These Glowing Crystals Are Like Legos From Mars Studio Roosegaard's created thousands of LED crystals that light up when near a magnetic floor mat. Image: Studio Roosegaarde The installation is housed inside the Philips Physics Laboratory in Eindhoven. Image: Studio Roosegaarde Visitors are encouraged to rearrange the crystals to make pictures and write out messages. Image: Studio Roosegaarde One person even proposed using the crystals. Image: Studio Roosegaarde Roosegaarde says he can grow his 8 cm crystal in one day. Image: Studio Roosegaarde The Crystals are grown organically consist of two LED lights and a copper wire. Ballpoint Barber: A Stop-Motion Reverse Haircut by Peter Simon The ludicrous battle of haircut/shaving videos continues with an new stop-motion short from Peter Simon that was inspired by an old magnetic Wooly Willy toy. Simon previously created a video called Trim back in 2011 which might have been inspiration for Ben Garvin’s Magic Beard last month. Do we have a new genre on our hands? Music by Paul Otteson.
Top 50 Free Lightroom Presets Most web and graphic designers use Photoshop on a daily basis as one of the main tools of the trade. Photoshop is incredibly powerful for designing and for photo editing, but Adobe also has Lightroom, which can be used for processing/editing photos and for the organization of photo files. As a designer you probably work with a lot of images, including those provided by clients, purchased stock photos, free stock photos, and possibly even your own photos. Because designers work with so many photos, and because many designers are also photography enthusiasts, Lightroom has become increasingly popular even outside of the circles of just professional photographers. Also helping to boost Lightroom’s popularity is its inclusion in Adobe’s Creative Cloud.
Nothing is as it Seems: The Art of Illusion at Science Gallery Some of most amazing contemporary artists working in the realm of optical illusion have been brought together for a fantastic show called Illusion at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Curated by psychologist and author Richard Wiseman and researched by magician and escapologist (!) Paul Gleeson, the exhibition explores the myriad ways the mind is tricked through sensory deception. The show includes works from Roseline de Thelin, Gregory Barsamian, Matt Kenyon, Jonty Hurwitz (previously), and many more. Illusion runs through September 29, 2013.
Intricate Paper Sculptures by Rogan Brown Inspired by nature, artist Rogan Brown has created these intricate designs of organic and complex paper sculptures… Rogan Brown Inspiré par la nature, l’artiste Rogan Brown a créé ces sculptures complexes et organiques en papier…
How to Make More Precise Selections with Photoshop’s Select and Mask Making selections and masks is one of the most fundamental Photoshop skills. If you want to change your model’s eye color or remove a pesky photobomber, you need to be able to select only the area of the image you want to effect while keeping everything else safe. There are dozens of ways to create selections and masks in Photoshop, but in the June 2016 update, Adobe brought a lot of them together into one place: the Select and Mask Workspace.
Make web pages easier to read Designing web pages is a skill and an art. However, some of this skill and art can either be lost on our students or end up being a distraction and reducing focus. Students are exposed to online learning at ever increasing rates. So, more web pages to comb through and distractions to get them off task. The Top 25 Psychedelic Videos of All Time To see places 50-26 of the list please click here 2 years ago, when the idea was born to set up a website dedicated to curating one psychedelic video every day, we were still skeptical about how long one could continue, and afraid that after a month or two we’d run out of psychedelic videos to post. Today, in the second year anniversary of daily psychedelic video posts, with more than 700 psychedelic videos on the site, it seems clear that there are many more psychedelic videos out there than any of us would have dared to imagine.
Magnetic Putty is Completely Amazing/Terrifying Magnetic putty is just like any other putty in that you can handle it, sculpt it, and squeeze it in a fist as you visualize your enemies. But place it anywhere near a strong magnetic field and it will SPONTANEOUSLY ANIMATE and move to consume anything magnetic in its path like a voracious mutated slug. In fact the putty won’t stop moving until the object has been equally engulfed on all sides.