Other people's icons

[vilakins]

Doing that icon meme yesterday reminded me of some excellent ones I've seen in my LJ travels. None of them are mine, so I can't offer them to anyone, sorry. Warning: most are animated, but they're there because I think the animation's really well done.

Escher, Che Groucho, a twisty maze, and Hello Cthulhu


Trying to give a damn. I've seen this one around a lot, but I still think it's clever.


Two grey cats I'd like to nick (they both remind me of Claudia) but my ethics prevent me. Maybe I'll draw her, or take a picture of the plate I painted her and Tessa on last year and iconise it.
OTOH I found these two separately and about six months apart, yet they seem to be by the same artist and of the same cat. Is it a well-known fictional character and therefore available for me to find and make my own icons of?


Planets! I found this one recently and I love it for being about astronomy (well, planetonomy) and having excellent timing.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Those are some cool icons. I'm especially impressed by the Escher one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have an Escher book and that one's in it.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I adore Escher. It's very cool to see him animated.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saved the Escher and the planet ones - along with a heap of others I'll never use - simply for the joy of looking at them :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's why I save them too. :-)

[kerr-avon.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are fantastic.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are. I've been seriously tempted to use them, but I feel I ought to have only icons I've made or taken from someone who offered them.

[kerr-avon.livejournal.com]

Yep, me too. I've saved at least one somewhere that I'd never use cuz it wouldn't be right. It's an animated one where a little stick figure guy notices the 'x' of a non-working icon and prods it with a long stick until the picture appears. Wonder where I put it...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Post it in a comment; I'd like to see that.

[kerr-avon.livejournal.com]

If I could find it, I would. I had saved it to ORmAC, but she's dying and I've pulled data from her in random chunks of assorted folders. It's going to take a while to sort out what I can transfer to the new mac later.

[labingi.livejournal.com]

I especially love the Escher and the Hellow Cthulhu. That Escher one makes me wonder what kind of art we would have seen if he'd lived in the age of CGI.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love his stuff, including those that aren't patterns or optical illusions. I particularly like the ones of watery reflections I have in a book of his work. [googles] Here they are (http://www.mathartfun.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/EscherPosters3.html). Scroll down for 'three worlds' and 'puddle', even though they're small versions.

[labingi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I love Escher too. I actually have the top (waterfall) image as a completed puzzle. I also have a puzzle of "Metamorphose" that's been through about three moves with me, but I somehow lost track of it in my latest move. I hope it's at my parents' house somewhere...

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

These are what I aspire to be able to do and probably never will. The planet one is the one I would grab and use if I could quiet my conscience sufficiently.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too, but I can't.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Ooh. The maze is impressive; I hadn't realized you could do that much within the file size limitation. And I just realized that the planet one is based on the llama song, which makes it all the funnier. And hypnotic. Must... look... away... now...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have to sing along with it. :-)

The maze one has lots of frames but they're very simple and in B&W. So effective though.