Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:00PM Just so this little joke is forever out on the Intertubes.
Update 4/9/2009
Aaron suggested I also post on how I came up with this. Basically, about a year ago, we were up at the Dobbin Road Starbucks for Co-working Friday. Aaron was becoming somewhat of a B-list web celeb and we were basically having some fun with him about that. Being the aging punk that I am, I remembered the old "andre the Giant has a posse" posters from the 90's and figured that I would poke fun at him a little bit using that theme. So I started with a basic image from Aaron’s flickr page (with permission).
Next, I opened up photoshop and cropped just him out (but included the coffee cup) and turned it to plain old b/w with what seemed to be the right contrast. Then I went on the hunt for old Andre the giant has a posse images to grab elements from. I started off with the border and put that into place. Then I grabbed the text of “has a posse” and put that into the right place. After that, I grabbed the Technosailor logo from technosailor.com, inverted the image, took out the background color, and converted what I had left to greyscale. Then it was just a matter of putting that into place and fiddling with it enough to make it look decent. Now, I have a handy PSD that I can then tweak at will. See here for an example.