prosthetic knowledge
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Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition
Not so much Glitch Art, but a way to create your own error-looking iOS homescreen, your own interface aesthetic piece, or simply to prank someone - by squeekycleanideas:
Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition
Step 1) take screenshot of the lock screen with a notification showing (the more the better)
Step 2) make screenshot your homescreen
Step 3) open a folder
Step 4) take screenshot of open folder
Step 5) make screenshot your homescreen
Step 6) take screenshot
Step 7) make screenshot your homescreen
* To take a screenshot of your iPhone, hold the home button and press the power button to snap the shot
Once you have completed these steps, you will have successfully made one of the most intuitive interfaces incredibly confusing. There is something very fun about trying to understand exactly what you are seeing at any given moment. My favorite, at this point, is opening a folder. As the folder opens, and the icons would normally fade out, in this case, they crossfade with fake icons in their place.
Experiment with any combination of the above or add other screenshots to start with.. maybe the mail or calendar app. Let me know if you come across something exciting :)
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The Billboard Art Project
Roadside digital LED displays used to display unique art for short amount of time. Above is a piece put together by Anthony Antonellis in Detroit:
The Billboard Art Project is taking over roadside digital LED billboards to turn them into free public art venues for 24 hours or more.
Those in-your-face and colorful canvases that you see as you sit stuck in traffic are turned over to local and international artists for a little break from everyday advertising, presenting larger-than-life art in glowing colors.
Catch a glimpse from your car as you drive by, or hang out for awhile and watch the show with other artists and onlookers.
You won’t know what is coming next as different artists explore this medium, with the electronic canvas morphing every 6-10 seconds.
More about the Billboard Art Project can be found at it’s website here. More photos of Anthony’s piece can be found in this Flickr set here
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Neticones
Online net art project can turn a webcam photo into a mosaic made from Facebook icons.
Try it out here
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YATTA!
Crazy online image app converts pictures into arranged tiles, creating them with sprites from various sources. Different styles include Super Mario, Rainbow Islands, various emoticons (including animated Japanese gifs), and icons from apps such as Skype and Gmail.
Just select an image from your desktop and drag it onto the page it will be converted. Use the drop down menu on the top right to change the style.
(via Kim Asendorf)
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Icon Museum by SuperTotto
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Apple Logo Is an Agnostic's Crucifix, Star of David: Study 
Duke University study finds brands and religion fulfill the same psychoemotional needs (via piratepickings)
… in a new study from Duke University, which concludes: “The brand name logo on a laptop or a shirt pocket may do the same thing for some people that a pendant of a crucifix or Star of David does for others.” In fact, the more religious a person is, the less brand expression appears to matter.
Researchers at Duke ran several experiments to determine this disconnection between brand importance and religiosity. In one, the team analyzed geographic areas for the number of Apple, Macy’s, and Gap stores per million people. These statistics were compared with brand-discount stores. “Then they compared these rough measures of brand reliance against the number of congregations per thousand and self-reported attendance in church or synagogue, controlling for income, education and urbanization differences,” the report says. “In every analysis, they found a negative relationship between brand reliance and religiosity.”
I’m not surprised about this, and I think there has always been a connection between religion and branding … most Christian holidays are rebranded pagan calendar celebrations (winter solstice = Christmas, Easter = a Christian reworking of a pagan cult resurrection festival)
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Digital Trash Can made of Paper
From Design Fetish:
Codeco has transformed the classic trash can computer icon into a paper cut project that brings the digital image to life. the design uses a single sheet of paper, which is cut-out, folded into form and glued together.
The template for the design is available for download through their site and could easily
be scaled to make a tabletop version or a life size trash can. -
… or how one set of icons were ripped-off by another
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(via auan)
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via TechCrunch:
Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog
, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.As Sandofsky notes, “it isn’t exactly scientific, but it still goes to show Twitter’s explosive growth mirrored in engineering.” More importantly, it looks awesome. You can see the shift in Twitter development from Jack Dorsey
in the early days (2006) to Blaine Cook to Alex Payne to Twitter’s now large team of developers. Each team member is represented in the video by their Twitter avatar. -
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Desktop Icon Overload
