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
Bela Borsodi’s VLP – Terrain Album Cover is One Single Photograph
Look at the photo above, examine it. The photo above is a single image. Without the use of Photoshop or any post processing technique, New York based photographer Bela Borsodi created this image for the cover of the VLP-Terrain album. Bordsodi’s pieces are clever and full of visual puns. In that same vein, the VLP – Terrain cover is one single image, not four. Mild brain hemorrhaging may occur when trying to decipher how it was done.
Science is Dead. Who Cares?
I decided to create the following image after a heated Facebook discussion about NASA. My challenge to the audience is simple, “Like if you agree. Comment if you disagree.” I’d like to see how my friends and acquaintances feel about the statement. What do you think?
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.
Edit Your Neighborhood in OpenStreetMap
Sick of the errors in the new iOS 6 Maps app? Consider adding or updating OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSM is a crowd-sourced world map, think wikipedia for maps, that can easily be edited once you create a free account on their website. OSM is one of the data sources used for generating what you see in the iOS 6 Map app.
Christopher Nichols Showcases His Work on a 2013 Visual Effects (VFX) Reel
I was recently watching the movie Oblivion and wondering what scenes in the movie might be entirely 3D-based. Fortunately, UPT friend and short-film director Daniel Thron shared Christopher Nichols‘ 2013 VFX demo reel.
How the “Mother of All Demos” Changed our Lives
I recently learned about a computer demonstration dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” given 40 years ago by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Douglas showed off the NLS computer to a crowd of 1000 computer pros. The demo of this system given on December 9, 1968 is now considered one of the most important in modern computing history.
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