Pic Of the Day: Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Rendered In Windows Blue Screens

Leander Kahney ()

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Remember that famous mosaic portrait of Steve Jobs that Fortune commissioned made from popular Apple products?

Well, a reader of Day Lyon’s Fake Steve blog created this portrait of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer from snaps of Microsoft’s most memorable product — the blue screen of death. Check out the detail of Ballmer’s tongue:

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This is actually quite astounding. Dear Reader Fraser has created a mosaic using 80 random Windows crash shots to portray Uncle Fester. Below is a detail of the tongue. Click on both to see them in greater detail. The full file is really amazing — we hope to make it available as a download soon so that you can print it out, frame it, give to people you don’t like as a winter solstice holiday present — you get the idea.

For what it’s worth, Fraser says he’ll create a poorly drawn portrait of anyone — just check out his site, PoorlyDrawnPortraits.com. Much love, Fraser. You sick bastard.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/sinobytes/ SirSteven

    “winter solstice holiday”? what’s that? perhaps you mean ‘Festivus’…

  • Aaron

    can’t you just collect heaps of bluescreens, then set them up and a pic of ballmer as the mosiac picture screensaver. then take a screen capture?

  • Peter

    Oh, yes – Joyous Festivus to everyone! and you can you MozoDojo to do the trick.
    But great picture, Fraser! (it’s always easy to reproduce if you got the idea).

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    That is staggering. Must have taken him ages. Well done to the creator.