How to Procrastinate: Tip No. 2—Rasterbate

You heard me.

A raster is essentially the bit-mappification of a digital image that plots the original onto a grid. The “Rasterbator” takes the image in the grid and works some crazy math mojo on it, and you can print it out as a HUGE multi-page pdf.

If you are simple-minded and like things big (say, if you are from Texas), this is the way to go. But if you are more artsy-fartsy, you can make the cells in the grid more abstract.

Like this little fella: from a distance it’s just a penguin, but up close it’s Art.

(Since I am not just a procrastinator but a lazy, plagiarizing procrastinator, I stole this idea from Shannon Holman, Poet Laureate at Apartment Therapy, where you can steal lots of other ideas.)

Next time: porn. I know I said that last time, but I got distracted by Rasturbation.

Comments

[Ed Word]

I love rasterbation, it helps lonesome souls pass the time.

its cool stuff and you can have endless fun with the name if your as mature as me.

[Jeff T]

It's stuff like this they invented other people's printers. I remember my last day in college was spent getting my tuition back by printing every PDF of a Kenny G book I could find, along with about 50 full page pictures of these two bears rumbling in a lake.