Category Archives: Art
Nothing is Original
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
Also posted in Browsers, Video Tagged add-art, advertisements, Art, 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 this? [...]
That cat does not exist
I was talking with someone on our ski trip about taking the Garfield comic strip and removing the word bubbles from Garfield as a way to show the true story in the Arbuckle house. Today I found garfield minus garfield, which erases Jon Arbuckle’s hallucinatory cat to show “the tortured mind of an isolated [...]
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Congratulations Sraedi!
A big congrats to my ol’ buddy Sraedi for winning the Skull A Day dance video contest!
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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. Curators [...]
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