Archive for March, 2009

Dogs, cats, and racecars

Friday, March 27th, 2009

The user-created generators keep on coming. Thanks this week to techi18, clydev, and udagawa!

By the way, there’s a new slideshow function in the works for combining lots of generated pictures into a single presentation. You can see a hint of what is to come by clicking the “slides” action link now showing on any generator page. As always, we’d really appreciate you letting us know if you come across any glitches, or have any suggestions.

Racecar computer

The Racecar computer design by user techi18 is a bizarre race-car/PDA hybrid that looks like it would be neither very useful as a computer or as a car.

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Family Viewing

The Family Viewing design by user clydev is a flatscreen TV in front of a family paying full attention.

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Window World

The Window World design is a set of computers demonstrating some strange operating system.

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Picture Frame

The Picture Frame design is a picture frame, tilted in perspective, for your photo.

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Girl With Laptop

The Girl With Laptop design by user clydev is a girl reaching over to a laptop on a counter.

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Oriental Fast Food

The Oriental Fast Food design is a billboard over a fast food establishment somewhere in the orient.

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Look Up

The Look Up design is a billboard looming over the heads of pedestrians on a busy street.

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Flatscreen TV

The Flatscreen TV design by user udagawa is a flatscreen TV on an electronics-filled cabinet, beside a stack of household debris.

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Japanese Subway

The Japanese Subway design by user techi18 is an advertisement in a Japanese subway train.

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German Office

The German Office design is a billboard on a German office building.

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Billboard Buildings

The Billboard Buildings design by user techi18 is a street that is more billboard than buildings.

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Cat Meets Laptop

The Cat Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a cat cosies up to a laptop. It is probably nice and warm.

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Man Holding Sign

The Man Holding Sign design by user clydev is a man wearing a business suit holding up a sign. He looks determined and resolute.

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Van Screen

The Van Screen design by user techi18 is a van with screens on the sides for advertisements.

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Wrist Computer

The Wrist Computer design by user techi18 is an unusual looking wrist-based device with a stylus interface.

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Dog Meets Laptop

The Dog Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a dog sniffs around a laptop, maybe looking for browser cookies.

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Bears and bright lights

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Another round-up of new user-created generators. Some are classic billboards in big cities, some are less conventional (Bear Picnic, I’m looking at you). Enjoy! By the way, if you want to make your own generator, the power user page is a good place to start.

Tokyo Lights

The Tokyo Lights design is a cascade of billboards in a Japanese city.

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Times Square Night

The Times Square Night design is a bright billboard on the side of Times Square, in the dark of night.

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Mobile Billboard

The Mobile Billboard design is an ad on a mobile billboard truck.

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Funny Poster

The Funny Poster design by user clydev is a woman looking at a poster (or the mirror) and smiling.

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TV on Fridge

The TV on Fridge design by user udagawa is a TV sitting on a fridge, beside a PC. All the necessities of life.

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Silver TV

The Silver TV design by user udagawa is a TV screen with a remote on a wooden counter.

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Open Air Cinema

The Open Air Cinema design by user clydev is an outdoors movie screening.

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Pronged Sculpture

The Pronged Sculpture design is a piece of art with an overlay.

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Road of no return

The Road of no return design by user clydev is a billboard by a side of a windy, twisty road.

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Couch Portrait

The Couch Portrait design is a comfy couch with space for a portrait-oriented picture behind it.

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Bear Picnic

The Bear Picnic design is a bear at a picnic table, with his hairy paws on whatever you want.

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Phones to hips: weekly round-up

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Here’s a round-up of the new generators on MakeSweet this week:

Classic Cellphone

The Classic Cellphone design is a regular cellphone with your photo on its screen. Based on a public domain graphic made by tonyk, found in the Open ClipArt Library.

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Mp3 Player

The Mp3 Player design is a stylized mp3 player with your photo on its screen. Based on a public domain graphic made by mckayc, found in the Open ClipArt Library.

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Piccadilly Circus

The Piccadilly Circus design is a billboard at a busy intersection in London.

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Pedestrian Crossing

The Pedestrian Crossing design is a billboard looming over a pedestrian crossing area.

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Pot of Gold

The Pot of Gold design is a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow, full of gold coins with your loved one’s face on them (or whatever you want).

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Sofa and Screen

The Sofa and Screen design is a screen behind a stylish couch.

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Times Square

The Times Square design is a high, thin billboard set in crazy Times Square, New York.

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Apartment Billboard

The Apartment Billboard design is a billboard placed over an apartment building. Hope noone is living behind it.

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Skyscraper

The Skyscraper design is a billboard across the top of a gleaming skyscraper.

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Hip Tattoo

The Hip Tattoo design is a tattoo just above the hips. Photo by bjornmeansbear, used here under a creative commons license. Our modifications are available under the same license.

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750 Any Street

The 750 Any Street design is a billboard downtown, with the sky and a skyscraper in the background.

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Revolutionary Sign

The Revolutionary Sign design is a billboard behind a stall for a left-leaning organization in Italy.

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Back of a Van

The Back of a Van design is a space on the back door of a van.

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Saint Patrick’s day animation

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

We’ve made a nice and cheesy pot-of-gold animation for Saint Patrick’s day, coming up on March 17. Put a photo or text on the gold coins in a leprechaun’s stash at the end of the rainbow:

Happy St Patrick’s day!

We’ve had a bit of internal disagreement about what the treasure in the pot should look like. Noemi thinks the rotating-glowing-globe looks silly. However, she admits that the number of leprechauns she’s met in her lifetime is in the single digits, so I don’t see how come she’s this big expert on pots of gold all of a sudden.

However, if you also think the coin-ball is daft, you can instead float a picture on the surface of the Chicago River, dyed green for Paddy’s day every year:

River Dyed Green for Saint Pat’s day

Enjoy!