Here is an artifact of the old internet: "Somewhere in the picture below we have cleverly hidden a can of spam. If you think you've found the spam, click on it to find out if you're right. You probably don't think there is any spam in the picture, but look closely. Most people only find the spam after staring intently at the picture for several hours.
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Good luck and find that spam!"
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posted by JHarris
on Dec 2, 2011 -
71 comments
Ron van der Ende is a sculptor living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in wall mounted bas-relief constructed from found wood. The original color and texture of the wood is utilized to form a gripping and sometimes photo-realistic mosaic. The realism is further enhanced by the perspective built into the relief.
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posted by netbros
on Mar 10, 2011 -
15 comments
How did the World Wide Web look before this Internet boom,
(1) before it became a riot for star backgrounds, bouncing envelopes and under construction signs?
(2)
Before web design, there was
Prof. Dr. Style.
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Aug 10, 2010 -
43 comments
Uh oh, you smashed a dish while you were washing up. But you don't get upset, because you know what to do with the pieces. Being both cultured and crafty, you not only know about the
long and illustrious history of mosaic art but also that you can make mosaics from china and ceramic shards as well as
pebbles,
beads (new or removed from old jewelery),
shells,
marbles, or even
lego or
Scrabble tiles. So you take those pieces of your broken plate (and others that klutzy you has broken in the past) and,
following some basic instructions, make
numbers for your house, a
fireplace surround, a
birdbath, a
flowerpot, a
table or
two or four, a
tray,
picture or
mirror frames, a
wall mural/homage to Hitchcock, or even
a floor. By now you're wishing you had a spare
basilica or
Roman villa so you could really go nuts.
And, besides planning on picking up some thrift shop china, you're eyeing that 48-piece reindeer-and-elves Christmas dinnerware set your mother-in-law gave you a few years back and thinking it's really too bad you're so clumsy and likely to break it in the very near future.
posted by orange swan
on Sep 16, 2008 -
20 comments
Slow Mosaic is a mosaic generator powered by the Web. Feed it a word and watch it create related mosaics in front of your very eyes. Requires Flash. [MI]
posted by sjvilla79
on Nov 29, 2005 -
20 comments
Elvis Post-It Note Mosaic "My boss decided that we needed to do something fun and creative in one of our conference rooms - the one we use for brainstorming and internal meetings - and together we came up with the idea of filling the wall with post-it notes in a multicolored mosaic of (and i’m not sure whose idea this was)
Elvis."
posted by ColdChef
on Jun 22, 2005 -
15 comments
You've probably seen those
photo mosaics where a large image is made up of many smaller images acting as pixels. Kelly Houle has taken the idea a mile further by creating a photo collage that is also
anamorphic -- a collage of illustrations and related material from Alice in Wonderland that, when a curved mirror is placed in the correct position, forms
a portrait of Lewis Carroll. Absolutely amazing stuff.
posted by ewagoner
on Jan 23, 2003 -
19 comments
Through a random series of events,
Jamie Zawinski (oooh, I'm such a name dropper :) sent me some very old archives of the Mosaic/Netscape sites and their beta browsers. Chuck Lau, the originator of
the Netscape Museum has cleaned up some of them and has just put
October 1994's entire mcom.com site online. Chuck's working on getting the others online (there's at least 5 or 6 more archives of the site at different points in 1994 and early 1995), and will also be putting up a page linking to an archive of the very oldest of Netscape/Mosaic's browsers. The browsers are currently sitting in
dissarray on my workstation here. I tried out
Mosaic 0.4 beta on my windows machine, about the only site that worked in it was
Yahoo's.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 28, 2000 -
6 comments
When I got started on the web in '94-95, most pages were somehow related to
Star Trek and recognizing
William Shatner as the god that he is. It's funny, but the old stuff like the Mosaic's
What's New page,
Jerry Yang's homepage, and the machine he used to house his
search engine on are all still online. Even good old Mosaic Communications' URL:
mcom.com points to Netscape. Who says the web is temporary?
posted by mathowie
on Oct 26, 1999 -
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