Comments on: Stripes and Surrealism: Playing with the Moo API http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/ a weblog by Tom Armitage Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:07:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zipsites Official Blog - Create Your Own Mashup http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-149386 Zipsites Official Blog - Create Your Own Mashup Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:39:21 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-149386 [...] Stripes and Surrealism: Playing with the Moo API Overview and links to code using the Moo API using Ruby [...] [...] Stripes and Surrealism: Playing with the Moo API Overview and links to code using the Moo API using Ruby [...]

]]> By: adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » What’s an API and why do I want one? http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-148968 adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » What’s an API and why do I want one? Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:00:56 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-148968 [...] answer is, suprisingly, quite a lot.   Former Headshift colleague Tom Armitage created an application that takes a set of Flickr photographs, calculates their average colours and creates sti....   They’re very tangible, suprisingly beautiful and almost completely pointless - unless, [...] [...] answer is, suprisingly, quite a lot.   Former Headshift colleague Tom Armitage created an application that takes a set of Flickr photographs, calculates their average colours and creates sti….   They’re very tangible, suprisingly beautiful and almost completely pointless – unless, [...]

]]> By: Tom http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-111770 Tom Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:55:29 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-111770 Paul: well spotted. I probably should have mentioned favcol as one of the sources of inspiration for the first set; good catch, and I stand duly chastised. Paul: well spotted. I probably should have mentioned favcol as one of the sources of inspiration for the first set; good catch, and I stand duly chastised.

]]> By: Paul Mison http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-111769 Paul Mison Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:51:24 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-111769 What, no mention of <a href="http://favcol.com/" rel="nofollow">favcol</a>? (See also its <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3107455.stm" rel="nofollow">previous implementation</a>.) Nice hack though. What, no mention of favcol? (See also its previous implementation.)

Nice hack though.

]]> By: rodcorp http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-111750 rodcorp Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:43:49 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-111750 Lovely work Tom. Might intersect with a work project coming up, hmmm... The first set reminds me of Tom Phillips's (yes him again) Colour catalogues and terminal greys; the second of Bryan Boyer's averaged shelving http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan/sets/584137/ and my analogue of the same http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2005/11/richard_of_york.html Lovely work Tom. Might intersect with a work project coming up, hmmm…

The first set reminds me of Tom Phillips’s (yes him again) Colour catalogues and terminal greys; the second of Bryan Boyer’s averaged shelving http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan/sets/584137/ and my analogue of the same http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2005/11/richard_of_york.html

]]> By: Roland Swingler http://infovore.org/archives/2008/10/05/stripes-and-surrealism-playing-with-the-moo-api/comment-page-1/#comment-111724 Roland Swingler Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:26:50 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1652#comment-111724 Cool! These remind me a little of something that I saw in Creative Review years ago - taking a series of photos of a city, extracting the colors from them and then producing striped images like your second example. Its really cool to see (for example) a huge block of yellow in New York (from the taxis); lots of blue from Sydney etc. They managed to give a really distinct impression of place, even though they were so abstract. Cool!

These remind me a little of something that I saw in Creative Review years ago – taking a series of photos of a city, extracting the colors from them and then producing striped images like your second example. Its really cool to see (for example) a huge block of yellow in New York (from the taxis); lots of blue from Sydney etc. They managed to give a really distinct impression of place, even though they were so abstract.

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