philip Kaplan aka as Pud who started a site many moons ago called FuckedCompany.com a play on FastCompany.com Those were the good ole days of corporate rumor mongering and an interesting Forum. Interesting guy and background.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwO6kIdgVSU PageDoll

    If you make all those thumbnails clickable you’re going from wizard status strait to warlock status. :cool: Don’t worry, I have the power to make that happen.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Oh cool. There are several ways I can do it.
    I may do it tonight.

  • iluv2cutfarts

    For all of those who didn’t think that Marina would give you a shout out for your efforts, I do hope you are happy. Our trusty hotforwords is always on top of it!

    :mrgreen:

  • iluv2cutfarts

    P.S. When is our trusty hotforwords going to come out with a new video?!?

    :grin:

  • rpk

    @ParalysedBeaver here. You are most welcome. :grin:

  • wetsuit5

    Lotsa talented folks.

  • hereticprincess2

    Those are very good…they came from talented people that’s for sure! :)

  • bofika

    @HotForWords Thanks for the shoutout! I’m glad and proud that my work ended up on your website! It was fun doing it!

    I hope there will be similar “games” in the future ;)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Testing my tweet this comment on my site

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Works.. but doesn’t link directly to the comment.. must look at tweaking it some more.

  • iluv2cutfarts

    Do you have to have a Twitter account for this to work? Or does it somehow use this other Social Networking site to post it?

  • iluv2cutfarts

    Nevermind – I see that it prompts once you click the checkbox.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Nope.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwO6kIdgVSU PageDoll

    It worked! Yes!

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ Paparazzi Karl

    It worked great.

  • kamaka

    Do you get my reply from my iphone?….. your new addiction is an ipad?

  • chazemack

    They are beautiful, really nice. From Charles, our true addiction. Like minds, think.. :)

  • iluv2cutfarts

    Anyone want to see some incredible pictures that don’t have our trusty hotforwords in them? I know – there is no such thing as an incredible picture that does not have Marina in it, but these are worth a look-see.

    http://patrickmylund.com/blog/pictures-of-eyjafjallajokull/

  • pat

    I see there’s a lot going on down in the art class. :cool:

  • lars2

    Ahh Yes, There is so much great talent lurking on the Hot For Words comment boards !!! A great idea Marina, to turn H4W, from a ‘One Woman Band’ into an ‘Orchestra’ ! and use some of that great talent in the audience to fill-out the orchestra, and you Marina will be the conductor !!! [so as to keep some semblance of 'order' to these proceedings ! , as you know what happens to a classroom when the teacher is absent !!! How well I remember 8th grade math class !!! :grin: LOL ]

    A decade ago (?) one of the LA County Art Museums (MOCA ?) had a David Hockney Retrospective. It wasn’t until I saw one of his earliest polaroid montages of a swimming pool with lots of people around the pool (from a private collection -as it’s not on the DH webpage when I StartPage.com searched for it just now) that I finally understood why Hockney was so famous. So many of the individual photos were amazing, stunning, trippy, in themselves, and when organized into the whole ensamble it gained in the translation !

    - –

    The mind’s eye can see things so much faster than I can accomplish them in the real world.

    I’m seeing a collage of Marina photos, arranged to make Marina’s face (or more of her) by the aggregate collection !!! , like Hockney might have done !

    - – -
    I’d take on the artistic challenge to do the above idea, but !, I’m still struggling with understanding the 1945 Wheeler-Feynman paper on “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation”, which will have some bearing on what I’m doing a month from now.

    Speaking of doing something ‘retarded’ !!! LOL
    (your video on Retarded came out within days of when I downloaded that W-F science paper, after waiting years for it to be available after I couldn’t find it anywhere back then).

  • thematrix75

    Hello marina,these are some cool looking backgrounds :!: :cool: :smile: Thank you all for all the cool backgrounds :!:

  • thematrix75

    Marina I also wonder why my background picture has changed and cann’t get it to go back to the way I want it,I think it’s called gravatar?

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Hi thematrix75,
    Your user image is called a gravatar
    when the image comes from the site
    by that name which gravatar.com

    There are some issues with pulling images
    from that site. You can upload an image
    to this site. Your image would then be
    called an avatar.

    Click on your name which will take you
    to your personal channel. Click the profile
    link and look for the link that says update
    avatar. You can upload an image and it wll
    change all of your images.

  • http://favstar.fm/users/CheVolay CheVolay

    I can’t find the egress :razz: Not the white bird. ;-)

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Wow look at those collages…. Never forget how much people value you Marina! (not that I am saying you have of course)..

    Brilliant.

  • johnnysquarepants

    :shock: :grin: wow that most have taken a long time to collect all those pictures,and put them together amazing

  • Greatest Potential

    :smile: Marina, here is a wallpaper design I did for you :arrow:

    http://i39.tinypic.com/14l0siq.jpg

    ;-) perhaps it’s more a poster for HotForWords fans

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leoNard

    I like poster…how have been you? :twisted: test… :roll: good night to Marina and her HotForWords gang :smile:

  • Greatest Potential

    :mrgreen: Thankie leoNard. :o Somewhat gregarious. That’s a word that’s suppose to make me appear smart. How you being(?)

    mysterious night music

  • HotForNumbers

    Waw! … They are all great!
    One like eren_yilmaz (1) with all the pics arranged like a camera obturator would be great. But including all of them because there’s missing one. An important one
    :-)

  • HotForNumbers

    Great pictures….
    Time ago I suggested Marina to explain why Iceland is called Iceland when Greenland is called Greenland. Probably now would be a good moment.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Hello

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Hello back.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pagedoll/ PageDoll

    Hi, what’s your name?

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    email notifications not working for comments… though I believe they are supposed to. I hope having that other plugin on while activating buddypress didn’t kill them

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    OK, I’ll try some tests.
    I’m getting all kinds of other notifications,
    but haven’t tried the reply to comment one.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/brav989/ Brendan

    Hooray for nightowls :shock: :mrgreen:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Heart♥ForWords

    nice avatar?
    you mak it or wat?

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Heart♥ForWords

    You did?

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Yes, I made it. :-)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Test reply after turning comment notification OFF, then back ON again to see if it will re-initialize.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Indeed, nightowls are us

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    I did the same thing.. no go

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    You’re right Mike, there are a lot of old timers appearing here.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    i’m going to turn back on that plugin.. though I don’t think I am supposed to need it.. the settings in the BuddyPress say Notification for Replies and Comments.. so I’m assuming Comments are out here in the comments area.. unless there is a comments area in the backend.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Yes, I tried different things and I see no replies.
    The other notifications like friends request acknowledgments are working.

    At this moment, there is one friend request that has been accepted, but I am not able to acknowledge it. When I click, nothing happens. Normally, it would send me to my profile page.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    I was able to acknowledge the friend request by navigating to my profile and clicking on Pending Requests. Now, the notification is off.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pedantickarl/ pedanticKarl

    Email notifications are working great now.

  • hott4urblog

    :razz: :lol: :roll: Awesome Twitter Layout!!! PICS!!! Videos!!! Kudos to all and yours… Truely

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/originalistrick/ originalistrick

    Neat, GP!

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/originalistrick/ originalistrick

    Love that, PK!

  • BigBhd95

    ;-) to all those outstanding artists ( my opinion ) :smile:
    although you had a stunningly beautiful :oops: subject ( our dear M )
    I cogratulate you all for an excellent job :cool: well done :!:
    :cool: B.B. :cool:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/erenyilmaz/ eren yilmaz

    hi there,

    sorry if i irritate,but it’s eren_yilmaz,not erin_yilmaz :)

    have a beatiful day…

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/amei/ Amei

    Beautiful…Really wonderful
    Very Attractive

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/madcat/ Nikolas Simos

    very nice especially last picture ;-) ~rock people~

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HANJX3TRUNPLOPTG5VBEVMH7XI rogeinault

    this images very magical in looking bcos i can not deeply recognize them.
    http://geniebrafacts.com/ 

  • Anonymous

     This colour is very magical in background.Everyone have been Hobbies to become a own background colour.
    http://karenfowlie.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=687499

  • Anonymous

    I can easily a Draw a background Colour in the Drawing.some people have bee same Hobbies to showing a talent toward a other person.
    http://cebulletin.com/forum/member.php?u=22721

  • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111213224312AA4IKm4 Estelankely

     If We have more Talent to Draw any thing even we can do anything to easily draw a background colour.
    http://forum.wicked.com/member.php?37156-Selinah

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