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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee
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!"
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
...can I PLEASE use the internet now?
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
Burn that karma!!!
remember using "the draw" to create BBS menus?.... those were the days..
Trolls of trolls. You don't get this. We make jokes that you're sure to miss. LOL at LOL, Rolling on the floor. Laughing or Crying? You ass-ruined whore. This troll's so meta you choked on a chip. Toomuch ranch dressing, you slant-eyed nip. Go back to Everquest and pretend you're a girl. T4C, we're the royalty of trolls. Kings, dukes and earls.
... we can quilt goatse into it!
In the history of the world, it has always been the power and vision of one single person that has created progress. This is another way to say that committees accomplish nothing.
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p
now thats some surreal collaborative art...
Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.
Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?
Well, I got to see one, nya nya nya!
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!
Killing web servers since '97
I remember iCE.. when I was begging for my board to be a distro in the Chicago area at the tender age of 13. RaDMaN from ACiD occasionally reads the slash - and as I understand it, ACiD is still an art group to this very day. I'm glad to see iCE is still around as well.
Two thumbs up for L337 TheDraw skills.
And, at the bottom of all great Ansi Art... Wuzza Grim, Insane, ND, SK, PLT, wT, etc from #ansi w00t!
I didn't get to see even one. Do they have any metrics for the /. effect as related to the number of posts? (Only 9 when I went to the Web site.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
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Given that hacking draws so much from model railways (Tech Model Railroad Club) perhaps it is valid to say hackers have been quilting for years??
former iCE member from '91-92 here... damn i feelz old
I remember contributing to tiles.ice.org uhrm, what, 5 to 6 years ago? What suddently makes this NEWS?
++fd
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html/
Python
An art/graphics site is slashdotted on a network you help run...
:)
At least the site/server caved before the bandwidth bill did.
-davidu
# Hack the planet, it's important.
Wow, tiles.ice.org has only been running for what, a few years now? Since the poster seems to have just discovered it, why not post it on the front page of slashdot to abuse the already painfully slow server, I'm sure it's appreciated.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html
Bill Cosby is an 'en eye jee jee ee arr'
Is Slashdot too good for the truth?
The ASCII Art wikipedia story lead me to ZZT, an old fav of mine. Oh the wonders of nostalgic computer games. Wonder if this will play on my Athlon.
ZZT was an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, later the designer of Unreal.
Thats the coolest thing about Wikipedia and tabbed browsing. I can start at Ascii Art and end up on Alberto Lleras Camargo in a few clicks. Maybe I should make a plan to read all of Wikipedia and get a story on slashdot like that Bratanica guy.
And what ASCII related post wouldnt be complete wihtout a link to ascii porn
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
You're being left in the dust, using an inferior operating system.
Deviantart has had a similar idea in its mosaics category for quite some time. Being possibly the largest community art sites it has some nic emosaics in there.
I.O.U One Sig.
Like collaborative artwork?
DeviantART Mosaics
It's like this, except not ASCII.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p
Hearing about phrack yesterday, and about iCE today, makes me yearn for the BBS days again. It's great to hear that these popular groups are still somewhat active, even if some are close to retiring.
:)
Viva le BBS!
SNACKS ARE AWESOME
"What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away? "
Uh huh. And people wonder why "good enough" and mediocrity dominate the world.
Anyway people "going away" is happening. Is that what you want? Are all the people who actually want slashdot to improve "dweebs"?
Like I said years ago and I'll say again. Slashdot is a victum of it's own success. The people who actually gave a damn about this place and made it what it was left around 2000.* That mostly leaves those who don't really give a damn about this place, and will live with the mediocrity, and leave with barely a twing of conscious once their apathy has sucked the husk dry. And apparenty managment agrees with the mindset.
*Don't have to take my word for it. Read some of the old stuff, and compare it to now.
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This is similar to deviantART mosaics. They don't seem linked to directly on the main page anymore, but they can be found here. A great example of a congruous mosaic is The skin mosaic II.
Posted as AC.
For all those who care, let's mail CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) about this -- his email is maldaATslashdotDOTorg. Slashdot is deteriorating into something that is apathetic towards its users, making money for plagiarists and doing little if anything about it, and sponsoring a hack like michael.
Simple. Write physical letters to his boss.
Tell all the web sites out there to put a block in their files. If blocking is suppose to work against spam, then it'll work here.
Build a better site. Remember Gracenote and what they did to their loyal community? Do something similiar, but learn from this places mistakes.
Or were you just saying this was michaels influence?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/043922 6&tid=152
What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something
I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...
there's a very comprehensive image 2 color-ascii sourceforge project that i just happened to use yesterday to make my blog's background, when i failed to find a cool old ANSi menu to turn into my theme (i was thinking like a leet revengebbs theme, but i never find menu themes anymore, only picture art).
check out img2ascii, with a live demo here (please don't punish their server, you can grab the code and run it locally or choose from other mirrors)
this is the image i ended up making, the html had too many color tags and ate memory, so i took a screenshot and turned up the compression w/ some contrast adjustments.
i'm sure purists would disdain, but i'm happy to nonprofessionally excercise a skill i've always envied ^^
Thought it said Quitting bee.
Finally, a competition for something I'm actually good at...
-- Mace only makes me hornier.
I've had something that played on this same idea up for a few years now:
;)
http://www.tru7h.org/projects/society2/
Obviously it's a bit crude, and someone had a fetish for pacman ghosts a ways back, but it's going on 3 years of accumulation now.. can't bear to take it down.
Think it gets like.. 5 hits a month.
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If you use mozilla/firefox, you can go on the page properties and download it from the "media" tab.
;)
Or you can just download it from here as I just did that job to you
eliphas
A Van Gogh Fall/Winter Landscape
A Tribute to M.C. Escher I invite you to go back to tiles.ice.org and ice.org once the server recovers to enjoy our years of artwork.
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They want their story back. Seriously, I know tiles may be new to you, but the thing's been around forever. Maybe we can rebrand it as "peer-to-peer-ANSI" or something so it's hip with the new kids.
For literally years, the editor michael has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular News for nerds website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
For literally years, the editor michael has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular News for nerds website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
To the politically House... pathetic. Trying to dissect Rans0m for their of OpenBSD. How play area Try not In eternity...Romeo If you move a table W00t real problems that
maybe right-mouse click on the quilt image and choose save picture/image as... ?
Sample this!
Michael didn'e even post it, panties-in-a-bunch-a/c..
If you don't like, visit your friendly neighborhood preferences.
Waitaminnit..
Is that Jon Katz?! Sour grapes?!
OK, so maybe NSD isn't always on the leading edge and iCE has been around a while, but the sequence of appearances this weekend couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
"Even for Slashdot, that was a very obscure reference!" - Anonymous Coward
Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Even after the groups go, their members are still very much active on the Internet. But yeah, I sure feel like an old fogey sometimes.
Civil Disobedient
-= ACiD | iCE =-
I like to go on the internet looking at pictures.
Hot Blondes
How did an offtopic flame from an anonymous coward get modded up so much?
*lol* the scrotum in the middle of the pic. I bet van gogh never thought about scroti as art.
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To get back on the subject, the pictures aren't half as gay as I expected, but they do all tend to look like 1970s album covers.
At the bottom of the
I also liked how my ANSI animations ran really nicely on a 2400 bps modem but ran too fast on anything higher.
ANSI isn't old-school. TTY art is old-school.
I've thought it might be interesting if ICE took a well known painting (public domain, obviously) (or photograph or something) and used that to preset the edges of the tiles. Then after it is done, look to see if you can detect any remnants of the original in the results. Obviously if the edges are preset some large number of pixels into the tile it will have a greater resemblance than if they only go in a pixel or two. All the better if the participants don't know whats going on.
For those that still want to see ansi art: http://www.sixteencolors.net/ -- It needs a lot of work, but it's there.
I've received a few emails about this Slashdot posting because this project is very similar to something we've been doing on SITO.org (once upon a time, OTIS) since the 20th century. A latticework quilt with animation (since 1995): http://sito.org/synergy/hygrid A zoomy quilt (since 1997): http://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm Other one-off grid/quilt projects: http://sito.org/synergy It's a fun medium, but is it news?
lmao!
Now don't I feel stupid. I didn't realize it was one image -- as I clicked on the image and it loaded just a single tile's information