Flickrini Strzelecki writes: My fridge is now covered in flickr posters. They are cool mosaic type collages of photos posted to flicker groups. I sometimes find myself standing there, fridge open drinking from the milk bottle drawn to looking at the miriad of little pictures in these collages. Want some posters for your fridge? Get […]

Check it out! Paul Bausch, the author of Amazon Hacks and Yahoo Hacks, had one of my posters laminated! I think this means he likes me! Well, that, and he agreed to co-write the forthcoming Flickr Hacks from O’Reilly, with me. I’ll be working on some of the more technical hacks, and I intend to […]

Meet Fubuki (Ty Siscoe), one of the most prolific and talented photographers on Flickr, the photo-sharing service. I constructed Fubuki’s portrait out of thumbnails from his large collection of excellent photos, using the Flickr API. My software is written in Perl, using the ImageMagick library. For more of my mosaics, check out my flickr stream.

Currently my sudoku software does a very crude job of estimating puzzle difficulty. There’s an especially wide range of difficulty levels in my “super tough” puzzles – some of them are pretty easy, others are genuinely “super tough.” My experience shows that most other computer programs do a pretty poor job at this too. The […]

Like seemingly everyone in LA, I have recently been bitten by the Sudoku bug, a craze which swept England last spring. The Los Angeles Times started publishing these puzzles a few weeks ago. Like many geeks, this addiction not only involves solving them with a pencil, but solving and generating them with a computer. I […]

When we say things like: “That picture is too noisy” “The room is too cluttered” “This song is boring” “That script has good pacing” “Put some reverb on that mic” We are unintentionally invoking the spirit of Claude Shannon, who first described Information Theory in the late 1940s, at the dawn of the information age. […]

This is one of a set of four collaborative posters I am printing this month. I made this particular image by writing a collection of Perl scripts which arrange photos from the squared circle group on flickr in a fibonacci spiral (a natural way of tiling circles, seen in sunflowers, pinecones and many other places […]

SquirclePlex is a new interactive kaleidoscope of mine that uses images from the Squared Circle group on Flickr. The kaleidoscope uses a recursive rendering method that produces fractal images similar to Marshall Yaeger’s Kaleidoplex projector, which I discussed in my last post. This version is currently for Windows only. The installer provides both a standalone […]

This is one of a set of four collaborative posters I am preparing for printing this month. I made this particular image by writing a collection of Perl scripts which arrange photos from the squared circle group on flickr in a fibonacci spiral (a natural way of tiling circles, seen in sunflowers, pinecones and many […]

I’ve decided to temporarily convert my homepage into a blog, in preparation for my upcoming Art Center class, “Interactive Arts & Toys,” in which I will be providing instruction on the art of the screensaver and other useless, but fun things. My previous krazydad home page is a more static affair which basically reproduced the […]