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This month’s calendar wallpaper (and non-calendar companion) has a mysterious, vintage feel.  Dark shapes and strange symbols and half-forgotten memories drift across the periphery of your awareness and you’re not sure if those strangely familiar shapes are ominous or welcoming.

This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar, as well as an iPhone version.

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960

iPhone
320×480

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We’re starting the new year off with a brand new calendar wallpaper.  This time we went all out and made one for those of you sporting dual monitor setups.  This design started with an idea I started playing with a couple months ago for a blog background.  It didn’t work for that, but I came back to the idea when I wanted to change my logon screen background.  After that, I wanted to experiment with turning it into a wallpaper that spanned my dual monitors.  The only real driving design idea was to keep it dark so it doesn’t light the entire room at night with the lights out, which is often my goal when designing wallpapers.

If you’re using the dual monitor version, the left contains the January calendar.  There isn’t a dual monitor option without a calendar, sorry.  All other sizes have a calendar and no calendar option, including the iPhone version.  Dark Clouds comes in the following sizes:

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

iPhone
320×480

download Dark Clouds 1.2 MB
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You may think that magick doesn’t exist; that if it ever did, it abandoned us when we became an industrialized society. But I think that’s wrong. Magick is still here – it’s switched from analog to digital, it’s embedded in hypertext and video compression algorithms. It’s transferred into our homes along copper and fiber-optic ley lines. Urban sprawls and social networking sites become massive nodes that contain the dreams and reflections of thousands of souls. Finding the layer of magick under the surface of things is the inspiration for this month’s wallpaper. I chose warm colors to represent the end of the summer and a time when our lives were defined by the changing of the seasons and the cycles of the sun and the moon.

urbanshamanism comes in a calendar and a non-calendar version, for widescreen and standard monitors.  The wallpaper comes in these resolutions:

1920×1200
1440×900
1600×1200
1280×960

Download urbanshamanism 2.8 MB
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