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• 6:03 pm on May 27, 2009 Permalink
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  Books by the week now – Snowcrash 

  OK Well it’s been far too long since my last post so I’m going to go ahead and make one. Doing a book every day was getting a little crazy so I’m going to cool it a bit and go weekly. I got pretty far but I just ran out of time to do it every day.

  Anyway, I think I’m going to make Wednesday book day for no reason in particular.

  Todays book is Snowcrash, which is a kind of post cyberpunk classic. It spread in a virus like manner amongst my group of friends in the late 90′s and I basically had to read it to be able to follow any conversation that was going on for a period of a couple of months. It has what I think is the best opening of any book ever.

  

   

• 8:53 pm on May 12, 2009 Permalink  

  A brief hiatus 

  I’ve gone missing from here the last couple of days. Took off for the weekend to a place where the bandwidth is narrow, and the various other busy making things in life took priority. I guess I’ll pick up the books thing again and see how well I can catch up. Or maybe I’ll just take this opportunity to call it quits on that project and start the new one I’ve been thinking about.

  I think I may have just about exhausted the different kinds of pictures I can take of books, as well as the trite little things to say. But who knows, maybe I just need some other inspiration.

  Be back shortly.

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  • fynflood 8:23 am on May 13, 2009 Permalink

    I would suggest building DIY stuff to enhance the photos… light box, flash ring. Play with different light colors in the box. That’ll make it more fun I think.

• 9:40 pm on May 5, 2009 Permalink
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  Dune was one of the first adult novels I ever read on my own.  I’m not sure where I got it from, probably the library, but it took me forever to read it. I also saw the David Lynch movie somewhere in the middle of reading it for the first time. Or rather, it was most likely the disavowed Alan Smithee version of that particular production. So that’s forever tainted my view of the book. Unfortunately whenever I imagine Feyd Rautha it’s always Sting yelling “He is the Kwisatz Hadarach!!!11”

  The 2000 miniseries improved on some things and was god awful horrible about others, so really there still hasn’t been and probably never will be a perfect Dune movie ever made. Certainly we will never know the greatness that would have been Jodorowsky’s Dune.

   

• 10:23 pm on May 4, 2009 Permalink
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  Dali 

  

  Surrealism is pretty cool.  Salvador Dali is another one of these guys that is ubiquitous on the walls of college students, and a big seller at poster sales. His paintings are pretty great, but I also like his forays into other media, and the intersections between them.  Things like the Mae West room and the amazing dream sequence from the Hitchcock movie Spellbound below show that Dali was a mutant of the highest order, and an awesome trickster.

   

• 5:42 pm on May 3, 2009 Permalink  

  The Art of Final Fantasy IX 

  

  
  Yoshitaka Amano is another of my art super heroes. He is of course responsible for character and other design from the Final Fantasy series, as well as comic book work, movie design and other stuff. Final Fantasy 9 is one of the finest of all the FF games so I have the artbook for it. All of the working computers and computer like devices in the house are named for Final Fantasy characters and pictured here is Steiner, for whom Rebecca’s shiny aluminum Macbook is named.

   

• 2:51 pm on May 2, 2009 Permalink
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  Van Gogh Face to Face 

  It might be a cliche to like Van Gogh, but I do.  I may or may not have had the ubiquitous Starry Night poster on my dorm room wall at some point. Ths book was produced by the DIA for a special exhibit of Van Gogh portraits, a couple of which are part of the permanent DIA collection.

  

  This book is pretty great, and traces the evolution of Van Gogh’s portraits through his career. There are lots of details about what was going on in his life at the time various pieces were done, which really adds to the collection as a whole.

   

• 12:34 pm on May 2, 2009 Permalink
  Tags: desktop (2), geektool (2), medieval   

  Medieval GeekTool Desktop 

  Here’s another desktop theme I made this week. This one’s based on a Book of Hours I saw over in the Bibliodyssey blog, one of my favorite things on all of the internets.

  I found all kinds of scripts for converting arabic numbers into Roman numerals, and settled on using a PHP library I found. I’m most familiar with PHP, and it was a simple task to translate the time and IP addresses. With the addition of a replacement function to switch the day and month into Latin I had everything needed for this theme.

  

  I’m pretty fond of this one so I think I will keep it for a while, and maybe switch out the picture every so often. I really have no idea what the next one will be, but I’ll have to come up with another fun problem to solve with scripting.

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  • PseudoThomas 8:32 am on September 1, 2009 Permalink

    Nice work! Would you be willing to share the geektool scripts for the day and month in Latin?

    • cobweb 9:20 am on September 1, 2009 Permalink

      Oh yeah for sure, I’ll email those to you.