http://technofetish.com "luck is the residue of design" -- branch rickey Thu, 29 May 2008 16:53:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stigmergy. Via Global Guerrillas. http://technofetish.com/2008/05/29/word-of-the-day/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A new tweak to the program that's generating great results. I intrduced an algorithm that assigns each color a position on the x/y grid of the whole image, and each ... http://technofetish.com/2008/05/16/attractors/ Manifestos. An invaluable resource. http://technofetish.com/2008/04/21/manifestos/ I will have a few pieces in this show: Please try to stop on by some weekend in May or June! http://technofetish.com/2008/04/09/into-the-physical-world/ I've created an account on Vimeo, which can be found http://vimeo.com/lascarides. I had posted a couple of video experiments on YouTube, but found their compression to be lame and their 10mb upload limit to cause pain, especially since I never know how big these experiments are going to be. Vimeo ... http://technofetish.com/2008/03/15/vimeo/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Deceptively well-composed, this one is. From the balanced chunky squares in the upper right and lower left to the fine cyan bisector in the middle to the dusky red squares ... http://technofetish.com/2008/03/12/balance/ Been busy lately with other computing projects. But the pieces keep streaming, one or two a day. No major changes in the program lately, except that I've widened the range of the grid size from very small to very large, which generates some chunky shapes in with the fine ones. ... http://technofetish.com/2008/03/03/the-desire-of-manufacturing-everything/ So far, I've been naming these pieces according to their filenames. They get a name according to their series-- "mixed", "super_random", "ess"-- depending on the key features of whatever I'm working on, and numbering each file in the series ("mixed_001", "mixed_002", and so on). That's fine for internal use, but ... http://technofetish.com/2008/01/18/names-and-eco-text/ 1. Display my art somewhere. 2. Launch the Radiosonde project. 3. Random acts of creativity. 4. Kites. 5. Paint. 6. Refactor my Ruby art code. 7. Get good at video. 8. Get serious. Find another gear. 9. Learn to weld. 10. Start that band we've been talking about. 11. Give voice to heresies. http://technofetish.com/2008/01/01/resolutions/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } One big change this week. Instead of building up shapes left to right and top to bottom, layering occurs from darks in back to lights in front which creates some ... http://technofetish.com/2007/12/13/lightdark/