If you have the computer game The Sims, I highly recommend going to their website and downloading a free program called The Sims Art Studio. This little program allows you to take any picture you have on your computer (it says it does both .jpg and .bmp, but I seem to have better luck with the .bmp's alone) and turn it into artwork your Sims can then purchase and hang proudly inside (or outside) their homes. You can decide how much the artwork goes for and what the little description says. Here are two pictures of what I was able to do the very first day I had it.

It's not very good quality and this is as close as the Sims camera will allow me to get. Still, it gives you an idea.

Now what I'm about to do I've never done before so I do not guarantee any success. If you're interested in getting the above photos for yourself, I'm going to try and make it where you can download into your game. Again, this may work, it may not. The Art Studio program automatically puts your pictures in the Maxis/TheSims/GameData/UserObjects folder, so that's where you should download these (if they work).

Going from left to right:

A Beautiful Pair. Not to toot my own horn, but I thought this heart-shaped photo of Russell and Jennifer Connelly as John and Alicia Nash came out wonderful.

Sundance. This was a picture taken of Russell while he was in Utah promoting his band's film, Texas.

This next picture is actually one of U2 so I'll skip it.

Black & White. This was scanned out of the 01/04/02 edition of Entertainment Weekly.

Red. This long photo goes well in hallways, I think.

There was one other picture that I thought worked but never did show up in my game. Still, I'll put it up. It's called Baby and is the black & white photo of Russell holding a wee one.

The Russell Ira Crowe Gallery