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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee

Posted by timothy on from the impressive-results dept.

Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"

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  1. iCE member here... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiles was a project i beleive started by our dear friend Slothy of iCE who i've worked with on more than one occasion and have known since i was 16 as an iCE member.

    iCE has always been an excellent organization of artists that are extremely talented and have remained friends for a long time now. Tiles is proof of the many great ideas Jon (slothy) has had over the years. Looking at the work in the tiles is pretty interesting and its a lot of fun.

    Nice to see it on slashdot. I know Jon and other iCE members such as myself are frequent readers of slashdot.

    Enjoy!

    1. Re:iCE member here... by farmy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually we've been linked to by slashdot on at least 2 other occations that I remember. Sadly we dont have the resources of a CNN, or say, youre local burger stand with a website. The system is yet another in a long line of crap we've managed to beg for. This one is considerably better than the previous servers, its a p3-1000. Sadly it has no drive space, so what you're looking at there is a lot of graphics loaded over NFS (which is another piece of crap EOL'd "SAN" we found in the trash).

      -iCE Admin

  2. Coral Cache by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 2, Informative

    Click here

  3. You must be kidding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I remember contributing to tiles.ice.org uhrm, what, 5 to 6 years ago? What suddently makes this NEWS?

    ++fd

  4. Mirror of tiles.ice.org by Python · · Score: 2, Informative
    Please try one of the mirroring sites for tiles.ice.org:

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html/

    --

    Python

  5. kama free mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html

  6. Re:Nostalgia to an Extreme by Archon-X · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, you'll be pleased to know that iCE is much more than somewhat active. We're still releasing our digital art packs monthly, and I've been heading up the Photography Department for almost 12 months now.

    Drop by when we're got getting destroyed ;)

  7. This makes me feel old by pojo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Dupe (from July 2001)

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/043922 6&tid=152

  8. Cool! Where's the "download quilt" button? by kiddailey · · Score: 2, Informative


    What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something :D

    I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...

    ...though I do see that you can buy prints of the quilts thanks to CafePress.