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Bring some colour to my life. (Using only black and white)

 
 
JOY NO WRY
08:50 / 20.01.07
Ink and paper are no object.

I've got one big rasterbation up already but I think thats all I want from rasterised images for now. So what can I do, my friends? What works of art come across well in black inkjet ink on white paper? All suggestions welcome - I'm utterly useless at this kind of thing.
 
 
ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
09:48 / 20.01.07
What sort of stuff are you after?

Schematics tend to look real pretty in monochrome, either architectural or things like circuit diagrams. there are some nice photographs which look very good, badly enlarged by printout, usually cityscape type stuff.

Then again, there's stuff like this:




Which you can self-generate pretty easily with ContextFree.

There's also stuff like this, which I like, but is probably not everyone's cup of tea, or even everyone's cup of hot water with leaf-squeezings of some kind in:



edit: having properly read your post, now, I guess you're not interested in the last image, or in badly-blown-up photos. context-free is a great place to make your own interesting vector-art-ish images with a little prodding and poking, then you can have your cell covered in yr own originals.
 
 
JOY NO WRY
09:57 / 20.01.07
Assuredly I began with no idea what I was after, but these delicious offerings are certainly of the calibre I was hoping for. Beautiful stuff. Though obviously I wouldn't be disturbed but further suggestions.
 
 
ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
10:00 / 20.01.07
There is an edit pending on my post, which adds a last paragraph, which is not really very useful now, but which prevents me from requesting a fix to my copy/paste link error on the second picture. You can click here instead, to see it full-size, if you want.

And now that I realise just how big it actually is, I'll upload a more reasonably sized copy instead, give me a moment or two.
 
 
ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
10:08 / 20.01.07
Ok, hopefully the new, smaller (still big, but smaller) picture will not cause major browser-stutters, as the original picture (still able to be located here in all its oversize glory) did, at least for me.

Sorry for stumbling all over your thread.

Thank you for your kind words!

(and your moderating, mods)
 
 
Dutch
12:10 / 20.01.07
Stephen O'Malley, over at ideologic makes some pretty nice grim and dark stuff in black and white. It won't exactly bring colour to your life, but some of his work is pretty amazing.
 
 
Olulabelle
14:15 / 20.01.07
Red Frog Rising, I'm really liking your tree.
 
 
Hawthorn
00:39 / 22.01.07
this site always cheers me up

the pictures might not print so well in black and white but might make a groovy desktop or something.
 
 
Triplets
01:12 / 22.01.07
Oh. Those trees are beautiful, Hawthorn.
 
 
grant
01:53 / 22.01.07
M.C. Escher prints look good in B/W, since they're meant for B/W (except the color ones, of course).

I have some still around my desk at work. They xerox well, too.
 
 
Vadrice
02:15 / 22.01.07
poetry alway looks good in black and white.
even if it's crap you needen worry.
based on sales, jewel is the most important poet of the last fifty years.
 
 
Vadrice
05:32 / 22.01.07
i felt like i was being too hipsterish with the last comment (look, i know that jewel poetry sold blah blah) and my fiance agreed with me so helpfully she suggested ansel adams.

she's my visual superior (amongst other things).

oh. and what is rasterization?
 
 
JOY NO WRY
09:37 / 22.01.07

oh. and what is rasterization?


It's converting an image into a raster image, whereby the intensity of contrast (or colour) is shown by the size of a pixel against a background colour. So you can make large images of small images, but large images that can only be seen properly from a distance:



Thereby enabling you to disguise your grey metal door with a 7 or 8 foot high version of a image that you stole from some place off the internet
 
 
Lagrange's Nightmare
04:48 / 01.02.07
I only just came across this: New York Public Library Digital Gallery

"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."

Am still at work so can't really explore, but hopefully there will be some cool stuff.
 
 
Triplets
12:44 / 01.02.07
yr own joy, that's fucking top. I was about to ask what kind of printer prints on doors and how much HP flog them for, then I noticed: tiiiny segments!
 
 
Char Aina
12:50 / 01.02.07
i was thinking the same.

and then i thought...
would it be possible to make a printer that burned tiny holes in paper? if so, you could make stencils of shit and spray paint yer rasterbations more permanently.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:51 / 01.02.07
Rock!
 
 
JOY NO WRY
19:12 / 04.02.07
Jesus Christ, a stencil printer is an amazing idea. Somebody patent that. City councils everywhere would hate you but who cares, you'ld be rich.

Imagine the detailed graffitti everywhere.
 
 
HCE
01:58 / 05.02.07
That door is freaking awesome.
 
  
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