| Picks'ibition The museum of MandoIsland |
I have compiled several picture galleries with pictures of my postcard collection and pictures and cliparts from the public domain.
The following galleries open in a new window:
I have worked with the processing programming language during the last weeks and I have already made some nice things. You can find more about this on page dies+das/generativeart
I have made one example where a foto of a Calace mandolin is modified in the style of Andy Warhol, this can be found in my profile: Openprocessing Profil
Another example is this - a picture of the Gibson F5 mandolin that I played some years ago. Click on the image to start the interactive processing sketch in a new window. There you can modify the distribution of the colors with the mouse. Click to fix an image (then yopu can make a screenshot), click again to continue changing the colors. Restart to generate new colors.
More Examples:
 | Violoncello unter Verwendung eines Bildes aus der Wikipedia |
 
 
   | The Shape |
I have created some foto-mosaics, one of those is based on a picture of a mandolin by Hervé Coufleua from his homepage. If you click on the picture you can view the picture and you can zoom in and out to see how the big picture is composed of many small pictures from my collection of pictures of mandolins and other stuff.
In my weblog of september 2005 I have links to the source for the freeware to cretae this kind of foto mosaics and the zoomified version.
I have collected some useful information about picks on a special page which you can open by clicking one of the following pictures.
Some picks I used years ago:
Picks I used during the last years:
Picks that I am currently using, those can be found in my pocket or in my purse:
A view of my collection of picks. I am collecting all kin d of picks, and every now and then I order a new bunch of interesting picks. Most of them are in some boxes, but some of them are used for playing!
If you need many picks, you can buy it "by the pound" at www.picksbythepound.com
This is an old pick from my collection mad by the German compyny Herdim from a special material. It has a special form (similar to the picks used by Ranieri) - but I cut it in two parts long time ago.
An interesting story about the big effort to produce picks made from ebonite - another very special material that is no more available today - can be found in GC Pick Production History by Steve Ball.
I have bought some original ebonite picks from Tonetoys, and I got another one with an old mandolin that I bought from ebay.Dancing picks - I had some fun with making this animation of my picks - hope you enjoy it too!
Another animation showing a toy radio that plays my piece "Fliegende Bälle" (Flying balls). To start the radio click on the following radio icon:
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