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Spamghetto @ Design Crisis exhibition
23 April 2009We even had some spare time to take some pictures before the opening. :)
exhibition info: www.designcrisis.it
Now with real spam!
10 April 2009Spamghetto: 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…
Spamghetto project description EN/ITA
9 April 2009EN – Spamghetto
the junk-mail wallpaper
Everyday our mailboxes are flooded with unsolicited offers of porn material, pirate software, viagra, illegal financial services and advice on women seduction: if this is annoying for the average user, we really love it.
A quick glance at the spam mailbox always provides fresh inspiration: bizarre subjects guides us in the quest for the definitive answer to fundamental humans’ problems.
But the crisis is striking and we must recycle. So, instead of sweeping spam under the carpet, we decided save some junk-mail in order to turn it into a wallpaper for your house before it’s too late: someday a brilliant scientist will find the definitive solution to eradicate from the web the bittersweet pleasure of spam.
Spamghetto is not like your grandma’s wallpaper. If you provide us with your room’s dimensions, we can, with our generative software, produce a design that wraps and folds around all the objects that sit on the on the wall’s surface.
ITA – Spamghetto
l’unica carta da parati a base di mail-spazzatura
Ogni giorno le nostre mailbox sono inondate da poco gradite offerte di materiale pornografico, di software pirata, di viagra senza prescrizione, di infallibili strumenti di seduzione e di schemi finanziari truffaldini: molti ne farebbero volentieri a meno, a noi piace da morire.
Uno sguardo alla cartella dello spam porta sempre nuova meraviglia: titoli dalla bizzarra sintassi ci guidano nella ricerca della risposta definitiva ai problemi fondamentali dell’essere umano.
C’è la crisi, urge riciclare. Al posto di nascondere lo sporco sotto il tappeto, affezionati a queste incursioni nel lato-b delle nostre emozioni, abbiamo deciso di trasformarlo in tappezzeria per portarlo sui muri di casa vostra prima che qualche scienziato troppo brillante trovi l’antidoto in grado di sradicare dal web per sempre il piacere dolceamaro dello spam.
Spamghetto non è come la tappezzeria della nonna. Se ci fate avere le misure delle vostre pareti, possiamo, con un software generativo scritto ad-hoc, disegnare un motivo che si adatti ai muri di casa vostra avvolgendo e abbracciando tutti gli ostacoli che incontra sul suo percorso.
Wanna get a larger boner? So easy to be bigger! :)
Spamghetto prototype
8 April 2009
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.
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