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Near-future Ikea catalog: the Internet of Things’ flat-pack as a service
mostlysignssomeportents: Julian Bleeker and his Near Future Laboratory have followed up on theiramazing Skymall-of-the-future catalog with an imaginary near-future Ikea catalog that jam an insane amount of witty futuristic speculation into elegantly presented, arresting images. The whole catalog is a brilliant exploration of the way that the Internet of Things will change our economic and…
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The Beatles, live on YouTube
jkottke: Did you know The Beatles have a YouTube channel? On which they have only posted three videos in the past year? Do you even know who The Beatles are? I mean, they aren’t on Spotify or any other streaming music service so maybe that won’t be an absurd question soon. After all, current and…
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apatosaurus: obsessionfull: shorterexcerpts: peterwknox: poldberg: A late night interpretation of Jesus’ thoughts about rich people by Sensitive Mark. Not enough notes on this post. But as a Sunday School graduate, I enjoyed this. Also pretty sure “give it away” does not mean “to your already spoiled children” but $2 says at least one asshole will call…
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From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality’s shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white. The real world, as most of us know (if not all presidents and prime ministers), is rarely…
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Army dudes in yoga poses: now an article of commerce
mostlysignssomeportents: Yoga Joes started life as a wonderful, weird Kickstarter to produce a set of nine “Green Army Men” in yoga poses; having raised over $100K in direct sales at $20/set ($10 for military personnel) Brogamats is nowselling them in retail channels at a $28 premium, for all nine: “headstand, meditation pose, cobra pose, warrior…
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code drawing 128
code drawing 128, various states, created 2015-10-26. I added another sprite that would clone itself to bring back the drawn lines. I had each one of the clones of the line drawing sprites move to the back of the composition as it was created. each of the drawn lines has a variable speed of drawing,…
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code drawing 127
code drawing 127, various states, created 2015-10-25. expanded the variability of the invisibility, and made the horizontal shape 2X larger. at some point during the explorations for code drawing 126 I also limited the number of clones being generated to 50 vertical forms and 50 horizontal forms. this lets the drawing move much faster.
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code drawing 126c
code drawing 126c, various states created on 2015-10-25. the last drawing had colors that were a bit too uniform in their value because they shared the same transparency. I added variability to the transparency/invisibility of the forms when they are created. once created, they remain stable with respect to color and transparency. the vary in…
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code drawing 126b
code drawing 126b, various states, created 2015-10-25. increased the size of the forms and let them run. in the post for the last drawing I misspoke. I mentioned transparency, when I meant invisibility.
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code drawing 126
code drawing 126, various states, created on 2015-10-25. constrained the motion of the forms once again, limiting them to either X or Y but not both. increased the transparency of the forms to 90% (may be expressed, or understood, as 10% opacity). Hopscotch represents alpha as a percentage of transparency. 0% transparency is 100% opacity.