After a failed petition to the U.S. government to build a Death Star, someone has taken up the cause to fund the construction project using the popular crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter. Thankfully, to help keep costs down and to help make the project a reality open source hardware and software will be used. Along with “enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.” I can’t wait.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461687407/kickstarter-open-source-death-starOpen Source Death Star Kickstarter
Immigrant Apparel Seeks To Unite Us All, CEO Betty Penate Discusses the Birth of a Brand
I met Betty Penate last summer at the Amber Rose Slut Walk in Los Angeles. Betty is the Founder and CEO of Immigrant Apparel. Betty was there to showcase her clothing line and show support for the event dedicated to combating gender inequality, sexual injustice, and derogatory labeling.
Richard Trammel answers, “What is Fight Club Without Tyler Durden?”
Visual effects pro Richard Trammel shows us in this vimeo video uploaded on January 20, 2014 what Fight Club would look like without the infamous Tyler Durden.
Felix Baumgartner Hi Res Tablet and Desktop Wallpaper
We have made the high resolution of “Returning from the Edge of Space” available. It can be downloaded here…
My Battlefield 4 Beta Experience in Which I Go Vertical
I’ve had DICE’s Battlefield 4 beta sitting in my Origin gamelist for a while now. This past weekend I got a notice letting me know that I could preload the…
SIMNET goes online in 1987
This is a video displaying the capabilities of SIMNET which was a multi-user military simulator that went online in 1987. A few interesting quotes from the latter half of the video should have you thinking about the future of virtual reality systems.
“…you’ll be able to create anything, from a synthetic battlefield to a synthetic factory, all using the same core technology.”
“Anything that you can conceive of can be put on a network.”
“…all the way down to the guy bringing lunch out to the troops.
It’s not the camera that counts
Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) is proof that creativity, ingenuity and photography know how, are the qualities that make an intriguing photo. With out a camera worth thousands of dollars or pencil thin models, Avanaut has turned out some dynamic shots, using primarily, Star Wars lego figures. His use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion.
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