I’m breaking my two week blog holiday early to bring you a super cool genetic wallpaper video:
As I show in the video, once you have a nice svg (manually edited of course) you can use the script to nudge elements in it. Comment here if you think this is cool.
I was bored and made this video and this gtk gui for mounting google docs as a folder on your computer.
Anyway, please watch my video, mute the sound it’s nothing but static.
[1] PPA: ppa:doctormo/ppa
[2] Package: gdocs-mount-gtk
Now be warned, if you try this, remember that it’s not a supported piece of software, bugs aren’t likely to be fixed (unless you fix them of course) the code is available and it should work on Lucid. It won’t be ported to any other versions (at least by me) but it should be easy to recompile everything for other versions anyway.
I will answer questions here or by email. Your thoughts?
Also works with pictures, now have some fun!
This is my entrant into the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, it’s a wallpaper made in inkscape currently in widescreen format.
This image brought to use by FLOSS:
Open and Responsible in the Herd.
It’s that time again, when I show case some of the fantastic art submissions made to the deviantArt Ubuntu group. If you’ve not heard about it before, it’s a group where Ubuntu artists and designers can get together, talk about using Ubuntu for making art, the tools available and show case their works in the galleries.
The last post was March 12th, so these entries are strictly from that date to today (April 10th). I may post a more historic set of images since we’ve had additions that were published years ago but only recently added to our galleries. For a full list go here.
If you’ve never seen a animation done in synfig, this one is really great, look at that mechanical heart beat! Click for larger image. 
Next time: April’s Wallpapers, where I show off some of my favourite wallpaper submissions.
I’ve made some relatively quick (I spent all day on them) posters, most are using existing drawings, some stuff is new drawings.
There are five posters to be hung on the walls of the booth we have at Anime Boston and one sign inviting people to take a CD. Although I’m not sure if we’ll need the sign since there at 17,000 attendees and only 400 CDs. We will see how these CDs go and if they all disappear pretty quickly, then next time we’ll have to get our own printed instead of going to Canonical’s ship-it service. But we do have 3,000 manga and the 1,000 flyers we have available and 100 special aluminium case badges.
I think it’s going to be a really great event.
I can still change these tag lines, so your thoughts and ideas are welcome in comments below.
I’ve posted the final to deviantArt but I also wanted to post the result here to the planet:
I should get this posted to spread ubuntu website soon.
One of my many jobs in the community is to bring you lovely Ubuntu planet readers some of the wonderful art works that are created using Ubuntu and the FOSS tools we have in the repositories, all these works come from the Ubuntu deviantArt group. These are my picks for the month of march:
If you or someone you know is a good artist and would like to show off their work in our featured gallery. Do join up at our deviantArt group’s front page and start submitting work to the favourites and the galleries.
In Wednesday’s Jono Bacon speaks, a really interesting idea came up. That we should try and describe what Ubuntu is, but only in one minute.
This is my entry into the competition:
[blip.tv ?posts_id=3232350&dest=-1]
I hope you like it, it’s quick and dirty and it’s only 40 seconds instead of a full minute. But I think it gets my point across about ownership.
So it’s been an entire year since I started blogging here on wordpress. It’s been quite the education, not only for the things I wanted to learn, like better writing skills, but also some other journalistic skills like not making people mad and using better language to describe things. And I’ve managed to write a least one entry per day in the year, sometimes it’s been a bit hairy with time tables and I’ve ended up having to write the next day and release it for the previous or next day, but over all it’s been fairly constant.
I’ve had many comments through the year, lots of people have thanked me for writing this self indulgent blog. Some think I analyse things in an interesting way, others just like my Ubuntu community updates and artwork show casing.
What ever the reason for reading my blog, Thank you all! It’s so great to have readers who give helpful advice, corrections and thoughtful encouragement.
