Geekiest needlepoint yet
Bob comes through again, with a picture of an astonishing cross-stitch project called dos-stitch. The crafter is explicitly re-inventing traditional stitched samplers for the computer era.
This piece is very much in the spirit of artwork that we’ve seen in past XML conferences and that I hope to see at the XML 2005 artwork exhibit. Are you working on your entry yet? The deadline to fill out the submission form is October 28, so there’s not much time! Drop me a line or leave a comment if you want to bat ideas around.
I’m a bit behind on my XML 2005 project, but I’ve got a bunch of really loooooong flights coming up this month, so I hope to make good progress then. No pictures yet, but I will admit that it involves a haiku about XML parsing, so I guess it’s a kind of sampler too, as well as being painfully geeky.
Paul Madsen Said,
October 11, 2005 @ 5:24 am
Hi Eve, a close up - http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/10/stitched_tracert_dos_commands.html
Paul
kate pemberton Said,
October 11, 2005 @ 7:54 am
thanks for the comments. Tracert is now on a 2 year international tour oraganised by ACM Siggraph. i am not sure of the schedule as it wasnt arranged during this years conference. if you are interested in seeing the work it may be an idea to check the Siggraph web page from time to time to check for up to date destinations.
kt - endfile
Eve M. Said,
October 11, 2005 @ 8:59 am
Kate, thanks for the info! I wonder if you can also share the pattern for the “stitched font” you used. Did you design it yourself? The possibilities for new samplers using it are endless…
kate pemberton Said,
October 14, 2005 @ 8:26 am
hi Eve
the font is the system font used by dos - i didnt actually download a font to create the pattern, instead i just printed the dos screen so that all spacing and text would be exact.
Pushing String » The smell of software Said,
May 11, 2006 @ 10:43 am
[…] Imagine my delight when I found the section connecting code threads to stitch patterns (for which this is a reverse view!): Computer processors are now generally fast enough that they can usually switch between and effectively trace several execution threads “concurrently” according to human perception. Thus, execution threads can be likened to the straight warp on a loom, around which intricate patterns of code are entwined and intertwined to produce a fabric of data as results. […]