Tag Cloud Etching

And while everyone is brewing ideas, any idea where I can procure a film kit for a white MacBook?

I can get something made up for you

I’ve wanted to do this to my MB Pro also. I already have a nice design in mind involving Hexley, the Darwin animal :)

I just don’t have accessing to the laser etcher, which I believe is a minor problem AFAIK ;P

I think an actual drawing might not look as nice as straight up text like that

Ya, the text looks great .. I wonder how a full-size ascii drawing would look?

I was thinking of making this to my MBP. The guys from http://www.etchamac.com do that, I asked them if I could send a photoshop b&w basic drawing so they could etch my mac and they said yes. The only problem about etching a macbook is that if you want to sell it later, it will be quite difficult, that’s why I decided not to do it.

Well at Etch-a-Mac, my fave BTW, They did sell replacement lids, if the day ever comes.

oh that’s nice – thanks for the link Dan i think i’m going to have this done :)

Do you have any design skills Eli, and want to design the UES tag cloud?

Time to Update the site Etch-a-Mac…iPod Mini…Powerbook… where’s Newton?

[...] UNEASYsilence recently posted about laser-etching (or engraving) the lid of your MacBook Pro (somehow I assume you’d have less-than-stellar results with the plastic casing on a regular MacBook .. ) – as someone pointed out, it might be hard to sell your personalized MBP if someone doesn’t dig the lid-art, but that’s what a replacement lid is for. Let your mind run wild… [...]

I hate to be a stickler but flickr TOS says you need to link back to the original flickr page.

^ busted :P

We are aware of this Paul. However there is a wordpress bug that doesn’t allow us to easily upload our images to our server. I look forward to when the patch is released to not have to rely on flickr.