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Pushpin Mario Mosiac
•December 1, 2008 • Leave a CommentYou know, sometimes you come across something that really makes you appreciate human ingenuity and dedication to a project. This isn’t really one of those; still crafty though:
What you’re looking at it is a 17,000 push-pin mosaic mural, a product of three revisions and a total of two and a half semesters of work. The final revision took a whopping two months of work by the CIS Student Association at the University of the Fraser Valley, and it’s currently sitting in the Student Computing Center over there.
17,000 push-pins, wow — impressive work! And, whether you like the piece or not, I think we can all agree that these kids should be expelled for ganking office supplies.
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Sapporo White Illumination [Japan]
•November 30, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Sapporo White Illumination [28th Anniversary] is a big event which marks the coming of the snow season in the capital city of Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. Started in 1981, Sapporo White Illumination features romantic, artistic collaboration of nature and light after dark in the northern region, usually with the background of the white snow. Trees or objects d’art in Odori or main downtown areas light up the surroundings, making the snow-world even more mysterious and fascinating.
Trees and objects in Odori Park in Sapporo’s main downtown district are lit up from November 28th, 2008 [Fri] to January 4th, 2009 [Sun]
Here are some past year lights: [2007]
Visit: [Japanese Site] Sapporo White Illumination
Elyza – Book Crossing [F]
•November 30, 2008 • 1 CommentAfter helping a relative move house today, I found myself bumming around under the beating sun and soon on the streets of Auckland city. The amount of rubbish on the road suggested the 75th anniversary Santa parade had finished. Gutted, as I missed the Bike Parade earlier this year as well. More parades, pass the petition!
Construction work had blocked off half of the Town Square, leading me to walk a direct path along the Town Hall Theatre building. I went and sat on the steps into Aotea Square, where I found this book: (6:57PM)
Neat. A lost book, or so I thought. No less than a minute had the cleaners arrived; they would have biffed it for sure.
“Unfashionably outspoken, inconveniently rich, Elyza Leigh was a disaster in London high society. In despair she disguised herself as a boy, ran away – and fell into the arms of a devastating stranger who whirled her into the breathless gaiety of a Brighton Season. In return he asked her help in wooing the exquisite Corinna Mayfield. Elyza would have been delighted – had sh herself not already fallen in love with him…”
I don’t think I’ll get through reading it all by the time I start to get bored, say, mid December, so I will definitely post where I’m likely to leave this book when I’m done with it, OK. Of course I mean that optimistically in the hopes that this book isn’t a tedious read.
Today’s affair reminded me of The NeverEnding Story, you know the one:
“A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!”
I feel special! Bastian used to be my online alias… Yeah, I used to be cool. I also have the motion picture soundtrack and Limahl’s greatest hits on cassette tape… TMI huh?
This is the charismatic woman who left the book to fate:
Very Cool. Cheers.
HYPERCUBE — Human Tetris With 3D Glasses
•November 28, 2008 • 2 CommentsHeard of Human Tetris? — A Japanese gameshow where contestants have to pass through unusual shapes in a moving wall — a funny segment on a Japanese variety show:
…Well, meet HYPERCUBE:
HYPERCUBE takes Tetris that extra step cooler, only it’s no joke — the experimental game by Canadian experimental games troupe Kokoromi, is based on a similar 3D premise. The object of the game is as follows:
You have a cluster of procedurally generated cubes right in front of you, and your goal is to quickly line it up to fit through the hole in the wall that’s moving toward you, by rotating the cluster with the controller.
That’s the human tetris part. The experimental games part comes in the game’s control scheme; you use a 360 controller, but also a pair of stereoscopic 3D glasses, which you can use to look around the game world and make sure you’ve got everything lined up just right.
The full, glasses-and-all version [called Super HYPERCUBE] is only really for show, but the team will also be releasing a Vanilla HYPERCUBE that just uses a 360 pad, so people like you and me can have a go.
Read Full Article: Offworld
Found In Space
•November 28, 2008 • Leave a CommentThe toolbag lost by astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper last week is quickly becoming the most famous piece of $100,000 junk floating around in space. In fact, countless nerds have pointed their telescopes into the night sky attempting to catch a glimpse of the backpack-sized bag orbiting the Earth.
At least one man has succeeded in this endeavor—and he managed to capture it on video to boot:
Hmm, Categorize under – F U N N Y : J U N K – GET IT!?!
[because it’s space junk and it’s funny… no?]
Pocket Cinema Projector
•November 28, 2008 • 1 Comment
Aiptek’s PocketCinema V10 pico projector [The World’s Smallest] so small you can hold it in your hand. With 1GB internal memory, the V10 also accepts SD, MMC and MS Pro memory cards, giving you instant access to movies and photos, without needing to wire up a secondary video source.
You transcode files to Motion JPEG AVI or MPEG-4 ASF—you can use whatever software you want, but if you don’t have an app, the thing comes with ArcSoft’s PC-only Media Converter—and they’re recognized with ease by the projector, along with JPEG stills and MP3 music files, which play fine by themselves, but not in the background of a photo slideshow where they belong.
The Aiptek does have a basic component video input, so you can run low-grade standard-def sources in there with no trouble.
Aiptek’s projector comes with a nice little tripod for quick-and-dirty setup, and a remote control if you’re going to give a presentation. (Speaking of that, the manual recommends converting PPT and PDF files to JPEG and loading them on SD card for best results. Like I said, “quick and dirty.”)
The beefs: You really can’t set the thing back more than five feet or so when by which time the picture—at that point about 50 inches diagonal—really starts to blur. Not even getting into contrast, color accuracy, motion blur and all of the things we examine in higher TV technologies. But in a sufficiently dim setting, the video for the projector is entirely watchable.
Are you going to be an early adopter? If so; The only hold back is that they’re just gonna get better and better.
At $300 [$649AUS I think]… I’m gonna wait until this technology is implemented as standard for iPods and Cellphones; when the technology is cheap, supports 60″ at Full 1080p and is 3D!!! Man, that will be the day!
Reminds me of this:
D a v i d L y n c h
MY HERO!
Possible PSP2 Design?
•November 28, 2008 • 1 Comment
Has Imagination added Sony to Apple consumer design win?
EETimes claim that a recent announcement by Britain’s Imagination Technologies – in which the company boasted of having licensed their “high-performance graphics processor core to a major international consumer electronics company” – actually meant Imagination had inked a deal with Sony to supply the graphics processors for a PSP successor. [That’s according to EETimes’ sources, at any rate]
On the one hand, it’s certainly plausible: Imagination are also the team behind the iPhone’s graphics processor, though the one mooted for the PSP2 – the unannounced SGX55x – is obviously more powerful. But on the other hand…this is some vague, vague stuff.
Anyway, neither party is going to come out and provide confirmation on this, so don’t bother waiting for any. Instead, spend your time wondering what this news/rumour even means to you, since it doesn’t hint at a release date and concerns a processor that’s not even out yet!
Dual Analog and I’m liking the Screen.
Splinter Cell Voice Actor Shot By Terrorists
•November 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Canadian actor and videogame voice specialist Michael Rudder was among the [recovering] casualties in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai yesterday.
The actor was dining at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai when militants opened fire. Rudder was hit by three bullets and rushed to hospital where he successfully underwent surgery and is expected to make a full recovery.
He’s reportedly in stable condition, in hospital, after an operation following the shooting.
You may recognise Rudder’s voice from such games as Far Cry Instincts, Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within (he played the Dark Prince), Jagged Alliance and – somewhat ironically – terrorist-slaying black ops game Splinter Cell.
Boy, did they hit the wrong guy!
Read Full Article: CBC News
The Mumbai Terror Siege Continues…
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