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- Article | A CTA Map for 2055 - Gapers Block
- A designer's dream for the future of Chicago public transportation.
- Bookmarked 5 months ago
- Tech | Inkling: Wacom Digital Sketch Pen
- The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.
In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats.
- Bookmarked 5 months, 1 week ago
- Adler Planetarium Completes 64MP 30FPS Digital Projector
- The Adler Planetarium has finished a major two-year upgrade project that's replaced the facility's forty year-old Zeiss Mark VI projector with a "Digital Starball" system designed by Global Immersion Ltd. The new digital system is powered by an array of Nvdia Quadro GPUs and was designed to provide an update that could power the planetarium's star attractions for years to come.
- Bookmarked 6 months, 3 weeks ago
- VIDEO | Sonar - Visualizing a Melody
- Artist Renaud Hallée's animated exploration of of music.
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- NY Times | Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
- EARLY one morning, 50 years ago today, while his wife, Mary, slept upstairs, Ernest Hemingway went into the vestibule of his Ketchum, Idaho, house, selected his favorite shotgun from the rack, inserted shells into its chambers and ended his life.There were many differing explanations at the time: that he had terminal cancer or money problems, that it was an accident, that he’d quarreled with Mary. None were true. As his friends knew, he’d been suffering from depression and paranoia for the last year of his life.
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- Animation | The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
- Alexander Petrov's take on Hemingway's tale is beautifully rendered, with hand painted glass, 6+ years of work. (requires DIVX)
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- Interactive Map | Ghost signs in Chicago
- A site featuring images of ghost signs from around Chicago, circa 2003. Based on an ongoing survey and thesis research conducted by MS in historic preservation candidate, Nicole Donohoe. Updated regularly.
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- Tech | Lytro's Revolutionary Light Field Camera
- Shoot first, focus after? This new camera tech captures the entire scene, then let's you adjust focus in post production.
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- Infographic | The History of Sci-Fi
- Artist Ward Shelley has produced another fine hand-drawn flowchart that will blow your mind: This time, it's dedicated to the 2,500 years of intellectual history that have produced the modern sci-fi genre.
- Bookmarked 7 months, 2 weeks ago
- VIDEO | RSA Animate - Choice & Social Change
- Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?
- Bookmarked 7 months, 2 weeks ago
- Exploring the architecture in Edward Hopper's paintings
- Slideshow exploring the painter's buildings, from his famous diner to his cottage on Cape Cod.
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- Radiolab | Podcasts on Science, Philosophy, Art
- Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow. Bring your curiosity, and we'll feed it with possibility.
- Bookmarked 8 months ago
- The Best Hard Science Fiction Books of all Time
- MIT Tech Review lists the books grounded in the cutting edge of science and technology (albeit with varying degrees of artistic license), most cited by scientists and engineers as the inspiration for embarking on particular projects, or indeed, entire careers.
- Bookmarked 8 months ago
- Video | Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera
- Walt Disney explains his invention. Probably the most advanced tool ever made in the field of animation. (At least until the computer was made.)
- Bookmarked 8 months, 1 week ago
- MIT Tech Review | Making 3-D Models From Your Photos
- Free software allows you to create an object in detailed 3D using photos taken from different angles.
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