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San Diego State Wallpaper

By cjm — September 22nd, 2011 at 11:58 PM — 21 comments
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Here goes attempt number three of the season (I did not make a wallpaper for week one because BlueIndy already had it covered here.)  I did a couple looks last week and ended up with the bald eagle sitting in a large jail cell looking all dejected.  I struggled with taking the nations great bird and portraying him in a negative way.  

As I approached this week's wallpaper I had another internal struggle.  I had a hard time finding a tasteful way to place the Aztec within the grand scheme of Michigan destroying another mascot/school on the way to a B1G title and top ten finish of the season.  Maybe it is the pastor in me that hates to offend.  So I gave it a couple days to see if anything less offensive resonated with the creative juices.

I ended up thinking less along the lines of the mascot and more along the lines of this being Brady's last place of residents and how they must have felt about losing their coach.  I thought about something along the lines of Coach walking along the intersate heading towards Ann Arbor.  I considered him pointing instead of hitch hiking.  I ended up with a simple concept of what they must feel like when a coach that they have loved (after all we have quickly grown to love him) just vanished and left town.  As I said, it is simple but I am not a photoshop guy with a ton of time.  I tried very hard to get a head set in the picture that was just tossed on the ground but I could not get the right depth and lighting/shadowing.  This is all I have to offer.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 12:02 AM | Nice work (Score:2)
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I like it. Creative.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 AM | Is it just me or does that (Score:2)
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Is it just me or does that football look a little deflated?

 

Nice wallpaper though.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 8:29 AM | IMO, just you. Maybe it's the (Score:1)
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IMO, just you. Maybe it's the color or something.

“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo 

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September 23rd, 2011 at 7:50 PM | It is (Score:2)
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You can tell by the pixels that it was shooped.  

All the dots are the same.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 1:14 AM | I like it (Score:3 Normal)
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I like it, but isn't this the type of thing that should come out on Monday so we can have it as our wallpaper all week in anticipation of the game?  It's a good conversation starter during a boring lecture, but now I only have one class left this week.

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

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September 23rd, 2011 at 1:29 AM | im not seeing it here, Lloyd (Score:2)
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hmmm <HAUGH>, She's unlisted...

 

So, yeah, I actually don't see where this wallpaper is. Do I need a certain amount of points to view the image? I keep clicking on "cjm's blog" and I don't see it, so I go back I click on "San Diego State Wallpaper" and it takes me here...not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Any suggestions?

Wherever you go, Go Blue!

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:27 AM | Clicking on the "cmj's blog" (Score:1)
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Clicking on the "cmj's blog" link will just take you to all of the diaries he's created. If you haven't tried right clicking and opening in a new window, try that. Or I'll post the picture below.

cmj's SDSU Wallpaper:

Go Blue!

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September 23rd, 2011 at 6:48 PM | sweetness (Score:2)
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thanks Justin

Wherever you go, Go Blue!

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September 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 AM | Wallpaper posted on Monday... (Score:5 Normal)
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http://mgoblog.com/content/video-all-varieties-emu#comment-1246946

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:12 AM | Do you have other wallpapers (Score:1)
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Do you have other wallpapers too? You should post a link to your photo album

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:24 AM | Since monuMental is doing (Score:3 Normal)
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Since monuMental is doing backgrounds for the rivalry games, I didn't do Notre Dame, but I did backgrounds for W Michigan, E Michigan, and San Diego St... I posted them all up on my old photobucket account...

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/daveihp/

I'll continue to post non-rivalry game wallpapers on Mondays, but don't have 100 points yet, so I'll have to hijack [ guilty :-( ] to do so... you can just go to the above link on Mondays, though, until I get enough points.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 1:13 PM | On Monday if you come onto (Score:1)
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On Monday if you come onto MGoBlog I'm sure you can find someone who will post for you. The added benefit of that is one of the mods can bump you to 100 so you can post your own, that's happened several times since posbanging went down.

If you don't want to just ask some random person I'll post it for you once I see you have it up (if you want me to, either way). You're doing good work, keep it up.

Edit: Misopogon got yo back, congrats on the point bump.

Go Blue!

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September 23rd, 2011 at 10:34 AM | I agree that one of us will (Score:1)
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I agree that one of us will get it posted for you when you are ready and most likely you can get a bump to 100 points from a mod.  I did't even know you did an Eastern one till I saw this post.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:02 AM | is there a link to a bigger (Score:1)
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is there a link to a bigger version?

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:41 AM | Not the Big House (Score:2)
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I'm still trying to figure out what generic football stadium this is... definitely not Michigan Stadium.

"The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack, and the Strength of the Pack is the Wolf."

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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:54 AM | Not sure, but I think it's (Score:2 Normal)
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Not sure, but I think it's SDSU's stadium. The sign wouldn't make any sense in the Big House, would it?

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September 23rd, 2011 at 10:37 AM | This is just a generic (Score:1)
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This is just a generic stadium.  San Diego State plays at Qualcom field and I couldn't find the right shot there to use.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 AM | Love it, but if i could (Score:1)
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Love it, but if i could change one thing, it would be to replace the fictitious I-6 with I-8, which actually runs right by SDSU's campus.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 10:38 AM | Link to larger (Score:2 Normal)
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Link to larger file...

http://gallery.me.com/cmalott/100550/sdst/web.jpg?ver=13167500050001

Also andrewG. Totally missed that.  I was trying to get it done quickly and had the typo in there because it was supposed to be Interstate 8.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 6:24 PM | i'll forgive you... this (Score:2 Normal)
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i'll forgive you... this time.

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September 23rd, 2011 at 7:37 PM | Local SD Pizza Coupon-from my email inbox (Score:1)
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I live a couple miles from SDSU campus..get pizza from this place, and this was in my in-box today.

 

Mom, MGrad and life long fan living in So Cal

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