Rhea Myers

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  • More From The Creator Of kollabor8

    More cool art projects from the excellent Corey Eiseman, creator of kollabor8:

    email collaborations

    spam

    spam-scab

  • archive.org API

    http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php

    How to upload data and metadata to the archive.org repository programatically.

    I may use this for paintr.

  • It’s Alive

    I’ve moved my site to a host that can handle running projects like paintr, and I’ve upgraded this weblog to wordpress.

    I’ve converted my iBlog weblog using Agitprop, but there are problems with the conversion. I’ve fixed most of them, but some images haven’t been moved over. I’ll fix this tomorrow, and get a better theme then as well.

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    This image is derived from mmhhhh by duddu, and is therefore licensed under a Creative Commons License

    Update: Fixed most of the agitprop problems, but accented characters have been converted to their nearest English equivalent. 🙁 New theme forthcoming…

  • Yet More Notes

    http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/27/chicagos_bean_sculpt.html

  • Conclusive Proof Of Creationism!

  • More Notes…

    Public photography becoming “illegal” in the US, via Copyfight :

    Watch Where You Point That Camera.

    When public places are out of bounds, and homes are flooded with device-disabling watermarked media, I suppose that will just leave nature as a free subject for representation. Unless “Monsanto” start policing the visual likenesses of their crops, or the colours you capture are too close to a trademarked hue.

    In balance, some sanity:

    Subway Photo Ban Scrapped.

  • Kollabor8

    Via Eyebeam :

    http://kollabor8.toegristle.com/

    Collaborative image streams. Yes, yes, yes. Now for an SVG (and/or XCF) version:

    Manifesto of the Day.

  • paintr: explain yourself

    This image is derived from Anamarie by rogue drone, and is therefore licensed under a Creative Commons License

    How I made this image.

    I found a palette at colr called Scheme 6536

    with the following tags: red. And searched for them on flickr.

    I found this image on flickr: Anamarie by rogue drone (which had these tags: sister, baby, red, anamarie) and I traced that using autotrace.

    I then applied the colr palette to the autotraced flickr picture in my own unique way, and that’s this image.

    I hope you like it!

  • Programming Environments

    Processing is now at version 0.9, heading for a 1.0 release.

    Context Free is an excellent shape grammar system.

    Open Sound World is a more colourful PD.

    And finally a more standard language:

    PHP has surprised me with its simplicity and power. If you know Perl, C or JavaScript it’s a no-brainer to learn.

  • paintr: First Results

    Output from paintr running as a local application:

    paintr is not explaining itself very well at the moment, but that’s palette “Scheme 6549” from colr with the tags “olive forest” applied to an image from flickr called “Buy more bovril!” by kid for today, licensed CC-BY-SA-2.0.Learning PHP was very easy, it’s a Perly/Javascripty kinda language. And I’m amazed how quickly I’ve developed paintr in it. I wrote the scraper for colr, and there is a goof PHP API framework for flickr called Phlickr. autotrace is by shell calls, and I’m not even using WordNet yet. I need to decide whether to go for features or access first. I think it might be good to get this online sooner rather than later.

    As well as Cohen’s “Off The Shelf”, I’m now thinking about Charles Harrison talking about observing the letter of Modernism rather than its spirit. And Warhol because of how it works. And, because of the subject matter paintr has chosen(!) here, Hockney. 🙂

    It would be good if I could find web services for: an ontology, autotrace, and possibly file conversion. Doing things locally is so passe!