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Hybrid Library: QR Codes Access eBooks in Subway Station

19 Feb

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subway station qr library

Forgot to grab something to read on the train? If you happen to be in Bucharest, you can snag a volume from their floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall collection of ebook samples with the click of a button (in epub, pdf or even audiobook format).

subway stop guerrilla marketing

The hybrid digital/physical library/bookstore project is a collaboration between Humanitas and Vodaphone – a guerrilla marketing campaign highlighting both the power of mobile technology and the offerings of the bookseller.

subway ebook ad campaign

Browsing, of course, works just like an ordinary book shop: you can scan the full-color posters and pick something to get started while you wait for your ride. And if you enjoy the sample, another button-click brings you to a page where you can buy the full book (one free book is thrown in, for those who do not wish to pay).

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Hybrid Library: QR Codes Access eBooks in Subway Station

10 Feb

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subway station qr library

Forgot to grab something to read on the train? If you happen to be in Bucharest, you can snag a volume from their floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall collection of ebook samples with the click of a button (in epub, pdf or even audiobook format).

subway stop guerrilla marketing

The hybrid digital/physical library/bookstore project is a collaboration between Humanitas and Vodaphone – a guerrilla marketing campaign highlighting both the power of mobile technology and the offerings of the bookseller.

subway ebook ad campaign

Browsing, of course, works just like an ordinary book shop: you can scan the full-color posters and pick something to get started while you wait for your ride. And if you enjoy the sample, another button-click brings you to a page where you can buy the full book (one free book is thrown in, for those who do not wish to pay).

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Halo Combat Evolved: Walkthrough – Part 16 [Mission 7] The Library (Gameplay & Commentary)

01 Feb

Halo Combat Evolved Walkthrough: The Library – Mission 7 Part 16 of my Let’s Play series from Halo Combat Evolved This is going to be the last upload of this series for a couple of days now due to the fact I have uploaded 4 Episodes in three days, that is unless you guys want me to continue to release this on a daily basis? Let me know in the Comments. Follow me on Twitter – www.twitter.com Playlist – www.youtube.com

www.Berger-Bros.com Learn how to fine tune your camera’s metering. The camera doe NOT behave like your eye. The camera needs YOU to tell IT what to do. Every camera has a built in default metering mode, which is the way the camera sees the available light, and adjusts to that light. Yvonne Berger, an instructor with Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, New York explains various metering modes, such as matrix and evaluative metering, center weight meter spot metering She explains when to use each type of metering depending on what type of photograph you are taking.

 
 

ArtMoor 2 June 2012 Library Exterior Courtyard 1

02 Dec

A few nice visual art images I found:

ArtMoor 2 June 2012 Library Exterior Courtyard 1
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Image by Infrogmation

New Rosa Keller (Broadmoor Neighborhood) branch library, Napoleon & Broad, Broadmoor, New Orleans. "ArtMoor" event with visual arts, live music, and refreshments.

 
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MIT+150: FAST (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): FAST LIGHT — Man studying alone on his Macbook at the library

13 Nov

Some cool visual art images:

MIT+150: FAST (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): FAST LIGHT — Man studying alone on his Macbook at the library
visual art
Image by Chris Devers
More books than you could read in a lifetime and still the Macbook gets more attention. Typical.

• • •

This photo ran in the September/October 2011 edition of The Economist magazine’s More Intelligent Life, with Adrian Wooldridge article, Dr Dole Queue. THANK YOU!

• • •

Quoting from the official pamphlet:

FAST LIGHT • May 7 + 8, 2011, 7 pm – 10 pm

Contemporary pioneers in art, science, and technology have come together at MIT to create one of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever seen. On May 7 and 8, 2011, visitors can interact with 20+ art and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River along Memorial Drive at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / fast

Installations scattered around campus (we didn’t quite see all of them), again pasting from the official flyer:

• aFloat
MIT Chapel • Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Inspired by water in the Saarinen Chapel’s moat, a touch releases flickers of light before serenity returns as a calm ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.

• Inflatables
Lobby 7, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture made of silver nylon resonates with gusts of air, heat from light bulbs, and the motions of passersby.
By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky, Jorge Amaya.

• (now(now(now)))
Building 7, 4th Floor
This installation nests layers of the past into an image of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Course)4
Building 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell transformed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

• Maxwell’s Dream
Building 10 Community Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural created by magnetic fields that drive patterns of light, Maxwell’s Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

• Mood Meter
Student Center & Building 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of happiness? Mood Meter playfully assesses and displays the mood of the MIT community onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.

• SOFT Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your electronic devices using green solar powered technology
By Shiela Kennedy, P. Seaton, S. Rockcastle, W. Inam, A. Aolij, J. Nam, K. Bogenshutz, J. Bayless, M. Trimble.

• LightBridge
The Mass. Ave Bridge
A dynamic interactive LED array responds to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT’s ties to both sides of the river. Thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

• Sky Event
Killian Court, Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis among artists, scientists and engineers.
By Otto Piene.

• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable screen provides a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT’s history in science, technology, and art.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river change color as they react to the presence of people along the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

• Unflat Pavilion
Building 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi

• Gradated Field
Walker Memorial Lawn
A field of enticing mounts create a landscape that encourages passersby to meander through, or lounge upon the smooth plaster shapes.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.

• Bibliodoptera
Building 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT’s diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters above, reacting to the movement of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Screen
Green Building Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light created by micro-turbines displays a visual register of the replenishable source of wind energy.
By Meejin Yoon.

• String Tunnel
Building 18 Bridge
A diaphonous tunnel creates a sense of entry to and from the Infinite Corridor and frames the surrounding landscape.
By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams.

• voltaDom
Building 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an innovative fabrication technique that creates complex double curved vaults through the simple rolling of a sheet of material.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Night of Numbers
Building 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lighting installation enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that hold special or historical significance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Building E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell’s spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and busy passageway into a moment of surprise and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Main Streets.
Lanterns react to visitors by passing sound and color from one to another, increasing in intensity along the way and illuminating the path to MIT’s campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.

Artists on Art: Ruza Bagaric / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML
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Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
Ruza Bagaric chats with Mac Farr (MMF) (Flickr) about her paintings and drawings during DUMBO Art Center’s annual Art Under the Bridge Festival in 2009.

Ruza Bagaric is a painter in New York City. You can check out her portfolio at ruzabagaric.com

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13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

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+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
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LiveFast presents: Mash-up Summer 2009 Custom Tees / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54545.P1.L1 / SML
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Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

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+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
+ SML Flickr Tags: Art
+ SML Pro Blog: Art

 
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Durian Project: Library Linking!

08 Nov

A little bit about directory structure, asset management + svn (subversion), and the power of Blender’s Library Linking system!
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Vray lighting and rendering, this video is a little long but shows you a lot of steps. For materials please look at video 8. www.acrito.com for more information.
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Connect: Snapjoy app offers mobile viewing of online photo library

18 Oct

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A new app from the online photo storage service Snapjoy makes it easy to view your online photo library from your mobile device.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Adobe Lightroom Lesson to Learn – Backup Your Library

08 Aug

If you use Adobe Lightroom then let me warn you, the following dialog box is the last thing you want to see when all is configured correctly (permissions are correct and another application is not using the catalog). Why? Because it means that your catalog file is inaccessible and may have big problems. The net result being lost work and time to fix the problem. Alas there is something you can do before this ever appears that will save you from spontaneously cursing late in the evening and/or instantly turning your hair white, but first a short story…

Learn From My Experience
This past Friday night at 11pm I was that guy in a darkened room being warmed by the glow of my monitor and cursing at the dialog box pictured above. Innocently enough I thought I’d work on an image or two before bed and brought up Lightroom 3.4.1, but the Zen-like activity of working on an image or two (cue the sound of water trickling over a cascading slope of river rocks with birds chirping above) was abruptly cut short (cue sound of a needle scratching on a record). Panic didn’t set in right away because I backup my Lightroom library on an external hard drive (see my drive setup) and I also employ Apple’s Timemachine backup function for my primary hard drive that houses my Lightroom catalog.
Note: It’s best practice to not keep your working Adobe catalog on an external drive due to degraded performance.

Remembering that I had these two backup mechanisms in place I thought, “Keep it together Jim. Let’s see if we can retrieve things to make this a quick fix before bed.” Then 30 milliseconds later my inner voice countered, “Shit! You’ve avoided backing up your Lightroom library for a at least 2 weeks so you could shut down your computer more quickly. Good job Jim, considering you just made a bunch of new smart collections and keyworded hundreds of photos.” Sure enough I looked and my last catalog backup via Lightroom was made to my external hard drive over two weeks before all my recent work had been completed. Backup plan #1 was a failure purely because I was lazy and impatient.

I then started sorting through my Timemachine drive to find my Lightroom catalog date stamped Thursday (the day before this mess happened). There were multiple backups for Thursday and Friday so I was starting to feel relieved, but then I noticed the file size was half what it should be.  I loaded the catalog and sure enough it was what my Lightroom catalog looked like not days or weeks ago, but several months ago. I’ll spare you the cuss filled thoughts that were shooting through my brain at this point. I opened backup after back up for the past week or two and Timemachine had not updated my catalog for what seems to be months…seemingly  just duplicating an older copy.

As you can imagine the thought, “Holy shit!” kept repeating in my mind. Instantly I opened a browser window and I started searching on Google “Lightroom cannot use the catalog named” and what I found was limited, very limited in fact. Most of the posts were for version 2 and not version 3. The one thing that was consistent advice was to delete the lrcat.lock file that comes up next to your catalog file ending with lrcat. (Note: Do not delete your catalog file ending in .lrcat that is having problems!!!!) I deleted the lrcat.lock file and reloaded Lighroom but kept getting the same result, seeing that dreaded dialog box. I was resigned to having to eat the loss of a lot of work at this point. At best I’d have to copy and paste metadata from exported files made the past 2 weeks  to get back to where I was before my catalog had problems.

Finally as a last resort I decided to restart my computer. The lrcat.lock file was removed and the catalog file didn’t show any signs of corruption you might visually see on a Mac. After my restart I loaded Lightroom and…

everything came up normal. So with out any hesitation I quit Lightroom and at the prompt backed up my catalog via Lightroom’s backup function. I then made a triple backup by copying the verified working catalog to a thumb-drive I carry on my keychain.

Lessons Learned, Please Take Note:

  1. Don’t be lazy and regularly backup your Lightroom catalog especially after completing a lot of work.
  2. Have a backup of your backup catalog
  3. Don’t rely on Timemachine as a backup for your Lightroom catalog. Period.
  4. Verify that your backup catalogs work
  5. Seriously don’t be lazy and regularly backup your Lightroom catalog!!!

Left Wondering
Granted I didn’t look at every forum entry when searching for a solution to this problem, but those that came up at the top of the search results were not helpful and dated. I was surprised I couldn’t easily find something in the Adobe Labs forum about this that was relevant to version 3.x either. While things are working again I’m not 100% satisfied and I’m going to be researching further what exactly caused my catalog to become inaccessible. Seeing that my Lightroom catalog now spans content on 4 drives and contains information for 110,000 image I’m not keen to risk losing it all.

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Adobe Lightroom Lesson to Learn – Backup Your Library

08 Aug

If you use Adobe Lightroom then let me warn you, the following dialog box is the last thing you want to see when all is configured correctly (permissions are correct and another application is not using the catalog). Why? Because it means that your catalog file is inaccessible and may have big problems. The net result being lost work and time to fix the problem. Alas there is something you can do before this ever appears that will save you from spontaneously cursing late in the evening and/or instantly turning your hair white, but first a short story…

Learn From My Experience
This past Friday night at 11pm I was that guy in a darkened room being warmed by the glow of my monitor and cursing at the dialog box pictured above. Innocently enough I thought I’d work on an image or two before bed and brought up Lightroom 3.4.1, but the Zen-like activity of working on an image or two (cue the sound of water trickling over a cascading slope of river rocks with birds chirping above) was abruptly cut short (cue sound of a needle scratching on a record). Panic didn’t set in right away because I backup my Lightroom library on an external hard drive (see my drive setup) and I also employ Apple’s Timemachine backup function for my primary hard drive that houses my Lightroom catalog.
Note: It’s best practice to not keep your working Adobe catalog on an external drive due to degraded performance.

Remembering that I had these two backup mechanisms in place I thought, “Keep it together Jim. Let’s see if we can retrieve things to make this a quick fix before bed.” Then 30 milliseconds later my inner voice countered, “Shit! You’ve avoided backing up your Lightroom library for a at least 2 weeks so you could shut down your computer more quickly. Good job Jim, considering you just made a bunch of new smart collections and keyworded hundreds of photos.” Sure enough I looked and my last catalog backup via Lightroom was made to my external hard drive over two weeks before all my recent work had been completed. Backup plan #1 was a failure purely because I was lazy and impatient.

I then started sorting through my Timemachine drive to find my Lightroom catalog date stamped Thursday (the day before this mess happened). There were multiple backups for Thursday and Friday so I was starting to feel relieved, but then I noticed the file size was half what it should be.  I loaded the catalog and sure enough it was what my Lightroom catalog looked like not days or weeks ago, but several months ago. I’ll spare you the cuss filled thoughts that were shooting through my brain at this point. I opened backup after back up for the past week or two and Timemachine had not updated my catalog for what seems to be months…seemingly  just duplicating an older copy.

As you can imagine the thought, “Holy shit!” kept repeating in my mind. Instantly I opened a browser window and I started searching on Google “Lightroom cannot use the catalog named” and what I found was limited, very limited in fact. Most of the posts were for version 2 and not version 3. The one thing that was consistent advice was to delete the lrcat.lock file that comes up next to your catalog file ending with lrcat. (Note: Do not delete your catalog file ending in .lrcat that is having problems!!!!) I deleted the lrcat.lock file and reloaded Lighroom but kept getting the same result, seeing that dreaded dialog box. I was resigned to having to eat the loss of a lot of work at this point. At best I’d have to copy and paste metadata from exported files made the past 2 weeks  to get back to where I was before my catalog had problems.

Finally as a last resort I decided to restart my computer. The lrcat.lock file was removed and the catalog file didn’t show any signs of corruption you might visually see on a Mac. After my restart I loaded Lightroom and…

everything came up normal. So with out any hesitation I quit Lightroom and at the prompt backed up my catalog via Lightroom’s backup function. I then made a triple backup by copying the verified working catalog to a thumb-drive I carry on my keychain.

Lessons Learned, Please Take Note:

  1. Don’t be lazy and regularly backup your Lightroom catalog especially after completing a lot of work.
  2. Have a backup of your backup catalog
  3. Don’t rely on Timemachine as a backup for your Lightroom catalog. Period.
  4. Verify that your backup catalogs work
  5. Seriously don’t be lazy and regularly backup your Lightroom catalog!!!

Left Wondering
Granted I didn’t look at every forum entry when searching for a solution to this problem, but those that came up at the top of the search results were not helpful and dated. I was surprised I couldn’t easily find something in the Adobe Labs forum about this that was relevant to version 3.x either. While things are working again I’m not 100% satisfied and I’m going to be researching further what exactly caused my catalog to become inaccessible. Seeing that my Lightroom catalog now spans content on 4 drives and contains information for 110,000 image I’m not keen to risk losing it all.

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Whip your digital photo library into shape

24 Jan

Digital cameras make it easy to take hundreds or thousands of photos. Never again struggle to find the photo you want. Organize your photos the easy way
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