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Simone de Beauvoir

I want to share with you my work in progress files of my new tool, still in beta stage. The goal is to be able to spread full phrases, instead of single words. It’s more complicated and I still need time to adjust the variables and the find the better way to get nice results, but you can take a look at my current tryouts.

I’m thinking that it will be very usefull to spread quotes, lyrics or even full books. There is a big scope ahead…

The idea of the program is to find the most energy paths in the image and put a full phrase in each valid path. I added a lot of radomness so paths don’t collapse at the begining.

For the image I took a protrait of Simone de Beauvoir and spread some of his quotes (in french!). here you have the quotes and the translation:

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient (One is not born a woman, but becomes one).
Choisir la vie, c’est toujours choisir l’avenir (Choose life, always choose the future).
L’art est une tentative pour intĂ©grer le mal (Art is an attempt to integrate evil).
Se vouloir libre, c’est aussi vouloir les autres libres (I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom).

A couple of tryouts…

To know more about this great woman visit her Wikipedia article.

Dedicated to Angel, who pointed me to Simone.

Download a resolution free PDF of this image: JO-D-101126-Simone

And finally another sample… some kind of remake of one of my old files, Lennon and the best song ever… Imagine.

2011 Binary Calendar

Here we go with the updated version of my creative Binary Calendar. The nice thing of this calendar is that we don’t need different language version and I didn’t take care of the text orientation… the only problem is that you must know how to read a binary number.

Not a big deal for true geeks!.

White background version.

2011 Spiral Calendar

Another Generative Calendar, this time based in the spiral shape.

You can find here the english and the spanish version in hi-res. You can also support this site by buying a printed version.

Same english and spanish version with white background.

Contact me if you want a personalized version of this calendar with your colors or language.

2011 Grass Calendar

It’s time to talk again about calendar design. I hate the conventional calendar and I really think that a calendar must be useful but beautiful at the same time.

This one is based in a grass grow pattern. Each branch represents a month.

The nice thing of this calendar is his generative behavior… I can have an ‘infinite’ variations of the same calendar because each time I click another random version come out with different colors and branch movement. So if you run a business and want to give an unique calendar to each one of your clients it could be a good choice. You know, contact me!.

You can find here English and Spanish versions. If you want another language please post it here or send me an email.

There is also a new white background version.

I will come back with the rest of my creative calendars… and with new ones.

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is one of my favorites TV shows, probably because Patrick Jane is insanely funny but, at the same time, it looks like he has a hidden ‘dark’ side. And, of course, I love the way he break the rules.

For this image I analyzed english dialogues of the first two seasons, and here you have the most used words: jane (449), guys (368), sorry (358), lisbon (302), agent (252), murder (248), cho (201), nice (190), rigsby (189), kid (167), boss (152), john (152), van (147), cbi (141), husband (140), pelt (139), real (139), excuse (132), phone (125), truth (117), patrick (116), killer (114), stuff (111), police (110), couple (108), anyone (107), cop (107), victim (99), drugs (97), somebody (97), charge (96), arrest (95), investigation (94), hurt (92), nobody (92), hell (90), mom (89), shot (87), jim (82), lawyer (81), dad (80), whatever (80), crime (78), damn (78), suspect (77), serious (76), bosco (75)…

I know this image looks a little bit crazy, but all on this tv show looks distorted so I feel it must be the spirit of the show.

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