Of this environment-depleting überhog Wayne Murphy tweetz:
Like a boss…just now in Bunclody…10ltr Chevrolet boat engine…1ton….Dutch….6mpg…..SIX….
Like a Boss Hoss…
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Parts one and two of the Tropes Vs Women in Video Games series – a Kickstarter funded educational video project exploring one of the most prevalent gender-stereotyping clichés of gaming. Of the just-released episode 2, Anita Sarkeesian sez:
In this installment we look at “dark and edgy” side of the trope in more modern games and how the plot device is often used in conjunction with graphic depictions of violence against women. Over the past decade we’ve seen developers try to spice up the old Damsel in Distress cliche by combining it with other tropes involving victimized women including the disposable woman, the mercy killing and the woman in the refrigerator.
The who in the whatnow?
Google Earth images are compiled from different datasets of satellite imagery taken months, perhaps years apart. Sometimes the process of stiching the smaller images together includes anomalies such as differences in the appearance of the terrain during different seasons.
In his ‘Juxtapose‘ project, artist Daniel Schwartz compiles tasty examples of this split screen exotica.
A 21st century ‘swords into ploughshares’ whatsit.
During South Africa’s OppiKoppi festival this August, punters will be able to order beer via their smart phones and have it delivered via parachute from a drone.
The first one is free.
We’re truly living in the future now.
H/T Damian Sullivan
You’ll recall the shape-conjouring witchcraft of the 3Doodler pen, released a few months ago.
Well, here’s the industrial scale next generation: Mataerial – a large robot that can ‘draw’ three dimensional sculptures from the ground up, or outwards from a vertical wall, seemingly immune to the force of gravity.
Developed by a team of researchers including Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio, the machine extrudes a fast thermo-setting polymer which solidifies on contact with air in a process they refer to as ‘anti-gravity object modeling.’
And that’s just for starters. The device can also execute precise colour changes in the extruded polymer to create gradients and hue-shifts in real time.
Next: large scale sculptures, world domination and the enslavement of mankind.
PBS Off Book sez:
Space presents a fantastic mystery to human life. Unfathomably large, with characteristics that defy our experience and understanding, the stars have perplexed and amazed humanity for our entire recorded history, and likely before. In the present, astrophysicists and astronomers are aggressively studying the universe in an attempt to solve critical scientific and philosophical questions. One of the primary tools for measurement and observation is imaging using cameras connected to powerful telescopes on Earth and in space. And although it’s not the primary motivation for photographing space, beauty is one of the most intriguing byproducts.
Full screen HD for full effect.
Bolton Street product design student Henry Daly writes:
I am trying to promote this project at the moment and hopefully get a job off the back of it some day. If you could post it on Broadsheet it would be great.
Say no more, Henry.
From the video description:
Exo is an electric off-road vehicle for recreational use on dirt, sand and gravel. The aim of the project is to merge man and machine providing a deeply immersive driving experience. The vehicle leans during cornering connecting body motion to vehicle motion and allows a higher maximum cornering speed. The birdcage frame is fabricated from Aluminium tubing. Power comes from a 10kW DC brushless motor run from a Lithium Ion Battery pack.
The 112 year-old Provo Tabernacle in Utah, damaged by fire in 2010, has been saved from ruin by the Mormon church for conversion into a temple.
With its interior gutted, walls reinforced and supported in order to dig a two story basement, the entire structure (all 3,175 tonnes of it) now rests on stilts 40 feet (12m) in the air, appearing to ‘float’ from certain angles.
(Pix: Brian Hansen/ LDS newsroom)
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Wade writes:
Was at Pubstandards geekmeet the last week, saw this lad’s
t-shirt. 10 out of 10 for initiative, definitely a glass-is-half-full approach, someone out there in cyber-tech land should “call this method” and give him a job based purely on his +ve attitude.
Absolutely. Yes.
We have no idea what any of this means.
What could that strange non-iPhone app be? vine.co/v/bEYvt2hYpdM
— Karl Monaghan (@karlmonaghan) May 18, 2013
What Karl was doing rather than playing in the sun over the weekend.