Desktop wallpapers for masamune shirow's collection of posterbooks; they originally appeared in an adult magazine in japan, I believe.

Ah yes, the desktop that inspired this very site.

I just got round to thinking that some of my desktops where getting kinda good, and I liked the feel of the phrase "digital-bondage" so here we are :).

This was my first grunge type wallpaper, but as I was farting about with the concept, I kinda ended up flipping it on its head.

So instead of a black bouckgroundwith lighter stuff on it, we have a lighter background with black stuff on it.

This is another one of my personal faves of my own.

I think this is actually one of my favourites of my early desktops.  The gun in the background is the FN-P90, which is Shirows inspiration for the Seburo range.

This is actually a second generation wallpaper. As my skills have increased, I felt more confident about doing a better job, and this one is certainly much smoother than the original was.

This is one of my earlier complex desktops (if that makes any sense).

I've tried to have a mixture of elements, and to restrict the palette of the background.

I was using this for the longest time as a desktop, and it works for me, but then I prefer a simple background. I've a feeling most people would want more than the black - like a star field, or similar.

This is up there as one of my favourite desktops of my own creation.

All it is is a couple of photoshop paintrbushes slapped sparingly onto the white background. Black and white always go together superbly well. The text came mainly from the fact that she's telling us to hush, but also because the scene is otherwise quite tranquil.

Stunningly simple, stunningly effective, I reckon. The only problem? The apparent wind direction for the grass conflicts slightly with her skirt! I forgot to flip it - oooops!

Ohhh, swirly. This is just the simple idea of the girl wandering down some sort of worm hole/tunnel thingy.

I think it works quite well, but it's not really that spectacular.

Clearly I wasn't suffieciently impressed with the level of pr0n in some of the images (:o) so when I saw this scan manipulation someone had done in order to extract something from one the posterbooks, I knew I had to use it in a desktop.

The japanese down the side said something pretty inane, but it was a sort of simplified matrix feel I was going for. I think it works to some degree. Could have done with more stuff in it, though.

With the complexity of this pictue, I figured the best way to deal with it was to do something similar to the poster book 105 desktop.  However, I was also fixated on getting a metallic feel in there somehow.

After some searching I got the source for the background and kinda tweaked and fiddled till I was happy with the pattern.  At this stage I was very happy, but I then kinda went to far.  I applied the grey swirl effect and was initially pleased, but having used the desktop for a while found it was a little jarring.

Unfortunately I was unable to satisfactorily remove the effect :(.

This is literally just a large picture from one of the posterbooks trimmed and used as a desktop.

Sometimes Shirow's stuff is just so good it's a crime to try to add or take anything away from it.

This desktop is a little disapointing.  I think the idea works, with the steel effect and the door, but I struggled quite a lot with the colour balancing.

The result, as you can see, still looks like she's been plonked on top of the texture!