Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. Later in life, he was confined to mental institutions and was alleged to have suffered from schizophrenia. According to some psychiatrists, the onset of schizophrenia can be seen […]
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Murphy’s Law – Joking aside 😉
One of today’s most recognized physical laws is Murphy’s Law…one of the seeming fundamental laws of mankind: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” In this post, I discuss its brief history, and entertain the attempt of mathematically formulating his maxim in order to apply to some real-world sitations. The history: The adage or truism, […]
My Radio Station: FlyingSalmon Radio
Hi folks, I’m experimenting with setting up my own internet broadcast radio. I’ll be adding more content over time, but for now there are several categories you can enjoy. They are: You can point your browser or any media player that supports opening an internet playlist to: https://zeno.fm/radio/flyingsalmon/ Also, there are downloadable apps for Android […]
Monet’s still painting brought alive
Here I’m sharing my first little experimentation with animating a still image. Not the cheesy, cartoony added animation layers on top of the image like TikTok or most other apps feature these days, but rather using the intrinsic pixels of the original image and manually specifying which pixels would move, how fast, how far, where, […]
Vincent Willem Van Gogh – Immersive Experience (Seattle 2021)
I dream my painting and I paint my dream. I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh only lived 37 years (1853-1890). His brother Theo was his closest confidant for life. Van Gogh killed himself in July 1890. […]
Another fun game: Pick Out
Greetings. This month, I developed another game as a web application (HTML5) that employs auto-scaling, sound, and responsiveness on all platforms that support a browser. That means, PC, tablets, smartphones, etc. You can use touch or mouse as inputs. It’s based on the simple and classic game concept where you get to pick an “odd […]
Potential Sculpture Designs
Here’s a quick scratch pad note about a couple of shapes (one is hyperbolic paraboloid and another one has no name…will have to come up with an artificial one!)…playing with the equations a+b+c=bc and a+b+c=abc Their shapes are mesmerizing to me and in addition to them being artistic, cool, I also see practical uses of […]
My friends and family around the world
I have always taken pride in being open-minded, curious, inclusive, diverse, and welcoming of new friendships from outside the familiar mold. My experiences in traveling and living abroad across several countries and continents have enabled me to fulfil that wonder to a good measure. With that in mind, here are two interactive maps created with […]
Conversation over phone that you can “feeeeel”!
I can see some form of this being actually quite useful and popular even as a novelty. Change the form factor (to less clunky) that can be added to most phone, add horizontal motion for the feelers. I can imagine some people making creative uses for the tongue add-on.
Arduino: Building your own dimmer at home
This mini-project is to get a lamp to dim or brighten on command. In this case, we’ll hook up a regular LED to a potentiometer module, which when turned clockwise will increase the brightness of the LED lamp, or dim it (and all the way to “off”) when turned counter-clockwise. This is exactly how the […]