Dreamlines

I've just discovered the Dreamlines website. According to the About page:

Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.

I typed in the word "creativity" and all the images in this post were generated in a few seconds. The image constantly changes as new data is discovered relating to the search. Very cool.



Why not give it a whirl?

Happy Halloween

Chris Piascik from Quarter Productions on Vimeo.

A wonderful little short describing the making of a Halloween themed drawing by the amazingly talented Chris Piascik.

Doodling

Check out this excellent site about the fine art of doodling. Great fun!

Type Drawing

Playing with Type Drawing on the iPhone

Vocal Drawing

As sad as it may sound, I just made this using only sounds that came out of my mouth, (not burping) by trying to whistle at different pitches and volumes, by humming and by clucking my tongue. It took me about 15 minutes.

Try to make one using only vocal sounds and post it.

WARNING: Your mouth might ache after!

Easter Quiz

Well done to Billy and Tom (and Amber) for correctly guessing that the image I posted for the Easter Quiz was generated by sound. Thanks also to Zek Hoeben for his post about this amazing bit of online wizardry that enables you to draw with sound. The image I posted was actually a drawing created from a song by The Smiths called Rubber Ring (hence the clue). I wonder if we could leave this application running in a classroom for a day (or another part of the school) to make a visual drawing of the sound of that space?

I'd better go and sort out that special prize now...