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Generative culture
77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo. Brian Eno is in the latest Wire talking about his forthcoming DVD-ROM, 77 Million Paintings. He also mentions coining the term...
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A few thousand science fiction covers
Seems that this has been around for a while but I’ve only just run across it. Jim Bumgardner has created a browsable “table-top” of thousands of sf magazine covers using minimal Flash and Perl...
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Another lazy meme post
Yes, I know it’s simply promotion for a movie you’ve already heard more than enough about…so sue me. This actually came out looking more accurate than I expected since some smart Flash programming...
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Word games
Wordle is a Java-based web toy which generates random arrangements of words from any text input. This is the result after pasting in the opening of the “Sirens” chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses and playing...
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Textorizer
Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text. In a similar vein, you can Textorize...
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Obsolete formats continued
Following yesterday’s post, more cassette culture. Cassette Generator allows you to make your own labelled cassette graphic like the one above. I’m not quite sure this has any compelling purpose but...
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Psoakoonaloose me
— You’re a nice third degree witness, faith! But this is no laughing matter. Do you think we are tonedeafs in our noses to boot? Can you not distinguish the sense, prain, from the sound, bray? You...
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Colorscreen
Given the time of year it’s a temptation to vent spleen and post something by the great Charles Addams. But rather than burden you with churlishness I’ll point instead to Colorscreen, a piece of web...
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Speak & Spell
Before speech synthesis became a standard feature of home computing there was this crude device for teaching children spelling, now emulated in Flash by Kevin St. Onge. Anyone who’s heard Kraftwerk’s...
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Obamicon
Given this week’s conjunction of a Poe anniversary and the Presidential Inauguration, creating this was irresistible. Obamicon.me allows you to turn any photo into something resembling Shepard...
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Buddha Machine Wall
I love my Buddha Machine, the music release by Fm3 which comes as a set of sampled loops in a plastic case looking like a cheap pocket radio. This is one music work which can’t be downloaded since the...
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Gristleism
In which the Buddha Machine returns as a bespoke instrument/greatest hits package from Industrial music outfit Throbbing Gristle. Having been a TG aficionado for many years, and being the proud owner...
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Eyecandy
Continuing a rather psychedelic week, Eyecandy is another of those groovy web toys, this time putting you inside a kaleidoscopic sphere of coloured circles whose parameters you can change with sliding...
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This Is Sand
Several hours wasted today trying to root out a computer problem so I’ve little to offer apart from this polychrome sand game. Have fun.
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Generative culture
77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo. Brian Eno is in the latest Wire talking about his forthcoming DVD-ROM, 77 Million Paintings. He also mentions coining the term...
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A few thousand science fiction covers
Seems that this has been around for a while but I’ve only just run across it. Jim Bumgardner has created a browsable “table-top” of thousands of sf magazine covers using minimal Flash and Perl...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another lazy meme post
Yes, I know it’s simply promotion for a movie you’ve already heard more than enough about…so sue me. This actually came out looking more accurate than I expected since some smart Flash programming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Word games
Wordle is a Java-based web toy which generates random arrangements of words from any text input. This is the result after pasting in the opening of the “Sirens” chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses and playing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Textorizer
Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text. In a similar vein, you can Textorize...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obsolete formats continued
Following yesterday’s post, more cassette culture. Cassette Generator allows you to make your own labelled cassette graphic like the one above. I’m not quite sure this has any compelling purpose but...
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