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March 2007
March 30, 2007
illegibility
I've long held a fascination with creating practically impenetrable typography. It must be something in the water.
March 29, 2007
March 28, 2007
Cursor Wednesday
There's just no smiley like a full-bodied smiley. As I type this I'd like to be in the same place as smiley #1 because I'm feeling a bit like smiley #3 because I'm in a position akin to smiley #5. I am, however, holding out for a smiley #7 to suddenly appear and work some #6!
(The above cursors are presented at 200% to show detail and to discourage their usage elsewhere. Heed the warning or face a wrath of smiley #10 proportions.)
March 27, 2007
pachyderm music
It never ceases to amaze me how many fantabulous record albums have yet to be transferred to CD - whether digitally remastered by a crack team of lab-coated audio scientists or not. Thank heaven for vinyl rippers!
Since I've never seen the unofficial sequel to the film Born Free it's probably best if I allow the insightful customers at Amazon to supply the DVD details. But what I can say authoritatively is that the soundtrack, which can be snagged via Basic Hip Digital Gold, is whimsical cinema funkiness. You're one groovin' elephant, Slowly.
March 26, 2007
March 23, 2007
forty-five by forty-five
It was well past my bedtime the night I stumbled upon PixelTime. I was face to face (actuallly, face to monitor) with a java (or javascripted, or whatever) toy which allowed the online creation of pixellized artworks. "Groovy!" I exclaimed, only half awake.
It was a gorgeously pixelled place. To the side of the toolbar and workspace was this small pixellated head which offered helpful advice and dispensed kind encouragement. PixelTime featured an ongoing competition in which a subject was presented for users to interpret in pixels, hopefully winning the favor of the judges and thereby snagging some prizes.
But what those prizes were I never learned. Within a few weeks after I discovered PixelTime it vanished. I kept revisiting the URL, but to no avail. Fortunately I'd managed to make a screenshot of my archived works just before the big disappearance.
Years go by and I discover this fellow's site which hosts a small tribute to PixelTime and details the reasons for its demise. Besides this gentleman's collection of creations, there seems to be no more information on the web about the subject. A really wonderful bit of imaginative fun has been tossed into the dustbin of pixel history. Sigh.
"encounter and inherit"
Todd Marrone's guerilla art tactics have long fascinated and inspired me. Somebody get me some art supplies, stat!
March 22, 2007
Longhorn versus Tiger
Even though I prefer a Mac to a PC like I prefer a soft pillow to a poke in the eye, I've become a bit weary of the insults, the rhetoric, and the evangelism. Can't we all just get along?
