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| Sunday |
the Twelfth of October, 2003 |
Due to crushing popular demand, another Photographic Chinese Whisper
will begin shortly. Maybe even two at once, as I'm being torn between
a few variations:-
- The same as before; taking a photo that generally matches the
previous one and passing it on.
- One where (at Joh's
suggestion), participants just try to guess the general theme of the
previous picture, and replicate it.
- One where digital manipulation is actively encouraged, to the
point of dredging images.google.com for
things to paste in.
Leave your name in comments, along with which of the three you'd
like to take part in (more than one, if you like) - I'll start any
that more than ten people sign up for.
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Hmm, another Dynasty of BlogNomic is about to end. But I need to post this blog entry for it to happen.
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| Friday |
the Tenth |
Improve your life: I mentioned this a while ago, but only noticed the full
effect a few days later, and it seems to be permanent. If you take a minute to listen to Francisco Tarrega's Gran Vals,
the thirteen-note extract that makes up the Nokia ringtone will
become less annoying. Or your money back.
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| Thursday |
the Ninth |
Wonderful - Adam has put together a
morphing video of
the Chinese Whispers photos, nicely tracking the motion
of the picture elements (particularly the coins), and showing how
to create a potted plant from a blob of plastic bag.
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| Tuesday |
the Seventh |
The Chinese
Whisper photography experiment is over, and results are up. See: A newspaper turn
into a book! A plastic bag get smaller and darker until it's a camera case!
Loose change arranging itself into the shape of a cross, before disappearing coin by coin! The
spontaneous generation of crumpled paper! Why I need to get a new camera!
Etc.
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Around the time that I mislaid that yellow pawn last month,
the Big
Urban Game happened; three teams of psychogeographers, each
lugging a twenty-five-foot pawn around an American city,
Land of the Giants style. The yellow one lost, though. The
gods are displeased. [via Holly]
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| Monday |
the Sixth |
"The discovery that they seem to be turning on each other
at such a pivotal point in the species' existence could be unsettling to
squid lovers all over the world."
The violent perils of biomass domination are let loose, exaggerates some journalist, as giant squid cannibalism shadows an inky doom for squidkind. On an octopod message board, however, the quoted scientist despairs.
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We trod on Bump
at the Fabrica gallery,
on Saturday. A walkway of wooden planks, connected by Internet
to an identical walkway at a museum in Vienna, with footsteps on
one causing inverted shudders on the relevant boards of the other.
Difficult to tell how much lag there was in the system, but being
chased by erratic Viennese ghosts is a worthy experience. It's on
'til the 20th. [via Adactio]
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