Tuesday, February 9, 2010

6 to 7 - dump in LaTex, during LAFKON workshop



















































































Here is an experiment done while learning LaTex as a tool for graphic design, I've used an image from the dump (see first image) and tried to make something else out of it. [Thanks to Christoph from Lafkon, and to Ema that helped with the script].

Saturday, February 6, 2010

6 to 7 - google maps






























































Google maps snapshots can be turned in made up areas using the Python Image Module. The first image is the original one from the dump that I've used to create the others. In the second one a part of the original picture is rotated, replacing the original area the new one is confusing the viewer in the region identification, while from the third image on, I show other experiments with loops.
It seems that architects are using Google maps to study the areas they are working on, this could open up the possibility to find other sets of maps like the one I just found and mix them up!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

6 to 7 - opposite backlight



















What if we try to actually create something with those backlight shapes? I can already see how my graphic output is changing using a precise kind of input, looks fresher and spontaneous.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

6 to 7 - black pics













Among all wrong pictures in the dump, black ones made me curious! Black is not always the same kind of black, will this make you moving your laptop screen(or your head) to better understand the shapes of the squares?

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

6 to 7 - backlight



















I find interesting the amount of bad pictures you can find in a trash,
in particular the ones you can get with the manual mode of those digital new cameras. You can get completely black or completely white pictures, put a finger between the subject and the camera, or forget to put on focus. Today I've found many backlight pictures and I've tried to build something with them. For the moment is just a weird skyline but it can become anything in the future.

Monday, February 1, 2010

February - 6 to 7 - constellation




















For the next months I'll be posting about my experiments with the dumped files I had so far. This is today's test, I've opened an illustrator file with open-source softwares and I found quite interesting the result I had with Gimp. Quite funny to have a constellation turned into a black square!

Modern art is rubbish



















Here thevery first attempt to use dumped files. In the black square are displayed the number of files used, and a little preview of all of them. In this case I was just inspired by the title of an article I've read called "Modern art is rubbish", that was quite connected with the value of rubbish.

Here the link
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/modern-art-is-rubbish.