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Survival in Frankfurt, Germany. Music, Bands, Design, Illustration, and all that. And code, too. Sometimes.
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Permalink - Posted on 2021-03-04 19:29
This is a generated image, courtesy of Heydon's project, "Mutable Gallery" - a collection of generative art, rendered in SVG, in your browser.
I love it.
Permalink - Posted on 2021-03-02 09:03
Inspiriert von:
hab vom @untergrund_ffm geträumt. wir waren im aldi und haben uns mixed-kästen mit saft zusammengestellt. änänässäft, ärdbärsäft... und dann kam heinz felber und hat mit dem unti in der getränkeabteilung aufgelegt. war cool
— Tina ReWayne
(@MissWayne) March 2, 2021
Update: Bonuspanel:
(ist das nun sub-meming?)
Illustration: Tom ArnoldPermalink - Posted on 2021-02-19 21:00
… eine Momentaufnahme der 50. #TageslichtRunde, die eher eine Dämmerungsrunde wurde
Permalink - Posted on 2021-02-19 10:34
Am 19. Februar 2020 hatte ein 42-jähriger Deutscher neun Menschen mit ausländischen Wurzeln erschossen. Anschließend tötete er seine Mutter und schließlich sich selbst.
Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Neasar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov
Permalink - Posted on 2021-02-17 09:36
Merkhilfe zur Bezeichnung der Kreppel hier.
Permalink - Posted on 2021-02-08 19:10
Die 39. #TageslichtRunde 2021 führte mich an einen sehr geheimnisvollen Ort.
Photo: Tom ArnoldPermalink - Posted on 2021-02-08 10:06
This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross. Or if you prefer, this is the video in which I say the expression “barbecue sets” far too many times.
Heydon's "Webbed Briefs" are thouroughly enjoyable, so please sit back, hop over to his site and learn something about something that's very dear to me. The web and the mess it has become in parts.
Illustration: Heydon PickeringPermalink - Posted on 2021-02-04 20:36
Recently I discovered the Cistercian Numerals. There were a couple of tweets over the last days that showed the ciphers. I never had heard about this numbering system, but immediatly it grabbed my attention, because it was so simple, but the result looks very interesting. Since there are only a few rules that distinguish the digits 1-9, and their position inside a quadrant denotes if it is a one, ten, hundred or thousand, I thought that this might make for a good clock or date display - which is what they were used for originally
The numbers were not used for arithmetic, fractions or accounting, but indicated years, foliation (numbering pages), divisions of texts, the numbering of notes and other lists, indexes and concordances, arguments in Easter tables, and the lines of a staff in musical notation.
With SVG and some JavaScript, here is what I came up with:
See the Pen
Cistercian Numerals Calender / Clock by Tom (@webrocker)
on CodePen.
I'm very sure that there's lot of room for improvement, especially because I'm not writing JavaScript constantly. My main focus was to get this idea off the ground, and to not use any libraries or frameworks, but to use the web's technologies directly. :-)
I owe a great deal to this codepen by Andrew Aquino, since there I found the initial ideas and logic on how to map the numerals' paths to SVG points and how to split the numbers into their 1 / 10 / 100 / 1000 digits.
If you're curious what the numbers are, have a look at the source, I added a SVG text element with the arabic numbers in the hope that this will make the display a tad more accessible.
Update: And just now I added a data-number attribute, which makes sure that only the numbers that needs changing will be changed. Up to now the whole set of numbers was updated every second. Ahem. :-)
/update
Update: My initial "hooray it works" just got a little bit subdued after re-reading the Wikipedia article and the last sentence in the history paragraph: … and in the early twentieth century Nazis flirted with the idea the numerals could be used for Aryan symbolism.
:-/ Well, I guess I should have known, and with 8118 (of all combinations) looking like a stretched swastika, no surprise the damned nazis were interested.
/update
Permalink - Posted on 2021-01-23 16:51
Der komische Typ verfolgt mich schon länger anscheinend; sogar auf meiner Lieblingskonferenz.
(Original-Foto: M.Ott)
Permalink - Posted on 2021-01-22 23:48
Gerade nochmal genauer hingeschaut bei der 22. #TageslichtRunde da unter der Autobahn am Ostpark. Da sind ja immer mal komische Typen, gell.
Permalink - Posted on 2021-01-17 17:45
Noch eine Momentaufnahme der 17. #TageslichtRunde 2021.
Hoffnung ist nicht tot, sie macht nur Winterschlaf.
Photo: Tom ArnoldPermalink - Posted on 2021-01-17 17:21
Kleine Begegnung auf der 17. #TageslichtRunde 2021, diesmal rund um den Lohrberg, über Seckbach und den Heiligenstock.
Photo: Tom Arnold