Links, 2010: Planck Studios Chicago Prints and Photos

Planck Studios Links from 2010

The Life and Work of Street Photographer Vivian Maier
A LIFE IN SHADOW: The North Shore families who hired Vivian Maier as a nanny came to know a kind but eccentric woman who guarded her private life and kept a huge stash of boxes. A chance discovery after her death by a man named John Maloof has spotlighted her secret talent as a photographer and led to a growing appreciation of her vast work.
Bookmarked December 2010
VIDEO | Don McCullin - War Photographer
War photographer Don McCullin walks through his contact sheets and recounts his adventures as a photographer in some of the most war torn settings of the 20th century.
Bookmarked December 2010
Destroyed Apple Products As Art
A statement on "our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage", Michael Tompert, a San Francisco-area digital imaging and CGI artist, bought a series of brand-new Apple gadgets with the express intent of destroying them and photographing the results.
Bookmarked December 2010
Multicolr Search Lab for Flickr
Flickr tool that lets you search Creative Commons images by color.
Bookmarked November 2010
Notes on the construction of an orrery
Handmade clockwork model of the solar system. Bronze, steel and porcelain construction. It illustrates the relative positions and motions of the 6 innermost planets + the moon through a complex series of gearing.
Bookmarked November 2010
Alien 3: The Lost Tale Of The Wooden Planet
EMPIRE investigates Vincent Ward's Alien movie that never was...
Bookmarked October 2010
Cloudscapes by Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo
Climate engineering a gallery to let visitors experience a cloud from below, within, and above as they climb up 4.3 meter high helical ramp erected in the center of the room. The cloud is based on the physical phenomenon of saturated air, condensation droplets floating in the space and condensation seeds. The atmospheres above and below the cloud have different qualities of light, temperature, and humidity, separating the spaces by a filter effect. The cloud can be touched, and it can be felt as different microclimatic conditions coincide.
Bookmarked October 2010
'How to Have an Idea' by Frank Chimero
or 'How Not to be a Dumb Ass Super Computer'
Bookmarked October 2010
Future Video Tattoos: Flexible LEDs for implanting under skin
Researchers in the US, China, Korea and Singapore have collaborated to develop flexible ultra-thin sheets of inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors for implantation under the skin for medical monitoring, activating photo-sensitive drugs, and other biomedical applications.
Bookmarked October 2010
Video | Pink Floyd: Live at Pompei
Pink Floyd performing live in an empty amphitheater in Pompei (1972).
Bookmarked October 2010
Artist | Julia Lynn Haw
A Chicago based painter/drawing collagist and critic with pieces that are are looming, mysterious and very large.
Bookmarked October 2010
Painting | Wacker Drive by Lee Freppon
Wacker Drive (2006) | 48 x 60 inches | $35,000
Bookmarked October 2010
Experiment | 30 Second Reality Warp
Look at the center of the animation for 30 seconds, then look away.
Bookmarked October 2010
VIDEO | 3 Years At The Same Place
3 year time lapse video from Paris, France documenting the destruction of the old EDF building and construction of the new Sequana center.
Bookmarked October 2010
Microcosmos | Images from Electron Scanning Micrographs
Some subjects have been magnified by as much as 22 million times. Microcosmos takes readers into a secret world of extreme close-ups. Compiled by London-based science author Brandon Broll, Microcosmos takes a piercing look at the everyday in six sections including Zoology, The Human Body and Botanics.
Bookmarked October 2010
Jonathan Michael Johnson | Art Loop Open
Vote for 124 W. Polk | Dusk Re-Construct series: Captured within a toy camera, the film was heavily edited, repairing light leaks, distortions, color casts, haze and a host of other anomalies. Imposing my idealized, artificial will produces a spooky version of reality - a serene blend of synthetics and lo-fidelity.
Bookmarked October 2010
Video: ENVISION 3D Projections
An experience-based video mapping developed by the agency and the Department SUPERBIEN New Media Agency \ Audience. The public was invited into a cube and discover an artistic vision for the tagline of the event: Transforming the mobile experience.
Bookmarked October 2010
Digital Journal of Photography
Photography news, views and digital camera reviews. Edited by Kevin Carter
Bookmarked September 2010
Gene limits learning & memory in mice
Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.
Bookmarked September 2010
VIDEO | 3D Light Painting
Using photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad, in dark environments, Dentsu London plays movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3D light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.
Bookmarked September 2010
Black Magic Photo Emulsion - Usage Instructions
Step by step instructions for creating photographic images on a variety of surfaces w/ Rollei's Black Magic photo emulsion.
Bookmarked September 2010
MP4 | Garry Winogrand speaking at MIT in 1974
This artist talk included a slide presentation followed by a question and answer session. The audio recording has been edited to focus only on the question and answer period.
Bookmarked September 2010
Equinox Gallery Vancouver - Works by Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog is a photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. His work focuses primarily on "ordinary" people, the working class, and their connections to the city around them. He worked primarily with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as an artist in the 1950s and 60s when most work was in Black and White. However, he has been increasingly recognized in recent decades. His work has appeared in numerous books, and various galleries, including the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Bookmarked September 2010
VIDEO - Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones. The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.
Bookmarked August 2010
VIDEO: Tamra Davis captures Basquiat
THE RADIANT CHILD: Today we take it for granted when seeing graffiti art in a posh gallery, but arguably the first artist to channel the urban street frequencies of his time and get it onto the "white walls with white people with white wine" was Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Bookmarked August 2010
artist ROBERT GUINAN painter
Born in Watertown, New York in 1934, Guinan started painting at an early age. His discovery of Toulouse-Lautrec led to a lifelong fascination with street scenes and night life, with musicians, prostitutes and bar patrons. He served in the Air Force between 1953 and 1957, stationed much of the time in Libya and Turkey, where he began sketching the locals. In 1959 he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. He fell in love with the city and made it not only his home, but the subject of his work. In 1968, along with Ed Paschke and a handful of other local artists, he showcased his paintings in the “Nonplussed Some” exhibition, the third of seven events which would comprise the Chicago Imagists movement.
Bookmarked August 2010
Featured Instructor | After School Matters
After School Matters is a non-profit organization that offers Chicago high school teens innovative out-of-school activities through science37, sports37, tech37, words37 and the nationally recognized gallery37 programs.
Bookmarked August 2010
Video: ‘The Basics of Awesome Design’ | Fringe Focus
Rob Loukotka, graphic & web designer in Chicago, IL was contacted by a local college prep school to give some design tips to their students. The students were in an after school club that produces an annual creative magazine (full of poetry, short stories, and art).
Bookmarked July 2010
Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves : NPR
In the shadowy corners of the shortwave radio spectrum, you can often find mysterious mechanical voices counting off endless strings of numbers — in English, Czech, Russian and German … even Morse code. But who's listening? The voices are coming from what are known as "numbers stations," and they've long been thought to be part of international espionage operations. In fact, the Russian spies recently captured here in the U.S. may have been getting orders from Moscow via a shortwave numbers station.
Bookmarked July 2010
Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: What I Do
From time to time, people ask me for an inventory of the tools and systems I use to get my work done. As a hard-traveling, working writer, I spend a lot of time tinkering with my tools and systems. At the risk of descending into self-indulgence (every columnist’s occasional privilege), I’m going to try to create a brief inventory, along with a wish/to-do list for the next round.
Bookmarked July 2010
App Inventor for Android
Google is now offering its users a simple-to-use DIY app maker. Employing a design scheme that relies on visual blocks rather than oodles of arcane code, the App Inventor -- still in Beta, of course -- has functions for "just about anything" you can do with an Android handset, including access to GPS and phone functionality.
Bookmarked July 2010
Humanized > Enso
Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
Bookmarked July 2010
Paul Octavious - Artist - Chicago
photographer and storyteller
Bookmarked July 2010
"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto: CTBTO Preparatory Commission
An animation of worldwide nuclear explosions from 1945 - 1998. "This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."
Bookmarked July 2010
Holga D - Holga Digtal Camera Concept
Designed by Saikat Biswas, Industrial designers from India
Bookmarked July 2010
Mamiya C330 | User Instructions
The Mamiya C330 is a traditional film twin-lens reflex camera introduced in the 1970s for the professional and advanced amateur photography markets. This model was 340 grams lighter than the previous model C33, which weighed 2040 grams (with 80 mm lens). The later C330f is an improvement on the C330 and was succeeded by the C330S with further improvements.
Bookmarked July 2010
BASH on Wabash 2010 | Greater South Loop Association
The South Loop's premier outdoor event marks its sixth year by celebrating the cultural diversity of Chicago's fastest growing community this Labor Day weekend. THE BASH ON WABASH 2010-Sweet Corn Chicago, located in the heart of the South Loop on Wabash Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Place. THE BASH ON WABASH 2010 promises to be an unforgettable experience.
Bookmarked June 2010
Art & Science | Café des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques
Monthly talks broadcast via webcam from France (English translated text). Subjects from across the art/science spectrum: 3d printing, cyber art, maglev art, biological development art, art and music, art and light.
Bookmarked June 2010
Phantom Gallery Chicago Network
The Phantom Galleries are temporary exhibitions spaces that matches artist-seeking places to display their work in non traditional gallery settings.
Bookmarked June 2010
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
VisualComplexity.com is a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.
Bookmarked June 2010
First replicating creature spawned in life simulator | New Scientist
The organism, which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life, might just tell us something about our own beginnings.
Bookmarked June 2010
VIDEO | 3D Motion Projections on Buildings
NuFormer is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in outdoor advertising of a very peculiar sort — done on the faces of buildings. Real buildings are mapped and modeled in 3D, and then animations are created using those models and projected back onto the building. The result is incredibly lifelike — it nearly fools the eye — and whoever designs these animations does an amazing job of taking advantage the buildings’ nooks and crannies to make things look like they’re really happening in 3D space. I guess this has been around for the better part of a year, but I’m just hearing about it now — so I’ll bet it’s new to some of you as well.
Bookmarked May 2010
John S. Flizikowski - Architect | Wikipedia
b. 1968 Chicago architect of residential, church and commercial buildings during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Index to the American Contractor's Chicago Building Permit Column, 1898-1912, maintained on the website of The Chicago Historical Society, lists 197 addresses where building permits were issued with John Flizikowski as architect.
Bookmarked May 2010
Mt Wilson Observatory | Visitors Guide
The most scientifically productive astronomical observatory in history, this was the preeminent facility in the world in both stellar and solar studies during the first half of the twentieth century. Modern instrumentation has enabled both the original superb telescopes and more-recently-built facilities here to continue Mount Wilson’s pioneering heritage in new fields of study.
Bookmarked May 2010
Image | The Electromagnetic Spectrum
The human eye can only grasp a tiny section of what's out there...This color coded chart diagrams all the known frequencies (at the time) of the electromagnet spectrum, including the range of the human eye to gamma rays to the transparency of quartz..
Bookmarked May 2010
Apartment Gallery Update | Chicago Art Magazine
Rules, codes and laws for a legal apartment gallery. In light of the confusion surrounding the legality of apartment galleries, I finally just called the Business Affairs Office and asked. Many people have said they that are confused with exactly what is needed if anything at all.
Bookmarked May 2010
VIDEO | Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010
Sean Stiegemeier - Motorized dolly time lapse of the eruption in Iceland www.in-perfidia.com
Bookmarked May 2010
Breed - 3D Printing w/ Artificial Evolution
Breed is a computer program that uses artificial evolution to grow very detailed sculptures. The purpose of each growth is to generate by cell division from a single cell a detailed form that can be materialized. On the basis of selection and mutation a code is gradually developed that best fulfills this "fitness" criterion and thus yields a workable form. The designs were initially made in plywood. Currently the objects can be made in nylon and in stainless steel by using 3D printing techniques. This automates the whole process from design to execution: the industrial production of unique artifacts.
Bookmarked May 2010
9 Years of Sleep - PhobosLab
For the last ten years or so, I used to turn on my PC when I came home from school or work and shut it down again right before I went to bed. So most of the time when my PC is running, I'm awake. I've also been idling in IRC for as long as I had Internet – when my PC is running, so is my IRC client.
Bookmarked May 2010
What's your favorite software that no one else knows about?
AskReddit | Is there some piece of software that makes your life better that you wish everyone else knew about?
Bookmarked April 2010
Gareth Bate | Contemporary Canadian Artist | Biography
Gareth Bate is an emerging artist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He works in painting, installation, photography, video, performance, and online. The relationships between people and the environment, culture and nature, and a search for personal meaning are principle themes in Gareth's work. It addresses the spiritual in a naturalistic world view. His approach is intuitive, and emotionally driven with a strong interest in experimenting with materials. There is often a profound sense of longing.
Bookmarked April 2010
The Day Einstein Died - Photo Gallery - LIFE MAGAZINE
Albert Einstein, the genius physicist whose theories changed our ideas of how the universe works, died 55 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine's Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch -- to open doors and loosen tongues -- Morse compiled a quietly intense record of an icon's passing. But aside from one now-famous image (above), the pictures Morse took that day were never published. At the request of Einstein's son, who asked that the family's privacy be respected while they mourned, LIFE decided not to run the full story, and for 55 years Morse's photographs lay unseen and forgotten.
Bookmarked April 2010
Android 2.0 Drawables | Library
Android supports bitmap resource files in a few different formats: png (preferred), jpg (acceptable), gif (discouraged). The bitmap file itself is compiled and referenced by the file name without the extension (so res/drawable/my_picture.png would be referenced as R.drawable.my_picture). A Drawable is a type of resource that you retrieve with Resources.getDrawable() and use to draw to the screen. There are a number of drawable resources that can be created.
Bookmarked April 2010
Urban fabric/form comparison • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
The comparisons expose the inherent problems of scale in trying to evolve any suburban, auto-oriented area into a more pedestrian-oriented centre. The traditional response in suburbia has been to internalize pedestrian areas (in the form of the mall), Square One (home to the largest Walmart in the world) being a particularly powerful example, though Scarborough Town Centre might be the more classic one. The size of Square One’s block makes a very interesting comparison with Copenhagen’s city centre (2nd below) in which a series of streets and spaces have been linked together and pedestrianized (view a map of the pedestrian areas of Copenhagen from Metropolis magazine). In size or length of pedestrian space, the two might even be close, but in overall character and degree of integration into the urban fabric (particularly important for pedestrians) they are from wholly different worlds and you can easily trace much of these differences to the scale of the street fabric.
Bookmarked April 2010
George Zimbel | A Freelance Photographer vs The New York Times
Many media companies are often at odds with freelance writers and photographers over who owns the words and images once they have appeared in print. What follows is an exchange of letters about a single picture. It was triggered by an e-mail from the photographer, George S. Zimbel, to Barbara Cox of Photokunst, a consulting firm for both individual photographers and archives, including The New York Times archives. Who owns this picture? George S. Zimbel -- not The New York Times. © George S Zimbel. This piece originally appeared in the May/June 2001 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. Many media companies are often at odds with freelance writers and photographers over who owns the words and images once they have appeared in print.
Bookmarked April 2010
Your Sky | Interactive Planetarium
You can produce maps in the forms described below for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. If you enter the orbital elements of an asteroid or comet, Your Sky will compute its current position and plot it on the map. Each map is accompanied by an ephemeris for the Sun, Moon, planets, and any tracked asteroid or comet. A control panel permits customisation of which objects are plotted, limiting magnitudes, colour scheme, image size, and other parameters; each control is linked to its description in the help file.
Bookmarked April 2010
VIDEO | What NASA Means to America's Future
Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke at the University at Buffalo and answered a student's question about federal cutbacks to NASA funding.
Bookmarked April 2010
Nivo Slider - The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider
Simple and easily configurable content slider in jQuery: 9 unique transition effects, simple clean & valid markup, loads of settings to tweak, built in directional and control navigation, packed version only weighs 6kb, supports linking images, free to use and abuse under the MIT license
Bookmarked April 2010
Icon Design Guidelines, Android 2.0 | Android Developers
Android is designed to run on a variety of devices that offer a range of screen sizes and resolutions. When you design the icons for your application, it's important keep in mind that your application may be installed on any of those devices. As described in the Supporting Multiple Screens document, the Android platform makes it straightforward for you to provide icons in such a way that they will be displayed properly on any device, regardless of the device's screen size or resolution.
Bookmarked April 2010
User Interface Guidelines | Android Developers
The Android UI team has begun developing guidelines for the interaction and visual design of Android applications. Look here for articles that describe these guidelines as we release them.
Bookmarked April 2010
Android App: Scroid - Project Hosting on Google Code
Scroid (standing for Screen Android) is a wallpaper application for the Android platform. It consumes a REST based webservice which also will be released as open source in a different project.
Bookmarked April 2010
Trial & Error Development - The Ascender
Nate Ball, mechanical engineer, MIT grad, and co-founder of Atlas Devices, just might be the masked crusader. As a student at MIT, Nate entered a student design competition for product designs that would help soldiers survive in the battlefield. His group's idea was to create a Batman-like device called The Ascender that would enable soldiers to scale ropes at high speeds simply by pushing a trigger. After months of designing and testing in the lab, the team was ready to see The Ascender in action. One night at 4 AM, they took it to a stairwell on campus, and tied 8 water jugs to a rope and the device. At ten feet per second, the jugs shot toward the ceiling, until the fixture broke and the whole thing came crashing down. Nate had never been happier to see something fail -- he happily spent the rest of the night working to perfect his creation.
Bookmarked April 2010
Titanium 'leaves' could unlock hydrogen power | MNN - Mother Nature Network
The Artificial Inorganic Leaf (AIL) may unlock the secrets to producing cheap, clean hydrogen by mimicking the photosynthetic structure of the leaf.
Bookmarked March 2010
Paul Frank - Art Attack Contest
Art Attack is an original artwork challenge presented nationally by Paul Frank Industries (PFI) that will occur throughout this year with a HUGE grand prize for one lucky enterprising artist! All types of artists are called to action in this unique, creative contest. No matter the medium, everyone has a chance to showcase his or her skill. (photography, painting, mixed media, drawing, sculpture, illustration, collage, craft). Paul Frank Industries will award the winning artist with the following: twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) toward art supplies, a full page ad showcasing the winner's final Paul Frank designed piece in Juxtapoz magazine and THEME magazine and other goodies!
Bookmarked March 2010
Chicago Android - mobile platform think-tank and development team
Group of entrepreneurs and developers specializing in creating Android (as well as tablet, iPhone, Blackberry) applications.
Bookmarked March 2010
Fearless to the end: Margaret Moth
The longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59. Moth sought out, even demanded, assignments in conflict zones. She barely survived being shot in the face in Sarajevo in 1992, only to go back as soon as she was physically able. The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C she contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles she moved around.
Bookmarked March 2010
Android Developer Challenge Winners
Google's Android Developer Challenge: providing awards for great mobile apps built on the Android platform
Bookmarked March 2010
ILFORD HP5 400 Plus [development times table]
BW Film development times across a variety of developers.
Bookmarked March 2010
Atlas Tool & Die Works
Precision cutting and die making services in Lyons, IL.
Bookmarked March 2010
Moore-Addison | Non-Metalilic Fabrication
Machining and Fabrication of non-metallics/laminates/plastics since 1953 in Addison IL.
Bookmarked March 2010
Circle Gear and Machine Company - Spiral Bevel Gears
Bookmarked March 2010
Kodak Film Number to Film Type Cross Reference Table — Tom Philo Photography
What those numbers or letters along the side of the film mean. I take photographs using all types of film. And when when I turn in a mixed collection of film types for processing unless I take great care in marking the film packages when I get them back from the processor what type of film is in which package is unknown. This can be a problem when you need to know what type of film was used to do a correct print. To solve this problem I went to Kodak's web site and tried to find out what what the number printed on the film meant. I searched their site and found only three (single) references. So then I wrote Kodak an e-mail from their site asking them if there was a film cross reference table on their web site. They answered back "no" but sent me four sheets (8 pages) showing the film cross-references. The data sheets were dated May 1993. I then scanned them in saving it as text using my HP scanner.
Bookmarked March 2010
How to Install Track Lights - DIY
Track lighting offers plenty of options. You can install the track in various configurations. Lamps, available in many styles, can go anywhere on the track and point in any direction. You can mix types of lights, some for general illumination and others to highlight work areas or spotlight art.
Bookmarked March 2010
2010 SXSW Showcase Artist Torrent
Over 1000 MP3s new music from the 2010 SXSW Festival in Austin TX
Bookmarked March 2010
Pop-Sci Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free
Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements.
Bookmarked March 2010
Embed video in HTML with <video> tag
HTML5 video tags make embedding videos into documents as easy as embedding an image. All it takes is a single <video> tag. Unfortunately, not all browsers natively support HTML5 video tags.
Bookmarked March 2010
Stephen Szoradi - MOCP
In his Full Circle series, Stephen Szoradi departs from the linear progression of his traditional documentary-style portraits of steel workers, in an attempt to capture the cyclical nature of his current subject, the City of Chicago water system. Silver-gelatin prints meditate on the stages of refinement that create a product and later restore it to be used again. The pictures themselves build in complexity and then seem to break down, moving from the sparseness of a single drain in an unfinished concrete room to a labyrinth of sharply angled waterways. Diptych and triptych formats reinforce themes of repetition and inter-connectedness, sometimes by creating a union from multiple parts or emphasizing the structural similarity between panels, sometimes by playing with the notion of sequence and progression inherent in adjacent frames while nonetheless showing a single time and place.
Bookmarked March 2010
Android Developers Blog: Live wallpapers
With the introduction of live wallpapers in Android 2.1, users can now enjoy richer, animated, interactive backgrounds on their home screen. A live wallpaper is very similar to a normal Android application and has access to all the facilities of the platform: SGL (2D drawing), OpenGL (3D drawing), GPS, accelerometers, network access, etc. The live wallpapers included on Nexus One demonstrate the use of some of these APIs to create fun and interesting user experiences. For instance, the Grass wallpaper uses the phone's location to compute sunrise and sunset times in order to display the appropriate sky.
Bookmarked February 2010
DIMA 2010 Digital Printer Winners
The winners of the 2010 DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out were announced today at the PMA International Convention and Trade Show in Anaheim, Calif. Winners displayed during PMA 2010 were chosen from 63 prints entered by 18 companies. Qualitative criteria also judged included neutral gray balance reproduction, saturation, shadow depth and quality, overall tonality and detail, highlights and specular highlights, flesh tones, hue shift, and text.
Bookmarked February 2010
Polielettronica - Laser Lab 127 (Digital Laser Printer)
Bookmarked February 2010
Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online
Listen to any song in the world for free. Create free internet radio stations. Search for free mp3's to stream.
Bookmarked February 2010
VIDEOS | James Burke's Connections
40 episodes of the TV series which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "connections" between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a "1+1=3" type of way.
Bookmarked February 2010
Beautiful colorimeter lets you take snapshots of smells
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a way to compare aromas visually using specially developed inks.
Bookmarked February 2010
Old Record Store, New Gallery - BlackBook
“It started last year in response to the economic downturn,” says Manom Slome, cofounder of No Longer Empty, a cooperative formed to stage site-specific exhibitions in vacant commercial spaces. “Walking on Madison one day, we counted about 15 empty storefronts,” Slome recalls.
Bookmarked February 2010
Tweetizen - discover tweets that matter to you
Tweetizen uses hashtags to help you filter tweets, and easily find the ones that are relevant. Tweetizen is a product of Pallian Creative. Spearheaded by Adarsh Pallian.
Bookmarked February 2010
Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing app (HTML5)
Sketchpad is an online drawing application -- written in <canvas>.
Bookmarked February 2010
VIDEO - Leveraging Technology to Better Society
FORA.tv - Some of the same technologies, such as cloud computing and semantic search, that make the most popular social networking applications possible are now being applied to development, education and healthcare delivery.How can these readily available technologies be best leveraged to address complex issues?
Bookmarked February 2010
Video - San Francisco Before the Fire in 1905
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire in 1905. San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed ...
Bookmarked February 2010
The Impossible Project - MB Interview
In June of 2008, Polaroid shuttered its SX-90 instant film manufacturing facility in Enschede, Netherlands, citing the global shift toward digital technology. Of course. Almost immediately after, Austrian entrepreneur Florian Kaps teamed up with Dutch scientist and 28-year Polaroid employee, Andre Bosman, to rescue the factory and its instant film manufacturing equipment. Setting themselves a one year goal, they set out to re-engineer Polaroid's legendary and complex film. And look at that analog watch: time's up! Motherboard recently exchanged some words with both Kaps and Bosman to see how things are developing in advance of their February re-launch of instant analog film.
Bookmarked January 2010
Herb & Dorothy - a film by Megumi Sasaki
You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.
Bookmarked January 2010
Video | The River They Saw
Documentary on landscape photographer Carleton E Watkins and his albumen prints from 18" x 22" glass plate negatives.
Bookmarked January 2010
Golden ratio discovered in quantum world
Hidden symmetry observed for the first time in solid state matter. Researchers have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. They have measured the signatures of a symmetry showing the same attributes as the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.
Bookmarked January 2010
PETG Properties & Performance Data
Properties and performance related to: thermal stability, weathering, chemical resistance, cleaning, cutting, polishing, drilling thermoforming, bending, decoration
Bookmarked January 2010
Plastics Properties Table
Need to compare two or more plastic materials? Then, use our interactive properties table. Curbell's properties table allows you to compare the properties between various plastic materials.
Bookmarked January 2010
PETG Specification Sheet (PDF)
PETG (amorphous copolyester) is a transparent thermoplastic sheet material with outstanding thermoformability and good impact resistance. PETG is an excellent choice for applications that require durability, deep draw thermoforming, and clarity. SPECTAR® / VIVAK®
Bookmarked January 2010
Hoberman Associates - Transformable Design
Hoberman Associates is a multidisciplinary practice that specializes in transformable design — the development of products, structures, and environments that change their size and shape. We believe that a world undergoing accelerating change needs an adaptive, interactive approach to design. Whether that means inventing a rapidly deployable shelter, collaborating with architects to develop next-generation adaptive buildings, or re-defining portability for children's products, our clients seek us out to shape change — and inspire it.
Bookmarked January 2010
Strange Geoglyphs Discovered Beneath Clearcut Amazon
The geoglyphs are believed to have been sculpted by ancient people from the Amazon region around 700 years ago, though their purpose is still unknown. So far, nearly 300 geoglyphs have been identified, but with advances in satellite imaging--and increased clearing of the jungle coverage--scientists are hoping to discover many more of these strange, geometric designs. With the aid of satellite imagery from Google Earth, soon archeologists in Brazil will be finding more and more large geometric designs carved into the ground in the Amazon rainforest.
Bookmarked January 2010