{"id":97,"date":"2005-03-14T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-03-14T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T18:29:21","slug":"illuminated_letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/14\/illuminated_letters\/","title":{"rendered":"illuminated letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/03\/14\/turn_any_string_into.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> links to a fun new toy called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.outer-court.com\/yahoo\/letters.php5\">Web of Letters<\/a> &#8211; a kind of automatic ransom note generator, pulling letters from Yahoo&#8217;s image search to compose the word(s) of your choice. Also take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/metaatem.net\/words\/omegg\">Flickr version<\/a> (simply replace the &#8220;omegg&#8221; part of the URL with your desired word).<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"omeggweblet4.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/omeggweblet4.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"93\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI tried both versions with &#8220;omEGG&#8221; &#8211; the title of a work in progress by the institute&#8217;s artist-in-residence <a href=\"\/itinplace\">Alex Itin<\/a>. I found it resonated nicely with Alex&#8217;s work, which pulls on image fragments and cultural detritus, remixing and juxtaposing in fascinating ways. Both versions work quite well, but I found that on Web of Letters (first image) I had to click through several searches to find a mix that was pleasantly legible and didn&#8217;t use repeat sources. The Flickr hack (below) is nice in that you can change individual letters until you get it just the way you want it.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"omeggweblet5.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/omeggweblet5.jpg\" width=\"453\" height=\"116\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a fun game that suggests how the web can be mined to illuminate content in playful ways (and to write ransom notes in a hurry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing links to a fun new toy called Web of Letters &#8211; a kind of automatic ransom note generator, pulling letters from Yahoo&#8217;s image search to compose the word(s) of your choice. Also take a look at this Flickr version (simply replace the &#8220;omegg&#8221; part of the URL with your desired word). I tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}