Hand-held creativity.

May 26, 2007 6:24 PM

Make your own Jackson Pollock. Also, your own snowflake, your individual barcode, a weird vessel/flying disk, and flowers.
posted by frobozz (11 comments total)

Make a license plate

Make a candy heart
posted by jazon at 6:30 PM on May 26, 2007

The first link is a double. The barcode link is, too. Not sure about the others.
posted by cerebus19 at 6:45 PM on May 26, 2007

Bliss! *So enjoyed that!* Thanks frobozz. Your snowflake and flowers links will become a new relaxing pastime, a good and more creative substitute for playing Solitaire.

The weird vessel one seems to goad the player by saying, "Those of higher intelligence will be better at this than those of lower intelligence." In spite of that I enjoyed the flexible geometry of it.

The Pollack one is good, I like the make your own Andy Warhol silkscreen online better.

As for doubles, I'd doubly linked the barcode one myself. It has some neat links on that site, including one to way cool seashell mosaics, using little shells as pixels.

jazon, omg, For your license plate link, cannot believe you linked to one of my all time favorite sites, evar, acme.com's Singing Science Records. There is something stupidly satisfying making a silly license plate. He links to a tombstone maker. Jef Poskanzer's site has been around a long time, it's very likeable.
posted by nickyskye at 7:33 PM on May 26, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

i could spend hours playing with that snowflake generator, and i probably will as soon as i find some more free time and a little pot :)
posted by waxboy at 7:51 PM on May 26, 2007

Is there any way to save these Pollack-ings?
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:31 PM on May 26, 2007

The "weird vessel/flying disk" one is a few minutes' fun, too.
posted by pax digita at 3:49 AM on May 27, 2007

Is there any way to save these Pollack-ings?

You gotta just let go, grapefruitmoon, you gotta just let go....
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:00 AM on May 27, 2007

I used this to introduce my geomrety students to line generated fractals. Makes cool snowflakes if you stick a few together, like this.
A real math teacher teaches wherever he can, even if it's unsolicited :)
posted by monkeymadness at 8:50 AM on May 27, 2007

Is there any way to save these Pollack-ings?
Screen cap?
posted by Thorzdad at 10:48 AM on May 27, 2007

Don't forget the ever-popular Make-a-flake as well (you cut up paper in this one).

Thanks for posting this - my daughter (8 years old) really loves the flower one and the snowflake one at zefrank.
posted by marble at 1:01 PM on May 27, 2007

Pollack? More like make your own Ralph Steadman backgrounds.
posted by quite unimportant at 6:18 PM on May 27, 2007