16 month ago
philgyford : Main Page - John Peel Wiki - a Wikia wiki - More Peel info than you could ever need. I had no idea there were quite so many tapes (now MP3s) of complete Peel shows in existence. (via Ted Mills)
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19 month ago
philgyford : Stone Cold Pimpin': NASA's Forgotten Ambient Albums - "Space music" from 1992: "raw, uncatalogued space sounds data ... we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce 'Symphonies of the Planets'". Ambient "music".
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19 month ago
philgyford : Hong Kong's Most Disturbing CG Illustrations " WITMOT? - Hong Kong's 'Apple Daily' makes computer images for news stories when there are no photos. Hilarious, especially if you scroll down to Morgan Freeman. (via Ted Mills)
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21 month ago
philgyford : 285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps - Idea for public art project: Brass markings on roads, pavements, buildings, etc. that mark the path of the rivers that are now hidden. (via Ted Mills)
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22 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Sony Bravia LCD TV Advert (Play Doh) & "The Making of" - A TV ad with stop-motion rabbits (which I hadn't seen until now) followed by a little making of doc. Amazing amounts of coordination to get it all done. (via Ted Mills)
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27 month ago
philgyford : Rickstones Yearbook 1986 - a photoset on Flickr - Photos and drawings from my school 21 years ago. You can see me in class 4R (the same photo as 4C on the thumbnails). Also, top row of thumbnails, fourth from left. Good work Ted!
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28 month ago
philgyford : Flickr: mills70's photos tagged with rickstones - I'm enjoying Ted's photos from our school in the 1980s. Fashions were strange weren't they.
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29 month ago
Simon Willison : VectorMagic - VectorMagic. Neat online tool (with a Flex frontend) for tracing bitmap images in to vectors, based on research at the Stanford AI lab.
joshua : VectorMagic - vectorize raster images
factoryjoe : VectorMagic - Stanford University research project on converting bitmap images to vector art, aka "auto tracing" or "automatic vectorization". Similar to Adobe Illustrator's Live Trace and CorelDRAW's PowerTRACE but works better in many cases. Upload [via]
philgyford : VectorMagic - Nice, free web-based bitmap to vector graphic convertor. (via Ted Mills)
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philgyford : "An Ilustrated Life" Preview - Lovely collection of pages from "artists, illustrators and designers'" sketchbooks. Awful slidy Flash interface though. Illustrators are worse than estate agents in their use of appalling interface techniques. (via Ted Mills)
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34 month ago
philgyford : Philippe Jusforgues - Home - Excellent photo collage illustrations. Very simple, very effective. (via Ted Mills)
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37 month ago
philgyford : Old Photos 1968 - a photoset on Flickr - Anything pre-1990s, like Ted's photos, look twice as old when displayed on the web where everything is new.
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44 month ago
philgyford : 1,500 of Your Favorite 80's Videos! - No idea why it's at that domain, but there's enough there to pretend you're a guest on your own "I Love the 1980s" clip show. (via Ted Mills)
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54 month ago
philgyford : Stone Cold Pimpin': Petracovich - The New Video - My friend Ted's made a lovely music video for Petracovich's dreamy track 'Others'.
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