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- Awesomemonospaced
- Seen this about a lot recently. Great job.Ianbolton
- ♥+SlashPeckham
- love the rough drawing bitsPhanLo
- nice onerobthelad
- Hey thanks. Yeah I initially wanted to stay away from speech bubbles and 'crossed wires' but treated rough and unpolised I thought it worked.de4k
- *unpolishedde4k
- Really nice and dynamic! Tasteful execution(s) @de4k.ideaist
- Great WorkKnuckleberry
- nice!milfhunter
- lovelyutopian
- Nice work!MrT
- cool!Krassy
- I like the Keith Haring vibe when the squiggle has legs and movement lines.
Great brand work!microkorg - This is nice and a joy to the eye.Longcopylover
- scribbliciousCyBrainX
- Really dig this - nicely done!bulletfactory
- Thanks! I really appreciate it.de4k
- +1 as always. Great Stuff!
Podcasts are becoming a bit of a big thing, eh? I've noticed a huge inflation of them over the common landscape recently.Nairn
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- mg334
Spent the entire day messing around with the generative image tool I created last night, using ChatGPT for all the html, css, and JS. I had this idea and wanted to see how far it could go. I basically have a single html page run locally from a code editor with inputs to specify number of shapes, min and max size, width of skinny lines, angle of shapes, color palettes via hex#, and mixed-blend mode. Hit a button and presto, something completely different every time.
The big epiphany hit me an hour ago when I realized that while everything is random based on limited parameters (shape number, shape min/max size, rectangle width, and angle of all shapes) I can open up an inspector and Individually turn shapes off and on, rotate them, and move them up and down to refine things. It gets away from the full randomization of things but it’s a nice way to take the base output and use it as an idea template.
This really started in my mind when I was working on album artwork ideas in PS two nights ago for my music project. I kept realizing that my placement of things was random but with an iterative idea of what I was aiming for. Now I’m trying to figure out how to use this JS tool to generate stuff I can take into PS and literally use, or lay out my own things on top of.
It’s literally set up so that every click of a “generate shapes” button randomizes the shapes based on those limited parameters above, and once the shapes are there I can add color palettes, pull from saved ones in a drop down, and change mixed-blend mode (although multiply is by far the most effective).
My next exploration is to keep working on a way of randomly pulling images into a specified number of divs from a folder or big list of jpg images.
I’m doing this at 1,000px square and now wondering how big I can make it and how I could save off the page as an image large enough to print.
After being laid off last month, this is the most fun I’ve had doing anything. For the longest time I’ve wanted to get into that programming.js stuff Josh Davis does, and learn more about generative art and code. I’m completely pumped to have figured this out on a much smaller scale but in a style I love.
- skwiotsmith2
Recent collaboration with Refold (https://www.refold.co.uk/) for North Brew Co
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Back on that bullshit:
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- SimonFFM26
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Just super excited for being on the frontpage of Playboy Germany. Such things don't happen too often. Super cool.
- congrats simon!sarahfailin
- Thank youSimonFFM
- Amazing man, good job! Just ordered my book today.eryx
- Thank you very much! Shipping will begin very soon.SimonFFM
- she's a beautyrobthelad
- ...and on the front page of QBN.pablo28
- @eryx I was super confused, because someone else with the exact same name as you but a different address also ordered a copy.SimonFFM
- Nice !d_gitale
- Beautiful! But I don't know what my wife would think if I ordered the book.stewart
- You’ll have to let us know how many Jims order from Detroitmisterhow
- @stewart I really hope you were joking or is nudity forbidden in your household by your wife?SimonFFM
- I probably wouldn't appreciate it either if there was a thick book of naked men on the coffee table, which my wife occasionally delves into. Nor would my son :)stewart
- SimonFFM30
Here is a quick bts video from yesterday's printing process:
- Nice!
Printers be like:
'Gonna need to to keep some of these proofs....'microkorg - I'll give them books. Two big black trash cans were full at the end of the day (which is normal).SimonFFM
- My first job from 1994-96 was for a printer. The amount of paper and ink used is so much more than you'd ever expect. These presses look so much more modern.CyBrainX
- I remember the thrill of seeing your work being made like this.CyBrainX
- Simon, we've always admired your work but you've got the sense of humour of a German ;)_niko
- I know I look a bit tense. Wonder if I was more easygoing if I had more money.SimonFFM
- I miss the excitement of press checksprophetone
- Or the sheer anxiety/terror if you're old enough to have been dealing with outputting from raw Quark 3.23 packagesprophetone
- ^ Raises handCyBrainX
- print uuu matters.milfhunter
- Quark!! Bloody memories, godOBBTKN
- On a ZIP disk to boot!prophetone
- I can smell that video! Beautifulmaquito
- I taught a Quark class at a local art school for about 6 years back in the early 2000s. A true workhorsemisterhow
- I miss the world of magazines and press checks... that's all I did for years <3PonyBoy
- Simon, is the book dedicated to us?misterhow
- ^ it's all COTDSimonFFM
- That's a KBA press. We have one of those.lemmy_k
- Nice!
- SimonFFM5
I am super exhausted and barely slept, because of sensory overload. Spent the whole day and longer in the printing house as I wanted to be there when my book gets printed.
They didn't tell me, they work in 2 shifts, so I basically spent 15 hours straight there, sniffing lacquer. It was an amazing experience. If you haven't witnessed something like this, you have no idea how much manual work it takes for the printing process. Even though it was my 3rd time, I thought, the machine would basically do stuff by itself.
And tons of paper went into the trash. Here's some trash poetry. Sheets of paper only showing feet and heels, I found in the trash overlaying just like that.
- i loved press passes, especially when i was allowed to work directly with the machine minders. there's s much that can be done at that stage.hans_glib
- That's true. I trusted the experience of those people. Everyone seemed competent to me.SimonFFM
- I never go to the printer. That causes unnecessary stress. My files have an ISO color profile, optimal for the type of paper, in consultation with the printer.stewart
- ...This prevents old-fashioned 'print a bit heavier in black' or 'less heavy yellow' discussions at the machine.stewart
- You can make business cards of the trashed paper. Or flyers and leave them everywhere you go.stewart
- I miss this so much. Punching up blacks and adjusting color on press, picking out dust, and standing by massive offset presses at full speed.monospaced
- @Stewart: My book was profiled, of course, too. But there's 60,000 € investment in this project. It's my baby. So the printing press was the delivery room.SimonFFM
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- Mark E. Smith!CyBrainX
- nice! Acrylic?HAL9001
- ah no its Procreate, just zoomed in ;) Good work man!HAL9001
- pffft. Clip Studio on iPad Pro with a canvas texture on top. honestly cannot stand ProCreate's interface.face_melter
- coolHAL9001
- SimonFFM11
In the new issue of Playboy Germany you can find a preview of my new coffee table book Mellow on six pages, together with a short interview that was done with me.
I am currently in Tenerife and therefore can only show these Photoshop mockups, but it's all real and at newsstands.
As I just sit here in the sun, it's hard to imagine that today in one week, I'll be standing in the printing house all day, accompanying the actual printing of my book. I'll keep you posted.
- Life is hard!
Great work, you deserve it.palimpsest - :-)SimonFFM
- Congrats Simond_gitale
- Congrats, I love printhouses, enjoy!OBBTKN
- I will be nervous though as this project is such a huge investment. But I will film it, too, so I can share.SimonFFM
- That will be great to see. I probably haven't been to a print run since the last millennium.CyBrainX
- Life is hard!
- loool20
- flippin rad ...neverscared
- what happend to its eye!? OUCHIErobthelad
- Yeah Boiii!!!ideaist
- You BASICALLY know Jodie, eh @loool?
; )ideaist - dopemilfhunter
- So cool. I wish I worked on HBO level stuff like this.CyBrainX
- I hope we get an explanation what happened to her eye. There was a lot of animal madness that was similar to the scientists' deaths. It could be connected.CyBrainX
- Nice!YakuZoku
- I'm loving the mystery, I hope it ties together in a satisfying way, only 2 left!robthelad
- don’t go on Twitter or IMDB .. the show is catching a lot of heat for the fact that only 2 ep left and story hasn’t advanced at all. I’m enjoying tho.Ramanisky2
- @loool your contribution to the visuals of the show are outstanding buddy. I can see all the hard work that went into it.Ramanisky2
- thank you kind sir, it's crazy how much time we spend just for the animal to show up for 10 seconds of the final productloool
- ^ yes, I believe you. Just know how envious I’m of you having this type of work to show to others. So jelly, lol.Ramanisky2
- there's a lot of trash that i don't show, there is way more of that than the nice stuff, pays the billz either wayloool