Currently working on Project H, which involves many spreadsheets and calculations and trips and much gnashing of teeth.
Before that, I was under the radar on a huge CSS project for work. Lots of hours burned and no personal stuff.
Now I’ll be able to get a few book reviews done and make some changes for Add-Art. Looks like AdBlockPlus 1.3 doesn’t work with Add-Art, so I’ll take a stab at fixing that tonight. Then more polish on UpFuckr and a few ideas for Processing sketches.
I love the Bergen stop on the F train. Someone is always improving the terrible advertisements. This one was too good not to share.
Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video.
Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Ignore this, it is just a braindump from the train. Unless you want to help out.
I’ve started working on a project called add-art.  The idea is to turn advertisements into beauty. It is based on the popular ad-block-plus firefox extension, but instead of leaving holes where advertisements are removed, it would insert art. Curators could book shows on add-art.org for artists. When you go to a website with tons of ads, they would be replaced by art images.
Great stuff!  Once we get the plugin working with add-art.org, we should look at decentralizing it. Let the extension communicate with multiple ad block lists and multiple replacement image servers. Then package the add-art.org server as an installable package so anyone can run it. Let users pick up the url of other servers as a way to get art from the artists they like on their browser…
Deviantart might run something like this.
Maybe flickr/explore/interesting could be a provider.
Hell, why not use atom/rss as the provider and let any rss list of images be the provider?
Image sizing becomes an issue. You need to stick in appropriate sized images. If they aren’t the right size you’ll need to slice them up on the client side. Is that cheap? Does the browser give you a way to not only decently resize, but also slice from an image?