I’m going to start a new conceptual illustrations focused in ‘contradictions’ by words generating a contradictory image. And I want to start with War vs Reasons, because I hate how words like “legit”, “peace-keeping” or “good cause” are being used to confuse people.
It’s much simpler, there is no reason for war.
Another sample:
One last…
I’m really excited with Curiosity and the fact of be able to explore another world in the search of life. It’s incredible how far we can go and how little is that distance comparing with the size of the whole Universe. It remains me something… if humans can do it why others can’t do the same to us.
And my mind always ends in all those fantastic Isaac Asimov books. He filled my dreams with space travels and incredible adventures, so I think it’s time to do a little tribute.
For this illustration took more than 170 Asimov books, counted all the words and spread over a portrait of the famous writer. Here is the beginning of the word list: robot (26560),human (14363),derec (10679),something (10167),away (8922),without (7549),another (7212),moment (7005),anything (6686),matter (6652),don (6631),felt (6074),dr (6063),law (6039),around (5992),re (5861),quite (5820),smiled (5550),almost (5468),suppose (5399),reason (5383),suddenly (5150),understand (5095),ariel (4964),arm (4915),planet (4829),space (4785),ll (4733),really (4665),stared (4573),case (4571),mr (4567),believe (4560),however (4546),baley (4544),hunter (4542),least (4242),else (4229),maybe (4170),brain (4106),sir (4083),upon (3948),return (3852),remained (3806),seen (3795),control (3772),seldon (3772),speak (3698),computer (3680),nature (3643),nodded (3633),rather (3631),hari (3629),die (3577),daneel (3553),kill (3535),slowly (3524),wall (3506),sense (3494),wrong (3451),hope (3450)…
It’s nice to compare it with another great scifi writer, Stanislaw Lem. I will (someday) create an illustration about him but I have some of the work already done. Following you can see the beginning of the most commonly used words in 20 books of Lem: something (1600),without (1346),around (1178),another (1126),human (1055),fiction (984),wall (978),everything (954),suddenly (948),away (924),doctor (924),existence (889),moment (864),engineer (851),cloud (834),return (830),planet (829),nature (812),case (811),already (800),stefan (797),matter (758),anything (739),gregory (735),arms (722),become (714),space (693),remained (691),later (685),understand (672),felt (670),along (654),someone (652),however (644),inside (644),whether (640),reason (635),almost (619),glass (607),window (604),intelligence (603),control (601),least (598),really (598),believe (597),continued (596),information (594),author (588),system (587),thus (587),result (581),quite (580),taken (565),universe (564),therefore (559),robot (558),structure (558),captain (555)…
Nicely robot is now in 56th position!. Both great but deeply different writers, don’t you think so?.
¿Quien no conoce al inefable Capitan Haddock?, héroe inseparable del inolvidable TintÃn.
Gracias al Revitero Morales me entero de que una web ha publicado un recopilatorio de todos los insultos lanzados por el Capitan Haddock en los 25 álbumes con los que al autor belga Hergé inmortalizó a TintÃn.
Lo insultos del Capitan Haddock siempre han sido celebrados por sus seguidores. Los 265 recopilados van desde los más estrafalarios a los más creativos, pasando por un sinfÃn de ellos… muchos de los cuales hoy en dÃa se considerarÃan polÃticamente incorrectos. A pesar de ello no he querido dejar fuera de la ilustración ninguno atendiendo a veracidad de los datos que se representan.
Va por ti Miguelón!.
Update: Nino me pide que lo actualice con la versión en francés, su idioma original… como negarme a un amigo!. Aquà lo tenéis.
I woke in the middle of the night, thousands of coloured pieces was falling from the ceiling and my brain was in some kind of quick loop trying to sort them before running out of air…
Another Tetris nightmare. If you played Tetris for hours you will probably remember that feeling (Hey!, you’re also old man! 😉
This guy is guilty, Alexey Pajitnov, the designer and programmer of one of the most addictive games ever, to whom we owe hours of fun but also nightmarish nights.
So it’s my little revenge. To fill his portrait with thousands of its own little diabolic creations. ¿How do you feel now Alex?
But it’s also a game. One of the pieces doesn’t have it’s appropriate colour. Can you find it? For an easy search use this link in zoom.it.
Oh no, more nightmares!… good luck!
I guess you know I expend a lot of time working with words… Throughout time I’ve coded apps that help me deal with tons of words, but a week ago I was testing one of my illustration and needed to sort words by their length. I realised that option wasn’t in my current tools.
My experience with C# is growing from the last January and I really love it. I’m using C# mainly to create tools for Revit, but I though it was time to give it a try with one of my crazy needs.
It is incredible how fast you can create a simple app like this. In about a half hour I ended with something ugly, probably buggy but working tool to sort lines by line length.
Yes I know there must be a lot of tools around there that can do the same thing, but in case you find it useful you can download, distribute and use it for free. But remember, no guarantees!.
Download SimplySortText.zip
Windows version. No installation, just a single exe. Download, unzip and run.
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