she apparently said something about how crass it was and how offended she was that the 'great british public' laughed at all thier corporate cosmetics going up in smoke...
Ignorant Nazi book burning-esque public?
or out of touch avant guard?
i wonder how many people laughed at Blur signiture tune going tits up on Mars with the beagle?
If anyone has any good copyleft cartoon drawings of Blair looking particularly frantic, stressed and or smarmy I could very much use them.. unfortunately I am a shit drawer. And cheers captain it's always good to know you're not completely unnoticed.
Well most of what you see is done at the film processing stage, i.e. to get the eyes with the electricity tower is just a couple of slides being processed together.
The pixel by pixel writing though is done using a matlab script I wrote, matlab is a technical computing software which most engineers, mathematics, scientists etc have access to at work. Just save the script below as addtext.m in a text file and run it in matlab with two arguements addtext('mypicture.jpg','text.jpg') and the rest is easy to figure out, (just type help addtext). I attach the example picture - the underlying image is under my copyright (yes I do believe in copyright as well as copyleft... I have to live)
function [I] = addtext(filename,textname,posx,posy,red,green,blue,darker) %SYNTAX %written by a.mcnamara@uke.uni-hamburg.de 01/05/2004 % %function [I] = addtext(filename,textname,posx,posy,red,green,blue,darker) % %filename is the image.jpg name you wish to write on. %textname is the text.jpg name you wish to apply to image. %DEFAULT is to write the text in a lighter colour and only %requires the first two arguements. To write %text in darker colour than image all 8 arguements must be filled. % %posx is the position of the top right hand corner of the txt %on your image along the x axis of the image in percentage. %DEFAULT for for posx if not entered is to center txt % %posy is the position of the top right hand corner of the text %on your image along the y axis of the image in percentage %DEFAULT for for posx if not entered is to center txt % %example command addtext('mypicture.jpg','mytxt.jpg',25,50); %will write mytxt.jpg over mypicture.jpg starting at a quarter %of the width of the picture in from the right and half way down. % %Colours take values of 1 up increasing values mean smaller differences %from the original i.e 1 is the brightest thus red green blue values %of 2,1,2 will make light green writing but 4,6,6 will make dark red % %darker if this variable is filled (with anyimput then the text is %is written in a darker colour than the original % %This file automatically writes a new jpg with your text written on %it called filename2.jpg % %Have Fun!!!
T = imread([textname]); T = im2double(T); T = T(:,:,1); [row, col] = find(T size(I,1) rsz(1) = size(I,1)/size(T,1) fprintf('Warning text.jpg is longer than image.jpg... will be resized\nthis coul d result in wierdness\n\n') end if size(T,2) > size(I,2); rsz(2) = size(I,2)/size(T,2); fprintf('Warning text.jpg is wider than image.jpg... will be resized\nthis could result in wierdness\n\n') end % if the text is too big it will resize by the largest overrun. This if sum(rsz) > 0 [p,v] = max(rsz); T = imresize(T,p*0.9); end
%postions txt default is to centralize if nargin size(I,2) error('Oi yer text is too far off to the right! Reduce x coordinate.') end; %fills ones to right of T z = [z ones(size(T,1), size(I,2)-size(z,2))]; %fills ones above T z = [ones(posy-1,size(I,2));z]; if size(z,1) > size(I,1) error('Oi yer text is too far down! Reduce y coordinate.') end; %fills ones below T z = [z; ones(size(I,1)-size(z,1),size(I,2))];
cheer = z;
%checks colour values are OK if nargin == 8 fprintf('\nIncreasing colour values increases contrast of text to image\nif you have a problem start '); fprintf('with the values 0.2 for all \nand adjust up from there - take note the re is no default!\n'); r = linspace(red,0,20); g = linspace(green,0,20); b = linspace(blue,0,20); [row,col] = find(cheer 0.05); for jj = 1:length(row) [rgb,pos] = max([I(row(jj),col(jj),1) I(row(jj),col(jj),2) I(row(jj),col(jj),3)] );
I'm looking for people who would like to contribute to an Ethnic Community Arts festival which is going to held in South Wales (UK) in August 2006
Please Visit my site and email me if you have stuff and ideas you'd like to contribute. From what I gather anything goes though its all starting off small for the first festival
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more linx
30.05.2004 19:06
The futures bright.
Better than BP
Headz
Fairies
Growth
Head of state
Philo
Cock
ArtyFarty
Torture
Ten Steps
Free Markets
TV
Oil Corp
Pirana Fun
Class A Sunset
Market
IMF
Cheesy Sunset
Economic Growth
IMF
I think
30.05.2004 20:29
any thoughts on Tracy Emmins comments
regarding the great art fire
she apparently said something about how crass it
was and how offended she was that the 'great british public'
laughed at all thier corporate cosmetics going up in smoke...
Ignorant Nazi book burning-esque public?
or out of touch avant guard?
i wonder how many people laughed at Blur signiture tune
going tits up on Mars with the beagle?
Captain Wardrobe
we aim to improve
30.05.2004 22:31
And cheers captain it's always good to know you're not completely unnoticed.
IMF
with regard to burning
30.05.2004 22:35
I must be the out of touch bastard.
But I was gutted the Beagle didn't make it I have to say.
IMF
maybe she would appreciate this
30.05.2004 22:43
June 17th-21st
www.risingtide.org.uk
IMF
wot software
01.06.2004 00:41
cs
Software
01.06.2004 17:14
The pixel by pixel writing though is done using a matlab script I wrote, matlab is a technical computing software which most engineers, mathematics, scientists etc have access to at work. Just save the script below as addtext.m in a text file and run it in matlab with two arguements addtext('mypicture.jpg','text.jpg') and the rest is easy to figure out, (just type help addtext). I attach the example picture - the underlying image is under my copyright (yes I do believe in copyright as well as copyleft... I have to live)
function [I] = addtext(filename,textname,posx,posy,red,green,blue,darker)
%SYNTAX
%written by
%
%function [I] = addtext(filename,textname,posx,posy,red,green,blue,darker)
%
%filename is the image.jpg name you wish to write on.
%textname is the text.jpg name you wish to apply to image.
%DEFAULT is to write the text in a lighter colour and only
%requires the first two arguements. To write
%text in darker colour than image all 8 arguements must be filled.
%
%posx is the position of the top right hand corner of the txt
%on your image along the x axis of the image in percentage.
%DEFAULT for for posx if not entered is to center txt
%
%posy is the position of the top right hand corner of the text
%on your image along the y axis of the image in percentage
%DEFAULT for for posx if not entered is to center txt
%
%example command addtext('mypicture.jpg','mytxt.jpg',25,50);
%will write mytxt.jpg over mypicture.jpg starting at a quarter
%of the width of the picture in from the right and half way down.
%
%Colours take values of 1 up increasing values mean smaller differences
%from the original i.e 1 is the brightest thus red green blue values
%of 2,1,2 will make light green writing but 4,6,6 will make dark red
%
%darker if this variable is filled (with anyimput then the text is
%is written in a darker colour than the original
%
%This file automatically writes a new jpg with your text written on
%it called filename2.jpg
%
%Have Fun!!!
T = imread([textname]);
T = im2double(T);
T = T(:,:,1);
[row, col] = find(T size(I,1)
rsz(1) = size(I,1)/size(T,1)
fprintf('Warning text.jpg is longer than image.jpg... will be resized\nthis coul
d result in wierdness\n\n')
end
if size(T,2) > size(I,2);
rsz(2) = size(I,2)/size(T,2);
fprintf('Warning text.jpg is wider than image.jpg... will be resized\nthis could
result in wierdness\n\n')
end
% if the text is too big it will resize by the largest overrun. This
if sum(rsz) > 0
[p,v] = max(rsz);
T = imresize(T,p*0.9);
end
%postions txt default is to centralize
if nargin size(I,2)
error('Oi yer text is too far off to the right! Reduce x coordinate.')
end;
%fills ones to right of T
z = [z ones(size(T,1), size(I,2)-size(z,2))];
%fills ones above T
z = [ones(posy-1,size(I,2));z];
if size(z,1) > size(I,1)
error('Oi yer text is too far down! Reduce y coordinate.')
end;
%fills ones below T
z = [z; ones(size(I,1)-size(z,1),size(I,2))];
cheer = z;
%checks colour values are OK
if nargin == 8
fprintf('\nIncreasing colour values increases contrast of text to image\nif you
have a problem start ');
fprintf('with the values 0.2 for all \nand adjust up from there - take note the
re is no default!\n');
r = linspace(red,0,20);
g = linspace(green,0,20);
b = linspace(blue,0,20);
[row,col] = find(cheer 0.05);
for jj = 1:length(row)
[rgb,pos] = max([I(row(jj),col(jj),1) I(row(jj),col(jj),2) I(row(jj),col(jj),3)]
);
I(row(jj),col(jj),1) = (I(row(jj),col(jj),1)*1+(cheer(row(jj),col(jj),1)/red))
;
I(row(jj),col(jj),2) = (I(row(jj),col(jj),2)*1+(cheer(row(jj),col(jj),1)/green
));
I(row(jj),col(jj),3) = (I(row(jj),col(jj),3)*1+(cheer(row(jj),col(jj),1)/blue)
);
if I(row(jj),col(jj),1) > 1
I(row(jj),col(jj),1) = 1;
end;
if I(row(jj),col(jj),2) > 1
I(row(jj),col(jj),2) = 1;
end;
if I(row(jj),col(jj),3) > 1
I(row(jj),col(jj),3) = 1;
end;
end;
end;
imshow(I)
I = im2uint8(I);
newname = [filename(1:length(filename)-4) '2' filename(length(filename)-3:end)];
imwrite(I,([newname]));
LOLA
shit the system screwed the file
01.06.2004 17:46
LOLA
Ethnic Community Arts Festival
24.10.2005 20:36
Please Visit my site and email me if you have stuff and ideas you'd like to contribute. From what I gather anything goes though its all starting off small for the first festival
Jeff
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