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Red Giant offers subscription to video editing tools

18 Mar

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Using a similar model as Adobe’s Creative Cloud, video effects maker Red Giant – creators of Trapcode and Magic Bullet – is making their post-production tools and plugins available via subscription. Instead of buying individual software licenses, Red Giant’s service called Universe allows you to pay monthly or yearly for access to their suite of products that work in popular video editing software such as Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. Learn more

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Puzzle Facade: Play a Building Like a Giant Rubik’s Cube

22 Dec

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 1
The entire facade of the Ars Electronic Building in Linz, Austria has become the world’s largest playable Rubik’s cube thanks to a color-changing illuminated facade controlled by a 3D-printed device. Anyone who wants to try their hand at the ‘Puzzle Facade‘ manipulates the hand-held interface-cube like they would an ordinary Rubik’s cube, and their movements are translated to the building.

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 2

The interactive display, by Spanish artist and designer Javier Lloret, uses bluetooth to connect the cube to a software program that converts the information into color and light. Only being able to see two sides of the building increases the difficulty factor.

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 3

Of course, if you think you’re skilled enough to try to crack a Rubik’s cube this big, you’d better be pretty confident, because your handiwork is going to be on citywide display. Watch it in action above.

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Mirrored Street Facade Art Turns Pedestrians into Acrobats

At first: vertigo. You are moving along the sidewalk, when suddenly you see the front of a structure, only on its side, extruded from the ground below you. Click Here to Read More »»


Preservation Puzzle: Extreme Ideas to Save an Urban Facade

Some serious fans, including a range of architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, would like to see this … Click Here to Read More »»


Another Wave in the Wall: Vertical Lake Building Facade

This upcoming public art installation at the Brisbane Airport will put the soothing power of flowing water on display for harried travelers and drivers. Click Here to Read More »»


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Puzzle Facade: Play a Building Like a Giant Rubik’s Cube

12 Dec

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 1
The entire facade of the Ars Electronic Building in Linz, Austria has become the world’s largest playable Rubik’s cube thanks to a color-changing illuminated facade controlled by a 3D-printed device. Anyone who wants to try their hand at the ‘Puzzle Facade‘ manipulates the hand-held interface-cube like they would an ordinary Rubik’s cube, and their movements are translated to the building.

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 2

The interactive display, by Spanish artist and designer Javier Lloret, uses bluetooth to connect the cube to a software program that converts the information into color and light. Only being able to see two sides of the building increases the difficulty factor.

Rubiks Cube Architecture Project 3

Of course, if you think you’re skilled enough to try to crack a Rubik’s cube this big, you’d better be pretty confident, because your handiwork is going to be on citywide display. Watch it in action above.

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Mirrored Street Facade Art Turns Pedestrians into Acrobats

At first: vertigo. You are moving along the sidewalk, when suddenly you see the front of a structure, only on its side, extruded from the ground below you.
Click Here to Read More »»


Preservation Puzzle: Extreme Ideas to Save an Urban Facade

Some serious fans, including a range of architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, would like to see this …
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Another Wave in the Wall: Vertical Lake Building Facade

This upcoming public art installation at the Brisbane Airport will put the soothing power of flowing water on display for harried travelers and drivers.
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Place Vendome in Venice Gets Giant Bird Nest Tree Huts

24 Oct

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Place Vendome Bird Nest Installations 1

Upon the centuries-old architecture of Place Vendome in Paris, nest-like structures of head-scratching proportions have appeared; messy wooden lean-to huts clinging to verdigris pillars and posh old buildings. It seems as if giant birds have descended upon the city and made it their home.

Place Vendome Bird Nest Installation 3

The parasitic structures are the ‘tree huts’ of Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, a continuation of a series that has taken him around the globe.

Place Vendome Bird Nest Installation 4

Five small cabins have been installed in key places in the Place Vendome, including the Vendome column, built in 1702 as a monument to the armies of Louis XIV.

Place Vendome Nest Installation 2

The confusion of wooden slats draws the curiosity of onlookers, wondering who – or what – could be inside. The structures will be up for a month as part of FIAC 2013, an art festival in Paris. Among the other places in which Tadashi’s parasitic architecture has been installed are New York’s Madison Square Garden, Florence and Switzerland.

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Kodak bankruptcy plan approved, former film giant exits consumer business

22 Aug

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The Kodak planning to exit from bankruptcy on September 3rd looks very different from the familiar imaging company that filed for Chapter 11 last year. The U.S. Bankruptcy court has approved Kodak’s plan for reorganization, a step that means the company can resume independent operation soon. CEO Antonio M. Perez issued a statement emphasizing Kodak’s move into commercial imaging for a profitable future, including “packaging, functional printing and professional services.” Click through to read more about where Kodak now stands.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Dark City: Giant Mirrors Aim to Illuminate Town in Shadows

05 Aug

[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ]

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A lovely little settlement in a lush valley of Norway sounds like a slice of paradise – except that the surrounding hills keep it out of sunlight for nearly half of the year. This incredible undertaking aims to change that, illuminating the town square even in the darkest parts of the year.

shadow town mirror project

A set of mirrors positioned high above Rjukan will rotate to reflect sunlight into the center of the settlement, which, thanks to being rather predictably bathed in light, will be available to residents and visitors who wish to walk through it. The system will be computer-controlled from the town hall.

shadow valley mirror array

If this sounds far-fetched or even futuristic, consider this: the idea was originally pitched exactly 100 years ago by a local developer in the area, but scrapped at the time due to cost. Its originator went ahead and constructed a cable car instead, to help people in the area climb high enough to get natural light in the winter.

shadow illuminate town square

Even today the installed array will run up a bill of nearly a million dollars and include over 500 square feet of mirrored surface (lighting up over 2000 square feet below). But for residents of this remote and shadowed settlement, who normally have to forsake the sun 5 months of the year, the effect is worth the price.

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On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal

12 Jul

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power switch has hidden meaning behind its more obvious shock-and-awe appeal.

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Buildings consume as much as half of the power used in many developed countries. Even in winter, many of the world’s biggest skyscrapers are in constant cooling mode to offset the heat of humans and equipment. In short: most structures are in some sense ‘always on’ when it comes to energy use.

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Muralist Escif has a reputation for pointing out political, economic and social problems with his often-animated street art. Still, this piece in particular goes to the heart of an issue we often forget, but one that is right under our noses (or at our fingertips, as it were).

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Report zooms in on giant camera resolution test charts throughout the US

19 Feb

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Dozens of two-dimentional aerial photo calibration targets are scattered all across the United States, according to a report by the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Constructed mostly during the 1950s and 1960s, these large outdoor charts were used as ‘a platform to test, calibrate, and focus aerial cameras traveling at different speeds and altitudes.’ The report points out that although some of these ‘charts’ are still used for some optical camera testing and calibration, they are primarily relics of the past. Click through for more information, and images.

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My Giant 12lbs Lobster

20 Jan

Music by PeterSatera, Song is “Artificial Inteli Evolved” check out more of his music here petersatera.newgrounds.com creativecommons.org So check it out I caught another monster of a lobster while shore diving off the California Coast. Biggest I’ve ever grabbed. Can’t tell you the spot cause then it wouldn’t be a secret 😉 But I normally dive anywhere from San Diego, Orange County, Palos Verdes, to Catalina Island. I grabbed this one a while ago, but just got around to editing the video today. If anyone’s wondering if this one’s recent. Shot this video with my gopro HD and my camera a Nikon D90. All credit goes to my friend Josh for filming it for me.

 
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Life-Sized Dollhouse: Abandoned Home to Giant Playhouse

08 Nov

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In what may be the world’s strangest residential renovation, an artist-in-residence took this long-deserted and severely-dilapidated house, and restored it into what may be the world’s largest handmade dollhouse.

Canadian artist Heather Benning found this home while staying in Redvers, Saskatchewan, with hints of color that only a creative mind could see as inspiration for a full-scale remodel into a brightly-colored playhouse.

But lest you think she got off easy, simply installing some old furniture and painting the place: the roof needed to be re-shingled, rooms needed to be re-plastered and sections of the structure required shoring up even though the purpose was display and not occupation.

One whole side, of course, also had to be removed to complete the effect, so that (like a scale dollhouse) people can see all aspects of the inside from the outside. The result somehow manages to be both charming and slightly creepy at the same time. Benning, meanwhile, continues to work with site-specific landscape-and-architecture pieces.

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Minitecture: 15 Ultra-Modern Dollhouse Designs

Dollhouses aren’t just for kids, and they don’t only come in the frilly Victorian variety. These modern dollhouse designs will please kids and parents alike.
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