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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Fooling around with The GIMP

It's been quite some time since I fiddled with The GIMP. I used to do all kinds of stuff using it, but for some reason I stopped doing that. For the last years I've been essentially using it for preparing images for posters, presentations and the like.

Today I decided to do something different. And, taking advantage of my "starbucksy" mood, I managed to take this:

and make it look like this:

and then like this:
I realize this is not much, but at least I managed to remember a few basic stuff about image manipulation. The result is kinda cool, but I'm not sure yet if I'll end up using it somewhere or not.

Explaining the "starbucksy" mood: today I received my MASP City Mug. For those of you wondering, MASP stands for "Museu de Arte de São Paulo", a museum located here in São Paulo.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Human-cyborg relations

Anthony Daniels is in Brazil. I went to see him in a local book store:
Taken with a cellphone camera, because everyone forgot their cameras.

Now I am the proud owner of a signed copy of "The Hero With a Thousand Faces", by Joseph Campbell.