i am the weather :: interestingness by sean salmon » physical / digital http://iamtheweather.com interestingness at the intersection of design, art &experience. Tue, 25 May 2010 21:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 the human printer http://iamtheweather.com/2009/07/02/the-human-printer/ http://iamtheweather.com/2009/07/02/the-human-printer/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:33:18 +0000 sean http://iamtheweather.com/?p=932 Print tests « thehumanprinter-1.jpg

thehumanprinter creates CMYK prints of your photos by hand.

Unlike any other printer thehumanprinter creates unique, individual images each time it prints. Following the same process as a digital printer, thehumanprinter generates the printed product by hand. Throughout the printing process thehumanprinter assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer.

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82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.

A real life dead pixel by Helmut Smits. Digital display technologies affecting the real physical world with it’s intentions of affecting the digital representation of the physical world. See also.

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From Pasta & Vinegar, a notepad hanging outside a beauty shop window meant for clients of the salon to leave their name and contact info for the, presumably busy, owner to call them back to make an appointment. Yesterday on my way home I walked by the shop where I sometimes get my hair cut, and knowing I needed a haircut (badly) I turned back around and went in to chat with Carla and make an appointment. This happened because the shop was still open but if she was already closed, I would be putting off getting a haircut even longer. A hanging notebook would provide this just-in-time just-in-place interface for setting up a haircut appointment. I would love to have more ways to interact, however simply or asynchronously, with objects or places that are for all intents and purposes, asleep or otherwise unavailable.

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