hotcaptcha is a funny idea to begin with; instead of deciphering text designed to prevent spammers you just click on the “hot” people to prove you’re a human. I think my modification pictured above will help capture even more robots than the original. Schneier pointed out today that spammers have even developed a game to have people break captchas for them.
Praise be to the great Waxy for pointing out Fred Eerdeken’s amazing art. His 3D installations of clouds, wire, and trees create 2D text projections. You can see his work on Flickr. The picture above was taken by pocketmonsterd. I think it’s funny that I saw this after seeing a 3D shadow from a 4D object. I think it would be neat if the galleries gave out digital cameras and had patrons “discover” Eerdeken’s text using flash photography. That would probably be a good trick for a horror film as well.
My buddy Adam Tourek, on the right, just won a design contest finishing first out of eight finalists. He has been commisioned to build a gigantic 12 foot tall ear in Lincoln, NE Haymarket district. The final project for his “Memorials, Monuments and Public Art” class was to make a model for a 6 foot sculpture to be placed in the Haymarket. It wasn’t till last night at the awards ceremony that he found out his 1 foot model would actually be 12 feet. Here is the full story from the Daily Nebraskan. The article says the sculpture could be rotated, but Adam says that was in the proposal, not actually finalized. I suggested that a weathervaning foghorn would be kinda fun. All the scrap metal is being donated by Lincoln Steel and he hopes to begin work the beginning of May. I’ll get some pics up when he gets his hands back on the model. Once again I’d like to say great job Adam. I’m sure a giant piece of installed art is an excellent addition to a graduating art student’s portfolio.
Drawn! is moving faster than anything out there right now. Dedicated to comics and illutstration it has maintained a steady pace since it started earlier this month. I’ve allready got so many webcomics bookmarked that I’m finding it hard to keep up. There is some serious gold in there though. Since it is St. Paddy’s Day here’s their story about lucky charms illustrations. Of course I’m including a picture of what I feel is the creepiest Trix box. Seriously, it looks like “Trix - strong enough to bring inanimate rabbits to life” or maybe having a atomic sub (with nuclear missiles) in my cereal is more scary.
Eliot Phillips claims to hate people and writing, but somehow succeeds with both. You can catch him as Lead Blogger on the hardware hacking empire: Hack-A-Day.
