Turn digital pictures into massive wall art for free
Rebecca T. in Santa Rosa, CA passed along this cool room-decorating idea:
If your kids like having art in their rooms, have them pick one of their favorite pictures (in digital format) and you can print them out on your own printer and put it together! This can be a fun project, with amazing results - pictures up to 20 meters in size, color or black and white.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
[Yes, that's right. Rasterbator. The link was down when I tried, but hopefully it's working now. -- Ed.]
It's as cheap as free, and the art possibilities are limitless, especially if you have a budding digital photographer in the house! You can print up their work BIG to be admired by all.
This is also great if you have a big blank (excuse me, crayon-scrawled) wall staring at you and you want something different to look at. The best part is that you can make more any time to change things up, without an expensive trip somewhere else to buy new artwork, frames, etc.
Tags: Decorating, Parenting, Rasterbator
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that is cool - they featured that idea (not the site) in readymade magazine ... issue 22 i think - but they said to go to a copy shop - doing it yourself at home is one step easier - which means i'm one-step closer to actually doing it!
Posted by: kirsten | 18 July 2006 at 08:00 AM
Thanks for that link! I now have one HUGE wall full of picture - which you can really only make out from across the road... :)
Posted by: Michelle | 19 July 2006 at 06:56 AM
Free? Oh, yes, if only Epson paper and inks were free!
Posted by: kickstand | 19 July 2006 at 08:10 AM
I have been a huge fan of the rasterbator for years and I've noticed that they keep improving the quality of pixelated images. I have a huge rasterbated picture of charlie chaplin and the kid that I'm going to put up in my kid's room. A trick I use is to find a really, really dark image to use, increase the contrast as much as possible, and then only print the pages that have white/gray pixels (this saves ink). Then I transfer those pages to a huge canvas and use acrylic paint for the black areas remaining. it makes it more like "art work." Sometimes I even just use the rasterbated image as a "tracer" guide to create warholian silkscreen-looking canvases. You can do this in color no problem.
Posted by: dutch from sweet juniper | 19 July 2006 at 02:46 PM