The Motivator is another of great tool from fd’s Flickr Toys. It lets you take any image, add a frame and a few lines of text in the style of one of those motivational posters. Of course, the text can be anything at all : there’s a whole group of “demotivational” posters created with this tool, and it can also be used for a personal message for birthday, wedding or any occasion. You can even order a print from this site.

I tried it our using the same photograph of my dog Nina that I used for the Warholizer. I couldn’t think of anything motivational to write, so I used some words from Kahlil Gibran that popped up as a random quote on the site, and that seemed to match the trusting look in Nina’s eyes.

The Warholizer is one of my favorites, used here to turn my dog Nina into a pop icon.

In Watson’s words:

This toy was inspired by Andy Warhol’s famous paintings of Marilyn Monroe. Warhol created the paintings using silkscreens to create a kind of “assembly line” art. This toy attempts to simulate the false color and silkscreen effect digitally but really it’s a thing all its own. ‘Warholizer’ is more of a tribute than anything else.