Pencil Carving
Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado have taken up a cool hobby. Pencil carving. With fascinating skill and precision, they carve unique patterns and intricate designs out of the ordinary wood pencil. You'll have to see it to believe it.
Abuse of the Law
Starforce is a firm that specializes in copy protection. In my personal experience their product has done nothing but cause issues with any computer I have ever been unfortunate enough to expose to it. I am not saying they are malware, but my experience has never been a positive one. Their “copy protection” schemes have even led to me rebuilding
True 3D Without the Cheesy Cardboard Glasses
LightSpace Technologies has formally introduced the world's first solid-state volumetric 3D display, a concept they've been developing since 1996. It's called the DepthCube z1024 3D Display System, a front-viewed display with Cartesian display geometry with an image volume of 15.7″ x 11.8″ x 4.0″. Sending 1,000 image slices per second, the whole display volume is refreshed 50 times a second
Showcase at The Espresso Institute
During the month of February, my artwork will be showcased at The Espresso Institute located at 1414b Flushing Rd. in Flushing, Michigan. Their hours are from 6am to 7pm Monday – Thursday, 6am to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 9am to 3 pm on Sundays. The coffee is great and so are their prices, so give them a visit!
The Digital Postmodern Modernist Generator
C'mon, make digital postmodern modernist algorythmic art with the click of a button. You know ya wanna: link What is the Digital Postmodern Modernist Generator? Find out here. “While the program generates abstract modernist looking output the overall concept of creating an automated artist process is somewhat of a postmodern concept, hence the title “Postmodern Modernist Generator”. –Don Relyea What's
iPod My MTV
That's the way you do it, get your money for nothin' and your videos for $1.99. That's right, iTunes has added MTV programming to their video repitoire. Now users can pay $1.99 to download episodes of shows like “Beavis and Butthead”, “Jackass”, and “Punk'd”. The downloads can be viewed on the new iPod that can hold up to 150 hours
Say “Hurrah!” for Nettwerk Music Group
“Canada's biggest record label, publisher and management company is helping out a family sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)for copyright infringement. The privately-owned Nettwerk Music Group is intervening, it says, because the songs downloaded by the Gruebel family include Avril Lavigne, a Nettwerk management client. Nettwerk will fund the Gruebel's defense. “The current actions of the RIAA
The Khronos Projector
There is a deep interconnection between art, science and technology and when these worlds collide, the results can be phenominal. The Khronos Projector is a perfect example. It is an interactive art installation that allows people to visualize movie content in an entirely new way. By actually touching and deforming the screen, the user can send portions of the image
Hamachi
Wouldn't it be cool if you could organize multiple computers with an Internet connection into a virtual network for direct secure communication? Wouldn't it be even cooler if you could do it for free? Hamachi is a UDP-based virtual private networking system. It allows two or more computers to connect directly, even though they might be sitting behind different firewalls
Bad, Software! Bad!
There's bad news for malicious software this morning. A new site launches today that seeks to inform consumers about “badware” which can be defined as spyware, malware, and deceptive adware. The site is called StopBadware.org and it's aim is to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and those who spread it, and to become a focal point for
Exploring the Fourth Dimension
Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics at Penn State, designed a stainless-steel sculpture that's not only an aesthetically interesting work of art, but a mental portal to the fourth dimension used as a teaching tool. “In the three-dimensional world, there are five regular solids — tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron — whose faces are composed of triangles, squares or pentagons.
No Excuse for Ignorance
Professor Ian Ayres wrote in the NY Times, “In time for the new school year, the Government Accountability Office has released a sobering report on the soaring price of textbooks. Over the past two decades, the report tells us, 'College textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation.'” The outlandish price of college textbooks isn't even the most
Geometric Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman
Bathsheba Grossman is an artist who creates 3D geometric scupltures out of metal. They are remarkably beautiful, not just because of their unusual shapes, but because of the 3D printing technology that allows the artist to build a physical metal sculpture from a digital 3D object created in CAD. The handheld sculptures are very reasonably priced. I love miniature objects,
Clothes that Rock
The hip new thing in fashoin right now seems to be items of clothing that let the person wearing it get their groove on. Before Levi's came out with their iPod compatible jeans, a US company, SCOTTEVEST (SeV) has been offering “technology enabled clothing” with pockets that are designed for iPods, cell phones, PDAs and much more! Steve Wozniak, co-founder
Review of Remote Administrator Apps
Recently, I did an in-depth review of a program called Remote Administrator that claims to be 150 times faster than VNC. As part of this review that I did for www.Tucows.com, I compared the program to 5 of the most popular applications in the same category on our site. Here’s a brief look at how these 6 remote administrator applications