If you find yourself in need of tech support, some colorful images outside the IT and Facilities and Operations office might catch your eye. Bright yellow forms of Homer Simpson and a minion, black witches and superheros—you can’t miss the orange backdrop. All of the characters have one vital feature in common: the faces of staff members.
As Halloween approached, Facilities and Operations Coordinator India Clark decorated the board with her co-workers dressed in digital costumes. To make the pictures, she used Photoshop to replace the characters’ heads with those of her colleagues, then cut them out with an Exacto knife.
Ms. Clark learned Photoshop skills from one of her colleagues, Nate Rouke, who has an art background, helping the cartoons come to life. “It’s pretty funny. Some of them are really good, especially the Beetlejuice one. I was very impressed,” Mr. Rouke said.
Ms. Clark asked her coworkers to pick their own characters. Upper School receptionist Sami Aday, who never dresses up for Halloween, chose Superman.
“When I first saw the ratio, the head to the body, didn’t match. It was just funny,” Sami said.
At Sami’s request, Ms. Clark made the head smaller, but he still thought it was too big. After another attempt, Sami found the head too small but decided that Ms. Clark was too busy to perfect the ratio.
“Every time I pass by, I get a kick out of it,” he said.
Seeing his own undersized head isn’t Sami’s favorite thing on the bulletin board. Instead it’s Mail and Copy Center Supervisor Adrian Castillo and Campus Coordinator Matthew Koerber as the Flintstones.
Though members of the IT and Operations departments enjoy the board, its location behind the Field Gym is not in students’ typical path. Sophomore Eloise Wong never saw the pictures herself, but saw photographs of them.
“The use of cartoon characters is very creative,” she said.