August Desktop Calendar
In honor of this months release of The Weird Al Show on DVD, our favorite calendar girl, Aron, has created a very fitting desktop wallpaper. Actually, this was done a few years ago and was waiting for JUST the right month to be used. Make sure you pick up your copy on August 15th, or pre-order it now! Ya know, these monthly calendar contests aren’t difficult. In fact, for September it’s even easier for you to create something. Thanks to the fine folks at WeirdAl.com, everyone on the net now has access to the cover art for the upcoming album, Straight Outta Lynwood. Use that as your starting point and create a calendar entry based off of it. Maybe you’d like to put it on a snazzy background like this years February calendar did. The only additional rules from the normal list is that you may NOT alter the original image. That is to say, don’t try to put Al in any funny poses, put a poodle on his head, or that kind of thing. You are, essentially, creating an advertisement for the album. Secondly, instead of only having a maximum size of a measly 1024×768, we’ll kick it up a notch to say that your submissions must be in 1600×1200 for HUGE Al-goodness. That’s easy since Al even gives you that! Third, um, it must say “Straight Outta Lynwood” on it somewhere. Lastly, put the release date somewhere on the calendar. As always it must include the AA calendar and logo. Good luck!
August 7th, 2006 at 11:38 am
yeah!!
I also have the one that they released early. It was grainy, but it was still cool…
This one is cool too….
But still, Why did they change it?
August 7th, 2006 at 08:25 pm
It wasn’t wallpaper at first. They were just teaser images for the new album. Al officially put the wallpaper up later. I think it looks really great, and highly detailed. I just can’t enter the contest, because I don’t have all the bells and whisltes you need to submit an entry. I’ll just admire others’ work.
August 8th, 2006 at 01:39 am
I meant the one at http://www.al-oholicsanonymous.com/
They sometimes put up rough copies before Yankovic.org posts the final..
The other had Al in the chair (different frame) and had harvey in the foreground…
Wasn’t such a close-up…
And it wasn’t SOL..
August 8th, 2006 at 08:34 am
Awesome!
August 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Oh, sorry, I got confused with the latest news post, that mentioned the SOL wallpaper contest, and TWAS wallpaper. I believe TWAS wallpaper was changed so it would be clearer. But you’re saying the picture is different now, too? Btw, the kinda blurry version of TWAS wallpaper was up on Marty’s site on August 1st, with an explanation that after August 5th, it would be a clearer pic.