Photographer and Experience Designer for Adobe XDCE, Kim Pimmel sez:
I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
Here’s what happened when technicians at Cornell Creative Machines Lab took two chatbots (designed to emulate human conversation) and hooked them up to one another.
If you’re attributing personalities to either one, you’re already lost and will be no use to the human resistance when Skynet becomes self aware.
Admittedly, that may take a while yet.
An all-Apple digital collage of Steve Jobs created for Fortune magazine by Charis Tsevis – not his first homage to Mr Keynote.
Check out the eye-boggling 6656 x 6656 original. Give it a minute. It’s bigger than Apple’s balance sheet.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0l0KWgucc
Be sure to say them in Dwight’s voice.
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Some nifty chroma key work (effectively green-screen in reverse, where the superstructure of the Ferris Wheel has been digitally removed) made by Maider Lopez for the OK Centre For Contemporary Art.
Hmph. It’s real to us, alright?
Polar explorer (among other things) Huang Nubo – China’s 16th richest person – has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Iceland’s wilderness for an hotel, golf course and tourist resort.
That’s 0.3% of the total surface area of Iceland. As Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing usefully points out, the tattoo on Bjork’s arm there represents 0.3% of the total surface area of Bjork.
Opponents have questioned why such a large amount of land – equal to about 0.3 per cent of Iceland’s total area – is needed to build a hotel. They warned that the project could provide cover for China’s geopolitical interests in the Atlantic island nation and Nato member.
While home to just 320,000 people, Iceland occupies a strategically important location between Europe and North America and has been touted as a potential hub for Asian cargo should climate change open Arctic waters to shipping.
Chinese tycoon seeks to buy tract of Iceland (Financial Times)
