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Maybe it’s just me, but I really do hate the clutter of adding wallpapers to an iPhone the traditional way - you have to add photos to iPhoto, make a new album, have things be a mess… Anyone else? No? Just me? Well, fine then.

On the off chance that someone else agrees - that it would be all together simpler to add wallpapers to apple’s “wallpapers” screen, and at the same time removing wallpapers never to be used (The Mona Lisa, anyone?), I thought it might be useful to write my experiences, as I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

Of course, you’ll need an unlocked/jailbroken iPhone for this (I’ve used and recommend ZiPhone) and then you’ll need to turn ssh. SFTP into the phone as root (the IP is under wi-fi settings, the password “alpine”) using Fugu/Transmit/etc and go to: /Library/Wallpaper/

From here, feel free to delete any unwanted wallpapers (and their accompanying thumbnail), as well as add more, keeping the 100, 101, 102… 119 number structure intact. Looks like you can add however many you want. And they’re all in one place!

After typing this all out, I now realize how geeky and anal this really is… Oh well

Note: I got a lot of wallpapers from GelaSkins - check ‘em out.

Spotted these bottles at Costco the other day. Click on the image for a larger look - it’s amuzing.

Yesterday was open studios here at UCSC, meaning that as as Art major, I’m just about done with this quarter. Rock. I’ve been working on two big projects - the photo series that I’ve already posted images from, and a computer-art piece that’s slightly hard to explain. I made a huge digital frame, hooked it up to flickr and skype, and made a slideshow of all images uploaded from cellphones. You then call in to this frame, control the images, and “vote” which one is your favorite. Sounds simple, but really took about a month and a half of coding. Maybe I’ll post what that all looks like just to scare some people.

The general lack of attention paid to this blog can pretty much be blamed on two art classes. As one of them results in something I can’t really put online, here’s some recent pictures from the other. planes! cars! ducks!

For my digital photo class. I like these: