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Today my mind was wandering and I came up with the phrase:
1337er than a 2 liter.
I'm kinda happy about that phrase. It's my facebook status (Albert is 1337er than...).
Anyhow, while looking around the net to see whether or not anybody else came up with that phrase before me, I came across an urban dictionary definition of 1337ies:
The breakfast of h4x0rz
Shadow01 ate his 1337ies this morning, look at him pwn noobs!
When I saw this I died, and couldn't help but photoshop a box of 1337ies. I found this nice little tutorial on the Wheaties logo font.
This particular image of SWK comes from "The Star Wars Kid Strikes Back (And Settles Out Of Court)".
I've also realized that this is a cool little template that I'm good to share w/ everyone. The photoshop file is pretty straightforward, so download it if you've got a geek in mind who you think deserves the to be on the cover of 1337ies.
A while back, I made a prototype idea for something called the mirage. The mirage is a Wiremap, where the wires are replaced with streams of water. When I came up with it, I imagined it would be ten feet tall - the size of a small room, so that people could dance in it.
I decided instead to start small and work my way up. I've spent the last couple of weeks playing around with plastics - plexiglass, specifically. Fortunately, over in Chinatown, there's this awesome little shop known as the Canal Plastics Center. They sell everything you'd ever need. They also custom build your designs, as well as provide a high precision laser cutting service.
At first, I was excited to just by the raw material and do all the work myself. But after all the testing, it turns out that I have neither the tools nor the knowledge to actually accomplish what I want to accomplish. I tried to drill holes with a drill gun, but they're never perfectly perpendicular - I tried to joint two pieces together, but the jig saw cuts I made can't really compare to their table saw cuts.
I sent off an email earlier today for a quote for a test hunk of plastic. I wanna see how well these cuts can perform.
Phedhex proudly presents: http://www.phedhex.com/wiremap/
This page leaves me with the satisfying feeling that the Wiremap has a definite home on the net. It's a concise site with all the info and the media.
Of course, there are updates I'd like to add sometime this week, but it always feels better to update a page that's up than to update an idea floating around in your head.
Anyhow, check it out.
So the nice folks at Adnauseam Lyceum (or see their myspace) are hosting an event called Vernissage:
It's a small one night event coming up this Saturday, where I'll be exhibiting the Wiremap (the smaller foam core version). If you're in the area, swing by and say hi.
Thought the Wiremap 256 was cool? Try a Wiremap 783! Earlier today I got an email from Elliot Woods, the undergrad at Manchester University who had a couple months back expressed interest in building a mammoth Wiremap. He runs an annual not-for-profit music festival called Pangaea, where they built and shared their work:
Yeah... It's kinda big.
They got the system up and were rendering 3d before the event - but as soon as the subwoofers came on, the projectors jiggled out of alignment, obscuring the 3d image. Instead, they just threw Milkdrop onto it (musta looked kinda like iTunes on my Wiremap 256... but much bigger, or course).
Seeing photos of a Wiremap this big really inspires me to build more work for it. Live motion capture could be projected into the Wiremap - so that you could watch a digital image of your body in 3d space. Or maybe you could play tennis. Or maybe even 3d machinima?
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