Method : method ocean plastic. 12 is Everywhere. Shapeways. Teenage Engineering not only make one of the sexiest synthesizers but also get the prize for being the first electronics company to offer their replacement parts as downloadable 3D Printed files. This is the first company that I have seen so far that offer replacement parts to be 3D Printed by their consumers. This is an incredibly smart move as it takes away the need for them to warehouse and distribute replacement parts. It also means that their fans have an opportunity to modify and customize aspects of their synthesizers. We work hard to make our OP-1 users happy with free OS updates and added functionality. But sometimes we fail.
As some have noted, the shipping cost of the OP-1 accessories is very high. The parts are now available on Shapeways if you need to 3D Print replacement parts for your OP-1 synthesizer. Teenage Engineering, we LOVE you.... Ben Giles Collages. The Taming of the Beasts. From Faith47 in Shanghai: I needed to bring the spirits of the African Rhinos into Asia. To help in the settling of their restless spirits. In 2010 there were 333 rhinos illegally killed for their horns in South Africa. In 2011 the total rose to 448. And as of September this year the total is recorded at 373 violent deaths. The current spike in demand of South African Rhino horn is driven primarily by medicinal demand from Asian countries mainly Vietnam and China, Malaysia, India and South Korea.
The official announcement of the last Javan rhino killed in Vietnam was made on 25 October 2011, followed by the reported extinction of the West African Black Rhino, a sub-species of the Southern African Black Rhino, on 10 November 2011. Settle down beasts, settle down. Arbre musical. L’association allemande BUND milite pour la défense des arbres. Pour ce faire, l’agence Proximity BBDO Germany a eu l’idée de réaliser une dispositif inédit alliant harmonieusement nature et musique. Ils ont sélectionné un immense marronnier du Monbijoupark de Berlin et ont installé à sa base une structure composée de membranes polymères. Tous les marrons tombés de l’arbre la percute, créant automatiquement un jeu de son et lumière.
Cette installation poétique permet donc de générer naturellement de la musique, et célèbre cet arbre qui incarne la résistance de tous ses congénères en milieu urbain. Les visiteurs qui profitent gratuitement de ce concert sont invités à donner de l’argent à l’association par SMS. source : Bund. The man who turned his home into a public library. 19 September 2012Last updated at 20:24 ET By Kate McGeown BBC News, Manila If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you might expect them to disappear in a trice. But one man in Manila tried it - and found that his collection grew. Hernando Guanlao is a sprightly man in his early 60s, with one abiding passion - books. They're his pride and joy, which is just as well because, whether he likes it or not, they seem to be taking over his house. Guanlao, known by his nickname Nanie, has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila, to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading.
The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want - even permanently. It's a policy you might assume would end very quickly - with Guanlao having no books at all. "It seems to me that the books are speaking to me. Guanlao started his library in 2000, shortly after the death of his parents. Continue reading the main story. Alaska and the mysterious disappearing king salmon. Vampire Dog Might Be the Biggest Missed Opportunity in Movie History. Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak. Photo courtesy of Birds of Prey Northwest. Sometime in 2005, Beauty the bald eagle was shot in the face by a poacher, which damaged her beak badly enough that she couldn’t eat on her own. Animal rescue workers found her before she starved to death, and volunteers at the nonprofit group Birds of Prey Northwest nursed her back to health via tube-feeding and, later, hand-feeding with forceps.
But it became increasingly clear that her beak was never going to grow back — meaning that Beauty would never be able to feed herself. She was on track to be euthanized. But raptor specialist Jane Fink Cantwell, who dresses like Indiana Jones, refused to take “dead bald eagle” for an answer. Calvin developed the new beak using a 3-D modeling program, then used a 3-D printer to fabricate it. Beauty’s new beak isn’t secure enough for her to return to the wild, so Cantwell is still caring for her.
100 Wild Huts. Co-operative Businesses Are Booming in Tough Times - Business. While the global economy crawls toward a jerky recovery from the 2008 financial collapse, a subset of businesses is outshining the rest. Cooperatives—companies owned by their employees or customers—are proving surprisingly steady and sound during these dour times. That's especially good for the workers, who in this case, are also owners. A United Kingdom study found that over the past four years, co-ops have grown at twice the rate of the rest of the U.K. economy.
In the United States, anecdotal evidence paints a similar picture. “It's almost like it's co-ops’ time because of people’s dissatisfaction with old greedy ways, even though co-ops are still about profit,” says Roberta MacDonald Senior Vice President of Cabot Creamery, one of the oldest farmer cooperatives in the U.S. Her company, owned by almost 1,200 dairy farmers in the Northeast, just became the first farmer co-op certified B Corporation, and profits are rolling in. “Co-ops are built to be permanent businesses. Bespoke Devices: London Workshops Demystify The Guts of Personal Technology - Technology. Everyone dreads the moment when their tablet, laptop, or iPhone turns from helpful friend to ardent foe, leaving the owner clueless and looking to the manufacturer for help or for a new device altogether. Creative husband and wife team Daniel Hirschmann and Bethany Koby want you to know what to do when your gadget quits.
They believe that technology is most beneficial to our lives when we understand how it works can tailor it to our individual needs. The duo calls their London-based startup—Technology Will Save Us—a “haberdashery for technology.” Their workshops and kits demystify things like micro-controllers and circuit boards and reignite the joy that comes from making something, whether it's foldable speakers or a thirsty plant detector. The ‘aha’ moment came years ago when the pair found a laptop in a trashcan at their apartment complex. “As a culture, when it comes to technology, we’re so removed,” Koby said.
Photo courtesy of Daniel Hirschmann. 3D Printing Plastic Fisher-Price Records. Many of us born in the '70s grew up with these Fisher-Price Record Players, which used plastic discs to play music-box-sounding analog music. I was surprised to see they had recently been re-released—and disappointed to learn the new ones aren't the same as the old, but instead play the music electronically. Earlier this year a UK-based tinkerer named Fred Murphy got his hands on some of the original units—you'll see them pop up on eBay now and then—and decided to make his own records. Using a CNC mill and sheets of acrylic, Murphy successfully produced workable discs. For his first effort, Murphy mapped Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" on one and the "Star Wars" theme on another.
Murphy wrote up an Instructable on how he managed it. Check it out here. Lorenzo Durán - Naturayarte. NOTCOT.ORG. NOTCOT.ORG. Backyard Brains » Insane in the Chromatophores. During experiments on the giant axons of the Longfin Inshore Squid (loligo pealei) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA; we were fascinated by the fast color-changing nature of the squid’s skin. Squids (like many other cephalopods) can quickly control pigmented cells called chromatophores to reflect light. The Longfin Inshore has 3 different chromatophore colors: Brown, Red, and Yellow. Each chromatophore has tiny muscles along the circumference of the cell that can contract to reveal the pigment underneath. We tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid’s chromatophores. We used a suction electrode to attach to the squid’s fin nerve, then connected the electrode to an iPod nano as our stimulator.
We’d like to give a shout out to our gracious and brilliant hosts for making this possible: the Methods in Computational Neuroscience and the Neuroinformatics Courses at the MBL. Update: There are some questions as to what is happening and how this works. Ocean Health Index. Mosaics Created from Thousands of Hand-Cast Resin Flowers and Candy. What Remains, 35,000+ hand cast urethane flowers What Remains, detail A Rose By Any Other Name, 15,000+ individually hand cast urethane pieces of candy, 75 pounds A Rose By Any Other Name, detail New York artist Kevin Champeny merges aspects of painting, sculpture and mosaics with his large-scale images of skulls, flowers, and other objects. Japan: record high radiation levels found in Fukushima fish, more than a year after nuclear accident. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in Japan said Tuesday its monitoring efforts have recorded record high radiation levels in local seafood: 25,800 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in fish sampled within a 20-kilometer range of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The photo shows fish caught Aug. 1, 2012 within 20 kilometers of the crippled nuclear power plant. The findings indicate that radioactive contamination remains at unsafe levels in the area's food supply more than a year after the nuclear crisis. From Kyodo News: The level of cesium found in greenling is 258 times that deemed safe for consumption by the Japanese government, suggesting that radioactive contamination remains serious more than a year after the nuclear crisis. CNN has more. NOTCOT.ORG. Landscape Abbreviated by Nova Jiang is a kinetic maze consisting of modular elements with rotating planters, which form a garden that is simultaneously a machine. August 18th, 2012 "I am interested in the way that simple interventions can make the experience of space dynamic and unpredictable. The planters are controlled by a software program that continuously generates new maze patterns based on mathematical rules; they rotate to form shifting pathways that encourage visitors to change direction and viewpoints as they move through the space.
I envision this sculpture not as a classical labyrinth built to ensnare, but rather as an architectural abbreviation of grand ideas. In this way, the maze relates to literature, mathematical beauty, game play and the rigor of software programming, as much as it does to architecture and landscape. Realitat - Microsonic Landscapes. A Vegetable-Growing Factory That Fits In A Parking Space. Can nasal spray help prevent military suicides? Could the solution to increasing suicide and depression rates among members of the U.S. military lie in a nasal spray? The Army hopes so. In the midst of a crisis that saw its highest rate of suicide in July, the Army has greenlighted a grant for Dr.
Michael Kubek, an Indiana University of Medicine professor, to dig deeper into whether a nasal spray could be a safe and effective way to administer a specific antidepressive neurochemical to the brain and help calm suicidal thoughts. The Army counted 38 confirmed or suspected suicides in July, a tally that took into account both active- and non-active-duty members of the Army National Guard or Reserve. Three of those active-duty soldiers were deployed at the time of their deaths. Before July, the highest monthly level suicide rate for soldiers was 33 in June 2010 and July 2011, according to statistics released by the Army. Kubek's research was spotted by Navy physician Capt.
Kubek's techniques could be promising. Miso : tokyo from memory. Leaf Thermometer paper temperature reader. Designer Hideyuki Kumagai must be a fan of the autumn since he has come up with the best way to tell the temperature we've ever seen. The Leaf looks exactly like its name suggests but it's far more than just a bit of foliage. It's a thermometer! If it's a nice and warm 20-25°C (68-77°F), then expect the leaf to stay its natural green color. But if it gets colder the leaf will turn brown, and if hotter it will be a crisp yellow. The exact science behind the color-changing is a mystery but it seems to work! The Leaf Thermometer: Designed by Hideyuki KumagaiChoose between large or small leaves packLarge leaves: 65 x 167mm (2.6 x 6.6") x 5Small leaves: 43 x 112mm (1.7 x 4.4") x 8Materials: paperMade in Japan.
The Soviet synthesizer that bridged occultism and electronic music. You can find traces of the occult throughout the history of electronic music. The occult obsessed Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo built his own mechanical instruments around 1917. The famous Moog synthesizer made an early appearance in Mick Jagger's soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's occult film Invocation of My Demon Brother in 1969.
And in the late 1970s Throbbing Gristle built their own electronic instruments for their occult sound experiments, setting the stage for many of the occult themed industrial bands who followed. The witch house genre keeps this tradition alive today. It's little the surprise otherworldly sounds and limitless possibilities of synthesizers and samplers would evoke the luminous. Electronic music grew from similar intellectual ground, and it all started with Scriabin. Scriabin's Synthesis Scriabin is remembered by classical music scholars for his pioneering work in atonality and multimedia.
Mysterium was to be what today we'd call a multimedia arts festival. The ANS. Evolution could generate new semiconducting structures - physics-math - 26 June 2012. How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline. DryBath: How to Take a Shower Without Using Any Water. The man who made his own toaster. Video software to "see" someone's pulse. Raphael Kim’s Rotifer Farm. Origami. No T-Squares: Robot Arms Are The New Thing In Architecture School. Jim Rugg. Watercolor animation of Blade Runner. The Parks of the World.
Whoa: check out this preview page from Ian... Cosey Fanni Tutti's music piece "inspired and made possible" by Xeni's treatment for cancer. The Breathless Zoo. Future - Science & Environment - Global resources stock check. Audio slideshow: A tale of two Ethiopian women fighting hunger. NOTCOT.ORG. Daily Pictures: Money / War Posters by Graziano Losa. The Times of Oman: Latest News Oman, World & Business News, Sports & Movies!
Toilet paper with a horror story from the author of "Ring" Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer - Michael O’Hare. Space vehicles, to scale. Homebuildlife: Icecream Parlour by Ploenpit Nittaramorn. One Duck : Monique Habraken. NOTCOT.ORG. "From Spark to Finish": In Basel, Design Miami/'s Designers of the Future Unveil Illuminating Inventions. In pictures: Colombia's indigenous games. Shanghai dance hall evokes vanished era of glamour. Untitled. Gavin Rothery Blog - Eddie Powell - Alien Stunt Performer. Spanish Snow White is Sumptuous Surreal Gothic. Crazy Isn't A Destination: Minds Aren't Lost. Children with older fathers and grandfathers 'live longer' Joseph Rodriguez: Portraits from Another America. Texel, Netherlands: An island where science and culture meet. Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates indoor clouds - The Style Blog.
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Energy is more than sources; energy is systems. A Matter of Taste. Does Eating Organic Food Actually Make You a Haughty Jerk? The Wisdom of Slime. Slime computes freeways systems. Raising money to free classic volume on Africa's oral literature. Little Free Library can help put a library on your corner.