Gnomicons' Journal

Once and The Frames

2006-07-29T23:33:27Z

So, apparently I lied in that last post. Or maybe not since I haven't posted any graphics of any kind for more than a year. Strangely enough, I still get comments here from people taking icons, and that makes me smile. I just don't take this all that seriously anymore, but knowing that people enjoy what I do makes me happy.

In any case, it seems that the way to get me to make icons again is to post some lovely photos from David Cleary. These icons are all from his photos and include stills from the new independent film "Once" by John Carney and assorted photos of The Frames from over the years. Enjoy!

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.

Please credit in keywords.
Don't alter.
Don't hotlink.
Check out the site and the blog (gnomeblog)
Comments are much appreciated. :-)

Batman Begins Icons

2005-06-24T02:22:12Z

This will be the last post with icons in this journal. The next post will just point to my site, where I will continue posting graphics, and my blog, where I will be announcing those updates. As noted before, my blog has a syndicated feed at gnomeblog, should any of you wish to follow me there. :-)

I've made all posts in this journal public and removed everyone from my friends list to facilitate the move.

And now, I give you 15 icons and a wallpaper from Batman Begins.

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.

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Please credit in keywords.
Don't alter.
Don't hotlink.
Check out the site and the blog (gnomeblog)
ENJOY!

A Load of Icons and an Announcement

2005-06-15T02:59:07Z

You won't know what hit your screen when I get done tonight. I have icons for Kingdom of Heaven, The Lion in Winter (the original one), The Hours, and Mozilla Firefox. Underneath this cut, there are 82 icons awaiting you. But, first, an important announcement:

The days of this journal are limited. I don't plan to delete it, however, I don't intend to update it either. Never fear! There will still be icons, wallpapers, journal headers, tutorials--all the stuff you've come to expect from me. Actually, there will be more than just that. I've opened my design blog up and am using it as a general blog, where I'll still have a good emphasis on graphics and web-design. The blog has been moved to here, and I encourage you to check it out "in person" at least once because... um, it has pretty pictures and I spent lots of time designing the templates. If you don't like simply handing its RSS feed to your news aggregator of choice, trygve has created your solution: gnomeblog. It's currently showing the wrong feed, but LJ is fixing that as I type, so don't worry.

Now, for the stuff you actually care about:

Before I start in with the icons: yes, this set has a lot of icons that look simplistic, but that doesn't mean I spent little time on them. I just felt like the movies lended themselves to a simple, clean design. That and all the wonderful lines in The Lion in Winter (which everyone should see) are too long to fit on an icon.

The Hours (textless)
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30.

The Hours (with text)
31. 32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46.

Kingdom of Heaven
47. 48. 49. 50.

The Lion in Winter
51. 52. 53. 54.
55. 56. 57. 58.
59. 60. 61. 62.
63. 64. 65. 66.

Mozilla Firefox
67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74.
75. 76. 77. 78.
79. 80. 81. 82.

Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Please don't alter.
Please don't hotlink.
Check out the blog (gnomeblog)
ENJOY!

Coldplay Icons

2005-05-29T03:25:19Z

In anticipation of the release of their new album, X & Y, I have made some Coldplay icons.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07.
08. 09.
10.

Comment if taking.
Credit me in keywords.
No hotlinking or altering.
Check out the website.
ENJOY!

Narnia and an Assortment

2005-05-19T21:56:19Z

Behold! I exist! And I come with icons. More to the point, I have 15 icons from The Chronicles of Narnia, and I've an assortment of other icons including bits of Blackadder, The Frames, PotO, and more.

The Chronicles of Narnia
01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.

Blackadder
16. 17.

Faerie
I decided at some point that Jennifer Connelly looks a lot like one of my original characters, so these icons with her were made. Sometime. I don't know when.
18. 19. 20.
21.

Geeky Icons: AERODYNAMICS!!!!
I'm an aerospace engineer. I like aerodynamics. So sue me. I least I didn't put the equations in there. If anyone feels the need to ask what some of these are, feel free. I will explain to the willing.
22. 23. 24.
25. 26.

The Frames
27. 28. 29.

Phantom of the Opera
30. 31. 32.

Comment when taking.
Credit "gnomicons" or "gnomeofsol" in your keywords or comments
Do not alter.
Do not hotlink.
Check out my website for more graphics.
ENJOY!

Four Wallpapers

2005-04-05T01:54:38Z

Hello everyone. I was going through some of my old photographs over the weekend and decided to make a few wallpapers. They're nothing fancy, mainly because I wanted to let the photos speak for themselves. All photographs are mine, which means that I hold full copyright of these. In other words, please, please, please don't make me come persecute you. :s

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Wallpapers are for personal use. If there's anything else you're dying to do with them, please ask me first. Thanks and enjoy! :D

{whisperback} icons

2005-03-13T01:41:57Z

These icons are set around {whisperback}, a marvelous example of original fiction by bandonbanshee and applegnat. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Check out the website, request access to the community, enjoy the icons.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Credit "whisperback" in comments or keywords (and include "gnomicons", too, if there's room) :)
Comment when taking.
No hotlinking.
Share the {whisperback} love.

Music Icons: Rufus Wainwright and Green Day

2005-02-24T04:47:19Z

A relatively small update, I suppose, but I don't know when I'll have a chance again, so I'm updating now. As "requested".

10 Rufus Wainwright icons
5 Green Day icons
1 Frames wallpaper
1 Tanania wallpaper (with photography from me! :D)
1 LOTR journal header
1 Rufus journal header

Rufus Wainwright
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

Green Day
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

The Frames

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Tanzania

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Journal Headers
Click for full image.

Comment when taking.
Credit icons in keywords.
Credit banners in userinfo, please.
DO NOT HOTLINK ON PAIN OF DEATH.
Enjoy! :-D

Frames Wallpaper

2005-02-10T03:30:07Z

In honor of the release of Burn the Maps from The Frames, I have made a wallpaper using one of their older songs, Fitzcarraldo. There are streaming tracks from some of the older albums on the band's website, and iTunes offers both Burn the Maps and Set List for download. I recommend both highly.

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Also, as requested by eyra, I wrote up a guide to screencapping. And, in that same vein, I have about 5200 Phantom of the Opera caps over here.

Looking for some input

2005-02-02T19:31:50Z

I'm curious to know what kind of icons you all would like to see. I have a pretty large DVD collection, and I don't mind going out to look for caps of subjects that I like. But we both benefit if the subject I'm iconing (iconifying?) is one that you'd like to see. So comment with ideas of icon topics. Think there needs to be more Princess Bride? Rufus? Casablanca? Bush-bashing? Something completely different? Tell me. I don't guarantee that I'll make icons on the subject you suggest, but I'm certainly open to suggestions.

Also, I need ideas for subjects to post on in my design blog; so if there's something that you're curious about, a technique or what not, comment here and I'll see what I can do.

By the way, the friends list has been updated (and mutualized, heh), and this post is friends-only as something of a reward to those of you who watch this place.

Thanks!

Phantom of the Opera and Music Icons

2005-01-30T02:02:05Z

This is a large update. God only knows how I managed to make most of these in the last 24 hours and still get homework done. Maybe Peter's right.

Here we have:

ICONS:

45 Phantom of the Opera
10 The Frames
5 Rufus Wainwright
2 Damien Rice

And 1 Phantom of the Opera wallpaper.

Phantom of the Opera
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

The Frames
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

Rufus Wainwright
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

Damien Rice
61. 62.

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Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Do not alter.
Do not hotlink.
Check out the site!
ENJOY!

My resources reside here, and, if anyone is interested in some of the coloring/texturing on these icons, the bases I make and use are here.

Incidentally, I've added everyone who's added this journal recently. For those of you who have just been added, I suggest scrolling back through some of the older entries. There are friends-only goodies hiding there.

Phantom of the Opera Icons

2005-01-18T02:46:09Z

I'm a sucker for this musical, and, although I still hold the musical very dear in my heart, I think highly of the movie as well. You'll have a pretty clear idea who I like best when you look at the icons.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Comment if taking.
Credit in keywords.
Don't hotlink.
Don't alter.
Enjoy!

Resources are here.

New Frames Icons and Wallpaper

2005-01-07T04:08:55Z

I finally located some pictures of The Frames, so that means that I've got some icons and a wallpaper!

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.

Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Do not alter.
Enjoy!

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the update you've all been waiting for

2005-01-04T21:17:29Z

I'm happy to announce that ~~after a near-all-nighter~~ Gnomicons is up and running! There may be a couple of minor issues in positioning and style-rendering between browsers, but nothing that should prevent anyone from using the site. I'm going to post a selection of the new icons here, but, for the rest of it including a new wallpaper and four new sets of Photoshop brushes, you're going to have to go to the site! (hint hint)

ROTK EE
01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.

Damien Rice
19. 20. 21.
22. 23. 24.

The Frames
25. 26. 27.
28. 29. 30.
31.

Spiderman 2
32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37.

Assorted
38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43.
44. 45. 46.
47. 48. 49.

Comment if taking.
Credit in keywords.
No altering.
Enjoy!

There's much more to see at the site, including new PS brushes (icon and regular), more icons and the brand-new design blog.

Disappearing Icons

2005-01-04T05:08:05Z

There are going to be lots of little red 'x's in here for awhile because I'm redoing the entire site and all of the images will be at a different URL. It will be a few days probably before I get all the old entries here fixed. Sorry for any problems caused!

Casablanca Icons

2004-09-13T23:36:01Z

This semester is kicking my ass.

But every year at my uni starts with a screening of Casablanca, and, because it's one of the best movies ever made in my book, I have a few icons. ~~And why aren't movie stars today gorgeous like Ingrid Bergman?~~

1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7.

Caps are from here, courtesy of vrya.

Comment if taking.
Credit in keywords.
No hotlinking.
No altering (including the textless one).
ENJOY!

And for anyone curious, all the small, illegible type is quotes from the movie.

EDIT: I know you all want to do me a favor and get a free iPod at the same time. Right?

Website Updated!

2004-08-30T23:48:27Z

Gnomicons has been updated! ~~Yes, I hear you all screaming, "Finally!">~~ There are new icons there that haven't been posted here as well as two completely new wallpapers: one of the band Coldplay and one of Michael Phelps.

Here's a list of some of the all-new icons (FYI: not all the icons on the site page(s) are new). I hope you'll all forgive me for being so tired of typing code that I don't retype everything here...

Tobey Maguire
King Arthur
Blackadder
Daria
Donald Duck
Coldplay
Olympics

The usual rules continue to apply. I hope that you enjoy them!

Just a dump

2004-07-15T18:27:00Z

Consider this post a massive dump of some of the things I've been doing in my utterly non-existent free time. I really am very sorry that the promised brushes have not been put up, and nor has my site been updated. I had part of it done, but then I realized that I just need to recode the whole thing from scratch, and I haven't had near enough time for that. And I won't until my summer class is over at the very least.

But my arm got twisted, so I'm sticking these up. Here we have icons from (in no particular order): Lord of the Rings, Troy, Wizard of Oz, Spiderman 2, Bend It Like Beckham, Daria, Shrek 2, and Gladiator. What's more and what I find far cooler, are the miscellaneous icons, which have everything from Writer!Pride to Engineer!Pride, and some fun text-y ones, too.

Bend It Like Beckham
01.

Daria
02. 03.

Why do I have an utterly unknown teacher in a Daria icon? Because the man looks exactly like one of my profs. I kid you not.

Faerie
(i.e. icons based on some of this stuff)

04.

Gladiator

05. 06.

Lord of the Rings
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Shrek 2
15. 16. 17.
18.

Spiderman 2
19. 20. 21.

Troy
22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27.
28. 29. 30.
31.

Miscellaneous Icons
32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37.

Text-y Icons
38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43.
44. 45.

Wizard of Oz
46.

7-8: Adaptation of a lines from the book
10: Lyrics from Into the West
11: Lyrics from Coldplay's In My Place
13: Lyrics from Damien Rice's The Blower's Daughter
20: "A hero's life is thankless and love is no more than a dream"
24: Lyric from Remember Me (?)
27: Adapted from Hector's last words to Achilles in The Iliad
28: Lyrics from Damien Rice's Volcano
31: Now on this one, I'm sure the lyrics are from Remember Me :-P
33: Who knew my Pro-E projects could come in handy?
40: This is an actual quote from a math professor at my uni.
41: Yes, they said these things.
43: A timeless quote from my first year advisor, T.

Rules:
--Comment if taking.
--Credit "gnomeofsol" or "gnomicons" in your keywords.
--No hotlinking.
--No altering.

The resources for these should be listed on my FAQ.

And, to further appease the masses
Spiderman 2 Wallpapers
Two versions because I couldn't decide which I liked more. Lyrics on both are from Damien Rice.

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As always, wallpapers are available in practically any size under the sun and are for personal use only, unless you get special permission from me.

Massive, massive numbers of icons

2004-05-19T03:04:52Z

Alright, I think I've uploaded everything, though I haven't actually updated the site. When I do, there will probably be another entry here ~~because I'll have more icons by then~~ because I intend to put up some new brushes as well.

Casablanca
01. 02. 03.

Gattaca
04. 05.

Harry Potter
06. 07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12. 13.

JRM
14. 15.

Kill Bill
16. 17. 18. 19.
20. 21. 22. 23.
24. 25. 26. 27.
28. 29.

Lord of the Rings
30. 31. 32. 33.
34. 35. 36. 37.
38. 39. 40. 41.
42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49.
50. 51. 52. 53.
54. 55. 56. 57.
58. 59. 60. 61.
62. 63.

What Elrond obsession?

Lyrics
64. 65. 66. 67.

Pirates of the Caribbean
68. 69. 70. 71.

Troy
72. 73. 74.

The Shawshank Redemption
I started making DVD chapter titles ~~like the hypocrite I am~~, but then I had to return my friend's DVD, so things didn't get done.

75. 76. 77. 78.
79. 80. 81. 82.
83. 84. 85. 86.
87. 88. 89. 90.

15: Lyrics from The Shining by Badly Drawn boy.
16: Lyrics from Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Nancy Sinatra
21: Lyrics from Everything's Not Lost by Coldplay
23: Lyrics from a song I can't remember...
25: From Don't Fear the Reaper, covered by multiple artists
28: Lyrics from The Scientist by Coldplay
29: From the Kill Bill soundtrack
54: Lyrics from What Happens When the Heart Just Stops by The Frames
60: Lyrics from Lay Me Down by The Frames
61: Entry at lotr_chorus, but I can't recall the song and artist
64: Lyrics from Live Foreve by The Frames
65: Lyrics from Stars in Les Miserables
66: From "Sea Fever" by John Masefield
67: Lyrics from Everything's Not Lost by Coldplay
72: From The Iliad

In addition to the places listed on my FAQ, these icons use brushes from crumblingwalls, serendipitysho, and gegenschein.

[EDIT: In writing this last night, I neglected the obvious: the rules.

Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Do not alter.
Do not hotlink.
ENJOY!

Thanks, and sorry for any confusion my neglect may have caused.]

Consolation Prize?

2004-05-18T20:52:20Z

I realize that there haven't been icons in a really long time. I promise that I have been making them in the few moments I've had between projects, finals, and such. All that is over now, so I should get things coded and uploaded any time now. But as a bit of a consolation, if you will, I've put up two new wallpapers, both offered in just about every resolution I could think of. Please keep in mind that the files are fairly large .jpgs, and they were originally designed for a screen that's 1920 x 1200, so things get cut out and rearranged to fit it into, say, 1024 x 768.

Kill Bill Vol. 2

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Troy

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These are intended for personal use only. Please let me know, though, if you take one. I like to know what people like. ;-)

All brushes made by me ~~unless memory fails me~~. Photos from OutNow.

Happy Icon Maker Appreciation Day!

2004-03-31T18:45:24Z

All of you are wonderful beyond words. I could try to make another list here, but I know I'll fail. There's more love from me over here, in one of my few public posts.

Thank you to all of you who make icons and all of you who come here to see my work. I appreciate all of your encouragement! :-D

Icon Maker Appreciation Day

2004-03-22T16:37:48Z

This concept has gotten a pretty good reception in some other places I've seen, and I felt the idea (which, btw, is outoftime's as I understand it) is worth sharing with all of you:

I think sometimes the unsung heroes of Live Journal are the icon makers. These are people who spend hours working on little 100x100 pieces of art that they then put out, at no charge, for everyone else to use.

It's scary sometimes being an icon maker. There's always that fear of rejection. That longing look at your inbox, hoping comments come in and your work was worth something.

Then there's the endless amounts of icon contests now, where you put your work up for judgment by your peers and you're either awarded or, more often (considering the vast amounts of icon makers in these contests) let down.

So I propose a day to concentrate on these people, thank them, whatever you feel like doing.

I propose March 31 be Icon Makers Appreciation Day.

Hopefully on that day, maybe we can go through all the icon communities and leave feedback, even if we're not taking any icons.

Maybe we can post in our journals about the icons we use, who made them, why you picked them, what you think, etc.

Maybe even us Icon Makers can make icons for the other Icon Makers.

I don't know - this is all up to you. But I know a ton of people who make beautiful icons that should be appreciated more than they already are. Not to mention those who take out extra time to run those icon communities or icon contest communities.

I hope you guys think this is a good idea. Spread the word around (you may want to reword it as I'm not feeling especially eloquent today).

March 31. Icon Maker Appreciation Day. Be there or Be 100x100. (Square? Get it? Yep. My humor is off.)

In that spirit, I've made some icons that you can use should you wish to show your support for the time and effort we icon makers put in on these little squares. In particular, I'd like to thank iconalias, both for encouraging me to get off my duff and make these, and for being so sweet that she made an icon particularly for me! *points to current userpic*

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Additionally, the site has been updated. There are some icons there that haven't been displayed here. And, in general, it's just even prettier over there. So check it out ;-)

Pretty People

2004-03-20T17:35:28Z

It's hard to say what prompted this. I don't know much of anything atm, as the drugs they put you on after removing your wisdom teeth are rather strong. Which is a good thing. In any case, I'm on said drugs. And I made icons with pretty people.

Before you click on one of the links below, I advise placing a towel over your keyboard and doing your utmost not to touch your moniter. I will not be held responsible for any damage caused by drooling or any other sign of approval of the looks of these people. Consider yourselves warned.

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39.

Blanks I Still Have
40. 41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48. 49.
50. 51. 52. 53. 54.
55. 56. 57.

Please do not ask for a blank or customized version of an icon that does not appear under the Blanks I Still Have section. I don't have blank versions of them if they're not pictured here. I'm sorry, but I didn't start to save the blank versions until today.

JRM pics from my own caps, jrm_fans and JRM Fansite
Johnny Depp pics from Johnny Depp Fan
Jude Law pics from Jude-Law.Net
Tobey Maguire pics from Absolute Tobey and Tobey Maguire Online.
Brushes used are from me, quebelly, isabellecs, and other places that are credited on my site.
Captions used come from all sorts of places including: Shakespeare, The Frames, Kurt Weill, Train, tristmasjedi and Damien Rice.

Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Do not alter. This includes icons listed under blanks. If you want me to customize them, ask.
Share.
ENJOY!

LOTR Songset with Coldplay's "Trouble"

2004-03-13T19:21:11Z

Every time I hear this song, I can't help but think of Frodo in Shelob's Lair. So I made a songset, which is a rather surprising feat for me. I've only made one full one before because I tend to have little attention span for it ;-) In any case:

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Comment when taking.
Credit in keywords.
Do not alter.
Share.
ENJOY!

This may be the last major thing that you hear from me for a little while. Spring Break ends tonight for me and it's back to the grindstone after that. We'll see how much time I get after that.

A few other notes: Gnomicons is fully updated (and quite nice-looking now, if I do say so myself), and there's a new LOTR wallpaper up there, too.

gnomicons @ 2004-03-11T20:25:00

2004-03-11T17:29:54Z

You should all immediately seek to please me by going to visit the new and improved Gnomicons.

Let me know if there's anything that's not functioning as it should be. I've spent countless hours of the last two days rewriting all the code for the site, and heaven knows I make mistakes after staring at this screen for hours and hours ;-)

Enjoy!