A few weekends ago I decided to cover one of the walls in the office with a large poster. I’ve toyed around with black and white rasterbated images before, but I really wanted to see how well a full color one would look. My office walls are a lime green color and I figured something with dark greens would contrast nicely. Choosing a forest scene with a huge owl in a tree seemed right up my alley and so I was happy about that.
Took some quick measurements of the wall’s dimensions and uploaded the image to the Rasterbator. Got things cropped how I liked and outputted the 120 page PDF file. The next 3 hours I spent trimming the white borders off of each page since my printer doesn’t output full bleeds. I think next time I do one of these I’m going to leave the borders…cutting these pages consistently was pretty hard. I tried using a trimmer with a rotary blade but the pages slide some regardless of the clamp thing. Oh well.
Anyways. After cutting out all the pages I setup my JVC mini-DV camcorder and recorded myself sticking up each page. Figured this would be a fun excuse to use the camcorder since I rarely break the thing out after buying it 4 years ago. Took the 2 hours of footage and imported it into iMovie and made a quick time lapse video by speeding it up. I think it came out good and laugh every time I see my stupid cats walking around watching me in confusion. Check out my video on Vimeo.
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This is great! My roommate rasterbated a picture of himself and put it in our living room. It looks good but it is nowhere close to your poster. It must have taken ages to cut off all of those edges.
Thanks! Yeah it took a few hours to cut all those edges. If I ever do it again I’m going to find a decent paper cutter because I goofed up a few pages. Some of them didn’t line up all that well so I have a few gaps here and there. But from far away it looks good.
I’ve seen some cool rasterbated pictures where people took a photo of a room and then put it on their door…so when the door is closed it looks like it’s open. Neat!
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