Artichoke in the garden at Riversdale House, Riverdale Park, Md.
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| Web | http://imaginaryterrain.com |
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| Watersheds | Rock Creek ➔ Potomac ➔ Chesapeake |
David Ramos
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Designer, design educator. Making maps/systems to help us imagine landscapes past + future. Lost streams, 🚲🛶🌊.
I do wonder what cheap AI-generated images will do to the photography and illustration professions—but the hurricane already hit 25 years ago, w microstock, photo-sharing, and image search.
AI tools only exist b/c of free/cheap images.
Rendering tide data in watercolor using the pen plotter at AU's Design and Build Lab,
Washington, D.C., it's the greatest place to be /
It's not the pawpaws everywhere in bloom
It's not the pawpaws everywhere in bloom
Design for a new public library for Columbia, Md., by UK-based Heatherwick Studio. The site overlooks a lake in the center of the community—it's the parking lot for a Frank Gehry building that currently houses a Whole Foods. https://www.dezeen.com/2023/03/31/thomas-heatherwick-library-columbia-maryland-usa/
Michael EkstrandOne of the interesting and disturbing aspects of modern LLMs isn’t what new they do, but what they make cheap. Low-quality, duplicative content makes retrieving quality information incredibly hard, especially in commercially lucrative domains such as product reviews. Making it 3+ orders of magnitude less expensive to produce that content will not help our informarion ecosystem, even if AI content is identical in quality and substance to what humans are already producing.
Brian SwetlandManaged to capture some video of the BeMachine running the Hobbit-93080009.img available online. It's weird looking at this proto-BeOS, predating the PPC BeBox, and a lot of evolution of the system. Still many familiar icons and interfaces...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kU0MS7o-rg
I'm still working on how to best capture video. This is VGA from the machine to VGA->HDMI adapter to an HDMI capture interface to OBS, cropping and scaling to get close to the 4:3 source image.
BeMachine running Hobbit-93080009.img
Tim from the Island💫♥️💫🇮🇲Word of the day: GLUGGAVEÐUR (Icelandic) - Weather that looks lovely from inside your house, but is horrible to be outside in. Literally 'window-weather'.
Some 21 years lighter, I’m using the Color-aid paper for something else, a color demo in the data vis class.
Time for a demo in the visualization/information design class. Guess what kind of data we’re working with?