Click on the picture to see your face in the full-size version…
Yes, your face is in there1If it isn’t, then we need to meet more often next year, preferably when I have a camera out..
For this year’s edition of the perennial NYE collage, Ada & Alan (captured in full holiday season bliss by my very talented cousin) wish you a very warm and fuzzy 2013.
Yet another one to add to the collection…
Happy New Year everybody!
PS: click on the pic for the full-size version.
Nothing very new or original with the concept by now, but how would I spend my hangover new year’s day otherwise?
Yes: your face is in there.
If it isn’t, this just means I hate you still haven’t had a chance to snap a picture of you this year: my camera is ready, you know where I live.
Click here for the large version and here for the very large version…
As usual, feel free to go hunt for your likeness in the large version of the card. You can even check out a mega-large version (huge file warning) for better resolution.
Lovely pic of Chiba-san, in full zen contemplation of year past and year ahead, courtesy of Hiromi.
As is now customary around these parts at this time of the year:
May 2007 bring you kittens, happy puppies & ponies with very little thermonuclear wars on the side…
PS: If I recently met you long enough to snap a pic, your face is probably up there. Full size version here for the unbelievers.
PPS: To make up for the sharp decrease in picture-taking this year (linked to a switch from my nifty camera-equipped keitai back to the basics of 19th century cellphone communication), I innovated by adding a couple pics of online acquaintances whom I have not met in person this year, but spent more than a share of my time exchanging communications with. Yea, this is 21st century alright.
PPPS: Collage quality is really not all that great this year. Ironically, part of my studies lately have involved the very algorithmic tools I need, to come up with an elegant solution to this very tricky problem (yay for Operational Research). Unfortunately, said studies also meant I really did not have the time to implement it. We’ll try to have it for 2008.
Becoming sort of a tradition around here, this year’s edition of Dr Dave’s Wishes of Peace and Harmony to the World:
And if you are bored or too hangover to do anything better, you can go look for your face in the full size version (huge file warning).
Problem with making your New Year’s Card on homemade pre-alpha software is that, if there’s a bug, all your friends will know it…
Well, two days after I had uploaded that last work of art, I realized I had screwed up monumentally somewhere: despite what I thought, the software hadn’t included all the pictures and nearly half my library was omitted. Meaning that many a friend that should have been there, wasn’t. Turns out the algorithm to do all that mosaic computation was a tiny bit more complicated than I originally thought. Which is great, since it’s always fun solving these problems, but also fell on a rather bad timing, since you are usually not expected to spend your days in front of a computer between Christmas and New Year… I will probably write a separate post full of geekerish about the solution, later on.
But nonetheless, we made it: it’s 5:30pm here, still 6 hours to go with this year, and I am proud to introduce the newer, better, bug-free version of my New Year’s Card… this time, you’re all on it (provided I had your picture in the first place).
Happy New Year Everybody!
Update Jan. 2nd 2005: OK, I lied… it was still buggy and missing half the pics… this time it’s for real, go ahead, check the full-size version (huge file warning), you’re there, I promise…
皆さん開けましておめでとう。今年もよろしくね！
去年にケイタイで撮った写真でこのNew Year’s Cardを作ったから、あなたの写真はあるんでしょう。探して頑張ってね！
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Après quelques petites difficultés techniques (et une version jolie mais incomplète), voici enfin la version 2.0 GM de mes voeux pour l’année 2005.
Pratiquement toutes les photos ont été prises avec mon keitai durant l’année 2004 et, si je vous ai rencontré suffisamment longtemps pour prendre une photo, vous pourrez retrouver votre visage de star en cherchant bien.
Bonne Année 2005 à tous!
All pictures were automatically harvested from the keitai sideblog archives, the huge majority taken with my cellphone during the year 2004.
If I have met you (long enough to take a picture) in the past 12 months or so, then chances are your mug is somewhere in there (full size here if you wanna print your own poster at home).
Hence, the kanji: 友, which means ‘friend’…
For, if a few here are a bit more than friends (and a rare few are, well, complete strangers to me right now), most of these faces are the friends who made that last revolution around the Sun somewhat bearable overall. Enjoyable, even, at times.
So, thanks everybody for being you: You rock.
And have a wonderful holiday season… may you find many a bottle of high quality, triple-filtered vodka in your Christmas stocking.
For those not easily bored: Gory technical details below
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