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Rube Goldberg Machines complete a simple task in the most inefficient way possible.
They tend to be sprawling contraptions that can take days to set up for a single “run.” Not so with Melvin, the world’s smallest Rube Goldberg machine, who is currently traveling the world in a suitcase. Melvin is smart: he geo-locates himself using GPS, documents his audience with his built-in smartphone camera, and talks about his “runs” on Facebook and Twitter. Watch The World's First Shoppable Music Video. Music videos have come a long, long way since back when The Buggles and their new wave aesthetic killed the radio star.
SSENSE, a luxury retail company based out of Montreal, has recently introduced what they’re billing as the “world’s first interactive shoppable music video.” And yup, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I Think She Ready features Diplo, FKi, and Iggy Azalea all decked out and styled in brands and items carried by the site, while WireWax technology, which enables users to tag videos in essentially the same way they would a Facebook post, makes the "interactive shoppable" part possible. Lunar Rethinks Rock Climbing Walls, Making Them Slicker And Smarter. Few things say filthy rich more succinctly than an indoor rock-climbing wall.
But even those lucky enough to have them, must contend that the hulking structures don’t match their surrounding décor. As Lunar Europe puts it, “Pro gear is out of place. Since it lived in the gym, no one has re-considered the design.” That is, until the Munich-based design studio decided to put its spin on the climbing wall, transforming the standard pebble-like holds into a wall art comprised of indented ripples. New Photoshop CS6 "Content-Aware" Feature Will Destroy My Billable Hours. Last month I did a rendering gig for a client that involved blending their design with elements from photos of a competitor's design and dropping the whole thing into a photorealistic environment.
Pretty standard stuff, and I always use Photoshop for these types of jobs. Depending on the objects' complexity, the requested environment and the clients' mood, these gigs range in length from the better part of an afternoon to several days, which all adds up to billable hours and me keeping the lights on over here. A Broken Polaroid Camera Spits Out Amazing Abstract Art. New York photographer William Miller thought he scored big when he snapped up an old Polaroid SX-70 at a yard sale for $20.
“I’ve always loved this camera,” he says in his artist’s statement. “It is an ingeniously conceived, complicated bundle of gears and switches with dozens of moving parts packed in tight like a chrome and leather pistol.” One problem: The camera was broken. “It sometimes spills out two pictures at a time and the film often gets stuck in the gears, exposing and mangling them in unpredictable ways,” he says. “The image as it is exposed within the camera becomes pulled and stressed by these violent mechanisms, often to abstraction.” Make Your Name Into A Jingle With Music Box Business Cards.
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The Greek astronomer and photographer began with a question: Is it possible to capture the life of planet Earth in 24 hours? With his ambition in one hand and a Canon 550D in the other, Kosiopoulos planted himself atop the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion for 30 straight hours to find out. On December 20, 2010, just hours before sunrise, Kotsiopoulos set his camera on a tripod facing east, capturing the position of the sun every 15 minutes using an intervalometer and astrosolar filter. At the sun’s peak, Kotsiopoulos removed the filter, capturing the sun in an unwavering resplendence, clearly identifiable in the photo. As the sun began to set, Kotsiopoulos shifted the camera to face west and northwest, catching the second half of the day with the sun in view.
Kotsiopoulos pulled together 500 star trails, 35 shots of the Sun and 25 landscape pictures. NASA’s Psychedelic Concepts From The 1970s Are Still Inspiring Today. Our excitement for space didn’t end when we put a man on the moon in the 1960s.
In the late 1970s, we were still obsessed with the voids beyond our atmosphere. A little film called Star Wars came out, of course, but we also had the rise of Carl Sagan as a household name. He was producing a nonfiction series called Cosmos that would be seen by 500 million people worldwide and become the most successful series in PBS history. Unsurprisingly, it was a time when NASA, too, dreamed on the epic scale. 5 Steps To Designing A Better Health Care System. If you want to know what’s ailing the U.S. health care system, just ask the person next to you. Chances are, she’ll have a personal horror story to share about outlandish costs, inaccessibility of care, the regulations strangle on innovation, the battery of tests that physicians order out of fear of lawsuits, and on and on.
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Dana Tanamachi is a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer living in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating in 2007 with a BFA in Communication Design from The University of North Texas, Dana moved to New York City to design Broadway show posters at Spotco—a leader in arts and live entertainment branding. In early 2010, she took a job working under Louise Fili at Louise Fili Ltd, specializing in the design of restaurants and food packaging. For Typography Fans, An Animation Treat From A to Z. Mr. Chocolate. Centered around the product, this chocolate packaging personifies the product and adds to the fun. Adobe launches Photoshop CS6 and CS6 Extended editions. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Adobe has updated its Photoshop Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and Photoshop CS6 Extended products with a speedier graphics processing engine and re-engineered design tools for more consistent formatting.
The latest versions of the digital photography software also feature a new set of video tools, an updated blur tool and a content-aware patch, which gives users more control by letting them choose the sample area used to create a patch. Photoshop CS6 Extended integrates all the editing features of CS6 but with additional software enhancements, such as advanced tools for 3D design, image and video editing. In the Extended bundle, users can expect a more powerful engine optimised for 3D imaging along with a 3D user interface overhaul and additional 3D effects, including reflections and dragable shadows to enhance images. Photoshop CS6 was released as a public beta on 22 March for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms. Inspiration from the Coke Side of Life. Range Rover Evoque Special Edition With Victoria Beckham.
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