more with the icon making
Sep. 8th, 2005 08:16 amso I've started making a few NYC Subway themed icons. You'd think I was homesick or something... :) But with such a rich archive of subway photos such as http://www.nycsubway.org, it's kind of impossible to resist. Anyway I dug up one I'd made ages ago but never used in the Great Icon Hunt, and made another one last night. I don't know if I'm going to go through every single subway line (though it would be fun) but I've got a good start with A and B. :)
That is not the icon you see here. Believe it or not, today's icon is not a non-sequitor. That is a piece of Masstransiscope, an art installation in an abandoned subway station a few stops away from my home stop, so I'd pass it almost every day on my way to school. Unfortunately, it's probably once again covered in graffiti and the lights have been turned off for years, which is a pity cause goddamn it's cool. You can read more about it and see the whole thing at http://www.bboptics.com/masstransiscope.html. My icon doesn't really do it justice, due to a certain 40K limit on icons. :) oh well. Another bit of interesting trivia - the artist, Bill Brand, was a Hampshire student.
Well, that's today's trivia lesson, kids. Time to go catch a bus and make some progress on that story I was writing yesterday. *cabbage patches*