Friday afternoon shenanigans with the internet. Draw a MS Paint style fish, and it swims around with everyone else’s fishes.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: art
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How to Monetize a Blog
This is an incredible webpage. Art project, blog post, expose, a shout into the void all at once.
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Super Mario World – Virtual Reality
A gorgeous VR version of the SMW map, rendered in Google Blocks. There is a video of its creation, too.
Via Chappel Ellison
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The Library of Congress is Adding Webcomics
“Dinosaur Comics!” “Hyperbole and a Half” and “xkcd” are among the initial class of now-nationally-archived webcomics I grew up reading.
[The Washington Post][link]:
>The library will announce Tuesday that the Webcomics Web Archive is officially launching at loc.gov as part of its growth in “born-digital” collections.
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>The first phase of the webcomics online collection will include nearly 40 titles, including such long-running works as Josh Lesnick’s “Girly” and Zach Weiner’s “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.”I’m so happy for all of these folks.
[link]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/06/13/webcomic-fans-rejoice-library-of-congress-is-launching-a-new-archive-for-you/ “Webcomic fans, rejoice: Library of Congress is launching a new archive for you – The Washington Post”
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*inception noise*
Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş creates ‘Inception’-esque composite images of American landscapes.
Source: Mind-Bending Drone Photo Manipulations Turn America into a Roller Coaster – Creators
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“For The Love of Dog” Featured on Thingiverse
My aforementioned wireframe model of a skull has been featured on Thingiverse! It’s a remix of a remix of a
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New 3D Printable Object: (For The Love of Dog)
I remixed a neat Skull model from garygeo on Thingiverse into this much cooler wireframe mesh pencil holder. It’s free.
One of the best things about Thingiverse is the ability to post pictures of your finished prints of other folks designs.
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It’s Dangerous To Go Alone…
Just a little Structure Sensor ephemera I whipped up the other day…
The full image is 1920×1080, good for backgrounds.
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The Open Bundle
[CC-licensed art and music for videos games from independent creators.][link] If they reach their funding goal they’re making all of the assets public domain.
I absolutely love this idea. Get paid for your work and then move on to something else, leaving it for anyone who wants it.
[link]: http://open.commonly.cc/ “The Open Bundle”
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SmoothLifeL
[A crazy version][link] of [Conway’s Game Of Life][con] using floating point numbers instead of integers. The results are disturbingly organic-looking. Could be images from a blurry microscope.
[link]: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/10/smoothlifel/ “SmoothLifeL | jwz”
[con]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_Game_of_Life “Conway’s Game Of Life”
