portraits made out of keycaps

[litster]

http://workbyknight.deviantart.com/gall ... offset=456

[phetto]

Who made these, you?

Cool

[litster]

no, some guy on that site I suppose.

[The_Ed]

It looks like a pic of each keycap was taken, and then tiled together in a computer... CHEATER! BLASPHEMY!

[Elrick]

It looks like a pic of each keycap was taken, and then tiled together in a computer... CHEATER! BLASPHEMY!

Or would you prefer he used actual keycaps then.......?

What a crime if they actually gutted hundreds of keyboards and permanently mounted them onto canvas/plywood. I'd rather they just take pics and make something out of it.

Very nice.....indeed.

[kbdfr]

Calm down, folks,
this is obviously a computer-made pic.

I guess each keycap/element stands for a colour/shade in a program
where you just submit a picture and the program chooses the cap/element needed for each pixel.

Easy to spot when you look at a detail: the typewriter-like key "Backspace" is unique, being quite worn out,
but it appears several times and is always exactly identical:

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[workbyknight]

i am artist the http://www.behance.net/WorkByKnight

http://www.mazaika.com/ is the software i use


but i also make real with key caps and glue gun and old typewriter


irony here is i create from the couch and use on screen keyboard


wbk

[Muirium]

Just to state the obvious: Marilyn's portrait would be pretty big in real caps. Now I just need a gallery to go with my ambitions of insane cap inventory…

[Vierax]

using buttons could be really impressive in real as you can use a dark or light background and make it appear more or less by playing with forms and a non matrix placement : closer than a mosaic.

but i also make real with key caps and glue gun and old typewriter

I had the same idea months ago but it needs a lot of caps and different colours ! But I'm a painter and glueing is not my skill (excepting the stinky Rabbit-skin glue for gesso) so I let it down.

[Halvar]

Not totally on topic: I saw this globe in an art expedition in northern Germany, can't find the name of the artist unfortunately.

http://www.kunstwerk-carlshuette.de/rundgang_2012/eng/

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[Daniel Beardsmore]

Seen before at geekhack a few years ago:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/final-f ... ard-117130

A clicky bench with a surface of black NMB Hi-Tek switches and keycaps.

[webwit]

If we're gonna be like that, then the keyboard bras are still my favorite.

http://deskthority.net/post9489.html#p9489

[ne0phyte]

Not totally on topic: I saw this globe in an art expedition in northern Germany, can't find the name of the artist unfortunately.

http://www.kunstwerk-carlshuette.de/rundgang_2012/eng/

[keyboard globe picture]

Klaus Yö, see here: http://www.kunstwerk-carlshuette.de/de/ ... oe_265.pdf
His personal Blog: http://blog.daum.net/karnjang

[Muirium]

Monochrome. Cunning. If I had a huge sphere to put them on, I'd be tempted to try that out myself, with the real continents emerging like Marilyn instead.

As for the bra: looks ergonomic. For a user, if not a wearer!

[workbyknight]

i like the globe awesome, wouldnt be that tricky to add an indication of a map

using real keyboards means i have a garage full. whites, greys and black are plentiful. Its the mid tones which are seriously old school like the browns, tans. i am starting to mix with old typewriters, old phone buttons and old radio dials just to vary the texture.

hey the bras pretty cool too

[Muirium]

i am starting to mix with old typewriters, old phone buttons and old radio dials just to vary the texture.

I am so using that line! It works for the rest of us too.

A. Oh, what's this? Another frickin' keyboard!
B. It's Alps.
A. That's a thing?
B. Yup.
A. But why? You can type on all those others you have already.
B. Oh, it's just to vary the texture…