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Dennis Hopper: one (148) great (129) movie (128) man (108)

As a tribute to Dennis Lee Hopper, probably the best ‘bad guy’ in the cinema ever. After a hard battle against a prostate cancer he passed away on May 29.

Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Speed… the list of movies is endless.

Yes I know… there were a lot of trouble in his life but he was one of the few free spirits out there.

For this image I took about one thousand comments that people left after his death from this site and counted the most commonly used words. I find it quite interesting that the first most used words are ‘one’, ‘great’, ‘movie’, ‘man’. So I will use them as the image title.

The first most used words:

rip (183), one (148), great (129), movie (128), man (108), easy (100), like (97), actor (94), rider (91), missed (89), now (82), film (80), just (78), blue (76), loved (72), rest (72), time (70), always (67), peace (66), mr (62), many (61), thanks (61), go (58), good (58), life (57), velvet (53), favorite (50), true (50), say (49), lived (47), see (47), work (47), really (43), remember (43), role (43), die (42), apocalypse (41), think (41), know (40), years (40), well (39), can (38), never (38), best (37), get (37), come (36), scene (34), way (34), friends (33), watch (33), much (32), sad (32), ever (31), look (31), made (31), art (30), last (30), another (29), day (29), may (29), guy (28), talent (28), things (28), character (27), hollywood (27), long (27), people (27), cool (26), romance (26), two (26), bad (25), gary (25), played (25), want (25), cancer (24), even (24), fan (24), first (24), hoosiers (24), make (24), person (24), saw (24), still (24), back (23), performance (23), right (23), seems (23), ‘s (22), coleman (22), enjoyed (22), got (22), hard (22), hope (22), oh (22), show (22), wild (22), generation (21), part (21), thought (21), threes (21), also (20), moment (20), something (20), take (20), wonder (20), classic (19), family (19), gone (19), kind (19), knew (19), lot (19), star (19), week (19), world (19), brilliant (18), career (18), crazy (18), death (18), frank (18), old (18), rebel (18), seen (18), walken (18), word (18), ago (17), next (17), real (17), river (17), someone (17), today (17), turn (17), end (16), memories (16), start (16), sure (16), amazing (15), better (15), dead (15), flow (15), greatest (15), heart (15), news (15), nice (15), ride (15), sorry (15), acting (14), appearance (14), born (14), came (14), damn (14), dean (14), dude (14), entertainment (14), forget (14), giant (14), god (14), interesting (14), left (14), pabst (14), pretty (14), ribbon (14), truly (14), walk (14), without (14), yes (14), young (14), agree (13), around (13), booth (13), cause (13), conservative (13), course (13), drugs (13), every (13), happens (13), kids (13), legend (13), lost (13), mention (13), nicholson (13), story (13), trying (13), wow (13), american (12), believe (12), billy (12), christopher (12), edge (12), era (12), especially (12), find (12), linkletter (12), mean (12), original (12), post (12), said (12), side (12), speed (12), went (12), wish (12), almost (11), beautiful (11), feel (11), follow (11), free (11), gave (11), icon (11), little (11), loss (11)…

Download PDF JO-D-100610-Dennis

Thank you very much and goodbye Dennis…

Peace for all… tastes

Speaking of white doves here you have my serie of compositions based on the peace symbol, made up of more than 300 languages.  I think I saw something similar on the Internet but can’t remember where.

For the seed image I recreated the symbol in 3D. Then I rendered it in order to have a seed image with some kind of depth sensation.

I made a couple of variations so you can choose. In the first group of images the first ten highest words represents the most spoken languages in the world. In the last ones the languages are sorted alphabetically.

I took the differents peace words from this website: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/

Download vector PDF files:

JO-D-100601-Peace-02-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-03
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-04
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-05

JO-D-100601-Peace-01-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-03

The Dove

Just a quick composition with a white dove.

I like this one, but if you prefer a less abstract version…

Take a closer look.

Apple Sales

Apple recently announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter. As usually they grow again.

In the above image I have reconstructed the face of Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, with the Apple products. But you know, I always want to add some kind of information… in this case the number of times a certain product appears is proportional to the sales number.

Q2 2010 sales by products: Desktop: 1.15 million units, Portables: 1.8 million units, iPod: 10.9 million units and iPhone: 8.75 million units.

Pablo Picasso

A portrait of Pablo Picasso with words from his pictures.

Download PDF JO-D-100517-Picasso (264kB).


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