Quotations

"I can't talk about my techniques, it's a trade secret, you know? It's my cloaking device." - REVS

Quotations

"I don't want to become nobody; I just want to do what I do." - REVS

Quotations

"Once money changes hands for art, it becomes a fraudulent activity." - REVS

Eldert Posts

Claim Check

Same spot, a couple weeks apart. The yellow one's traveled with me for a while. The other one's the kind I rarely keep.

Incense Supply Fig. 2

Incense Process Fig. 11

Almost over, no more room.

An Alternate Control Schema for Full Screen Cover Flow

Speaking of weirdness, and the bits and bobs of UI design... Wouldn't the new full screen Cover Flow look better, work better and be more consistent if the controls were like this?

WTF?

This anti-aliasing redraw bug has existed since the day they launched Cover Flow. Now it's even more obvious thanks to full screen. Why haven't they fixed it in any of the four updates they've pushed since then? What's the nature of the problem?

I think they're already building resolution independence into iTunes--that we're already seeing code that "works" on Tiger, but sings on Leopard. If Apple knew that all this fuzzy fugliness would disappear in a couple months when we upgrade, would they waste the time fixing it now? Nope.

Cover Flow Status

Timeliness isn't an ability of mine right now. So I let some news items pile up.



March 5th, Apple released iTunes 7.1. It now features a full screen Cover Flow mode. This is something that has been available in CoverFlow RC1.2 all along. Something I've been predicting for a while. Something that's weird in some ways. But ultimately, wonderful to see in people's hands.



Something the HTPC people just straight up needed.



Something even goofy HTPC people needed.



Capspex's put together a Cover Flow interface that browses the most viewed videos on YouTube using ActionScript and Flash.



Netapeta's made a couple of web applets that generate images in the Cover Flow style. WebsiteFlowParts allows you to skew'n'reflect one image at a time, so you have the parts to build-your-own. WebsiteFlow allows you to do the same, except using URLs as the source instead of images.

This Panel Intentionally Left Blank

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Grab Hold

I've found her before. In fact, she might have been the first. The one on the left. The one with the long straps. That placid, contented expression. That buoyancy. That peace. Both long and short were on the one I nicked this time coming back from Canada. A United 757. I guess we could have had either type of cushion. We had to be prepared.

My Sentiment Exactly

"Something about the sheer immensity of sight, of seeing so much so that you can't see anything at all, temporarily rescues Koh's work from the burn-out and ersatz mysticism that dogs his work." - Jerry Saltz

I'm a hater, but I like the light.

Image by Tim Barber

via Kathernator

Neave Strobe

My still buzzes. But it's nothing next to Neave Strobe, from which it comes--a Flash animation designed to fuck with how you see.

Follow his instructions. When you look away, the walls will crawl the way they do when you're coming up on E or shrooms or acid. Provisions: mute it immediately, and avoid if seizure or migraine-prone.

I love it, but it nearly knocked Heather to the floor. She accused me of trying to kill her, and handed the laptop back.

Phosphenes/Chemoluminescence

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Made from images by Steve Vigneau

Oil Monoprint/Galaxy

The wing sauce got out of control, throwing oil everywhere. After cool, I offset the splatter from stovetop to cardstock making a print only visible when backlit. Luckily our island is ex-printing plant.

Around

Balloons

Loft Kit

The first weekend of the month the U-Hauls arrive. The second, these flat-bed trucks. Each carrying only what you need to build a basic structure. How many have come and gone in the eighty lofts that make this building? Hundreds.

Claim Check

Yeah Just Take It

Someone wrote to steer me toward one of the nicer Flash implementations of the fliptych I've seen. Peep Eepmon. I really like that the loading animation (time normally wasted) is used to give a quick, image-only interface tutorial.

Made For This Kind of Thing

Clipped from Make Shit Break Shit

Cover Flow on the iPod

It's probably fake, and you've probably seen it (I've been slow to post), but worth noting nonetheless.

Outside The Building

The type and trim felt familiar.

Image by Urban Data