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Architects are all dreamers. While their special projects and grand ideas often aren’t considered practical enough to be created, looking at their concepts is a great way to see the potential that architecture holds in the future, as creativity and beauty is increasingly rewarded.
The top left skyscraper is a dream of architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, planned to be created in Dubai. The architecture firm TVS Associates came up with an even crazier concept for four towers, also planned for Dubai. Guess where that last building is being planned for? Yep, Dubai! Oppenheim came up with this gorgeously flowing Marina and Beach Tower.
Designer Michael Jantzen loves to design towers with a fun, open aesthetic and a functional purpose (in this case, generating wind power while providing a beautiful view). The Watts towers are a famous one man project built in an abandoned lot by Sam Rodia, showing that some of these concepts can be built, even if it’s on a small scale. The final image is the back of a solar tower being built for the 2016 Olympic games being put on in Rio. The back has a gorgeous waterfall, and the front, featured below is equally stunning.
The Atrium City Towers, created by Adrian Smith, are a concept design for a series of connected towers to be constructed in Dubai. The front of Rio’s 2016 Olympic Games torch is a gorgeous structure, which will get a lot of use even after the games. These waterfront structures are planned for a Malaysian waterfront, and were designed by Studio Nicoletti Associati. Created for an Olympics, the “falling towers” building in Beijing, China (concept shown) are now a reality in the city. The Almaty Twin Towers are going to be built in Kazakhstan. They were designed by Norman Foster.
Zaha Hadid designed the “dancing towers” which reject the typical idea that towers have to be perfectly vertical. The Dubai Towers (now a canceled project) were also more fluid than most, adding a literal twist to the typical tower. The Nomas towers in Bahrain are an interesting concept and almost look like smoke stacks more than mixed use buildlings.
The Fog Tower was designed by Alberto Fernandez and Susana Ortega and would stand at the edge of the Atamaca desert, absorbing moisture and creating a beautiful haze. the Singapore Towers are a wild twist on the typical tower, with several sections hanging off of a central core, and creating an incredibly unique look. This 101 story tower was designed for Dubai (where else?) and while it would stand out remarkably in most other cities, it says something about Dubai’s architecture that this one seems almost mundane. The Z10 Towers, designed by Dinesh Doshi, are mixed use and remarkable for their appearance, and the fact that they are surrounded by water.
The Moda-Gakuen Spiral Towers were designed for Nagoya City, Japan and have a stunning fluidity that is perfect for a structure on the edge of the water. Mumbai has this interesting design, an over 50 story building developed by Godrej Construction that is somewhat reminiscent of building blocks.
From Bangkok’s elephant building and robot tower to an all-wooden skyscraper built by a single man, these 14 towering structures are among the world’s weirdest.
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Instead of burying our legacy under the Earth’s surface, these structures showcase the impact of the millions of tons of trash major cities produce on an annual basis.
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Stan White from Scrappers Workshop shows you how easy it is to enhance a slightly soft digital picture by usung the high pass filter in Photoshop.
Gary Fong shows step-by-step how to activate the High Speed Sync functionality on Nikon DSLR’s. High speed sync allows you to shoot flash at speeds up to 1/8000 sec rather than the mechanical shutter speed limit of 1/250 sec. This works only on compatible models listed here: Flashes: Nikon SB-600/700/800/900, Bodies: Nikon D80,D90, D7000, D200, D300, D700, D800, D2, D3, D4
www.iwaggle3d.com Released more than two years ago on PlayStation Store, Sony’s bowling simulator High Velocity Bowling got recently updated (for free) to support stereoscopic 3D visuals and, most importantly, the PlayStation Move motion controller. So, how does it play now? Check the video to find out!
If your like me, you sometimes have a great picture which from no fault of your own is a bit fuzzy. I have some great pictures but they never look as good as when you were there! Sharpening images is always a painful process, because you never get them the way you saw them. Using the sharpen filters kind of works but never brilliantly. Well, there is a better way which this video will explain. Using the “High Pass” filter can perform nothing short of miracles. Within 6 minutes you will be able to control how much sharpness you put on an image. This and many more videos can be seen at PCTeach.me
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September 13, 2012. Alpacka Yukon packraft on the South Platte River between Kersey and Kuner. Camera: Pentax Optio WG2
A couple days of rain increased water level in the South Platte River from around 100 cfs during dry summer to 2000 cfs at Kersey. I managed to catch the high water wave in this late afternoon bike-packraft trip: Kuner-Kersey-Kuner.
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The Olympics are always the great proving ground for the latest camera technology, but it’s not just Canon’s EOS-1D X and Nikon’s D4 that are bringing the experience of the games to the wider world. US broadcaster NBC is publishing a series of stitched ‘gigapan’ images from the different venues – including a 3 gigapixel composite of the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, Japanese broadcaster NHK has been collaborating with the UK’s BBC to broadcast the first live, remote 8K footage. There are few screens that can yet show such footage, but tech-site Engadget has written about what it’s like to watch and whether 8K really is ‘the end of the resolution story.’