Studio Start with your goal. That’s where you start everything. Even when you don’t notice it. Here is a list of goals that people have when they come to this site. And our suggestions about how to use the site as part of the road to that goal. Stunning CG Surrealism: From Origin to Modernity Art itself doesn’t know any boundaries and restrictions. It expresses emotions and renders the authors’ feelings in any possible way. Surrealism encompasses unbridled ideas and creativity. Being a powerful trend of art it goes directly to emotions and has a great impact on people. Surrealism implies passion and intensity in all the works created in this style.
My first Second Life training My first Second Life training This is a very brief post, just to share a great experience I had this evening following a training course at the Academy of Second Learning, at Eson (47/157/351). We created a sphere with some very nice eyes on it, and the sphere really bounced! Things I noticed: how much functionality is actually hidden in the SL interface how nice and easy it is to follow such a hands-on-course you can follow each others questions to the teacher via the chat history and even look back.
20 Unusual and Creative Ice Cube Trays Collection of unusual and creative ice cube trays from all over the world. Alphabet Ice Cube Tray Float subtle messages in your friends drinks, or if you are feeling really creative, go crazy and make letters out of jelly or butter. [link] tracking nanotechnology A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Lin Wang has observed a new form of very hard carbon clusters, which are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disordered structure. The material is capable of indenting diamond. This finding has potential applications for a range of mechanical, electronic, and electrochemical uses. Carbon is the fourth-most-abundant element in the universe and takes on a wide variety of forms—the honeycomb-like graphene, the pencil "lead" graphite, diamond, cylindrically structured nanotubes, and hollow spheres called fullerenes. Some forms of carbon are crystalline, meaning that the structure is organized in repeating atomic units. Other forms are amorphous, meaning that the structure lacks the long-range order of crystals.
Sun building collaborative, virtual world for teleworkers Sun is building a virtual world for its employees that will recreate the real-life interactions of an office, giving workers the ability to move easily from one conversation to another in a collaborative online environment. In a real office, a Sun employee might engage in technical discussion with a few fellow workers, then walk over to a water cooler or snack area and start a new conversation. Sun is recreating that same type of environment on the Web with MPK20, a virtual world similar to Second Life that uses immersive audio to allow multiple conversations at once. “We believe for collaboration, audio is a really essential component,” Nicole Yankelovich, principal investigator for Sun’s collaborative environment project, said Tuesday at the Sun Labs Innovation Update in Burlington, Mass.
11 high-tech toys that are just too good for kids If you think youth is wasted on the young, then you should look at the toys they get to play with - everyone of these is a stone-cold classic, from tiny tanks to radical robots. The worst thing about any of these high-tech treats is prising them away from the young ones in the first place. Don’t be a cheapskate, buy your own. Infrared Micro Battling Tanks When the tiny get tough, the tough get tiny - £50 gets you a pair of micro tanks (a US Abrams and a German Leopard 2) which can battle against each other using infra-red beams. Fire at your opponent using either the main gun or machine gun and you’ll see your tank recoil.
How the first plant came to be The genome of provides essential clues to the origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants. Science/AAAS Earth is the planet of the plants — and it all can be traced back to one green cell. The world's lush profusion of photosynthesizers — from towering redwoods to ubiquitous diatoms — owe their existence to a tiny alga eons ago that swallowed a cyanobacteria and turned it into an internal solar power plant. By studying the genetics of a "glaucophyte" — one of a group of just 13 unique microscopic freshwater blue-green algae, sometimes called "living fossils" — an international consortium of scientists led by molecular bioscientist Dana Price of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, has elucidated the evolutionary history of plants.
Arts, design blog » Creative Arts, design blog Arts, design. Photos and drawings of different authors Emerging Social Media Trends In 2012 In my last blog on Emerging Digital marketing trends this year, I mentioned that trends in Social Media deserve a separate post. It has taken me more than three months to have moved from a draft to an actual blog post, and the only thing that has changed is some of what I originally noted can already be seen in the execution. Let us see what the highlights or current trends are. 1) Social Media will move from acquisition to quality of acquisition- If you pay for a click that helps you acquire a fan, you as a brand will start calculating ROI at some point and will soon realise the value of a fan who might actually be interested versus one who is not. This article interestingly points out that the generation loves to endorse their likes & dislikes. These are the users who would actually share content, like your updates, your new products & eventually help you go viral.
Unidentified flying objects The Mediasite presentation cannot be played back. The requested presentation content can be played using the following plugins:WindowsMedia, Silverlight, Html5 We have detected that your browser supports the following plugins:None Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain? (Image by David R. Ingham, via Wikimedia Commons) The computer, smartphone or other electronic device on which you are reading this article has a rudimentary brain—kind of.* It has highly organized electrical circuits that store information and behave in specific, predictable ways, just like the interconnected cells in your brain. On the most fundamental level, electrical circuits and neurons are made of the same stuff—atoms and their constituent elementary particles—but whereas the human brain is conscious, manmade gadgets do not know they exist. Consciousness, most scientists argue, is not a universal property of all matter in the universe.
Arms trade? Drug cartels? Now? Bring it on, Google Last Friday, I got an email from HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's new live broadcast platform, asking if I could participate in a panel discussion on Google and its increasing role in things "not search", ranging from tracking the arms trade around the world to its overall dominance in our Internet lives. The question was, is Google growing in influence faster than our government can keep up and is it stepping into places it shouldn't? More to the point, does Google need regulation and how much are we at risk because of Google's influence?
Tool Tip Invitation Pattern - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library When the invitation to interact with an object would benefit from an written description, show a tool tip when the mouse cursor hovers over the target area. The tooltip copy should be a short verbal phrase that calls the user to action, such as 'Click to Edit'. Show this tooltip within a very short amount of time (less than a quarter of a second) or immediately when the mouse hovers over the interaction area. Keep the tooltip visible the whole time the user has the mouse over the interaction area, and remove it promptly when the mouse leaves the interaction area. What Problem Does This Solve?