graphical blog 2

After an exercise in painting workshop. This exercise was used by Picasso or Fragonard. Draw curved lines until a chaos appear. In this chaos see shapes and paint them to get them out.

Technique : Mypaint & Wacom

If in France most of traditionnal medias describe internet as a big trashcan, dangerous for liberties.
in China, main official newspaper, People Daily, write an article to defend internet against Mai Jia a well know traditionnal writter that describe internet as a trashcan too. The article, say that internet has a large panel of quality in articles from wrong, to good, and than internet is in part more interesting, because internauts criticise more often government !
Source : People daily himself (english version

I already wrote an article on an animation patch for Mypaint by Charbel Jacquin, and a very short try by mouse, there is now a specific branch with a new functionality (background layers/cellulos layers), that will be merged back in trunk as soon as everything is hidden in preferences, and I’ve no a new Wacom graphic tablet to play with it.

Demo of new functionality(Youtube) local copy:

The new branch can be seen and get from this address, installed and launched as follow. Warning, if you have already installed debian package, you have to remove it, and install last version beside this one (following the same process) in /opt/mypaint-xxx, else you will not be able to save picture/animation because of /usr/lib priority.

Debian based only (Debian, Ubuntu…):

sudo apt-get install g++ python-dev libglib2.0-dev python-numpy swig scons gettext python-protobuf protobuf-compiler

git clone git://gitorious.org/~charbelinho/mypaint/charbelinho-mypaint.git
cd charbelinho-mypaint
sudo scons install prefix=/opt/charbelinho-mypaint
/opt/charbelinho-mypaint/bin/mypaint

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Google claims about some censorships in China, but what about united states censorship?

I already wrote an article about North Korea map censorship on maps.google.com, this is not a North Korean censorship as other map tools display them (international cooperative project openstreetmap.org, that done great job for helping first aid during Haiti earthquake, and the French cartographer Michelin that become bad on street search anyway).

On other side, there is censorship on Google’s Youtube video site, totally forbidden (at least) from Mainland China and Australia. Then they moved from mainland Chine (People Republic of China) where it has less than 30% user share and Baidu has more than 60% user share, to Hong-Kong (People Republic of China), not to Taiwan (Republic of China), island controlled by Chinese nationalist party, backed by US but still not accepted by UNO.

But the subject that is actually my problem is about search on mixing of Jazz, Afro-american music and French term ‘Peul’ (Fula in english) African music , could be an omission, but this is really annoying, for a country that invaded several Fula area (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, etc…) and then accepted refugees from it’s former colonies. Searching by English terms ‘Jazz Fula’ seems to work, but even on fr.google.com/bing.com nothing good, only wrong answers about ‘Jazz Paul’, this is really annoying, because Peul culture is really popular in France and jazz and peul mixing is really good suited and liked by lot of people.
dir.com, only french speaking search engine, and Baidu chinese search engine, are infinitely better on results has there is more than zero good results (and even several)…

United-state search engine, Google and Bing wrong results:

French dir.com from Iliad group (Free) and Chinese Baidu.com interesting matching results. Baidu that is really chinese centric has some encoding problems with French accents (not basic 128 ASCII chars), but give really good results, the usage is as simple as other search engine, type your search words, hit enter:

technics: Mypaint (+patch animation) + mouse + few minutes