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Bent objects by Terry Border

Jake Can Do — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:10:00 +0000

Wacky artist Terry Border specializes in bringing food and ordinary objects alive – all with a deliciously dark sense of humor. You can see more of Terry’s Bent Objects at his website, and you can order the book here.

The Rolling Stones creative brief to Andy Warhol

Jake Can Do — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Now if only more clients briefed ad agencies in this manner.

Marge Simpson’s Playboy pictorial revealed at last

Jake Can Do — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:35:00 +0000

The November issue of Playboy has hit the stands. The cover features a very famous mother of three, who just happens to have a towering blue beehive and bright yellow skin. It’s none other than Marge Simpson of The Simpsons – the gal knows how to walk on the wild side. Her much anticipated pictorial has finally been revealed and is, well, revealing.

We also learn about Marge’s turn ons such as, “having enough saucers for your cups.” Her turn offs? “Slim men who work out regularly and take care of their bodies and whose oiled muscles gleam in the sun when they take off their shirts.”

Homer will be getting free donuts for months.

PhotoSketch: The greatest graphic program since PhotoShop

Jake Can Do — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:02:00 +0000

What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage?

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

Their abstract:

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images.

We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.

Here is a link to the source code for the project if you want to tinker with it.

Mind-blowing, right?