Archives of February 2005
Public Opinion
I'll be participating in a panel discussion titled Julkinen mielipide (Public Opinion), which will be held in Kiasma on Sunday 6th of February at 13.00. The discussion is a part of the Plan*B for Arkadianmäki project masterminded by Juha Huuskonen.
More thoughts about the very interesting project impend.
Categories: Art, Events
Posted by Matias at 01.02.2005 18:40 (5 years ago) | 76 comments | 0 trackbacks
The Rasterbator 1.2
Invader Zim rasterbated by Bryon T. Smedley
Monochromatic rasterbation detailClick here to download (866 kb)
Solutions for most common problems
Introduction
To see what's new, see the Change Log.
The
Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of
images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into
enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters. Enter the online Rasterbation Gallery to see what the images look like.
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Categories: Art, Creations, Programming
Posted by Matias at 06.02.2005 16:08 (5 years ago) | 1461 comments | 20 trackbacks
Help on running The Rasterbator
In the first 24 hours 3400 people downloaded The Rasterbator and a German support site emerged, which is way greater response than I expected. Please upload pictures (photographs) of the rasterbated images (generated by either the web version or the standalone) preferably in their surroundings to the Rasterbation Gallery.
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Categories: Art, Programming
Posted by Matias at 08.02.2005 21:47 (5 years ago) | 632 comments | 0 trackbacks
The Rasterbator 1.1 released!
The Rasterbator 1.1 with some cool features is now released. See the Rasterbator page for details and to download.
Oh dear, it seems that according to this blog, my entire life revolves around small dots. Or small dots revolve around my life... HERE THEY ARE AGAIN: EVEN MORE DOTS! LEAVE ME ALONE!
Categories: Art, Creations, Programming
Posted by Matias at 14.02.2005 21:16 (5 years ago) | 79 comments | 0 trackbacks
A different approach to ASP.NET master pages
Quite a few people have created their own solutions to the one of the most famous shortcomings of current versions of ASP.NET: the lack of master pages. It's notoriously arduous to enclose content into a designated area of a page that has programmatical functionality elsewhere.
I am not very keen on the ASP.NET 2.0 design, either. That requires the developer to write specific server control definitions and references here and there. What I want to accomplish is to make the master paging as easy as possible (of course, easy when excluding the implementation of the master paging system).
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Categories: Programming
Posted by Matias at 17.02.2005 20:42 (5 years ago) | 159 comments | 1 trackback
Dotage
Everything was just fine and normal until late November, when the phenomena started, at least visibly. The first indication of the series of supernatural occurrences was caused by the cheap, kitchy, decorative christmas lights people hang outside their houses, into trees, porches and fences. I was walking at the countryside and there was very little external light. Strings of little luminiscent dots of multiple colors floated under the heavy clouds in the autumnal darkness, caused by lack of snow as well as lack of light. A gusty wind made them flutter around in their electric leashes. I recall perceiving the extraordinary properties of the christmas lights, but did not take any action back then. In retrospect, I'm glad to confess, there indeed was neither need nor reason to do anything.
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Categories: Creations, Stories
Posted by Matias at 21.02.2005 19:51 (5 years ago) | 91 comments | 0 trackbacks
Snow, sky and cables
Categories: Photography
Posted by Matias at 27.02.2005 21:10 (5 years ago) | 92 comments | 0 trackbacks
If classical music is boring...
I stumbled upon a most interesting musical work, 9 Beet Stretch, by Leif Inge. It is quite simple, yet ingenious: The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven slowed down so that it lasts for 24 hours. The music is not simply slowed down so that the pitch lowers and the music sounds like "vööööyyyyyyy", but there is some advanced mathematics involved and the tonality is retained original; only the timing is altered. The work is available for download here.
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Categories: Art, Information, Music
Posted by Matias at 27.02.2005 22:27 (5 years ago) | 132 comments | 0 trackbacks
How to Irritate Bandwith Leeching Suckers
Seems that someone is selling rasterbated posters at the German eBay. Selling the posters is fine with me, but I find it a bit irritating that he or she is using the pictures of other users to promote his service and fails to give proper credit. The perpetrator of this deed plainly begs to be punished.
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