Archives for November, 2007
My new pda background
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I’ve made a background image for my pda, consisting of a tree in snow:
It didn’t take long to find the original image (take a look at http://www.kennyrogers.biz/old_website/photography2.html for the original), but it did take a long time to fine-tune it to pda standards. It had to be ‘cut down’ to size (240 x 320), and [...]
Van Gogh museum
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Yesterday I went to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam with Diana. We went to see the Barcelona 1900 exhibition, with a lot of art from the period, including architectual designs and models, and furniture. And paintings, of course. There were a few paintings that really struck me, like Claudio Hoyos’ The Devil. The city-plans of Barcelona [...]
Nightview from my bedroom
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Last night I opened my bedroom window to let in some fresh, cool air and enjoyed the view I had of the streets below. It’s a street where only busses drive (hence the barrier halfway, which opens for busses but not for cars). I put my camera on the windowsill, set the ISO value to 400, and [...]
Bad typography
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
The phenomenal achievements in human ingenuity when it comes to building tools to communicate through (like computers, desktop publishing software, and printers) has, unfortunately, not compelled any such advancements in the way human beings actually use these tools to communicate their messages.
Take a look at the sign below, pasted on a cardreader at the entrance of an [...]
My neighbourhood
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Last Saturday I did go out with my camera, and took some pictures of my surroundings, inspired by the autumn air and the building site on the other side of the neighbourhood. The site was abandoned, and there’s something about the combination of large structures, the remains of work, and the silence of these empty sites that [...]
This tree…
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
…lives across the road and is black in grey skies in winter or green hiding blue in summer.
It is such a beautiful day. I think after cleaning my apartment and taking out the trash I’ll go out with my camera and try to capture the crisp and cold and soothing air that smells of burned wood and promises [...]
4 months…
Friday, November 16th, 2007
… since I quit smoking!
Here are two thoughts that have really helped me:
It is not me who says ‘have a cigarette’. It is the cigarette that tells me, like the wrong kind of friend.
There’s no such thing as ‘one cigarette’. There is only the first of the rest.
Processing #4
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
My latest project in Processing is slowly taking shape and it’s still a long way away from what I want. Here’s a preview though, of the randomness I intend to use. The picture below has been drawn by my laptop, with random values used for almost every line you can discern while maintaining an overall [...]
Adventurous Noordwijk
Monday, November 5th, 2007
So, I got this waitress’s number (from the wedding reception two weeks ago), and we had a date yesterday in Noordwijk. The plan was to have a walk on the beach, make interesting conversation, drink some hot chocolate, and then go home in time for dinner. How hard could that be?
What actually happened was that [...]
Processing result #2 and #3
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Inspired by the Wilson grid, originally by Mark Wilson who in the 1980’s started to experiment with drawing with computers using the BASIC languague.
I had a genuinely novel experience last night as designated driver… the job sucks. Listening to drunk people isn’t as much fun when you’re not drunk yourself. I came home at [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.