The ideas for the elemental theme this far: Fire-Air: The sun, sparks flying out of a bonfire Fire-Earth: Volcano Air-Water: Rain, a whale spraying water, A rainy day, a rainbow Air-Earth: A tree (crown in the air roots in the earth), a breeze over a savannah producing a dust swirl Fire-Water: Coffee, fire/sparks reflecting in water? Water-Earth: A pool or lake, a spring, waterfall
As far as I can tell the calendar is still up for grabs if anyone wants to give it a shot. There's no obligation to go with the elements idea... It's now 100% clear that I wont have the time to work on it myself :-S As a last resort we could pass the idea on to Canonical (or save it for Dapper). This was discussed briefly on IRC. Cheers Mikkel Kamstrup On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:10 +0200, Markus Majer wrote: > Hi There > > > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb: > > >Since I'm afraid I wont be able to find the time to work on any calendar > >images myself (damn masters thesis), I figured I'd better post my > >thoughts here. > > > > > Oh, I can feel with you :o( > For me it is also a bad time, these weeks. > And the last two days, no way - on wednesday there is a meeting of my > LUG, and thursday I have to go to the dentist *sigh* > > >The basic idea is to have a common red thread or idea pervading the > >calendar images. Maybe even a history. > > > > > Thats for sure! > Even if we didnt get such a red thread for breezy, we definitely we need > it for the gay duck, ehm, i mean the drapper drake (anybody likes this > name!? *g) > > >We need six images. If we are to use any symbols they are to be > >cross-culture/religion and be non-controversive. My thought; the four > >elements. > > There are exactly six ways to select pairs of the four elements. Each > >image could display a pair of the elements in a sort of ying and yang > >way. The motives could be abstract or concrete, I have no preference, > >but my first ideas where (please help me :-D): > > > >Fire-Air: The sun, ? > >Fire-Earth: Volcano, ? > >Air-Water: Rain, a whale spraying water, ? > >Air-Earth: A tree (crown in the air roots in the earth), ? > >Fire-Water: Coffee, ? > >Water-Earth: ? > > > > > Thats nice, just only when I look at your suggestions. > We need some nice landscapes or some "everyday life" pictures, harmless, > quiet backgrounds in the sense of the word "background" :o) > > Second, your transparent png was great. Thats what I'm talking about! :o) > So anybody could have its own color scheme instead of being forced to > use brown (well, i liked it at start, but at first I am someone who > needs change, and at second I think germans generally have some dislike > of the color brown, perhaps its about ahistory..If we talk about > feelings.. But that could be a personal feeling) > > My suggestions, because I cannot visualize a sun background right now, > would be for .. > Fire-Air :a fire sparks (..out of a bonfire) > Air-Water: a rainy landscape perhaps with a rainbow (but that would be > to colorful perhaps) > Air-Earth: a air breeze who produced a dust whirl, perhaps in the savannah > Fire-Water: you mean "firewater"? ;o) no thats a little bit difficult.. > hmm.. > Water-Earth: a spring? :o) > > >I have no idea how to make the underlying idea apparent to calendar > >subscribers though. Maybe really expressive artwork could do it? > > > > > Another suggestion because these pictures called calendar: > What do you think if we make a alternative version of the pictures, with > a real calendar on it? > We're doing this for two of our clients, so they have corporate > wallpapers. But these are with the whole year included cause they didnt > change the backgrounds. > But it looks nice and its useful, too. > > >Another idea. > >It could becool to have small previews of the wallpapers to come hidden > >around in each image. > > > > > A teaser? Yes that would be nice ;) > > >An observation. > >The ubuntu logo has _six_ parts. Three circles and three arcs. > > > >Just my thoughts. I hope they'll help somebody, or else they might be > >usable for Dapper. Cheers > > > >Mikkel Kamstrup > > > But, for Breezy - because there are only a few days, perhaps we could > look what we already have, for example on art.ubuntu.com and vote in a poll? > Is the humility iconset finished right now? > There was a suggestion to include the program "gnome-art" into ubuntu - > somebody knows something about that? I think thats a nice idea. > > But now I got to work > > Greetings and good luck to all of you who work hard towards the deadline > Markus > -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art