This is a nice little idea - it's called Tone Matrix. Perhaps a student could try creating this - or something similar - using Scratch.
While you're there try looking at the main page of the website as well as the experiments page.
Note : original link came from GLinner.
Sleeveface is an interesting site which collects pictures of people posing behind album covers such that the face on the album replaces their own face. Mostly these have been created with album covers from old-style vinyl discs but it can even be done - with a bit of thought - with CD covers, see here for an example.
The picture above is of Mr Goff behind the Peter Hammill album 'The Future Now' which seemed appropriate as he is about to leave Chace for a new future elsewhere. The fake album cover in the posting on Tuesday - the 'Knockoff Project' - also mentioned this fact in its title 'Going Soon'.
And here are three more examples from Sleeveface itself.
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So now . . . . . why don't you see what you can produce next week during half-term.
EXTRA : Between planning and publishing this post I've come across this link to a similar site
. . . . . . . . . but it uses pictures on paper money.
The 'Knockoff Project' is a website that features album covers that are copies of original albums. Some are fan-created, some were made as a homage to the original and others are examples of plain, old-fashioned ripping off other people's ideas.
It is not easy to find specific albums as the site is simply a few pages each packed with a long list of small images but worth a look all the same. Who knows - they may even succeed in their request for someone to code a more effective version of the site.
Look out for the Michael Jackson 'Bad' album spoof - 'Even Worse' by Weird Al Yankovic.
The picture above is my own version of XTC's second album from 1978 - GO 2. (You can see the original below.) I'll leave it up to you to find the name of my fictional band and their album. I also hope you spot the non-existent adverts that adorn this blog - at least there are none at the time of writing this article.
So now . . . . . why don't you see what you can produce next week during half-term.
PhD Comics have some interesting items.
This one is a nicely prepared desktop wallpaper all marked out so you know where to place your icons.
I thought I'd have a week of posts (only two) without the usual picture. (This link originally via Gizmodo)
Plenty of debate - as usual - about whether we should accept the Government watching and recording our everyday activities. Last week The Guardian published this article promoting the 'DNA database'. Shortly after that they published this article pointing out why we perhaps ought to be worried about the loss of our civil liberties.
So ..... where do you stand on this?
I thought I'd have a week of posts (only two) without the usual picture. (2nd link originally via GLinner).
Extra : And who'd-a-thunk the very next day there would be this post about copyright in the Guardian by Cory Doctorow.
Sometimes the designers just go too far - this is about gadgets that have been overloaded with "features".
Gizmodo had a little article recently which highlighted some gadgets which have taken the principle of convergence to the limit and beyond.
Sometimes the fonts that you have available on your computer don't quite fit the work you are doing.
Font Squirrel is one site that has a wide range of downloadable fonts - what makes it useful is that they are free to use - even for commercial work.
The screenshot below shows a few examples from their 'Calligraphy' range.
At the time of writing this post there were over 300 fonts on their site and they have links to other sites offering free fonts. Also - be warned - you can have too many fonts installed on your computer.
A very welcome Bank Holiday today and being a school in north London where better to consider than London itself - there are many places to visit and events to enjoy.
'Visit London' is a useful site to see what is available and to plan what to do.
The Wikipedia random link selector.
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This link popped up quite soon after I started clicking random links. I had to include it here because we lived in Wollaton, very near the Hall, for most of my secondary school years. After going to University in Leeds (living here then here) I came back and shared a house for a year while I completed a post-graduate course. From there I moved "down South" to start my teaching career.
For this week I clicked on the 'random link', ignoring "stubs" or very short articles, until I found something I found interesting or that had links to other articles.
