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I have recently put my toes in the Twitter water, where all the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet. Up to now, I have dismissed Twitter, Facebook and the rest as social media, froth and triviality for the young - and the not so young, mid-thirties to early forties, uneasily aware that youth is vanishing, but hoping to maintain a foothold in popular culture: these days, popular culture is overwhelmingly youth culture. (That wasn't always so.)
I attended an event (the organisers don't like it being described as a conference or a seminar) called PICamp in Edinburgh last Saturday, mounted by Paul Evans and Mick Fealty of Political Innovations. Political Innovations is linked to the highly influential Irish blog Slugger O'Toole. Its focus was on the use of new media in political campaigning, and it was a paradigm-shifting day for me, and judging by the excitement and buzz on the internet thereafter, for many others too.
The experience of a room full of people with netbooks, iPhones and iPads tweeting away, and the sudden, shocking appearance of the tweets on two huge projection screens from the venue broadband service gave me – and not a few of the tweeters - a real jolt. Whatever the trivialities of the medium in total, this astonishing potential for mass communication was one I could not afford to ignore. Nor could any political party. It was the Obama campaign lesson brought suddenly and startlingly to life, and I and many others are grateful to PICamp for the experience.
I include in new media blogging, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Facebook I have personally stayed clear of, and will continue to do so. PICamp also steered clear of YouTube – I don't know quite why …
A week and a bit on, the stars have gone out of my eyes, and more considered judgments can be made. But I am now firmly and permanently in the Twitter water, tweeting away, sometimes with purpose and sometimes as vacuously as the others. The incredible speed of response to events and the nature of the interaction still astonishes me.
Starting out as an attempt to simply record one's mundane activities, this has metamorphosed into, amongst other things, an alternative political and social journalism and news reporting. What was the tipping point? Maybe the Baghdad Blogger– who knows?
The driving forces behind political blogging are many, but for a Scottish National Party supporter, they are a vital response to a biased and hostile media. You can't be accused of paranoia if you support Scotland's independence – just about everybody - the unionists, the Establishment, the Government, the London-based parties and the media - really is out to get you, to silence or neutralise your voice and your views.
If you are a professional salaried journalist or freelance (I am neither) then your livelihood is under threat unless you mute your voice and views to the point of inaudibility. There is no balance, no equity, no fairness.
Not the least of the problem for political bloggers is the attitude of their own party to blogging. Obviously, a political party want to control the message emanating from their supporters, insofar as is consistent with freedom of speech: the response of political parties is always guarded, and is characterised by caution – as well it might be after damaging scandals like the storms that blew up over The Universality of Cheese blog, and the Damien Green affair.
Endorsing a blog is a bridge too far for most mainstream parties, but caution can be taken too far. I can only speak for my own experience. I had a moderate volume of private correspondence from MPs, MSPs and others in both the Scottish and Westminster governments before the 'Cheese' debacle: after it, communication virtually closed down completely. I had never breached a confidence, never reproduced a privileged comment, never claimed an insider's view even when I sometimes had one – but no matter: there was a great silence, one that has only relaxed a little of late.
And other things have changed in the world of media and politics. From failing to understand the new media to deriding it, politicians and the old media have now embraced it, sometimes as incautiously and with much the same effects that they criticised the early blogger for causing.
The results initially ranged from the embarrassing to the damaging, but old and new media have settled down to a guarded, but so far peaceful co-existence. Professional journalists can be a bit patronising and dismissive, and freelances perhaps see a competitor in a tight market, but by and large, old and new rub along together fairly well. Twitter and YouTube are perhaps better examples of this than blogging because they are truly new media – different species - whereas blogging is simply a kind of print journalism.
Some bloggers, e.g. Iain Dale have almost become part of the media mainstream, and get invited on to political programmes as guest commentators, sitting side by side with professional pundits and politicians. Slugger O'Toole occupies a similar position in Ireland. The dangers of the clammy embrace of the media and political establishment have so far been evident to such bloggers, and they have not become emasculated or suffocated by it – yet.
There is another, less obvious tendency beginning to emerge – the favour and endorsement being extended by the politicians, the traditional media -and some of the more powerful bloggers - to blogs that are essentially trivial and unthreatening to them. No examples that I want to quote, but I'm keeping my beady eye on this little trend.
I was initially cautious about the copyright aspects of YouTube, but I got into the water, clipping news items and comment that seemed relevant to me.
I wanted to -
1. Capture items and clips that I felt would have only a limited life in the maelstrom of 24 hour news coverage
2 Offer my perceptions of the item, and comment
and finally
3 Use them to enhance text material on my blog (a picture worth a 1000 words, a moving picture with words, 10,000 words?)
My rationale in face of the copyright issue was – and is – as follows -
My clips are just that – clips from a longer broadcast. They are selective, and do not try to supplant BBC iPlayer and other channel replay facilities. I believe them to be in the category of fair quotation, and that they supplement the intention of the broadcaster to inform, and where the intention of the broadcaster is hostile to my beliefs, to counter with an alternative viewpoint. I believe that this facility should be available to all, including those with viewpoints I disagree with, providing they do not advocate violence of illegal means, or are deliberately abusive or obscene.
I do not believe in megaphone/PA political and media uni-directional comment and news – I believe in participative democracy and free comment within the law – a vital dialogue between professional broadcasters, politicians and the electorate. The new media have dramatically opened up that potential across the globe, and the consternation and attempts to suppress the new media emanating from totalitarian regimes everywhere - including those masquerading as democracies - demonstrate fully why the new media are vital.
If someone is going to shout at me through a bullhorn, I am going to shout right back at them.
If any broadcaster object to my clips and regards them as a breach of copyright and artistic and professional creativity, let them tell me, and I will immediately take the offending clip down. If however this begins to look like an attempt to muzzle free expression, then I will seek financial help to legally challenge undue censorship or influence.
I also decided that I would reject Google regular offers to let me profit from my videos – by carrying advertising - on the rare occasions when they began to hit higher numbers. Since they were not my work, but someone else's work, this would have been wrong.
Twitter, until recently had been something I avoided, believing it to be trivial, ephemeral froth – adolescent texting for immature adults – with no potential for serious comment or serious political campaigning. Thanks largely to the PICamp epiphany mentioned at the start of this piece, I realised that I was utterly wrong in that assessment.
Twitter is all of these things, trivial, ephemeral, frothy – but it is also, today, a deeply serious, and potentially hugely effective medium of communication.
Politicians – and democrats – ignore it at their peril.
I just hadn't understood Twitter, and had dismissed it because I just didn't know how it worked. For the uninitiated, who are many, probably a majority of the population, let me offer my Twitter newbie analysis.
First insight – you don't have to read all the crap.
You decide who you are going to follow – only those tweets will then come up. You build your follow list gradually, partly from your own searches, partly from obvious media links (every major media outlet tweets and most significant media commentators, e.g. Jon Snow), and partly from Twitter offering you recommendations to consider, based on your initial follow patterns – rather like Amazon builds a preference profile from your online purchases.
If you don't like the tone, style or content of some of your initial follow choices, then unfollow, i.e take them off your list.
Your tweets (messages) are limited to 140 characters, including punctuation and spaces. This imposes a tight editorial discipline, one which I found valuable.
If you tweet and have second thoughts, you can delete the tweet swiftly and easily. You can direct your tweet to another tweeter or to the world at large. You can tweet from your blog, your mobile phone, etc.
If you have an extended message you can continue it over a couple of tweets, but I wouldn't recommend going much beyond that – the sanctions are swift, and with no appeal – people will unfollow you, i.e. stop listening to you.
As you attract followers – those who want to listen to you – you get an idea of how you are being received. Remember, your political opponents will follow you, and you should follow selected political opponents. There's no use preaching to the converted, but at all event, you must know your enemy.
You have total control over what you tweet, what you read, and who you share ideas with.
New media is all about links and linkages – these are multifarious and can be confusing, but you will only learn by doing.
If you have something to say, you can't ignore this medium.
If you only want to hear what others are saying, you still can't ignore it.
A cursory look at the people and organisations who consider it essential will tell you all you need to know about the power of Twitter.
YouTube is very different medium – you can consume the medium- i.e. watch – very easily, but if you want to communicate, you need some technical facility to produce your own videos. But you can also share – by email, texting, etc. the URL links to YouTube videos with others, and you can often embed them in your blog, if you have one, using the embed code provided. You can clip TV programmes or other media providing both you and YouTube are OK about any possible copyright breaches.
You can add quite extended comments to your videos and insert search terms. The title of your YouTube video will have a major – perhaps the major – impact on your hits – the number of times it is viewed.
You can allow, pre-moderate or bar comments. You can allow or bar embedding of your video. You have control.
There is a series of generational – or half generation – gaps on Twitter, or at least in the sector – if that is the right word – that I have elected to explore. Politically, I would identify a number of age bands roughly bounded by the half generation of about 9 to 15 years . Professional psephologists will have more complex and more arcane definitions. For me, the cultural aspects are inextricably linked, in the new media at least, with the political dimension.
Age band One I would define as early adolescence to early maturity – say 14 years of age to 23 years of age, from secondary education through higher education, college, university, etc. This might be described as the years of emerging political, social and cultural consciousness; eligibility to vote at 18, and early entry to a career or vocation. (Since I am neither sociologist, nor psephologist nor anthropologist, please regard this as a highly personal, and doubtless flawed perception and analysis.)
Age band Two I see as 24 to around 40 years of age – the early maturity years of intellectual development, increasing political sophistication, and of the development of cultural and musical taste (if they develop at all: some stand still for ever, tastes frozen in time). The end of this phase is usually the beginning of what will be a growing awareness of mortality, which generates its own anxieties and pressures, a crisis of values, of ambition, and often a desperate wish to cling on to youth.
Age band Three, in my perception, is 40 plus to 55 years of age. This is either the age of opting out - of simply settling into the rut of career autopilot, political cynicism, with the focus moving away from social consciousness, wider political and cultural awareness, into the purely local and personal – or it becomes the age of new vision, new energies and new directions. Regrettably, many seem to die politically and culturally at some point during this phase. The illusion of youth cannot be maintained, and cultural and musical tastes and political awareness either ossify, or continue to develop; if the latter, then they are likely to continue to do so indefinitely.
Age band Four, 56 to around 6o/65, can be the age of consolidation, but often of peak career and life pressures – economic, family, health – and the lead-in to retirement. The world is perceived with greater clarity, but that clarity of vision often reveals aspects of the human condition that had previously been invisible, and this can be a disquieting experience.
Age band Five is a shorter span – mid-sixties to 70/75. The great realities – of mortality, of inevitable physical decline, of loss of loved ones - must be squarely faced or there can be a destructive descent into denial and despair. But this age can lead to absolute clarity of focus, and a burning wish to concentrate on the the things that really matter, and to make an impact, however slight, on the society of which one is still very much a part.
The final age – for those who reach it, an increasing number in our society – is one of which I cannot say too much: like the French Revolution, it is too early to evaluate.
If you have managed to stay with me during the above analysis, I will now attempt to relate it to new media and politics.
Virtually all of the above age bands have a vote. Whether they exercise or not depends on many factors, analysis of which is the proper domain of the psephologist. Not all of them have access to computers. Of those who do, not all will go beyond email and texting.
But many do watch YouTube, read blogs and read Twitter – the evidence is there, including the evidence that they cross all the age bands, although what the distribution across the demographic is, I don't know. How many post YouTube comments or videos, how many post blog comments or write blogs, how many actively tweet I don't know either.
But I do know this – those that do read and participate tend to be of good intelligence, commitment, social awareness - and they communicate with, and influence others. I would hazard the guess that they also vote.
So the new media matter. How much I don't know – print media are still influential, and television is hugely influential. Knocking on doors and delivering leaflets, cold canvassing and direct telephone contact also yield the significant results they always have, and there is no suggestion, least of all from me, that new media are anywhere near supplanting such traditional campaign techniques or replacing them.
But who would have guessed at the growth and influence of Google ten years ago?
Who would have forecast that Amazon and online sellers would seriously impact on certain retail markets?
Who would have forecast that a satirical comedy show (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) could be influential in the election of an American President?
Who would have forecast the new media would prove to be a significant fund raiser for that Presidential candidate, and indeed a factor on securing his election?
Politicians and activists – whatever you think about the new media, don't underestimate them.
The medium is the message … MARSHALL McLUHAN 'Understanding Media.'
(Marshall and I are probably the last two people in the world who remember that medium is the singular and media is the plural – so don't talk about "a media of communication" within earshot of either of us. Come to think of it, Marshall died in 1980. R.I.P.)
THEY ALL LAUGHED ... Louis & Ella


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Since the Great Recession started to take shape in 2008, one mega-theme has dominated financial markets around the world: the avoidance of risk at any cost. This year, the unexpected mid-year slowdown in the U.S. economy and the spread of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe have served to make risk avoidance investment strategies even more attractive.
This so called "flight to safety" is understandable given the turbulence of financial markets in recent years, but even though steering clear of risk is a top priority for investors, it is a desire more easily expressed than satisfied.
Low-risk assets such as U.S. Treasury debt are in such high demand that yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note have been driven down below the rate of inflation. Ultra-safe short term Treasury bills now yield less than 10-basis-points annually.
The ideal solution would be assets based in an economy that is growing strongly, where the government has little debt, the currency is getting stronger, exports are large and growing, and yields pay something worth getting. It wouldn't exactly hurt if this place also had thousands of miles of beachfront property and cute marsupials that sleep all day in trees.
Sound good? Welcome to Australia.
The Lucky Country, as Australia is often called, has many of the things investors currently want and few of the things they don't.
Unlike Europe, the Australian government has very low overall debt levels and projects a budget surplus in 2012. Australia's economy is one of the steadiest in the world, managing to avoid recession for the past 19 years.
Unlike the U.S., unemployment is low and exports are strong as growth in the Asia-Pacific region boosts demand for key products like coal and iron ore.
For U.S. investors, investing directly in Australia has historically been difficult. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are starting to change that.
While such ETFs are exposed to changes in the Australian dollar, which could decline as the Reserve Bank of Australia moves to lower interest rates, any currency losses could be at least partially offset by gains in local currency asset prices.
At least five ETFs are focused on Australia exclusively, two of which own fixed-income assets. In November, PIMCO launched the Australia Bond Index Fund, which owns Australian federal, state, and corporate obligations. It has about $17 million in assets so far, an SEC yield of 3.85% on December 7, and pays dividends monthly.
It competes with the WisdomTree Australia & New Zealand Debt Fund, which is a restructured version of the WisdomTree Dreyfus New Zealand Dollar fund. This ETF owns mostly federal government debt from Australia and New Zealand as well as state obligations.
Listed in June, 2008, the ETF had about $26 million in assets and an SEC yield of 3.7% on December 7.
In addition to these ETFs, there are three Australian equity ETFs available to U.S. investors. The WisdomTree Australia Dividend fund might appeal to income-oriented investors with its 5.74% SEC yield as of September 30.
The ETF, which launched in June, 2006, has about $54 million in assets and owns blue chip Australian companies like Telstra, the country's largest telecom service company, the four major banks – National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and ANZ – and national retailers.
By far the largest Australia ETF is the iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund, which launched in March, 1996 and has about $2.9 billion in assets. The ETF has more than 14% of its assets in BHP Billiton, a global mining and energy company with significant operations in Australia.
About half of the ETF's assets are in financials, including the four major banks. Its SEC yield on November 30 was 4.48%.
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|Small to large deciduous trees (5-20 m) with cylindrical, bottle-shaped, or, rarely, tapering trunks, usually with a distinct constriction beneath the branches. Crown irregular, major branches most often horizontal becoming erect distally, rarely conical spines on upper surfaces of branches. Bark usually reddish brown and exfoliating...
Adansonia rubrostipa extends along the west coast of Madagascar from near Itampolo in the southwest to Soalala in the northwest. It mainly occurs in spiny forest and dry deciduous forest on well-drained calcareous soils and on karstic limestone...
Adansonia rubrostipa has edible fruits, seeds, and roots (Perrier de la Bâthie, 1952b, 1953), but there is no documentation of them being utilized extensively in Madagascar. In Toliara, A. rubrostipa fruits are sometimes sold in the market. They are collected by climbing the small trees, often with the aid of wooden pegs hammered into the trunks. In the vicinity of Morondava, the wood of fire-killed trees is used as thatching (in the same manner as A. grandidieri). A species of fungus, with an edible and much sought after fruiting body, is said to grow only on dead A. rubrostipa and A. grandidieri trunks (Cabanis et al., 1970; personal observation)...
In view of its extensive geographical distribution Adansonia rubrostipa is conservationally secure, although some populations, such as those 30 km north of Toliara, are threatened by forest destruction for charcoal extraction. In western deciduous forests close to Morondava, A. rubrostipa is the dominant tree species and provides an important resource for lemurs (nectar, gum, insects) and insects (sap, nectar, leaves, seeds, and pollen) and probably other animals as well... [http://www.buzau.com/baobab/fony.htm]
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|adansonia rubostripa
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The gorge (or the "narrows") of Kalama have entered the network Natura 2000 due to its rich flora and fauna and the beautiful scenery.On the gorge's entrance and exit, the two ancient Osntina and Ravenis citadels, defy time as their rough walls and their slate pencil carved churches stand like guards for centuries long.
The gorge is accessible easily from Ioannina, Igoumenitsa or Filiates. On your way from Igoumenitsa to Ioannina turn left towards Plakoti and continue towards Pente Ekklisies. Before you enter the village, follow the road that leads to "Paleochora" as the locals call the ancient settlement. Continue until you reach Belei bridge in Klamas. On the rock is the Osdina citadel with its ancient castles, the Byzantine fortresses and the post Byzantine churches…
Enter the gorge by the river's left bank. In front of you will open the ruins of a unique bridge (Boliana) verifying that the particular place was a passage in ancient times as well. The caves on the steep rocks above the river sheltered many ascetics. You can reach "Stavropigadia", a place full of springs, without entering the river. (At a certain point after the riverbed you will need to climb for a while).
If you decide to cross the gorge you need to know that the route in "Faraggopidima" location, which is the narrowest part of the gorge, is cut off and you will have to enter the river to cross to the opposite bank, of course if you are properly trained. (For those who do not want to risk it we suggest stopping at that point and start the route from Polidroso side some other time…).
A little further you will have to choose again whether you want to walk in the river until "Anavristika", a beautiful place with many springs under the Raveni castle, and reach the village following the road which ends up in the river, or to pass to the left riverbank and follow the pathway starting from an old watermill and go to Polidroso.
There you can visit the village folklore museum and eat at the coffee place. Wherever your route finishes you can return following the same road or by car.
The route lasts 4 hours and is difficult. You need to be careful.
Kalamas Delta
The mountains and the hills existing close to Kalama river delta where islands once. The sedimentation of the river during its centuries old course along Thesprotia area covered the sea around them and formed today's fruitful plain which expands over the triangle Igoumenitsa-Ragio-Sagiada.
During the 1960s the new watercourse of Kalama river bed was opened. In its new watercourse between Mavronoros (mountain of Skoupitsa) and Maastilitsa a new delta was formed which expands very quickly.
The area is one of the most important water biotopes in the country with rich bird fauna and that is the reason why it attracts many visitors who are interested in aquatic birds.
We suggest starting your route from Sagiada between the main settlement and "Skaloma" which is its port. From there a dirt road which leads to the delta starts.
The center of the water biotope is located on your left side under Mastilitsa hill. On your right you can see the old salterns of Sagiada which nowadays have been incorporated into the water biotope.If you want to have better view of the water biotope and the delta climb on Mastilitsa rocky slope. It is probable to see some of the wild horse herds that live in the delta.
In the SE side of the hill you will see ruins of an ancient castle, from battlement of which you can have an amazing view of the river.
There are two ways of accessing the delta. One of them is to pass the bridge located close to the sea towards the delta (but only during the summer period as in winter there is a lot of mud). The other is to go towards Kalama bridge and then turn right. The dirt road reaches the beginning of the river estuaries. From there you can continue up to the delta edge where Kalama waters are connecting to the sea. You can receive information about the delta and its flora and fauna from the Information Center operating in Skaloma of Sagiada. It is wise to visit the information Center before you visit the delta.
The islets that are formed in the delta are a very good spot for observing thousands of birds living in the water biotope. You can reach them by boat from Sagiada.
Kalamas river is navigable by a small boat until its last bridge. The route is amazing.
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Owners of motorboats, sailboats or personal watercraft need to get new, free 2014-2017 validation decals for their watercraft soon. The current orange decals expired Feb. 28.
Boaters who have permanently registered their boats, sailboats, or PWC must still obtain two free boat validation decals every three years at FWP regional and area offices, or by going to the FWP website at fwp.mt.gov; click Boat Validation Decals.
Owners who order validation decals on the FWP website will receive the decals in the mail. Information included on a current boat registration receipt issued by the County Treasurer is needed to obtain the decals in person or on FWP's website.
For new boat or PWC owners, the County Treasurer's office will provide the first set of validation decals when the watercraft is registered. Boat owners will obtain subsequent sets of validation decals at a FWP regional or area office, or online.
For more information, visit FWP's webpage or call FWP at 406-444-2535.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Birther jokes? Even President Barack Obama is cracking them.
Saturday during a campaign stop for beer and some politicking at a Florida sports bar and grill, the Gator's Dockside, Obama came to a table with lots of children.
Told that one blond-haired youngster, Andre Wupperman, was born in Hawaii, Obama grinned.
"Do you have a birth certificate?" Obama asked the boy, drawing laughter from the table. Wupperman, who lives in Orlando, turns 7 next week.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961, the son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas.
But he's had to repeatedly fend off conspiracy theorists -- the "birther movement" -- who say he wasn't born in this country and therefore can't be president under the Constitution.
Even the "Certificate of Live Birth" made available during the 2008 presidential campaign and attestations by Hawaii state officials have been insufficient for some folks.
So Obama released a long-form copy of his birth certificate last year in an effort to quell the rumors.
Last month, Obama's campaign lashed out at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when he said at a Michigan rally: "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate."
Romney said his comment was meant as humor. The Obama campaign said it showed him enlisting himself with the conspiracy theorists.
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Though boxing gloves could be seen in a photo released of President Obama's lunch with Mitt Romney, aides joked there were no punches thrown, describing the encounter as "friendly."
Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET: The winner of the presidential election met with the man he defeated Thursday as President Barack Obama had lunch at the White House with former Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Romney arrived at the White House shortly after noon.
The lunch was closed to reporters but the White House issued a statement after the lunch saying that Romney "congratulated the President for the success of his campaign and wished him well over the coming four years. The focus of their discussion was on America's leadership in the world and the importance of maintaining that leadership position in the future. They pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together on shared interests arise in the future. Their lunch menu included white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad."
Romney left just before 2:00 p.m. without comment.
Romney also went Thursday morning to a Washington hotel to meet for 90 minutes with his running mate, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the first face-to-face meeting the two men have had since their defeat on Nov. 6.
After the meeting, Ryan released a statement saying, "I remain grateful to Governor Romney for the honor of joining his ticket this fall, and I cherish our friendship. I'm proud of the principles and ideas we advanced during the campaign and the commitment we share to expanding opportunity and promoting economic security for American families."
Four years ago, after Obama defeated Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., he hosted a dinner for McCain on the night before he took the oath of office as president.
At that dinner, Obama said that with the campaign and the balloting over, he and McCain shared a responsibility "to usher in a new season of cooperation built on those things we hold in common."
Business leaders met with President Obama on Wednesday, and the mood among those CEOs was optimistic. Deloitte CEO Joe Echevarria discusses the meeting. Why was Wednesday, November 28, 2012 such a good day for House Speaker Boehner? What will Mitt Romney and the president talk about in their expected first meeting since the election? NBC News' Chuck Todd and the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart join the conversation.
He praised McCain for "a pure and deeply felt love of his country that comes from the painful knowledge of what life is like without it," he said, an allusion to McCain's five years in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy plane was shot down during the Vietnam War.
In 2004, after President George W. Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the two rivals did not have a post-election face-to-face meeting, although Kerry, along with other senators, was on the platform at the Capitol at Bush's inauguration for his second term.
But Kerry made clear in his post-election words and actions that he was still resolutely opposed to Bush on policy matters, highlighting his vote against Bush's choice of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state and calling for the resignation of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for example.
In 2000, in the aftermath of the five-week recount and Supreme Court battle that prolonged the presidential election, Bush met for 15 minutes with the man he defeated, Vice President Al Gore at Gore's official residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington.
When Gore greeted Bush outside the residence, reporters asked if the two men had any message for Americans. Gore replied, "I gave that Wednesday night," referring to his concession speech.
In his inaugural address Bush made a point of saying, "I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace."
In 1996, after President Clinton beat him, former Sen. Bob Dole went to the White House a few days before Christmas to chat with Clinton and exchange Christmas gifts.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands at the conclusion of the final U.S. presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida, October 22, 2012.


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How much does San Francisco 49ers' great Joe Montana ask for when he sells his estate? $49 million, of course.
The Hall of Fame quarterback is selling his Calistoga, Calif. compound for a staggering $49 million.
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Coldwell Banker's Rick Laws told the Associated Press the most expensive home sales on record on the county's Multiple Listing Service were two properties that sold for $15 million each in 2001. But then those people weren't the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investors that the number of fraud cases related to private securities offerings for oil and gas ventures has spiked over the past few years and that working with an advisor doesn't guarantee they won't be scammed.
The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an investor alert Thursday, noting that while there were only a few fraud cases related to oil and gas ventures in 2005 and 2006, the number of SEC cases since then has averaged more than 20 per year.
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The "cache" splice ensures that its contents are cached and only evaluated periodically. The cached contents are returned every time the splice is referenced.
Use the ttl attribute to set the amount of time between reloads. The ttl value should be a positive integer followed by a single character specifying the units. Valid units are a single letter abbreviation for one of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. If the ttl string is invalid or the ttl attribute is not specified, the cache is never refreshed unless explicitly cleared with clearCacheTagState. The compiled splice version of the cache tag does not require a cache tag state, so clearCacheTagState will not work for compiled cache tags.
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Treellama wrote:JUICE doesn't send anything. Aleph One will send the color table, but, like shapes files have always worked, it will only use the first CLUT in the collection for wall textures.
$lave wrote:Ok, sorry I meant after using JUICe does Aleph one send the colour table as well as new bitmaps, thanks.
irons wrote:JUICE v1.1.1 is ready for action. The new version of Aleph One should be released very soon, and we've been given the go-ahead to get JUICE rolling out the door. Mappers, in preparation for embedded shapes in A1, visit one of these links to get the new JUICE:
Bobwithkeycard wrote:Am I also gonna be able to merge secret pr0n files... to hide it from the feds
Bobwithkeycard wrote:dude, I was kidding..stop taking the thread off-topic
irons wrote:[..]a release will come in the next day or two.
HogePiyo wrote:a japanese friend requested me for the function or a new program which can edit and replace terminal text. He said that he want to localize the english native maps into Japanese.
HogePiyo wrote:Considering to your continuing developing JUICE, my operating might cause confusion.
So would you let me join the JUICE project? I want to merge this addition to your own JUICE.
Next, I gonna do for the terminal chunk. a japanese friend requested me for the function or a new program which can edit and replace terminal text. He said that he want to localize the english native maps into Japanese.
if you've done to load terminal text, I'll wait for the next release or CVS nightly. If not, I gonna make the method and create that chunk/entry class.
Treellama wrote:This is possible right now, to a limited degree, correct? You can change the font to a Japanese one, and use the old Mac OS Japanese character set.
Some day we should render terminals using SDL_TTF and Unicode, then you could have all the possible kanji available for rendering. I think this might require changing the way terminals are stored, though!
Unfortunately, you will never be able to use Japanese characters on the metaserver; but I don't know many Japanese that play on there. marin and NEC PC user come to mind.
irons wrote:If you give me your sourceforge.net username, I will add you to the project. I was waiting to do EPNT because some maps have PNTS instead. After your EPNT goes into our subversion, we can learn what we need to do in order to work together.
I added some support for the terminal chunk, but I found out that it was hard to compile terminals. If you want to try adding full support, you are welcome to do it. Right now, the TermChunk only holds binary data from the terminal chunk, and there is no entry. I think you will see this more easily in the source code.
I'm excited to have a new member of the JUICE project! Please give me your username soon!
HogePiyo wrote:well, the problem of 'Rendering font' was already resolved in AlephOneJP project in marathon group of sourceforge.jp.
Bobwithkeycard wrote:come on, are you kidding? There could be lots of differences that aren't visible on first or second sight. I am merely interested whether the main intention behind AlephOneJp is custom language support or if there's more to it.
What better way is there to ask the most prominent Japanese Marathon coder...who's also participating in this thread and who always has a friendly answer.
It certainly beats trying to look at ReadMes whose language I do not speak.
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South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have done what no other content creators have been able to do online, until now. They launched a site where fans of South Park can legally watch every episode of the show, so long as they are in the US. International fans will have to wait a few months, according the the press release put out earlier today by Comedy Central.
What's really amazing about this, besides the great content, is that Trey and Matt (we are that close) were able to get all the complex legal and business model issues worked out with Viacom and put the show online. No other content creator has even come close to getting their full catalouge on the web, especially not for content that remains current and popular. Of course fans can watch any content they want online using various web and P2P sites, but this is the first time creators have launched a site that really competes with the free alternatives.
I hate using canned quotes but this one, direct from the press release, is on the money:
When asked about the launch of the new site, Stone and Parker said, "We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time so we gave ourselves a legal alternative."
To date, the web's premier, and only, source of full length episodes of South Park has been AllSP.com, which mysteriously went dark earlier this week. A message posted on the site says
We are currently changing hosts, we will be back soon.
The US law no longer allows us to link to South Park episodes,
therefore we are moving our servers to our home city.
Good News, we have aquired a server in Malaysia, we should be up and running again in a day!
Click the logo above or here to browse episodes (episodes will not play until after we have moved).
The administrator for AllSP.com did not respond to numerous emails but I'm going to go ahead and assume that the reason they are down is because some savvy lawyers over at Comedy Central got in touch with AllSP.com's host and started causing trouble. Be sure to check out the similarities between AllSP.com and SouthParkStudios.com, it cant be a coincidence.


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Short Film: Insert Coin
Who said that boys have no imagination? Well, here are two who will admit that to the end – boy's lives are dull, dull, dull. Except, of course, when we can see what they are thinking!
This is a wonderful animated short was created by Alisson Thiebaut, Nicolas Garcia Tunon and Louis Beucler. They are or were students at Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard (HEAJ).
Sweets: Millennium Falcon Cake
Millennium Falcon Cake by Giovanni Ozuna from Orlando, Florida
Labels: millennium falcon, sweets
Sculpture: Pegasus Statue in Smartphones
Pegasus Statue constructed of 3,500 Smartphones by The Machine Shop
Exhibited at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain
Developer Huawei unveiled this striking creature of myth composed of 3,500 smartphones and more than 650 yards of soldered iron rods to mark the launch of its Ascend D Quad smartphone. Standing at 5.7 meters tall and made of 3,500 smartphones, the Huawei Pegasus took 720 man hours to build.
Labels: electronic art, metalwork, sculpture
Video: Panasonic Hollywood Labs
Panasonic Hollywood Labs - Brand Video by Macoto Murayama, 2011
Macoto Murayama is a japanese architect-turned-artist who has turned to digitally dissecting and reconstructing flowers to help Panasonic Hollywood Labs promote their technology. With a spatial awareness and attention to detail that comes from years of working as an architect, Murayama is able to reveal the the hidden elements of the inner flower. Murayama studies each part of the plant separately in order to recreate the individual components as a precisely as possible.
Labels: computer graphics, science, video
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Short Film: Treasure
This is quite an adorable animated short, created by Chelsea Bartlett at the Ringling College of Art and Design for her degree thesis. Short and sweet it may be, but it serves as a reminder that perhaps we should never judge a book by its cover.
Labels: animation, short film, video
Crafts: Droid Bird Houses
These awesomely geeky birdhouses are the creative product of one Ben Mayer, and his handmade birdhouse shop, NirdHaus. The R2-D2 birdhouse has been painted to look just like the little maintenance droid, and even has a functioning LED "optical unit" built into its facade. And if R2 isn't enough for you, he's accompanied by C-3PO – who just happens to be familiar with over 6 million varieties of bird calls.
Tech: Piccolo
Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For less than $70, you can assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, developing and deploying basic 3D output. Be it plotting quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this kit provides a platform for experimenting with 2D or 3D digital fabrication at a small scale. This open-source design emphasizes simplicity, and is entirely composed of digitally manufactured components and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware.
Labels: gadgets, merchandise, technology
Video: The Boneyard Project
The Boneyard Project: Return Flight by Jason Wawro
It's always great to see used objects get a second life. It's even better when that second life involves them being transformed into a giant canvas. The Boneyard Project is a project conceived by Eric Firestone aimed salvaging airplanes from America's military history for artists breath new life into. Check out photos of the results of the project at the Huffington Post.
Labels: junk, street art, upcycling, video
Installation: Man with No Shadow
"Man with No Shadow" by Makoto Tojiki, 2009.
The Man With No Shadow by Makoto Tojiki is a life-sized LED light sculpture of a man that welcomed visitors to Tojiki's stand at Salone Satellite, the world's preeminent showcase for young designers. The event's theme was "wellness." The Man was just one of some very interesting lighting projects by Tojiki displayed at the event.
Labels: electronic art, installation, lights
Link Round-Up: February 28, 2012
Powerpig delivers yet another fine Lego still life in this Zombitastic piece! Go grab this one out of his gallery as a print for yourself.
Interview: Bre Pettis of MakerBot: Life, $10M in Funding, and Beyond
3D Printing and The Replicator Economy
Is it Finally Time to Take Pop Art Seriously?
Paint your own nebula
What If Male Superheroes' Costumes Were Designed Like Female Superheroes' Costumes?
Fernacular grew tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superheroes' costumes kinda sexist, so she made the series of drawings below to achieve
Why being sleepy and drunk are great for creativity
The Year of 2011 in 3D Printing
Posters: Pixar Minimalism
Pixar Minimalist Posters by Wonchan Lee
"Pixar movies are everyone's favorite. Hoping it will continue to make the world a better place. I'm pleased to dedicate these artworks to Pixar as one of its biggest fans."
Labels: animation, minimalist, movies, posters
Monday, February 27, 2012
Short Film: Helga
Ernie, in the pursuit of love and romance, ends up on a blind date, and his date, Helga, is not quite what he expected.
This amusing animated short was created by Justin Sklar for his degree thesis at Ringling College of Art and Design. I am not sure it necessarily has a moral as such, but if there is one it is that opposites can often attract (wait, that's not a moral!).
Labels: humor, short film, video
Mash-Up: Firefly / Big Bang Theory
'The Big Bang Theory' reimagined as 'Firefly' crew by Megan Levens
It's no secret that the nerds on "The Big Bang Theory" are fans of comic books and sci-fi. It appears that the feeling is mutual as a Los Angeles storyboard artist and comic illustrator has re-imagined the "Big Bang" cast as the crew from "Firefly."
Personally, I would have drawn Leonard as Mal and Raj as the Doc, but, then again, I can't draw. So, that settles that. Penny, however is perfect as Tam River. I love it.
Labels: firefly, humor, mash-up, television
Mash-Up: Up / Star Wars
36"x24" graphite. gesso, acrylic & adventure on wood board.
Link Round-Up: February 27, 2012
News: Lego ISS Built Aboard the Real One
Beautiful Life has posted a gallery of Remarkable Collection of Steampunk Sculptures
Rock You Like An Apocalypse: Art That Destroys The World!
The Shanty of Escape Games - Starting with Escape From The Smoking Room in November 2010, the Shanty Of Escape Games has published escape-the-room style short puzzle games with astonishing regularity, releasing at least two per month. Test your wits and escape from the Room with Baumkuchen, the Mansion with Traps, or the Mid-sized Banquet Hall!
Star Wars Re-imagined as Judy Blume Books
Friday, February 24, 2012
Fresh Take: Know that Feel, Bro
"I Know That Feel, Bro" series by Chris Gerringer
Source: PaperBeatsScissors Tumblr
Chris Gerringer designed this awesome series, drawing parallels between pop culture figures in a cute and funny way. The characters are drawn in the sort of overly-simple way that makes them adorable.
Posted by Pipedreamergrey at 2:30 PM 1 comments
Labels: cute, fresh take, humor, Illustration
Short Film: Ride of Passage
It seems that in the way back when men used to measure their manliness by the size of the... dead creature on their head. So, when young Toki's turn comes to go in to the forest and kill the biggest animal he can then he is determined to do just that. However, the jungle can do strange things to a boy and he meets a new friend who gives him the chance to achieve something much greater than anything he expected.
This is yet another marvelous Bachelor Film Project from The Animation Workshop. It was created by Christian Bøving-Andersen, Casper Michelsen, Eva Lee Wallberg, Tina Lykke Thorn, Søren B. Nørbæk, Allan Lønskov, Jakob Kousholt and David F. Otzen.
Illustration: Photobot CS3
Posted by Pipedreamergrey at 11:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Illustration, robots
Sculpture: Metalwork Insects
Custom created for a gallery opening at Wooster Street Social Club for NY Ink
Steel, bronze, and brass with working onboard miniature tattoo machine
Size: 5" x 5" x 4" (12.5cm x 12.5cm x 10cm)
Lego Creation: Sorting Plant
It's the creation of BrickIt.dk, who spent over 800 hours of building and 250 hours of programming time on making it all run smoothly. The seven different NXT units in the construction communicate with each other over Bluetooth, and the software that runs it was built on leJOS -- a Java-based language for Mindstorms.It consists of more than 37,000 individual Lego blocks. Most impressively, the model has been specially-designed to fit into a single flight case for ease of transport.
A LEGO robot that sorts LEGOs? Proof that it's only a matter of time before self-aware robots are building other robots without any need for human intervention. We had a pretty good run, though.
This project is a LEGO® Sorting plant, that sorts 2x4 and 1x2 bricks in size and color. It's build for a company called Dynaway (www.dynaway.com). They use this model to demonstrate their manufacturing execution system. The model is designed to fit inside one large flightcase, for easy transport. The model is the second model we've build for Dynaway.
Labels: legos, technology, video
Sculpture: Budda_Z
Ziwon WANG's cybernetic sculptures poignantly address the ever increasing relationship between man and technology. At the core of WANG's works is the issue of decision making - the emotive human decisions against the coded and system judgments made by machines. Wang is concerned with the status of human thought and how it will transgress to the future. Wang's interest in the manifestation and translation of the human decision making process in works of art through the passage of time can be found in the Buddha like poses which questions whether advancement of machinery and technology has, if any, changed the fundamental elements of human life
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Video: Millennium Falcon Assembly
If you don't have the time or patience to assemble the 5,000+ piece LEGO Millennium Falcon kit, or if you're lacking the roughly $2,500 it costs to get your hands on one, you can still enjoy the build process with this 3D stop motion video, which was created by Francisco Prieto over a 3 year period using 3ds max, and V-Ray.
Posted by Pipedreamergrey at 3:30 PM 0 comments
Labels: computer graphics, legos, star wars, stop motion
Illustration: Tattoonie Panorama
Artist Ulises Farinas illustrates a crowd of your favorite sci-fi characters packing the streets of Mos Eisley on the desert planet of Tattooine in his latest print. Of course, the amazing detail that went into the piece can really only be appreciated at full size. You can check out more of his work on Flickr or buy a print for your wall at Farinas' website. Price: US$75
Labels: Illustration, star wars
Street Art: Anamorphic Graffiti
Anamorphic Graffiti by Paper Donut
Paper Donut has painted a series of walls with three-dimensional shapes. The image is part of an ad campaign for fashion store Sqwear, and the other two visuals are personal projects.
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Labels: graffiti, street art
Short Film: DreamGiver
DreamGiver from Tyler Carter
DreamGiver tells the story of the mysterious being who flies around dispensing our dreams to us. Yet even this celestial creature has been known to make mistakes! One evening as he visits an orphanage he gives a little boy a dream which opens up in the wrong place altogether!
This great animated short was at created Brigham Young University's Center for Animation and was directed by Tyler Carter. The film has played in hundreds of festivals around the world including the College Television Awards "Student Emmy", Cannes Film Festival, Anima Mundi, Comic Con, Adobe Design Competition, Angelus Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, SIGGRAPH and many more.
Labels: animation, computer graphics, short film, video
Illustration: Super IT
This was a cover assignment for the Israeli business magazine Kalkalist. The issue was titled 'super IT' and included several articles showcasing new advancements in the world of IT - and arguing that the people working in that industry are influential, technologically savvy individuals rather than the gray computer dorks we thought they were.
Labels: Illustration
Merchandise: Gandalf Stamp
Available for purchase at Etsy.
Labels: lord of the rings, merchandise
Crafts: Geometric Pencils Sculpture
Via: Instructables
This sculpture from Instructables is composed of seventy-two pencils, a load of super glue, and a couple of rubber bands. It was inspired by the geometric sculptures of George W. Hart and designed by geometry whiz Alejandro Erickson in an attempt to re-create Hart's 72 Pencils.
…It took a couple of leisurely hours to build and glue, and with supervision was surprisingly easy to make. It can be assembled inexpensively using wooden pencils ($5.74 for 72), a few rubber bands and a little superglue, in pretty much exactly the same way as Alejandro makes his Hexastix sculptures… The hexagonal cross-section of the pencils make them a very natural fit for this geometric form, as the holes in the lattice are themselves hexagonal. The erasers are arranged tetrahedrally with respect to one another; the volume enclosed by the pencils is a rhombic dodecahedron.
Link Round-Up: February 23, 2012
HANDMADE vs DIGITAL by Canadian artist Julien Vallée
News: Munch's "The Scream" expected to fetch $80 million at auction
Interview: Todd McFarlane discusses What It Takes to Get Started at Image Comics
30 Futuristic Landscape Digital Illustrations
An installation presented at this year BRAFA : "...a museum on the scale of 1:7, made up of thirty rooms of original work, each 100 x 60 x 65 cm."
A History of Google Doodles from Time
In theory, here are the instructions for making your own stained glass d20. I hope you have a laser cutter/etcher handy, though.
This Star Wars Last Supper mosiac has over 70,000 stills from the Star Wars films
Labels: round-up
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Photography: Found Functions
Found Functions by Nikki Graziano
Nikki Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photographs.
"I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone," she says.
Graziano doesn't go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she's got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph.
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Labels: math, photography
Sculpture: The Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu
The Singing-Ringing Tree at Crown Point high above Burnley in the UK is a three meter tall wind-powered musical sculpture constructed of galvanized steel pipes. The constant wind on Crown Point produces an eerie, melodious hum as it drifts through the pipes. The Singing Ringing Tree's pipes are used for both aesthetic qualities as well as for tuning, with their sound varied according to length and added narrow slits on the underside of specific pipes. The sound produced by these twisted metal trees covers several octaves, and it is said to be simultaneously discordant and melancholy, and intensely beautiful. The piece was designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu.
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Papercraft: White Diary
White Diary by Peter Callesen
A5 Notebook (120 gsm acid free paper), pencil, and glue.
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Labels: papercraft
Fresh Take: Starry Night
Van Gogh's Starry Night by UVA students Ross Thomas and Elizabeth Farrell
This rendition of Van Gogh's masterpiece is composed of 8,000 beer bottle caps. It measures seven feet by nine feet.
Labels: fresh take, van gogh
Short Film: Cost of Living
"Cost of Living " by Bendavid Grabinski
Starring Brandon and Bret Harrison, this short follows two security guards working in an Umbrella Corporation-style plant where they clone "were-children."
Labels: action, humor, short film, video
Sculpture: Clockwork Creatures
Mechanized Clockwork Creatures by Daniel Proulx
Available from CatherinetteRings on Etsy
From an alternate dimension where "His Dark Materials" played out, come Daniel Proulx's astonishing mechanical creepers, crafted from spare clock and scrap metal parts
Installation: OLED Earth
World's Largest OLED Earth by Mitsubishi Electric
Located at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan is the world's first spherical OLED. It features a map of globe, updated in real-time with weather information and temperature data. This technomagical globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 organic LED panels featuring a resolution of over ten million pixels, ten times that of an ordinary LED display.
Labels: electronic art, installation, maps
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Quick Pic: Snow Art
Via: Reddit
Step by step this massive snow drawing was trampled into freshly fallen snow by artist Sonja Hinrichsen with the help of 5 volunteers last month at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado. I love that a piece so expansive and yet so temporary can be created with a few pairs of well choreographed snow boots. If you like this, also check out the beach drawings of Jim Denevan. The photos above were taken by Cedar Beauregard.
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Posters: The Hobbit
"The Hobbit" by Harshness
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Labels: lord of the rings, movie posters, posters
Short Film: The Deadliest Game
Victorian adventurers go big game hunting on an alien planet in Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game, a short film from Media Design School based on the sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort created by writer and artist Greg Broadmore from the Weta Workshop.
Labels: short film, video
Monday, February 20, 2012
Short Film: Network
Network from Michael Rigley
"Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network."
Video: Kinetica Art Fair 2012
"Kinetica Art Fair brings together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology." Held under the University of Westminster, Marylebone Ave 35, literally, from February 9th till 12th
Labels: electronic art, event, installation, sculpture, video
Video: On Kinetic Art
Reuben Margolin On Kinetic Art
First inspired by the mysterious and mathematical qualities of a caterpillars crawl, artist Reuben Margolin creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that use pulleys and motors to recreate the complex movements and structures we see in nature. Margolin takes to the PopTech stage to share some of his extraordinary mechanical installations.
Reuben Margolin is an American-born artist and sculptor known for his mechanically-driven kinetic sculptures of wave-forms. He creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that use pulleys and motors to recreate the complex movements and structures we see in nature. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked.
Crafts: Three Cubes Colliding
Three Cubes Colliding by Sash Reading from the Studio 10 Arch
Experimental kite designed by Sash Reading with Ivan Morison from the Studio 10 Arch at the University of Westminster. The kite was fabricated and engineered by Queen and Crawford. The kite features 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric.
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Lego Creation: Prosthetic Arm
The main purpose of this project was to accurately mimic the full range of motion of a normal human arm and hand. The secondary goal was to maximize speed and power, yet maintain a consistent ratio between the two for demonstration purposes. It is important to note that it was designed as an above elbow prosthesis, and the yellow shoulder is only meant to act as a static model.
The amount of weight it can lift is limited to the shape of the object and orientation of the wrist and elbow, but it can't do much with more than a couple pounds.
The controller is a rudimentary cluster of switches and joysticks. A 4-motor air compressor with pressure-regulation was made of Lego, but for the demonstration I simply used hand pumps.
Quick Pic: Sand Invaders
Each pixel is 50cm x 50cm.
Labels: quick pic, space invaders
Friday, February 17, 2012
Link Round-Up: February 17, 2012
Virtual Legos Now Actual Legos. You can now pre-order the Minecraft Lego set.
Boopatone is a compiled record of the digital art and computer graphics experiments of Erik Keller, who is a freelance CG artist living and working in Hollywood CA. In it he lays bare some of the sausage making behind high end 3D modeling. He has also made some awesome Maya tutorials if you are interested in trying it out yourself
- Create Ground Fog with Maya Fluids for 3D World Magazine
- Model a Virus using Molecular Maya for 3D World Magazine
- Adjusting Matcap Materials on Pixologic.com
- ZBrush 4 New Features on Pixologic.com
- mental ray Lighting and Rendering in Maya 2011 on Lynda.com
- ZBrush 3 for Windows on Lynda.com
Buy yourself a TARDIS phone cozy
L.E.D. Surfer William Hughes snowboards through darkness in a suit made with thousands of L.E.D. lights in a short film by Jacob Sutton.
Martin Klimas, an artist best known for his work in the medium of "temporary sculptures," is now trying to illustrate what music looks like. Here are the temporary sculptures [ 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 ] Here are the pieces from Painting with Sound [ 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 ]
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Short Film: Space Stallions
Space Stallions from The Animation Workshop
Space Stallions! is a 2012 bachelor film project from The Animation Workshop. More epic than epic. More 80s than the 80s ever were.
As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion, a spark of hope is born. Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of darkness, Destructo.
Labels: animation, humor, short film, video
Installation: 3DESTRUCT
3Destruct, an audio-visual installation by Yannick Jacquet, Jérémie Peeters and Thomas Vaquié was shown at the Lieu Unique October 12-16th 2011 as part of the Scopitone festival.
Allocated in an old workshop with industrial architecture typical of the late 19th century, we worked over a week to adapt the installation to this new space. As well as the expected issues of scale and placement, we had to update the whole projected sequence to eliminate all horizontal lines which we found just weren't looking right especially in the more minimal sequences with the particular material used for this staging. Its a piece with real dynamic range and we had to keep that, and then we found the new constraint turned from challenging to a liberating new visual direction.
Labels: electronic art, installation, lights, video
Sculpture: Psychonauts Milkman Level
Labels: sculpture, video games
Painting: Rock, Paper, Scissors
"Rock, Paper, Scissors" by Canadian artist Julien Vallée
The young Canadian designer Julien Vallée is a leading expert at melding a variety of analog and digital design techniques into outstanding work. This piece is from the cover of her new book, Rock, Paper, Scissors - The work of Julien Vallée.
Labels: paintings
Posters: 8-Bit Glow in the Dark
9" x 24" five color screen print. Signed and numbered. Available for US$50.
Labels: 8-bit, posters, video games
Sweets: Ghostbuster Cake
Ghostbuster's Cake by Poppet with a Camera
Labels: ghostbusters, sweets
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Short Film: Wing
Wing by Asger Grevil, Mette V. Madsen, Jonas Kirkegaard, Michael Bech
A solitary, one winged creature called Wing is harassed by a group of oppressive crows due to being weak and different from them. He decides that he wants to overcome his disability and escape from the forest. He builds a catapult and a mechanical wing to accomplish this. When he launches himself away from the forest, the wing malfunctions, and he crashes into the territory of the crows. The crows are about to harm him, but are then lured away by a two-winged humanoid, who the crows attack instead. Wing finds the creature, and discovers it is a female of his own kind, and that the crows have torn one of her wings off. As the crows come towards them, Wing gets the idea that he and the female can fly in tandem by flapping each of their single wings while holding onto each other, and they manage to escape from the forest.
Labels: short film, video
Lego Creations: Bongo Submarine
In honor of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D being released in theaters, LEGO artist Matt De Lanoy put together an impressive Opee Sea Killer and Gungan Tribubble Bongo submarine masterpiece.
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Labels: legos, science fiction, star wars
Mural: Anamorphic Rings
Cinq cercles concentriques, noir by Felice Varini
Photographed at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Labels: mural, optical illusion
Quick Pic: Wall Not Found
Wall Not Found by John Scarratt
Visualisation of proposed wall piece for Castle Meadow, Norwich.
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Labels: quick pic
Posters: Anti-Mario Propaganda
Anti-Super Mario Propaganda Posters by Fro Design
All designs plus a few others available at Fro Design's blogspot. Dont believe plumber's lies, help the Koopa Troop stomp out the mustached menace!
Labels: mario, posters, propaganda, video games
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Link Round-Up: February 15, 2012
News: Adam Adamowicz, concept artist behind the hugely popular video games Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, passed away last week after a long struggle with cancer.
100+ Examples of Brilliant Tilt-Shift Photography from instantShift
Arkitypo — Using the 26 letters of the alphabet as the starting point, the curators selected a specific typeface that began with each respective letter to develop a 3d alphabet of alphabets. After thoroughly researching the history of each letter, they set out to represent each individual character graphically with elements of its history serving as the foundation. Arkitypo: letter rotations on Vimeo.
LINX is a simple construction toy consisting of modular connectors that work with ordinary drinking straws. LINX creator Patrick Martinez is raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.
Within Minecraft's blocky world, he has spent about 100 hours so far on a re-creation of Azeroth, the enormous setting of Blizzard's massively multiplayer game, World of Warcraft (WoW). His name is Ramses. Here's an interview he did with Games Beat. You can see his forum posts here. And there are pictures. "The original goal was just to recreate Kalimdor, which I've since completed. I now plan to re-create the other three continents as well. The surface area of Kalimdor is equal to about 35 square kilometers [13.5 square miles], so attempting the conversion without special software could have taken months or even years."
Sculpture: Bonzai Treehouse
Japanese artist Takanori Aiba creates amazingly detailed resin sculptures so elaborately detailed as to impart them with a Bottle City of Kandor-like habitability. "Bonsai-B," pictured above, looks like a small town built in the branches of a Bonsai tree. It elicits fond memories of Swiss Family Robinson and Tarzan, which among my favorite movies as a kid. Takanori says that he draws inspiration from his background as a maze illustrator for for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE.
Construction material: stone clay, resin clay, epoxy putty, hinoki veneer sheet, bamboo, copper line, plastic, resin, paper, plaster, glass.
Labels: sculpture
Installation: Game Of Space
On exhibit at SICF12 in Tokyo and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima
This installation was created using "Game of Life" cellular automaton devised by John Conway to represent the emergence of self-organizing systems. A cellular automaton is a discrete model that consists of a regular grid of cells and simple rules, studied in many fields including mathematics and science. We developed this system in 3d models and tested it across projects of various scales.
The pattern that is created by this system is a mix of order and chaos, which is similar to natural conditions. "Game of Space" expresses the complex phenomenon that is generated by simple rules, yet also creates architectural forms such as slabs and arches. Since cellular automaton is a scale-less system, we believe the system can work in different design fields. Some different scaled figures are located inside this installation to visualize the world that is created by cellular automaton.
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Labels: architecture, installation
Short Film: Clearance
Labels: animation, short film, video
Cards: Doctor Who Valentine
Doctor Who Valentine in a Tardis
Source: lastone2sherlockisasissy
Labels: cards, doctor who, valentines
Painting: Abbey Road
"The Beatles - Abbey Road" by RAMART
Available for sale at Etsy for US$40.28
This is handmade using handcut stencils and spraypainted using high quality Montana spraypaint as used by many streetartists.
Darth Vader as John Lennon
Stormtrooper No. 569 as Ringo Starr
Greedo as Paul McCartney
Boba Fett as George Harrison
Stormtrooper No. 569 as Ringo Starr
Greedo as Paul McCartney
Boba Fett as George Harrison
Sweets: Portal Cubecakes
These Portal Cubecakes are no lie!
Source: Cakewrecks
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Short Film: I'm Here
"I'm Here" is a 2010 sci-fi romance short film written and directed by Spike Jonze
A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to a the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be...
Labels: romance, short film, video
Crafts: Duct Tape Rose
It's Valentine's Day! Panic! Flower prices are sky high, expectations are even higher, and the quality of sex you'll be receiving for the coming year hinges upon your ability to impress the depths of your devotion to your special girl. Well relax, here's a cheap but tactful way to express your love while also carrying across your geekiness. Instructables has an entire library of duct tape rose tutorials, but this one stands out as the best.
Link Round-Up: February 14, 2012
I Only Have Eyes for You by Mad Design
14 ways an economist says "I love you"
Cerebral itch : "bitter and/or hilarious" Valentines cards
CollegeHumor TV valentines featuring Community, Doctor Who, Sherlock, etc.
Don't send a Valentine's Day Card, send a declaration of romantic intent
Download you own Star Wars valentines
Gears of War Valentines are both horror-inducing and heart-warming
Geek Mom's silly, printable Valentines feature robots, mad scientists
Girl Gone Geek has a round-up of Doctor Who Valentines from around the web
Horrible Cards by The Oatmeal
Natalie Dee's take on the Valentine's Day card might be a bit too close to the mark
Starcraft II Valentine's Day Cards from Gearfus
Someecards offers an amazing variety of pithy remarks as always, plus there are now user-generated memes for those of us who can't think up something clever to say.
Spooky Pooky's Mythical Creature Valentines
Wildlife lover? Try these Monterey Aquarium cards.
Labels: cards, round-up, valentines
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President Obama's announcement this week that previously canceled individual health-insurance policies for 2014 could be reinstated – at the discretion of insurance commissioners – drew a lot of attention.
Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler acted quickly, deciding against allowing the previously discontinued policies to be put back into effect. The reasons are straightforward: The proposal does not make sense for Washington because of the overall negative effect on the stability of the health-insurance market.
To learn more about Commissioner Kreidler's decision, please check his statement.
You can also see what is really happening with those canceled policies and how many consumers can qualify for more comprehensive coverage at less cost.
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Such as AT&T Comcast and Megapath. As of late AT&T has what seems to have a shortage on U-verse parts, components and refues to upgrade you to U-verse if you have a preexisting DSL from another provider even if you request a Dry line.. But most of all there short on people to sell and install the equipment. So if you want U-verse you get blackmailed into getting rid of your other provider that's on your shared line
Comcast or as I like to call them Con-cast, has had its short comings. Price is a Big factor and they seem to not keep agreements with there customers. They also seem to have more outages and never have to follow FCC rules when it comes to keeping there phone service running.. Example: The Snow storm that hit Chicago this year. Put the phone service off line for several days. Where DSL and phones from the Telco worked fine. Even Satellite worked threw the storm.
Since Megapath started working a bunch of providers and doing the billing for them such as covad and speedstream complaints are all over the web about the currant management. They seem to be short handed and not putting out outage reports properly...
Personally I feel bad for all the people that have to do phone support because they have there hands tied with the rules these companies setup So I never YELL or SCREAM when trying to help my predicament. I try to keep it as much fun as possible after all its not brain surgery.
I do blame the companies for not being better prepared to handle what they sell and the companies that supply the equipment.. They should do a better job and stop running there businesses like congress.
Times are tight with money for all of us including a lot of businesses...
I'd like to hear from you on what problems your having with the providers Cause it seems like it might get worse. I decided I won't be making to many changes till after March 2012..
After that I might take my $300 a month communications bill to Magic Jack
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Got to agree with you!
Its amazing to me how difficult it is these days to get the companies
that are still in business
to be motivated... We end up moving clients only when their existing provider(s) seem to have problem making things happen.
I called a provider out of the blue the other day just to ask if they could bond connections for my customers. They didn't but with a little education they were willing to learn and seriously consider it. Another company I had called earlier couldn't get me off the phone fast enough... Its not like they had to buy anything to support this, as its just configuration. My customers would be buying extra service, extra money to the local telco for one, two or three more dsl lines depending on their needs, and been very happy.
Some times your business model has to adapt in order for your business to survive... and this is not the time to be upsetting customers..
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Having been on full service U-Verse for over a year now, I can say this.
My only beef with AT&T Uverse is the daily updatings it does on the DVR. Seems I loose the picture on a chanel every morning. (We won't talk about the Big System Upgrade they did last year)
My options are to either reboot the DVR to get it back "OR" wait for the miday update to get it back.
I know that ain't what you're referring to. I guess being in the old Bellsouth sector we don't have the equipment issues you refer to.
Plus, We get the Southern Georgia Peaches at the Southeast Call centers. You can't help but be nice to them. LOL!
But the key to minimizing a lot of issues is to do a full system shutdown and reboot at least once a month. Doing that I don't have the issues I hear others are having.
I'm still Happier with U-Verse than Con-cast. And have more money in my pocket since my Con-cast days.
But that's just me.
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Chevron Pet Teepee
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Why settle for an ordinary pet bed when you can enhance your home decor with a teepee tent? These teepees provide the perfect escape for your dog and are a charming addition to any room. They are very easy to assemble and lightweight, so you can bring them anywhere!
*FREE mini blackboard.
*This is also available as a set, with a matching thick cushion.
Level of Assembling
Very Easy
No tools needed.
- 100% natural, washable cotton canvas
- Solid wood poles
The base is of a pentagon.
Size S
- Height (including poles): 65cm
- Width: 50cm x 50cm
*small breeds: shihtzus, chihuahuas, poodles
Size M
- Height (including poles): 70cm
- Width: 60cm x 60cm
*medium breeds: spitz, corgi, french bulldogs
Care Instructions
The teepee cover can be handwashed and laid flat to dry if necessary, however, we recommend trying to spot treat first with warm water and dish soap.