Archive for October, 2006

And more goodies:

several interesting visual translations of digital photographic data into other systems. in ‘paint-by-number’, each pixel is labeled with a numeric code. bigger boxes emerge where 2 or more adjacent pixels are the same color, revealing how digital images are digitally compressed & stored. in ‘first lines’, a visual timeline of photographs taken over two months is created. the concept is similar to recalling texts: a reader might not always recall the title or author of a poem, but is likely to remember how it begins.

see also artwork color analytics

Ran across this on photographer Raul Gutierrez  site: He published this upon hearing news of the terminal illness of a childhood friend.

‘When I was a kid I imagined adult life would be a kind of paradise. At age 10 I wrote, "When I’m 30 it will be 1997 (almost 2000!), I’m going to do all the astronomy I want and stay up as late as I want every single night. I’ll eat watermelon every day and eat hamburgers cooked on a grill. After work I’ll shoot model rockets and on weekends I’ll take trips in my hovercar like in Star Wars. I’ll probably have a wife who will let me see her boobs whenever I want. We’ll read together and go camping and skinny dipping for fun. She’ll probably have long hair and a good personality. I’m pretty sure we’ll crack each other up. My friends will come over all the time to use the trampolines and the pools in the back."’

via Wit of the Staircase