Noveau Circuitboard
Shaenon: A logo for a circuitboard, done as a freelance project. I would be very happy to become the go-to person for nerdy lady-oriented Art Noveau artwork. Here’s the final piece as built by Trammell Hudson:
Channing: On reflection, I think computers and art nouveau should go together, like, all the time.
Art Nouveau-punk.
And a new SF/Fantasy cosplay genre is born!
Solarpunk.
Art Nouveau, utopian, very environmentally-aware+aggressively-inclusive-egalitarian.
HIGHLY recommended.
But where’s the Punk?
“””And yes, there’s a -punk there, and not just because it’s become a trendy suffix. There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance. We’re already seeing it in the struggles of public utilities to deal with the explosion in rooftop solar. “Dealing with infrastructure is a protection against being robbed of one’s self-determination,” said Chokwe Lumumba””” — http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/
“””Solarpunk is a Revolt of Hope Against Despair
Solarpunk is a rebellion against the structural pessimism in our late visions of how the future will be. Not to say it replaces pessimism with Pollyanna-ish optimism, but with a cautious hopefulness and a daring to tease out the positive potentials in bad situations. Hope that perhaps the grounds of an apocalypse (revelation) might also contain the seeds of something better; something more ecological, liberatory, egalitarian, and vibrant than what came before, if we work hard at cultivating those seeds.””” — https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/
Is this for Mothers’ Day?
Go for it! Solder that wire!
There is a history of embedding art in integrated circuits, but you need a scanning electron microscope to see it. It’s basically engineers having some fun, not unlike hidden Easter Eggs in computer games. Microsoft Excel having a flight simulator embedded in it is one such weird example.
And pinball in Microsoft Word. They took them out after Office 97, and the Office Suite has been downhill from there.
Last I checked, OpenOffice/LibreOffice has Space Invaders or something in it, in reference.
(And Chrome has a minigame on its “Connection Failed” page, with the dinosaur.)
I used to like that pinball game.
Bring back the cascading cards after the Solitaire game!