Thinkcorps

I got heavily addicted to my RSS reader for a while, then decided that 1) I was wasting way too much time, and 2) I liked reading most articles in their natural Web environments.

One night several days ago, I was up late reading a magazine called Cabinet. There was a really interesting art project called VSSTV, very slow scan television, in which a video picture is printed using a plotter-type printer with red, blue, and green ink-filled syringes. The syringes fill the bubbles in a sheet of bubblewrap. It’s super-low res and prints out a frame every 20 hours or so.
(VSST is an art hack on SSTV, which is TV over ham radio.)

I thought, hey, why not try that over RSS? So, I deconstructed a relatively small image into its constituent pixel rgb values, and every 2 hours, I generate an RSS feed that contains the coordinates and rgb values for 30 pixels. With the new feed, I also update a new, reconstituted image.

The image will be fully reconstructed in one year.

:: for patricia ::
(i decided that this would make a nice gift of sorts for my girlfriend, patricia. thus, the name)