Help-Portrait Community The Virtual Exploration Society Virtual Exploration Society Welcome to the Virtual Exploration Society. Go over to the bar and get a root beer, then have a seat by the fire. Listen while the older members recount exciting true stories of explorers who have risked life and limb in the persuit of knowledge. Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. The Incredible Automobile Race of 1907- In 1907 eleven men set out to take the newly born automobile on an adventure across two continents and over deserts and through swamps. Crossing the Atlantic By Air - On July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot stunned the world by using an airplane to cross the English Channel. Roy Chapman Andrews - Was this adventurer/scientist the model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones? Colonel Percy Fawcett - He charted the wilderness of South America, but then disappeared without a trace. To Catch a Dragon - Follow the Burdan Expedition to remote and dangerous Komodo Island. Leonid A. Raiders of the Lost Tomb - Dr.
Cubo capaz de capturar a cor de qualquer superfície faz sucesso em site de financiamento Financiamento| 15 de janeiro de 2014 | 6h 30 Dispositivo envia informações diretamente para o smartphone do usuário Divulgação Detalhe do produto em funcionamento Um cubo capaz de capturar a cor de qualquer objeto...e parede, planta, carro, móvel, utensílio doméstico, roupa...enfim, a tecnologia que mais tem feito sucesso recentemente no site de financiamento coletivo Indiegogo é o SwatchMate Color Capturing Cube. ::: Siga o Estadão PME nas redes sociais ::: :: Twitter :: :: Facebook :: :: Google + :: O produto já arrecadou 25,5 mil dólares australianos (algo em torno de R$ 54,5 mil). De acordo com seus desenvolvedores, o cubo consegue capturar a cor de qualquer superfície e, por meio do Bluetooth, enviar informações sobre a cor para o smartphone do usuário ou diretamente para o programa Photoshop. A inspiração, ainda segundo seus desenvolvedores, surgiu por conta da dificuldade que eles encontravam para registrar cores inspiradoras do cotidiano.
Warm winter scarves made of hockey socks! At SOCK-cessories we are very 'Canadian conscious'. All the hockey socks we use, all the skate laces we use, all the jersey numbers that are applied are Canadian made. We will not compromise our proud "Made in Canada" label. All of our zippered bags are reinforced and framed with twill then framed with a looped skate lace to allow even the largest hand to manipulate it with ease. All of our knitted products are made from the same tried, true, durable fabric that hockey players beat up everyday on the ice. All our bags are lined with the same durable, washable fabric that hockey jerseys are constructed from. All our bags sport a lobster-claw key clip so you will always be able to find your keys at a moments notice. All our products are a part of us before they become one of your loved accessories. In order to make each SOCK-cessories product unique, lining fabrics, fleece and designer panels may vary slightly from what is photographed.
Biography After studying painting and graphic design at Cooper Union and Yale, Jay Maisel began his career in photography in 1954. While his portfolio includes the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis, he is perhaps best known for capturing the light, color, and gesture found in every day life. This unique vision kept him busy for over 40 years shooting annual reports, magazine covers, jazz albums, advertising and more for an array of clients worldwide. Some of his commercial accomplishments include five Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers, the first two covers of New York Magazine, the cover of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (the best-selling jazz album of all time), twelve years of advertising with United Technologies, and a litany of awards from such organizations as ICP, ASMP, ADC, PPA, and Cooper Union. Since he stopped taking on commercial work in the late ’90s, Jay has continued to focus on his personal work.
This is your most important decision You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years. This makes your choice of career the most important ethical decision of your life. From adulthood, you’ll spend almost half your waking hours on your career — more than the time you’ll spend eating, on hobbies, and watching Netflix put together. So unless you happen to be the heir to a large estate, that time is the biggest resource you have to help others. This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life. And we’re going to show that — if you have the privilege to have options — you can probably increase the impact of your career not just by a little, but by a huge amount. Some of the paths open to you probably do vastly more for the world than others, but they’re probably not the ones you’re currently focusing on. So how did we end up thinking this? Which problems should you work on?
Five Astounding Animal Automata The Peacock Clock in Russia (via Wikimedia) From man-eating tigers to the most elegant of robotic birds, some of the earliest automata were tributes to the wonders of the animal kingdom. Here are five of the most astounding mechanical animals from around the world, some centuries old. THE SILVER SWAN Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England photograph by Andrew Curtis Year: 1773 Animal Action: The life-size swan moves its delicate neck and attempts to eat silver fish that swim by it in a 40 second performance. Secrets: It works a bit like a clock that is wound up with internal gears. Home: Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, England, where it still operates once a day. TIPU'S TIGER Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England via Victoria & Albert Museum Year: 1793, India Animal Action: The nearly life-size tiger attacks a man in European dress who flings his arms around in pain. Secrets: An organ hidden in the tiger's body plays screechy music meant to sound like the man's dying screams. Reconstruction:
Make Your Own Camera Obscura [Instructables How-To] The tech revolution has enabled anyone with a point-and-shoot (or cellphone) and a Facebook account to share their photography “skills” with the world. While we totally encourage the creation and sharing of artwork on the internet, we hope that technique, artistry and an attention to detail aren’t lost along the way. Our new digital photography column, Digital Dark Room, aims to highlight the history and different disciplines within the genre of photography and show you how to practice them yourself… even if all you’re using is an iPhone app. This week’s Instructables How-To shows you how to construct your own pinhole camera. Along the same lines as ‘a good meal tastes better when you make it yourself’ we think photographs that bear the mark of human hands often yield some of the most interesting images. The materials you will need, some of which can be found around the house, include a shoebox, photo paper, a thin piece of metal, electrical tape, an exacto knife, needle, and sandpaper.
An 18th Century Quote Defines Today's Truth “Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Those words were written by Jean-Paul Marat in the latter part of the 18th century, but they are still so true that they could have been written today. A tip of the hat to MadMikesAmerica for the quote. Link to original post
Dick Balzer's Website: Homepage Carrie Mae Weems Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past – The Marginalian If we abide by the common definition of philosophy as the love of wisdom, and if Montaigne was right — he was — that philosophy is the art of learning to die, then living wisely is the art of learning how you will wish to have lived. A kind of resolution in reverse. This is where the wisdom of lives that have already been lived can be of immense aid — a source of forward-facing resolutions, borrowed from people who have long died, having lived, by any reasonable standard, honorable and generous lives, lives of beauty and substance, irradiated by ideas that have endured across the epochs to make other lives more livable. Here are ten such ideas (after many more highlighted in years past) that make for life-expanding resolutions, and an extra eleventh as an overarching ethos. We will lose everything we love, including our lives — so we might as well love without fear, for to fear a certainty is wasted energy that syphons life of aliveness. Love your hands!