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I think I created this post just to avoid letting a whole month go without updating this journal. Some subconscious sense of duty must have been triggered in the back of my mind a few hours before the month was over, and it was easy to find a topic when I discovered PictureXS just reached it’s picture number 20102. Something worth mentioning, I guess. Numerologists must acknowledge the significance of this number. Me, I’m just happy I can finally spell “acknowledge” without thinking about it.

I might close the site soon, and make it static. It has been fun, but I feel PictureXS has grown to be kind of dated, and there are a number of issues in relation to it that I would approach differently today. At the same time, I feel more inclined to start a new site rather than update it or fix it.

These are a few words that lead to some great picture collections: book, red, blue, pink, cat, snow, robot, face.

Yesterday my friend eomsco inaugurated his flickr account with a bunch of OpenStudio drawings that he saved when OpenStudio was still a functional web application. His drawings are some of the most brilliant cartoons I ever saw in OpenStudio, and it filled me with joy to see them around again. I have my own little collection of OpenStudio drawings in flickr, and I am positive that many others must have interesting similar backups forgotten in some corner of their file systems. For this reason alone it made sense to create an OpenStudio flickr group. Buza, roadrash and burnto have already added some content to the group, and Buza has just uploaded the first 200 in a collection of around 900 user profile pages that he crawled and rendered in early 2008. If you were ever an OpenStudio user, can you find yourself there? Please join the group and share your collections of OpenStudio art if you have them.

Featured illustration: Who’s there by eomsco.

[Extracted from the Tiny Icon Factory. Colored using a Magic Wand Tool]

Does it make sense to feel nostalgic about something even if you still have it?

My latest favorites from the tiny icon factory:

215606 [t-rex]

215649 [car]

215660 [phone]

Just in time to celebrate unix epoch time 1234567890, Buza and I have finished a new website to host E15:oGFx.

The site features our first public binary in the download section, E15:oGFx ALPHA 001, a small collection of examples and tutorials to get you started, and a gallery of advanced scripts in the featured section.

We also spent the last few minutes before unix epoch time 1234567890 posting a few improvised E15:oGFx scripts inspired by the occasion to E15:WEB.

This is a demonstration video we put together a couple of months ago:

This is the third time I contribute to MIT’s humor magazine Voodoo. This time I worked in collaboration with Ragu Klemenso from CMS. We made a ton of cartoons in the course of a night. Here are a couple of samples of the ones I made:

Hot Chicks from Mars…

It’s hell to work in hell…