Since we've all discovered that you can indeed change the boot splash video, here is my take on just that. (Borrowing such a topic from claesbas, hope you don't mind ). Four versions later and a whole lot of wasted homework time brings...

A semi/final version of it (Made in blender3D):



And the video itself:
http://sites.google.com/site/wil7ang/file/Maemo5Splash.avi?attredirects=0

Comments? Crits? As they say in artist forums.

Edit:
Background lightened, contrast improved, motion blur added. Version 5, same link as above.