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Snow Balls

I’m working in a illustration series, based in sports, generated using my genetic geometry technique, something highly inspired in Percolator and Tsevis style. My main goal was to have something useful for tshirts, but as usually I ended with something that needs a big size if you want to see all the details it has.

Here you have some of then, focused in winter sports. I think I will publish soon more about different sports.

Click to enlarge, but remember that all these are vector based. If you want to see all the details of first sample take a look at it in zoom.it.

Dennis Ritchie

A couple weeks ago Dennis Ritchie pass away. His left was less noisy, just short news in newspapers, but I have to tell you the true: Without Dennis Ritchie there would be no Steve Jobs (of course Jobs was a incredible genius too).

Dennis created the C programming language and, in collaboration with Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system. Both pilars of our current digital era.

I was tempted to spread one of his best know quotes “C has the power of assembly language and the convenience of… assembly language”, witch is quite funny (if you ever try C!). But finally I took  Álvaro from photoblues suggestion and spread all C functions over a portrait of Dennis. I want to thank Álvaro for his help with this illustration.

Bye dmr, I hope you see you in comp.lang.c.heaven.

Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Sabina es uno de los artistas españoles más queridos por el público. A su sencillez le acompañan sin duda las mejores letras de canciones escritas en español.

Buscar esas palabras que hacen la magia en sus canciones me ha llevado a analizar el contenido de 233 de sus canciones (todas, o casi) con los siguientes resultados.

Palabras más usadas: pasado (188),noche (159),quiero (150),llamaba (137),corazón (127),ruido (118),deja (113),besos (109),cantar (109),amor (107),vida (97),pisa (96),sal (95),vivir (95),nunca (92),mar (83),mal (82),olvido (81),siempre (79),canción (70),dijo (69),perder (69),acelerador (68),primer (68),muerte (67),casa (64),decir (64),lleva (64),mira (64),madrid (63),mujer (63),hablo (62),llegar (61),busca (59),dice (58),mano (58),ven (58),fin (57),queda (56),ganas (55),espera (54),quería (54),mejor (53),tarde (53),cama (51),cuento (51),bar (50),buen (50),sueños (50),bien (48),pido (48),corta (47),digo (47),dormir (47),mata (46),mentira (46),nadie (46),negro (46),ojos (46),pon (46),verdad (46),bailar (45),vino (45),volver (45),dame (44),guerra (44),lado (44),mujeres (44),tal (44),veces (44),contar (43),falta (43),niño (43),quiso (43),media (42),muere (42),pongamos (42),toca (42),boca (41),ciudad (41),calle (40),cielo (40),duro (40),pago (40),aprender (39),escribo (39),igual (39),pregunté (39),tren (39),triste (39),viejo (39),loco (38),mientras (38),pan (38),tiempo (38),acaban (37),hombre (37),puerta (37),voy (37),aquel (36),contigo (36)…

Combinaciones de dos palabras: pisa el acelerador (67),sóngoro cosongo (19),hablo de madrid (17),pongamos que hablo (17),and roll (13),oiga doctor (13),rock and (13),mismo fue lo que yo le pregunté (12),pasándolo bien (12),mes de abril (11),noche que yo amo (11),dame tu santa (10),día siguiente (10),escriben las canciones (10),incluso en estos tiempos (10),quién me ha robado (10),rocanrol de los idiotas (10),santa bendición (10),nube negra (9),tablas en el ajedrez (9),vecino de arriba (9),abrigo y ven (8),deja el abrigo (8),noche de bodas (8),robado el mes (8),sitio para los dos (8),veinte años (8)…

Combinaciones de tres palabras: pongamos que hablo de madrid (17),rock and roll (13),dame tu santa bendición (10),deja el abrigo y ven (8),quién me ha robado el mes (8),robado el mes de abril (8),nada va a pasar (7),va a pasar que no queramos (7),bocata con lima te llevaré (6),lado del telón de acero (6),llevaba medias negras (6),nacemos en cualquier lugar (6),pido primer para desertar (6)

La imagen represente un retrato de Sabina con las palabras más utilizadas. Cuanto más las ha usado mayor tamaño tienen en la ilustración.

Otra versión.

The Pale Blue Dot

In 1990 the Voyager 1 spacecraft was leaving the solar system, about 6 billion kilometers from Earth, when Carl Sagan requested to turn the camera in order to take a photo of Earth. That photograph is know as “The Pale Blue Dot” and inspired Sagan to write one of the most beautiful words I’ve ever read.

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

As a tribute to who filled my childhood with dreams about space, I spread this text over a portrait of Sagan. He is probably out there, somewhere, satisfying his curiosity.

Another version I was working on.

Sigmund Freud

A quote of the famous creator of psychoanalysis, “The first requisite of civilization, is that of justice”, spread over his portrait.

Buy print at Society6


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