michael jordan is rich …..

In 1965, Swiss photographer Lennart Nilsson took a series of pictures of developing embryos which were published on Life magazine. Within days, the entire print run of eight million had sold out. Those remarkable pictures have been collected in a large hardcover book, “A Child Is Born,”

healthy habits, like brushing your theet and eat fish…

… very old stuff….

The Material Point Method (MPM)… is primarily used for multiphase simulations, because of the ease of detecting contact without inter-penetration. It can also be used as an alternative to dynamic FEM methods to simulate large material deformations, because there is no re-meshing required by the MPM.

This image, originally created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, is a great scientific personality test. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, you’ve got excess spleen qi in your left frontal crockus. This means that you’re a vibrant personality whose passions are apparent to everyone around you, but sometimes you are indecisive. If you see her spinning [...]

Malignant demons with dragon heads at the ends of their feet. Haunting cemetaries, they exhume cadavers and eat them, leaving only the bones of the dead…

Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope … it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

“If I said, ‘This is a terrible thing that we are doing to the planet,’ than people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what people should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently… It’s not a simple ‘right or wrong’ – it needs a whole new way of [...]

don’t try this at home…. unless you’re a yoga expert!

illusion is the first of all pleasures…

RIDDLE: Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question [...]

Thoughts on marketing, guerrilla media, experience and entertainment from Sam Travis Ewen and Interference Inc.

I see your face. It is always near me, though I Am days away from you. In dear memory, I always see your face. I see your face. Alone in the dark night I turn down the light and In the darkness, I see your face. I see your face.  You did not want to cry, but [...]

all under control, down under in Japan….

This video is taken from a 16-mm movie made in the 1950s by the late David Rogers at Vanderbilt University.Neutrophil granulocytes, generally referred to as neutrophils, are the most abundant type of white blood cells in humans and form an essential part of the immune system. Watch as this crawling Neutrophil chases down a bacterium [...]

numbers…

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.

david bowie [audio:http://www.poussinfrais.com/music/flavor_of_the_month/04.%20Life%20On%20Mars%20.mp3]

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….

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…

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….

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.

“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. Coming two years will add about 500 more books, [...]

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 further investigation into the understanding of brain activity and potential.

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 and [...]

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 GRL [...]

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 [...]

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 early [...]

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. [...]

photos “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 [...]

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.

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 dreamed of [...]

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 screensaver [...]

bunny Done with wikipedia!! Uncyclopedia rules!!!!

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….

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hurricanes [audio:http://www.f7sound.com/soundhurricane.mp3] Jocke Berglund– who specializes in aerial photography – saw this ‘remarkable oak tree print’…

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….

projects 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 [...]

video.wmv 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 the skin. article [...]

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

pictures 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 for [...]

(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 [...]

game 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 where [...]

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 of [...]

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, Ostend, has [...]

video 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

photo 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 emulsion that is more [...]

movie 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 in [...]

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. [...]

photo ‘bringing kong to life’: some preproduction diaries … movies

exercise results + + photo 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”

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

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

see he man who was mistakenly interviewed on BBC News 24. read the story

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 [...]

Well, eh, we travel a lot and, eh, we do need ‘the force’, don’t we?

Big, bigger, biggest! Whoever stood in front of Bibliothèque nationale de France could connect himself with the building by dialing +33 (1) 44 24 73 50. Also in Berlin (pong and breakout ad packman).

“Flickeur randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.” Can a random blended content be art?

Some may remember Francis Bacon’s words: “I have never found any panacea for a hangover. I don’t think one exists apart from suicide.�

W.C. Fields A martini made of 1 part vermouth, 4 parts gin and one olive To be taken round the clock.

Sharing a passion to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of ‘reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water’ by the year 2015, Vestergaard (denmark) recognizes the immense sense of urgency. At any given moment, about half of the world’s poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 [...]

Why should someone else do it: read your own palm.

Zoom through the northern spring sky, in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, to the galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy. The observations were made by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Astronomers combined four color-filter images to make this exquisite image. Zoom Animation into M82: 1.03 MB, [...]

Just some strange pictures…

Do you remember the enschede fireworks disaster of 6 years ago? Look at this google film and see the terrible power of the disaster.

Christian Nordqvist says it’s a paradox: If having a beer belly is not longer seen as a macho thing by men, like it used to be, why are men getting fatter and fatter all the time. The increase in weight of British men is becoming a national problem. Humankind has a funny way of becoming [...]

Yes, yes, big brother is watching us, and this is one of the machines (movie)(movie) he uses to spy on us (and military bases, of course…) it gets its energy from the sun and therefore are its wings enormous. You can find a lot of websites about all different types of machines.

Not so long ago my kids made a tree house in our garden. Well, it was not more than some pieces of wood tied together. They enjoyed playing in it because they still have a lot of imagination. Tom Chudleigh is a bit older and lost a bit of that childish imagination but in stead [...]

Grace Kelly, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon, Givenchy, Dior, Vidal Sassoon, cult films of the fifties an Sixties, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Olivia Newtn John, the Rolling Stones, … They all has one thing in common: Oliver Goldsmith. Now they are back!! Face windows. Stereoscopic viewing. Horse drawn. glases

a wet boys dream, the ultimate symbol of independency, the beauty and the beast in one machine, invaluable, speed …

What’ll give you a hangover? What won’t? Do you want to test your memory? On this site, which I found by accident (!), my college, Dr. Ralph, gives you some surgery and you can read the top 10 readers cures… My advice is, and I keep repeating it, stop drinking! Although another colleague keep saying [...]

Can you Get Smarter In a Week? Our friends at the BBC think you can! That’s the challenge you’re about to take on. During the following week they’ll ask you to practice brain exercises, increase your physical exercise and improve your diet, all to encourage a growth in concentration and brain power. The alternative is [...]

If you lost a part of your body, call Robert barron: he’ll fix you one made of a soft, durable silicone…