The Space Toast Pages

Matthew Rasmussen's journal of journals on various topics of interest, published here, there or somewhere since 1999.

Junk Mail Art

Issue 159, for the week of 11/27/2005.

Toast Note: Failing to produce a real Space Toast Page tonight, I got playing with junk mail a little after midnight (it's now close to 3AM). The medium represents an inexhaustible resource, and I've been endeavoring to come up with uses for it lately. The following pieces are assembled out of what junk mail I've accumulated since the blinds project. (More on that later.)

Lem's Bunny, from the web comic of the same name. It's been submitted in a slightly different form to Bunny's Warren, the section for fan-made strips.

The Marboxian. It had to be done.

Finally, Berkley Breathed's Opus, who in my world needs neither introduction nor invitation.

Finding Oz

Issue 141, for the week of 6/6/2004.

Toast Note: "Marboxian" can now be viewed online through Hash Inc's new A:M Films web site. (I'm feeling happy... which is a big deal... for me.) Also managed to fix the too wide problem with the Space Toast Page's JavaScript.

More Human Resources

Issue 149, for the week of 12/5/2004.

Toast Note: Presenting "Human Resources" comic strips 12-25. (Click here for Strips 1-11, in issue 145.) Medium: Blue ballpoint pen (museum issue) and red magic marker (museum issue) on recycled note pad paper (museum issue), improvised straight edges (museum/personal issue). Dedicated to the wage slaves of America, and the founder of the feast, Curious George.

Updated: Click here for Strips 1-11, in issue 145. Click here for Strips 26-41, in issue 158.

Human Resources

Issue 145, for the week of 9/12/2004

Toast Note: Presenting "Human Resources" comic strips 1-11. Medium: Blue ballpoint pen (museum issue) and red magic marker (museum issue) on 4.25"x7" recycled note pad paper (museum issue), improvised straight edges (museum/personal issue), clipboard (museum issue). Dedicated to the wage slaves of America.

Updated: Click here for Strips 12-25, in issue 149. Click here for Strips 26-41, in issue 158.

DVCam High Resolution Photography

Issue 167, for the week of 3/5/2006.

"Copley Square at Night" 1415 x 2559 pixels. 890KB jpeg.

The picture above was stitched together from 108 smaller images using Hugin, a set of open source panorama creation tools. Each slice was captured to tape on a consumer digital camcorder by slowly moving the camera back and forth across the scene from top to bottom at full optical zoom. Once imported and converted to a series of tiffs, the autopano-sift module was run to automatically match neighboring images. Matching points were input by hand in places where the software could not do so. The combined image was exported at full resolution with the edge-smoothing "enblend" module enabled. Cropping and sky completion were performed in Photoshop, and the image shrunk by 50% to eliminate jaggies left over from the camera's original compression.

Still More Human Resources

Issue 158, for the week of 10/23/2005.

Toast Note: Presenting "Human Resources" comic strips 26-41. (Click here for Strips 1-11, in issue 145. Click here for Strips 12-25, in issue 149.) Medium: Blue ballpoint pen (museum issue) and red magic marker (museum issue) on recycled note pad paper (museum issue), improvised straight edges (museum/personal issue). Dedicated once again to the wage slaves of America: "vagrants amidst the plenty."

Space Toast 2006 Paint Catalogue

Issue 174, for the week of 7/9/2006.

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