Parrot Droppings

Alias, Sin City, and others

Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:25:44 GMT

Um, hello again everyone. I know it's been a while, but then again, I suck. This is all the decent-to-good stuff I've made in the last seven (eight?) months.

9 Alias
4 Sin City
2 Clive Owen
3 Carnivale
1 Fight Club

7. 18.

Alias
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9.

10. 11. 12. 13.

Clive Owen
14. 15.

Carnivale
16. 17. 18.

Fight Club
19.

Up next: Batman Begins. (hopefully)

Lots 'o' Radiohead

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:16:11 GMT

I now have time to work on icons. I am so proud of myself. Or something. Sure, it's not a lot, but I hope you guys enjoy them. :)

7 Radiohead icons
1 Thom Yorke wallpaper

Suggestions?

Teaser:
3.

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

Suggestions

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:02:06 GMT

OK. To steal and idea from stickywicket, I'm going to have a "suggestions" post. What movies/books/TV Shows/ bands/songs/etc. do you want to see?

I can't guarentee that it will happen, but inspiration never hurt. :)

Firefox Wallpaper

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:35:50 GMT

In honor of the new release of Firefox 1.0 final, a wallpaper.

1024x768

Up Next: I'm working on Radiohead icons, I swear.

John Kerry

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:45:35 GMT

I know this is like several months late and one day from being obsolete. But, yeah.

7 black and white John Kerry icons

1.

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

(Radiohead + FMA) * much brain-eating = icons

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:21:09 GMT

Yeah. Fullmetal Alchemist and Radiohead decided to EAT MY BRAIN SIMULTANEOUSLY. And lo, there was iconage. They're experimental. As in, I tried imitating other people's styles.

Rules:
Credit optional, though HIGHLY encouraged
Commenting is good for the soul
Edit if you want. If you do, please give me credit for making the original.

20 Fullmetal Alchemist

18. 13. 5.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Angels in America

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:19:42 GMT

I was going to post sooner, but I had some FTP issues.

12 Angels in America

7. 8. 12.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.

Caps by thewlisian_afer

Miss Lonely / But you know you only used to get juiced in it

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:29:49 GMT

10 Bob Dylan

2. 7.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Icon resource post (like ignited's): yay or nay?

Firefox

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:47:58 GMT

In honor of the brand new release of Firefox 1.0PR, 5 pretty crappy Firefox icons.

1.

2. 3.
4. 5.

Manga!

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:50:50 GMT

I'll probably do some Bob Dylan icons next. And maybe some Radiohead.

12 Fullmetal Alchemist
8 Death Note

11. 12. 20.

Fullmetal Alchemist
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.

Death Note
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:16:53 GMT

I'm not dead or anything. Just in case anyone was wondering.

I've been busy with school and writing. Both of which took lots of time away from iconing. I will be making some when my schedule clears up.

Yeah.

*wanders off to do some AP bio*

Fight Club icons

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:47:15 GMT

14 Fight Club icons.

10. 14. 6.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Added sandandfog and incarnatus as affiliates.

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:17:45 GMT

16 100x100 brushes, work completely stolen off of Jackson Pollock, who is awsome beyond compare.

Comments will be cherished. Credit would be adored.

PS 7
Image Pack

American Pie

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:44:14 GMT

American Pie songset,with lots of the references of the song, featuring:
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and other stuff.

Up next: my first brush set

20 American Pie songset
1 Johnny Cash

Teasers:
6. 12. 17.

American Pie
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Johnny Cash
21.

More cleanup

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:42:14 GMT

Two wallpapers languishing on my harddrive.

Both are 1024x768

Blur, Radiohead

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:08:14 GMT

After these, I'm going to be working on an American Pie songset, simply because I love that song a lot. I don't know how large it's going to be or how long it's going to take, but it might be a while until I update again. Just as a warning.

10 Blur
10 Radiohead

6. 12.

Blur
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
Radiohead
11. 12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17. 18.
19. 20.

He's not the messiah. Really.

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:43:03 GMT

After having the username thedeadparrot for way too long, I feel bad about having not made that many Monty Python. Hopefully, this will help remedy this problem. They're not great, but they're Monty Python, which should count for something.

24 Life of Brian icons

Teasers:
24. 16. 19.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

Cleanup

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:31:38 GMT

Random stuff that doesn't really go with anything and sits on my HD looking at me stupidly. A lot of it's bad, too.

10 icons.

1. 8.

Rocking
1. 2. 3. 4.

Free culture
5. 6. 7.

Other crap
8. 9. 10.

Added stickywicket, booster_rocket, sans_espoir as afiliates.

There are actually no music icons in this post. Shocking!

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:36:16 GMT

No music icons this time, alas. Instead I have a very geeky, Harry Potter referencing, comm I'm part of that I made icons for.

12 House, er, pride icons.

Originally made for hogwarts_ch and posted into hgch_icons already.

2. 7. 12.

Sort of mocking house stereotypes.
1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

9.10. 11. 12.

I WILL refer people if you ask nicely.

TUTORIAL: Using OptiPNG

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:50:56 GMT

This is primarily for iconmakers who use PNGs.

Photoshop is bad at optimizing PNGs. Trust me when I say this.

OptiPNG - it's a free optimization tool that losslessly compresses the size of PNG files. It's main downfall is that it's techy (command line based and on Macs, you have to compile the source code yourself). Otherwise, it can take up to 30% off your filesizes, which would help with bandwidth problems and download times.

1. At the top of the OptiPNG page, download the Windows executable version.

2. Unzip it to it's own folder.

3. Move the .exe file to the folder with the files you want optimized. It's not really required, but it makes the command line stuff much easier.

4. Open the DOS prompt. For XP, open Run..., and type in "cmd.exe" to bring up the DOS prompt.

5. In the prompt, type in "cd the\path\to\the\folder\with\your\files".

6. Type in "optipng.exe nameoffile.png". If you didn't move the .exe file, you might have to type in "optipng.exe C:\path\to\folder\namoffile.png".

7. It should output something that looks like this:

"OptiPNG 0.4.5: Advanced PNG opimizer.
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Comin Truta

**Processing nameoffile.png
Input file size = 6763 bytes
Input IDAT size = 6449 bytes
Trying...
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 4983
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 1 f = 0 IDAT size = 5841
...

The best prarmeters are:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 4983

New file size = 5297 bytes (1466 bytes reduction)
New IDAT size = 4983 bytes (1466 bytes = 22.73% reduction)"

8. Your original file should now be optimized.

I'll try to figure out the best way to compile the source code for Macs later.

Comments, questions, suggestions, screaming cries for help are all welcome.

Music Icon Post of D00m

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:33:16 GMT

Yeah. It really was. 50 icons total.

5x:
Ash
Beatles
Blur
Coldplay
Franz Ferdinand
Moby
Oasis
Radiohead
Travis
U2

Teasers:
45. 40. 21.

Ash
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Beatles
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Blur
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Coldplay
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Franz Ferdinand
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Moby
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Oasis
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Radiohead
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Travis
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

U2
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

48,49, 50 made for three_chords

Oh, and a pimp for goodmusicicons. *cough* READ THE RULES BEFORE JOINING. *cough*

Mini-update: 6 King Arthur

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:33:30 GMT

All of you who are waiting for my music icons, be paitient, it's going to be massive. As of right now there's Ash, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, Moby, Oasis, Radiohead, and Travis icons. If I get around to it, there will also be Beatles and U2. If I'm feeling really motivated there will be Coldplay icons.

But, for now, here's some King Arthur icons.

5 Monty Python references/quotes
1 serious

5. 6.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

And a serious one as well:
6.

Life of Brian screencaps

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:21:23 GMT

~348 caps from Life of Brian.

Teh zip. - about 14 MB.

Comment. Credit isn't needed.

Planned icons

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:15:51 GMT

Fandoms I hopefully will get a chance to icon in the future:

Ones I haven't made any of yet:
Fight Club
Travis
Franz Ferdinand
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Frank Herbert's Dune (I know I've been saying this for months)

Newish/Only a few made:
Radiohead
Coldplay
Hugh Grant (About a Boy counts)
HP (including actors)
Moby

Old/Established:
Beatles (well, duh.)
U2
Blur
Naturey/Zen

Stuff I need to cap (hopefully in the next few weeks):
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Dune

Begging for things and/or pointing me to images/archives are a good way to push things up in terms of priority. ;) Just saying.

The British Bands Post (yes, movies about British bands count)

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:18 GMT

Was on a very large Radiohead kick. Oasis icons inspired by facingthesun. These will probably be the last because I'm quickly running out of songs of theirs that I know. I'll get to got_edge and incarnatus 's suggestions later, hopefully.

9 Radiohead
7 Oasis
3 Coldplay
4 Sid!Gary

Teasers:
2. 16. 20.

Radiohead
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9.

Oasis
10. 11. 12. 13.
14. 15. 16.

Coldplay
17. 18.19.

Gary Oldman as Sid Viscious
20. 21. 22. 23.

Added landofoz_icons as an affiliate.