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VFX shenanigizer Joey Shanks celebrates the 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters by attempting to recreate the proton streams from the film.
And why wouldn’t he?
(Thanks Joey)
Category Archives: Tech
Shortly after the telephone was patented in the late 19th century, the early technology required every phone to have its own dedicated connection to the grid. In Sweden, Stockholm’s main telephone exchange – the Telefontornet, built in 1890, was a huge tower in the centre of the city with 5,000 individual lines radiating out across the rooftops.
The typically harsh Swedish winters caused havoc with the system, which was prone to fire and collapse under the weight of hanging ice, but the rapid advance of technology allowed the tower to be decommissioned in 1913. 40 years later, it caught fire and was demolished.
Hundreds more images at the Tekniska Museet (Museum of Technology) website.
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In an interview last June with Martin Enthed, IKEA’s IT Manager for in-house communication, it was revealed that 75% of the images you see in the IKEA catalogue are computer generated. To wit:
The real turning point for us was when, in 2009, they called us and said, “You have to stop using CG. I’ve got 200 product images and they’re just terrible. You guys need to practice more.” So we looked at all the images they said weren’t good enough and the two or three they said were great, and the ones they didn’t like were photography and the good ones were all CG! Now, we only talk about a good or a bad image — not what technique created it.”
The 5.2m Super Falcon Mk II from Deepflight Submarines – a UK company led by marine engineer Graham Hawkes, who built and piloted the Mantis submarine used in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
Barrel roll with dolphins, invert cruise with whales, dive to 122m (400ft) [not 11,000m as previously stated, which would be completely mad] – all for a trifling €1,300,000.
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Ghost In The Machine – part of a current exhibition at New York’s Joseph Gross Gallery by artist Ted Lawson, who attached himself intravenously to a CNC machine, supplying his own blood as ‘ink’ to print a life size nude portrait of himself.
The term ‘selfie’ doesn’t quite do the thing justice.
The monstrous (and very rare) £99,000 Canon 1200mm f/5.6 L USM lens put through its paces on the Mall in London.
MORE: Canon EF 1200mm f/5.6 L USM – Focal Length Comparison (MPB photographic)
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(H/T: Graeme Kelly)
Undercover Colours – developed by four students at North Carolina State University’s Materials Science & Engineering department – is an innovative nail polish that reacts instantly (by dipping the fingers into a drink) to the presence of Rohypnol, Xanax, and GHB.
Having already made an impact on the startup showcase circuit in the US, the company is currently seeking donations for further development
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Australian photographer Jane Long’s digitally restored, coloured and subverted takes on the historic glass plate portraits of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte (currently preserved at the Costică Acsinte Archive).
A profile of the art department responsible for The Onion’s trademark ‘photoshopnalism’ – a term we literally just made up.
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