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Well, maybe there are new things under the sun.
Theo Jansen has built lots of these otherworldly moving sculptures, which when blown by the wind, actually walk. The one in the picture above weighs 2 tons, and can still be pulled by a single person or blown by the wind. And it has seating.
It’s hard to describe, you have to see them in motion.
Theo Jansen’s website
BMW commercial featuring these things.
I’ve always been bad at answering the question, “What do you want for Christmas?”"A new Mac Pro with 30in LCD!” is seldom an answer people want to hear, and i have a hard time keeping a mental list of smaller desired items.
This year i’m doing it right:
Here is yet another Optical Delusion to confound your eyes. I did a little exparamentation with this one. I found by changing the colors the illusion of motion could almost be removed. The attached image uses Gif animation to switch between the two states every 3 seconds. Please note, only the colors have been changed and the values reversed. I wish i knew how the colors had this effect.
Click to enlarge.
Well, i’ve been out of blog mode for a while. Since my last post i’ve been “memed” 4 times. It’s time to respond. Jeff Gray, started this meme, sharing how much you’ve traveled.
create your own visited country map
On the national map, please notice the 2 tiny dots near Japan, which i had to add by hand: Guam and Saipan. I really liked Siapan, even though the national food is Spam—seriously. Also i chose to be scrupulous and not count Japan, since i never left the airport terminal.
My total: 5 countries or 2% (though Siapan and Guam are under US administration)
create your own personalized map of the USA
Some observations about my stateside travel. On the east coast, i find the landscape of states further north almost universally more attractive than states to the south. Besides the ocean, Florida IMHO had the most bland and depressing landscape i’ve ever seen. The further away you get the better things look. In general i prefer the “personality” of the West half of our nation, and will probably end up over there eventually.
My total: 23 states or 45%
Now i’m supposed to chose 5 bloggers to pass this on to. Unfortunately i can’t find that many who haven’t already posted a travel meme.
Sarah (formerly Snook) Tountas
Ellen Bjerk (allready did one)
Peter Beninate (allready did one)
I’ve got a new version of my sister’s site up and running — just in time for her show this Sunday. It now includes a lot more of her newer work, though i hope to get even more of her newer content up in the next few days. It still needs some text content, but people mostly want to see the pictures, so here it is.
My friends at Portland Studios have recently opened a store, currently featuring T Shirts with illustrations all (if i don’t mistake his style) by Chris Koelle. Congradulations. Portland Studios has gone from a crazy idea to a growing buisness in a few years.
Should i decide to put down the money, i’d go for this one: (i can empathize with the emotion displayed)
Click the banner to visit their store.
In spite of how obvious & straight-forward it seems, visual perception entails a lot of convoluted mental processing. The fact that we so seldom notice our perception’s “blind spots” is a testament to how well it works. But there are quite a few odd circumstances where our brains give us false readings. These optical illusions, i find fascinating. Here’s one that gives an almost nauseating sense of movement.
This works much better if you click on the image to enlarge it.
I might make a series out of this…
In spine of the drab title Websites as Graphs this is a really nifty thing. It would make as much (or more) sense to call it Websites as Flowers, because as far as i can tell, it has no practical purpose other than to look pretty.1 Which is in no way a criticism.
It works simply: Enter a URI and the website unfolds like a blooming flower. That’s what makes the links worth going to— seeing the dots unfold & disentagle themselves like a living thing. As another organic touch, each unfolding is different. While the network between dots is the same, the network seems to disentangle itself different each time. If you care, the different colored dots represent different tags within a webpage. Violet represents images, for instance.
Transmogrify the website of your choice into a flower. Enjoy.
I recently ran accross this site, and i’m impressed. Most free font site that i’ve seen seem to grovel in the worst web-design of 5 years ago. Dafont.com is different. It has an attractive, clean interface. It sorts fonts into numerous categories. It credits the creator of the font. But most importantly it allows you to preview your own words in all the typefaces. What more is there to ask of a font website?
Tonight i put togther this invitation for my sister’s big art show. (with her over-my-shoulder input) I’m proud of it. The typeface is Avignon. Naturally the image is from her show. Click it to see the whole thing.
You can preview some of the stuff that will be in the show at her under-construction website. Continue reading ‘Annalisa’s Senior Art Exibition’
I spent quite a bit of time tweaking Brown as Milk the theme i used for the first month of attempting:Lucidity’s life. It’s the direct decendant of Azeem Azeez’s beautiful White as Milk theme. Probably i messed some stuff up, but i altered the CSS to support a bunch of plugins & Widgets, along with altering the already great design to something i like better. But i’ve been allured by some of the AJAX features being included in K2, so i’m dropping Brown as Milk, & making what i’ve accomplished available for other WordPress Bloggers. In my opinion it’s far from the ugliest WordPress theme out there.
You can download Brown as Milk here. Continue reading ‘Brown as Milk’
I’ve just got an account set-up and going with one of the many Microstock sites. Basicly Microstock is a way to buy stock photography cheaply, or from my perspective to sell photos via the internet with no financial risk, & little set-up. At this point i’m going to try to sell my collection of fodder— scans and photos not worthy in themselves, but useful to create other pictures. The textures in most of my illustrations & some of my design come from the fodder.1 Continue reading ‘Selling little Pictures’
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