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A fantastic combination!

Curious psychologic game…

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips. (more)

The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most [...]

I discovered a tool on my computer…. I made a panoramaphoto by merging 4 photos I took on a bridge in the village where I spent my holidays in our summerhouse in France: Viviez.

This remarkable video shows a glimpse into the fascinating world of the ant. The narrator describes the intricate ant nest as an accomplishment equivalent to the building of the great wall of China.

The Eye-Sys® visualization application is based on a simple idea: Gather data from a wide variety of sources and use that data to control a virtually unlimited array of user-created visualization systems.

Arne: “I’m always looking for smart people to join my current project. Or to be a resource in someone else’s project.”
This Swedish guy makes it very easy to send music to an emailadress…

zoom in on Sydney by night…..

zoom in on Chicago by night ….

zoom in on “LA GLORIA DI SANT’IGNAZIO“

Modern art: the explination is a lot of arty farty bla bla bla, but the images (film) are wonderfull…

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment.

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an experiment …. count the F’s in the text here below:

This exhibit displays historic and contemporary images of medical and surgical procedures. The contemporary images use authentic color photographs and the artistry of digital photographic montage to portray the personalities and moving drama of surgical care.

Robots that work alongside us in our homes and workplaces could extend he time an elderly person can live at home, provide physical assistance to a worker on an assembly line, or help with household chores. In order to assist us in these ways, robots will need to successfully perform manipulation tasks within human environments. [...]

After fourteen years of research and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century.

Venturi launchs the production of Eclectic, the first electric and solar vehicle to be energy-autonomous…

Dear carnivores, don’t look at those animations: you could get hungry….

Fantastic collection of interesting pictures and quotes. Good for hours of surfing.

Talking about a crazy experiment!

what keeps mankind alive ….?

With your date and place of birth, find your rising sign and the positions of the other stars in your birth chart, with interpretations and a great choice of graphics…

Ever seen the movie The Elephantman? It’s a great movie by David Lynch about Joseph Merrick, an historical figure who had elephantis, a rare deformation disease. He first was abused in a freak show and later he was a famous lab-subject.
A lot of artists are ‘inspired’ by freak-shows. Stephan Berkman, artist and photographer made a [...]

There are a number of books available on the subject, but perhaps one of the most interesting ones is “Sugar Blues” by William Dufty, and, yes yes yes, sugar is addictive and does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic. Before you call your darling ’sugar’ you should read this article…

eco: ecological & economic … Furniture: unique products of worthless material; waste material from the industry and nature by Piet Hein Eek: “The free work brings the theme of the rest of the work to a head….

interesting!

Interesting video showing Laminar Flow and demonstrating fluid flowing in layers. Very cool! Filmed at the University of New Mexico - Physics Department.

“sexual healing”

Some guys from Make, a diy magazine, are building a weather balloon that can go into space. Very nice project.

Biochemistry project that I found on the net. …

Ever since Google first let people scour the planet from the comfort of their computers through the Google Earth software program, fans have been on a virtual scavenger hunt from the North Pole to the South Pole looking for anything interesting, unusual, or unexplained.

These creatures live in such greath depth that they could only be photographed using special depth camera’s. Spooky!

An artistic approach to the American waste-problem! Nice photoshopping!

“Ayurveda” roughly translates as the “knowledge of life”. Ayurveda is now a statutory, recognised medical system of health care like other medical systems existed in India. In last 3 years alone nearly 500 books about Ayurveda are being published in 60 different languages, in 50 countries. [...]

Ever wondered who made the flashy application designs they use in hollywood-movies? Well, Mark Coleran does.
A resume:

Everyday there are new substances being created. Check this ‘ferrofluid’: it reacts to magnetic fields. I wonder if it will ever be used.

In 1835 the first motorised public transport appeared in Belgium. It was a train driven by a steam engine that passed trough fields and town at an unbelievable 40 km/h! This railroad had many opponents, one of their arguments was that this would cause physical damage to humans and to animals, even by only watching [...]

A remarkable young man, exhibiting stunning mental abilities. Daniel Paul Tammet born 31 Jan 1979 claims to see colours and sparks, which he can somehow relate to words and numbers. Scientists consider him a gold mine to [...]

Image metrics is specialized in high fidelity performance-driven facial animation, digital characters, real-time engines and content analysis. Their solutions power many of the world’s best-known videogames and feature films. Also musicians, like Peter Gabriel, like to use that technic for their video’s. See how it works on the docu’s…

To create a human species… How must it feel, to be a God, and to be able to create, for insance, your own partner…

Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe … all » there’s no need to feel bad. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn’t your fault [...]

This is an animation of the eclipse click on the moon to view it. (It’s 1.7 MB so it may take a little time to load…)
On Sunday we had an opportunity to see the moon completed blotted out by Earth’s shadow in one of those rare events known as a Lunar eclipse. Thanks to [...]

What you find on this site is a ‘happy digital toy’, and with the click of the mouse you can interact with silhouettes that appear.

Real cool stuff, toys for big (anarchist)boys…!!!! Defense contractors say that within the next 10 years they’ll have a solid state laser mounted on a Hummer that can put a hole in sheet of metal from several miles away. Well Dutch graffiti writers can pretty much do that now with this Hymermobil rocking a [...]

Very interesting: the california academy of sciences made a website about skulls.

Some artist use paint, some use a camera and others use concrete….

Dutch artist Peter Luining: “I started to do autonomous work for the internet in 1996. I was fascinated by the way you could easily make things interactive with html (a language in which web pages are programmed). My first work researched the possibilities of interactive sound and images. These were quite simple pieces; with a [...]

Magnificent Magnified Monstrous fruitfly.

Birchbark documents (+/- 1400 n Cr.)constitute the most significant set of early Rus written sources to have been discovered. As of the early twenty-first century, the total number of Novgorodian documents was close to one thousand. Besides being of fundamental importance to the study of early Rus writing itself, and to the study of [...]

In 1902 the scientist/photographer Wilson Bentley (wiki), made a series of pictures of the tiniest snowflakes. He used a technique to catch these snowflakes on a blackboard and then take them as fast as he could to a microscope connected to his camera…
He must have been really passionated!

In November 1997 Evert Crols, Dirk Engelen and Sven Grooten set up an independent design office: B-architecten. It is based in Antwerp. B-architecten is a team that developed naturally and works innovatively on a wide variety of projects: individual housing, collective housing, shops, offices, public buildings, public spaces, fairstands, exhibition design and also theatre design. [...]

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“The WAM-V -Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel- is a new class of watercraft based on a patented technology that delivers a radically new seagoing experience. These ultralight flexible catamarans are modularly designed to allow for a variety of applications and to fit the requirements of specific users, missions or projects.”
Yeah, just show us some pictures, [...]

I never really understood what quantum fysics was about. After seeing animation on ‘the infamous double slit experiment’ I understood that it has something to do with senior superheroes with strange hair.
Interesting movie though…

The inhabitants of the kingdom Fungi are known as mushrooms, rusts, smuts, puffballs, truffles, morels, molds, and yeasts. they live nicely togheter and are only known to be agressive towards other creatures and non-fungi when in perill.

The Solar Impulse
One could easily believe one were taking part in a Jules Verne novel: a team wanting to promote renewable energies sets off on a world tour in a solar aeroplane so as to fly without fuel or pollution… The revenge of Icarus, in a way.

I can’t read music. For me music on paper doesn’t say anything. It all seems to be very complicated to write the notes, the intonation, the timing, the ‘feeling’ of music.
Stephen Malinowski thought of another way (in fact several other ways) to write music down. He made a ‘music animation machine’ with a cool retro [...]

In Korea the birth rate is drastically falling. This makes that young medical students need to practise their ’skills’ some other way.
via robotzilla

the Wright Brothers…
A few posts ago I wrote on Visura, a company specialized in 3D effects. Now I see they are working on a HD documentary on the Wright Brothers, developing their airplane. A boys dream come true, I guess, for the Wright Brothers, and Visura, and all of us who ever [...]

In these times of joy, peace and happiness, I feel like it’s in place to post about dancing. Dancing Water!
(You can find more amazing high speed photography here, here and here!)

sharp!
xRez is a consortium of digital artists committed to exploring new creative opportunites made available by the advent of extremely high-resolution gigapixel digital photography…

multiply
never thought it could be so easy….

reversable kitchen
As I was looking for new ‘kitchen’ ideas for our (Groep Arthur) next event, look what site I stumbled into…
Grandma’s revenge is a new interpretation of a good old kitchen dresser. And so it’s like the grandma herself: a real multifunctional talent…

Kathleen
Is it ‘not done’ to fall in love with a politician? Anyhow, yesterday I saw our minister of mobility Kathleen Van Brempt for the first time in public and immediately I felt the butterflies… I tried “My Heritage” to find out if she was a lookalike of a celebrity who has been my [...]

Another strange experiment. Before today I’ve had never heard of a non-newtonian fluid. A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid in which the viscosity changes with the applied strain rate. As a result, non-Newtonian fluids may not have a well-defined viscosity (wiki).
You can do fun things with it!

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Done with wikipedia!! Uncyclopedia rules!!!!

Body-animations!

perception of the eye
Strange how you can see each and every icon, you recognise them immediately. And you see 13 icons / second!!!
bWare has put some Eye Muscles Exercise on YouTube….

One of my first posts on this blog was about high speed photography. On youtube I stumbled upon a high speed slow motion movie.
Fascinating!

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I told you hundreds of times of my fascination by water in his different forms. In this next movie you can see an experiment in the international space center. Fascinating!

Blossfeldt fractals are a combination of nature photography and computer design. The fractals are inspired by the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt who made beautiful pictures and gravures of plants and seeds. The results are always very stylish and are often used in architectural and graphical designs.
It is really interesting to see how they make these [...]

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Jocke Berglund– who specializes in aerial photography – saw this ‘remarkable oak tree print’…

In highschool I studied a lot of physics. We had all kinds of experiments, but I never heard of the Ruben’s Tube. This is a tube that visualises soundwaves with fire. A fire speaker!
Watch the movies to hear how it works and to see the effect.

Last time I checked Google earth our country hadn’t got much detail yet. When I checked it today it did! I saw my house and my work.
The thumbnail is the home of oskar lewis!
great!

Ever heard of a company named Scanline? They produce state of the art digitalisation of water and fire for movieproductions. The visual effects are awesome!

this amazing design environment instantly models real world physical experiments……?
And what about this one : activboard.
And ths one: flatland!!! (video)
and : digital desk (video), and the magicboard (video), the Diamond Touch (video), Multi-touch , or simply watch the Spielberg movie: Minority report….

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As a boy, Richard Rogers was dismissed as stupid and sent to a school for backward children. When he eventually escaped from formal education (having stayed much too long in an attempt to pass at least one exam), it was to become one of Britain’s best-loved and most-admired architects.The works of Richard Rogers, born [...]

Behold the babe butler!

Say farewell to real-time contacts, go live on your island, you won’t be alone!!! You have internet, mobile phone and now there is the Hug Shirt!!!
The Hug Shirt is a shirt that allows people to exchange the physical sensation of a hug over distance. Embedded in the shirt there are sensors that feel the strength [...]

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Big news for everybody who uses the needle ( ): The VeinViewer by Luminetx uses a combination of near-infrared light and patented technologies to image vascular structures, thus allowing physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof) in real time, directly on the surface of [...]

An alternative search tool. From Search. To Found. Watson understands what you are working on and automatically finds and delivers the information you need.
Watson Sleuths Intelligence: article from redherring
Watson: An Innovative Utility that Bypasses the Web Browser: for mac users, via karelia
download Watson

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Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have all bought tickets for the world’s first tourist space flights planned for 2008.Virgin Group, owned by billionaire businessman and part-time daredevil Richard Branson, said on Monday it was on track to launch the sub-orbital flights [...]

(wiki) … An optical illusion characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. A [...]

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Sure, it’s annoying when you walk out of the grocery store and momentarily can’t remember where you parked your car. Yes, it’s frustrating when you get lost driving in a strange city. But imagine how terrifying it must feel to be sitting in your own living room and suddenly not have a clue [...]

Experiments with the visualization of gesture. (via AK)

but the best of all : jimi hendrix  

Hindi poem
I posted a new song on the ‘native tongue‘ page: an old Hindi song. Estimates range as high as 800 million Hindi speakers worldwide, making it the second-most spoken language on Earth. Even conservative estimates place the number of total speakers at over 500 million. Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan branch [...]

Use your imagination!! Dissolve is a digital video installation resulting from a series of investigations of the effects of water on crystal structures. Captured through an oblique lighting 3d microscope, crystals are broken apart and disintegrated. Two projectors display mirrored video streams on perpendicular walls. by Aaron Koblin

How many languages are there in the world? And how many dialects? This is a list (wiki) of varieties of the English language. Here you find the dialects of the Flemish region of Belgium: in the part West-Vlaanderen alone there are more than 65 different dialects!!!Even the little town where I come from, [...]

Wow… I’m impressed…

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This apaulette shark uses its pectoral fins to ‘walk’ across the seafloor. The slender bottom dweller was one of more than 50 new marine species discovered during the Bird’s Head surveys.
another film & slideshow. via conservation.org

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What’s happening up there? Can you hear me Major Tom?
1001 photo’s

明祥å?°åˆ·æ ªå¼?会社 XYZ Imaging Inc. is the world’s first holographic printing bureau capable of creating production ready multi-resolution, full color, reflective holograms from pure digital media. This technology uses patented holographic technology developed over a 6 year timeframe at a cost of nearly $ 23 Million US dollars. Combined with a revolutionary [...]

Ever saw a picture of working neurons? Ever saw a movie about the transloctions of proteines in a cel? I didn’t, the guys at Paul De Koninck Laboratory in Canada, obviously did.

My wife had a little spot in the iris of her eye and had to have it removed by surgery. Her eyes are quite unique by consequence.
Here you can find a collection of eyes with strange features. There quite nice. If you want to know how an eye works, take a look here. If you [...]

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The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final dome piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 [...]

Together with Mario, from cartoon Mario, who visited me with his family in France this summer, I tried to create basic furniture, a chair, out of solid wood, we found in my garden: buxus. They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs and small trees, growing to 2-12 m (rarely 15 m) tall and a very hard structure. [...]

The eye of science (what a beautiful name), is a place where art meets science. You can admire some of the most magnificent photographs and magnifications in a nice layout. Just admire nature in it’s most artistic way!

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This video shows how rice reacts to different frequencies. When the vibration changes the rice coalesces in the areas where the vibration is the least intense creating some interesting patterns. For more on what is happening in this video check out this Wiki entry.

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‘bringing kong to life’: some preproduction diaries …
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Remember the car chases in old 50’s movies? You could see that they were made with a blue screen: the decor didn’t move quite as naturally as the car did.
In this clip you can see the next generation of this technique: you take any surrounding and place moving characters in it at random.
(Can anyone tell [...]

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Michael Jackson website
skin color @ anthro.palomar.edu @ nationalgeographic @ wiki

Don’t you like to look up to the stars and start wondering…
Robert Benfer discoverd a verry interesting site (pictures) in Peru, on his site you can download a ppt of the “Proyecto Buena Vista 2002-2005“

I was looking for information to write a post about the other Newton, the phylosopher and mathematic, and I stumbled upon this classic video about the powers of ten. It makes you feel small and big.

Biographie: Décidé à être peintre, Jean Nouvel s’inscrit finalement en architecture à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux en 1964.

Sam, winner of many ugly dog contests, died at 14 years of age.
These animals can come into existance as a freak of nature, from physical accidents or by intervention of humans…
Phil Molyneux is a collector of ‘amazing animals’, so if you have pictures, send them to him.

First a piece from projectsinge.net, a kind of feedback carillon & the movement that it engenders/engenders it totally absorbing - comedic, touching, strange.

watchedwire…work by Alan Sondheim. More delicate & austere than the Larsener piece, it provides a sharp&fascinating contrast in the, one would have hitherto thought, relatively easily exhausted, genre of work-made-by-having-microphones-or-other-devices-attached-to-one’s-body.
via: dvblog.org

Walk and register your march with a gps-locator. Your path is the artwork.
or…
Draw and walk your drawing.
Jeremy Wood and Hugh Pryor and the gps drawing project.

“I have always thought of my architecture as being itself a garden.”
interview via desingboom.com

up or down… that’s the question.

see he man who was mistakenly interviewed on BBC News 24.
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He runs seven hours at a stretch, sometimes as much as 48km (30 miles). On a daily basis. Then he was only 3,5 years old!!(read more: BBC News, september 13 2005) But now, after a year of being ‘a freak’ in a ‘circus show’ the change in the media’s tone could not have been more [...]