Iconography: a top 10 list

If you are new to waymarking let me explain the website's icons. Each category on waymarking.com has its very own tiny square icon. Each waymarker has their very own profile page and on that page is a tab that shows you a large grid. Each square on this grid represents one category. The square will be filled with the category's icon once you have posted or visited a waymark in that specific category. We waymarkers, already a compulsive bunch, have become even more so since Groundspeak introduced this grid feature to the waymarking user profile.

Anyhow, I was looking at the Waymarking category grid and there are some of the icons that just make me laugh and some that I think "how does she do that with so few pixels?" Groundspeak's icon creator extraordinaire, Koko, goes above and beyond the call of icon duty at times. I believe the following are her top ten masterpieces.

1. The waymarking whore (aka Dance Club icon) - need I say more?
2. Beatlemania - fab
3. Nude beaches - hilarious! - I came upon a similar scene when I was hiking in Olympic NP last year.
4. Martial Arts - It's a Shaolin showdown!
5. Pet Cemeteries - I love Fido's ghostly head floating above the tombstones
6. Japanese Gardens - Okay, not funny, but very cool icon. I'm especially partial to it since I created the category.
7. Shoe tree- this is one of those where I wonder how she got that image with so few pixels. Very cool.
8. Postcards - This icon perfectly captures the category
9. Disney Benchmarks - How can you resist a benchmark with ears?
10. Ginormous everyday objects - A giant hot dog - what more can you ask for?

There are probably some great ones that I missed, but you have to admit, these 10 are classic.