Insty Text Collage

Tembi Gray, one of our very talented students in the Creative Arts in Learning program tipped me off to this web site:

"The site is www.typogenerator.net. Here is some info about it (I got it off of their site)

What is typogenerator?
typoGenerator is a random generator for 'typoPosters'. a typoPoster is a poster, created from images and letters/text that doesn’t have any sense, just to look good

How does typogenerator work?
The user types some text; typoGenerator searches images. google for the text and creates a background from the found images, using randomly chosen effects. then it places the text, using random effects too."

A disturbing picture from Intel

I don't even know where to begin with this.

In this advertisement, created this summer 2007, Intel in one image reiterated hundreds of years of racist ideas about white dominance and asserted its image as a colonizing power in technology.

I got tipped off to it from Racewire (http://www.racewire.org) who got tipped off to it from AfroNetizen (http://www.afro-netizon.com).

Here's another article in the Technology Times UK


and Intel's full apology here:
http://www.intel.com/news/sprintad.htm?iid=homepage+news_sprintad

-sam smiley