Latoeb

Recently, I was tasked with producing a graphic for a shirt that would be visible with Vuforia, and have an augmented reality game overlayed on top of it. This is all fine and good, except the logo that I made for my company earlier looks like this. Glimmer Technologies in some of its splendor. So this image tracks well when evaluated by the Vuforia algorithm. From one to five, it's a four. It does this by making a greyscale image and finding unique contrast points in the image like so. Now, this presents some issues for a teeshirt. We were getting these shirts screen printed which means they have to lay down one color at a time. Moreover, screens cannot print in a gradient, unless that gradient is produced in halftones. This is a crappy quality image of the awesome work that Threadbare did printing our logo. They had to send our logo to a guy to make a color separation, which then could be fed into their machines which can make halftoned screens of each color. ...

It was after my second shot that I leaned back to look up into the rafters of the barcade where I was commiserating with my boss. It was a converted metal shop. The noisy industrial machinery that accepted raw materials through the rolling garage doors, was replaced with noisy leisure machinery offering clacky tactile control schemes for quarters. Distracted by my phone, I begin responding to a text message. The haptic buzz fires with every letter I type, and I can't help but be jealous of the mechanical switches of the nearby arcade machines. As our technology becomes more functional, more of its function becomes abstracted into the software. Instead of feeling the resistance of a key give way as a corresponding arm accelerates a striker toward an inky ribbon, I get a cheap, tinny, artificial whirr. Gone are the days when the very operation of a thing gives any indication of how it works. Instead, we have an arcane slab of black glass, with only the most superficial imitations o...