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Photos du mur. With $2M in funding, Wemo Media plans a 3D animated ocean world, TheBlu. Wemo Media announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding to create its first 3D digital animated world set under the sea.
The ocean world will have realistic 3D animated fish, fauna, sharks and other sea life. It has the production values of a high-quality online game but is aimed at providing cool educational experiences. Currently in private beta, TheBlu seeks to recreate the ocean on the web, creating a collectively designed work of art that taps digital artists and developers from around the world. The company showed off some animated scenes from the world at the Consumer Electronics Show today in Las Vegas. Once the world is launched, you’ll be able to explore the oceans as easily as browsing the web, choosing different camera views and interacting directly with the sea life.
Among those contributing to TheBlu are Andy Jones, the animation supervisor for the sinking sequence in The Titanic and animation director for Avatar. Photos du mur. Photos du mur. Carl Safina: National Geographic Channel, In Race for Bottom, Adds Killing Endangered Species to New Season Entertainment Lineup. Well, people, what an incredibly long drop it's been since the electrifying National Geographic TV specials of my youth, whose mere opening theme notes would raise the hair on my neck.
It seems almost like the scenario of a post-apocalyptic surrealist satire, unimaginable just a few years back: National Geographic Channel has been bought out by Fox, is "joint-venturing" with the disgraceful and disgraced Rupert Murdoch, and creating programming to push Bill O'Reilly's books. And, well -- National Geographic Channel will be killing endangered species for entertainment. They've just announced the new unscripted show: Wicked Tuna. Awesome, eh? Already, we have: a smiling face and a dead, rather small, bluefin tuna. Here, in 2012, I find the premise revolting.
And therefore, it's bound to be a crowd pleaser as National Geographic Channel aims to lead in Cable's race to the bottom. What a load of shame. At This Vending Machine, Swapping is the New Buying - Environment. We're used to putting money in a vending machine and instantly receiving consumable goods—a bag of chips, a soda, or even a new pair of headphones—in return.
But what if vending machines became a fresh way to reuse, recycle, and trade with people in your community? That's the vision of the Swap-O-Matic, a New York City-based vending machine project that wants to "shift culture away from an emphasis on unconscious consumption" by encouraging people to donate and receive used items for free. To use the Swap-O-Matic, you register with an email address using the machine's touchscreen interface. New traders start out with three swapping "credits. " Donating an item earns additional credits, which can be redeemed for anything else in the machine. Lina Fenequito, the primary creator and designer of the Swap-O-Matic, has long been an advocate of sustainable living and responsible consumption of resources. Via Springwise. Central America and Dominican Republic Outlaw Shark Finning. January 2012: The eight member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) have adopted a common binding regulation outlawing shark finning.
Unlike finning bans in many countries, the Regulation applies not only to domestic and foreign vessels that catch and land sharks in SICA countries, but also to vessels fishing in international waters that fly the flag of a SICA member country. Regulation OSP-05-11, agreed in November 2011 and effective 1 January 2012, was adopted via SICA's Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector Organization of the Central American Isthmus (OSPESCA). It binds Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The Regulation outright bans finning, and requires member countries to take necessary measures in national legislation to guarantee the integral use of "sustainably captured" sharks. What Made This University Researcher Snap? Did Amy Bishop's slowly roiling psychosis go unnoticed in a culture of science and academia that celebrates eccentricities?
Photo: The Huntsville Times/Landov Update 9/12/2012: Amy Bishop pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of attempted murder and one count of capital murder of two or more victims, withdrawing her early plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Sentencing is set for late September. According to the Associated Press, prosecutors have agreed not to seek the death penalty. Bishop still faces charges in Massachusetts in connection with the fatal shooting of her brother in 1986. 4 pm, February 12, 2010—University of Alabama in Huntsville Shelby Center for Science and Technology, Loading Dock.
Amy Bishop stepped out of the science building and into the afternoon light. Screw China: American scientists are finding replacements for rare earth.