VeGetaL PlaNet

It’s been a great day and winding it down here with this awesome spot full of glow, good music and color. If you like those things you are going to love this. Be sure to explore all around on the island, I enjoyed looking at all the sculptures and wall art pieces. WOW Art by vroum Short.

 

Go visit VeGeTal PlaNet.

Colony Collapse Disorder

I had the pleasure of visiting Ichtyo Broome and his latest art installation with Arena.

Here is a short clip of my experience.

Go see Colony Collapse for yourself, please send me a link to your pictures.

The Scribbler is creative sugar for your morning coffee

Suntree by Ravenelle

I’ve been a fan of zefrank.com for years. This past weekend I rediscovered his site when Torley encouraged me to check out a link, and to my happy surprise it was to the Scribbler.

There is also a robot that can do this on paper:

Douglas McDonald from www.tek-tonic.com and I are working on a robot that will use the scribbler algorithm to draw pictures on paper. Douglas contacted me about a half year ago after he saw the scribbler and created a version of it in Macromedia Director. We came up with the idea of creating an orthagonal plotter that will draw pictures based on images it captures through a video camera.  - Ze Frank

Their first public installation of this robot was at TED in 2005.

From zefrank about the Scribbler:

In early 2003, I saw a short film by Jenny Woo at day60 in which she had animated scribbled line drawings on top of digital video footage. The effect was charming but incredibly labour intensive. She had hand-drawn over 2,000 frames for less than two minutes of animation, a process that had taken nearly two weeks. As a result of our converstaion I became interested in creating some sort of automated digital process that would create complex and interesting line drawings.

Raw Shock by Ravenelle

These are addicting to create and I’ve done a small set that I invite you to see on Flickr. The feedback is encouraging and inspiring in itself, there is a great supportive Flickr community.

How do I make one?

You drop down an initial doodle, then use the sliders to adjust color, transparency, line width, stuff like that. It’s easy to slip into but addicting and difficult to stop. My wish is that the images could be larger. When you finish you have to take a screen shot to save them.

I hope you get a chance to take this tool for a spin, it’s free (only costing a bit of your time) and can be that little bit of creative sugar for your morning coffee.

While you are at the Zefrank site, be sure to check out some of the other fun things from his site. Two of my favorites are the Animal Noises and My Cat Annie.