Spamghetto: now with 2000 real spam messages subjects’ scraped from our Gmail’s accounts!
Since we were polling gmail way too quickly, I even had my account locked for ’suspect’ activity for 3 hours :)
A time.sleep() with some random interval was enough to cheat the watchdog.
By the way… we used the lovely Nodebox for the generative graphics (output to PDF) and libgmail to get data from Gmail.
Check the link below, it’s a bigger version (2400*2400 px) with readable text…
Quick preview of a computational spam-based wallpaper to be presented later on this month at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Full project description and more sketches will be published soon as we finish coding the system.
Wanna get a larger boner? So easy to be bigger! :) Read the rest of this entry →
EDIT – some exhibition pictures from Bruce Sterling’s flickr
EDIT 2 – information about the lasercut modular cardboard installation (that was cut in our studio :-) here:
The friendly people at AAST (Lorena Alessio, Andrea Graziano, Davide Del Giudice) have planned an impressive series of events on computational architecture.
Here’s the info about the kickstart: Read the rest of this entry →