This week's assignment was to do something with vidoes. I made a supercut of my favorite scene from The Wire The Wire Supercut [Detourning Week 6] from Zach Coble on Vimeo. I used videogrep to make the video, with pocketsphinx to create the word-level transcriptions. The transcription wasn't that great, but at least it created a machine readable file with timestaps, so it was pretty straightforward to edit the file for accuracy. Read more
This week's assignment was to do something with images. I used ImageMagick to play with the Met's recently released digital collections as well as the NYPL's digital collections. I was initially intrigued by the idea of making composite image, overlaying several images to make one image. Here are a couple examples using Roman marble busts from the Met. While these are by no means representative of the method, I was a little underwhelmed with its... Read more
This week's assignment was to scrape the web and then create a list with the material you collect. Our president likes ratings - Celebrity Apprentice's ratings, CNN's ratings, etc. Good shows with good ratings - like the Fox News morning show, Fox and Friends - get the president's ear. Well and good, but who gets the president's ear after he puts on his president pants and goes about his day doing president things? How does... Read more
5 STAR REVIEWS FOR BLACK TOPHEADWARE 3 HOLE SKI MASK This week's assignment for Detourning the Web was to write a web scraper that grabs text from a page or series of pages and saves it to a file. I wrote a program that grabs the 5 star review from BLACK TOPHEADWARE 3 HOLE SKI MASK on Amazon The code is at https://gist.github.com/coblezc/bd2e3aa80252c4db9947efe397e5e831 Read more