Yet another linux nerd. Olivier Garcia's Blog

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I’ve became recently interested in new types of data visualizations. Flight404 created some nice examples with music. Michael Ogawa created a program to view the history of software project : each modification of files, documentation, modules and such is animated, though time. He call that type of visualization “Organic information visualization”.
It’s pure eye candy.
code_swarm - [...]


An excellent video work by So-Me / Machine Molle


Licenced under Creative Commons by-nc-nd


It’s quite old, but it was a very interesting and disturbing idea : Virgin organized an art contest where submited artworks would be seen by more than 2.1 milion people from 26 different places.
A contest for the design of sickbacks. (Be sure to look at the gallery, some artwork are utterly good)




All day nostalgia thanks to Nectarine ! Not the fruit, but a Web radio station broadcasting more than 19.000 royalty free demoscene songs.


My company website, creativ-IT, has been selected by CSSBloom. W00t. I guess that means some hits on my webserver :).


I usually don’t use vector based illustration softwares but I decided to take a look at Inkscape after reading a lot of favorable reviews online. I’m not a vector drawing guy, I’m much more used to Gimp or Photoshop, and I was astonished by the ease of use of Inkscape. Yep, Inkscape is really a [...]


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Made an icon for Notae, an upcoming notepad editor for Mac. Here it is :