Tag Archives: Art
Somebody get that monster a cookie
I love the Bergen stop on the F train. Someone is always improving the terrible advertisements. This one was too good not to share.
Church Music
The mighty Jeff Crouse just made us all a bunch of spacey Church Music. All the glory, but now hot and synthtastic. Seriously – here’s a hot sample. St. Anne’s Prelude
How could you hack open subtitles?
The Miro open subtitles project just got funded at kickstarter. The promise is an open source of subtitles for video. Now the subtitles won’t be restricted to the people who made the video. They are anticipating use for the hearing impaired and for translations. Why am I excited? The project is also designed to make [...]
Posted in Art, Pals, Politics, Video Also tagged decentralization, kickstarter, miro, opensource, possibilities, subtitles, translation Leave a comment
Making Context Free Art
If you are reading this post in your feed reader, you’ll want to click through to my actual website. Trust me on this one. I was really impressed with Aza Raskin’s ContextFree.js experiment. I like how the simple rules of a context free art piece generate complex forms. See below, that text will turn into [...]
Posted in Art, Browsers, Design, Dev, Hacks, Pals, morelight Also tagged context free art, javascript hacks 5 Comments
How to install Add-Art
Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video. Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Posted in Art, Browsers, Video Also tagged add-art, advertisements, extensions, firefox, Video 1 Comment
It’s not just vandalism, is it?
Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building. Sometimes it is much better. This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for [...]
Ramblings about add-art
Ignore this, it is just a braindump from the train. Unless you want to help out. I’ve started working on a project called add-art. The idea is to turn advertisements into beauty. It is based on the popular ad-block-plus firefox extension, but instead of leaving holes where advertisements are removed, it would insert art. [...]
Posted in Art, Dev, Hacks, Software Also tagged add-art, eyebeam, firefox, flickr, opensource Leave a comment
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