Fanmade Star Wars- Doku: Building Empire
Jambe Davdar hat seine Empire-Doku fertig- und online gestellt. Das Projekt hat er mit null Clips angekündigt und ich hab grade zehnmal in meine Bude ejakuliert. Über zwei Stunden Empire-Orgasm. You’re welcome.
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Fanmade Star Wars Doku
Fanmade Indiana Jones Doku: Raiding The Lost Ark
Jambe Davdar hat seine Indiana Jones-Doku fertig- und online gestellt. Clips daraus waren im letzten Jahr ständig im Netz zu sehen, hier das komplette Teil mit haufwenweise Behind-The-Scenes-Shots und Melting Faces.
David Lachapelles colorful Flowers
Tolle neue Fotoserie von David Lachepelle, der Blumen und Popkultur als Oldschool Stilleben abgelichtet hat: david lachapelle: earth laughs in flowers. Finde ich super, nach dem Klick alle Bilder der Serie.
Working Bone Guillotine-Model by 19th Century POW for sale
Vor ein paar Tagen hat man ein Model einer Guillotine aus Tierknochen gefunden, das von einem napoleonischen Soldaten in Kriegsgefangenschaft in England gebastelt wurde. Das Teil ist rund einen halben Meter hoch, hat bewegliche Einzeltweile und funktioniert (!). Das Stück soll jetzt versteigert werden und nur (ohne Anführungszeichen) circa 8000 Euro bringen, finde ich tatsächlich erstaunlich wenig für ein dermaßen seltenes Model mit einer solchen Geschichte auf’m Buckel Schafott.
Und man kann mir wahrscheinlich fünf Millionen Supermario-Videos zeigen, die lassen mich alle mehr oder weniger kalt – aber bei sowas hier bekomme ich glitzernde Augen. Die Bilder beim Link sind übrigens alle HighRes, achtet mal auf die filigranen Details… Wahnsinn!
During a routine valuation in Dorset, Duke’s Auction specialist found a rare working model of a guillotine made out of animal bone scraps. According to family lore, the model has been in the family since the 19th century, but they had no idea what it was until Duke’s expert Amy Brenan (who also generously provided the sweet high resolution pictures herein) identified it.
The guillotine was crafted by a prisoner of war, probably French, who was held in Britain between 1805 and 1815 during the Napoleonic wars. He collected sheep bones from the trash, carved them and put them together with impeccable attention to detail to make the 20-inch high model of an execution. An elaborate superstructure crowns the decapitation machine which rests on a platform with a victim lying horizontally waiting for the blade to fall. The victim is surrounded by armed guards on the platform, and the base of the structure is also manned by armed guards and cannons. Each figure has a hand-painted face, the blade of the guillotine drops and the soldiers holding weapons have moveable arms.
Any Brenan describes its rarity: „Napoleonic prisoner of war models made from bone and ivory are hard to come by. Many designs such as the model battle ships, spinning jennies and guillotines are so intricate that they disintegrate overtime and this makes any surviving examples extremely rare. The sheer skill in creating a working model of the guillotine coupled with its social significance at the time, has made the guillotine models particularly desirable.“
Hattie Stewarts Megazine-Doodles
Hattie Stewart aus London kritzelt, wenn sie nicht grade Illus für dicke Kunden anfertigt, auf Magazinen rum und nennt die dann Megazines. Tolle Arbeiten! Hier ihr Blog, hier ihre Website, die Megazines nach dem Klick. (via Juxtapoz)
Great Balls of Fire: Ghost Pepper Candy
Think Geek verkaufen Bonbons mit Bhut Jolokia aka Ghost Chili Pepper. Das Zeug war bis vor ein paar Jahren die schärfste Chilischote der Welt und ist 400x schärfer als Tabasco und hat halb soviel Scoville Heat Units wie Tränengas. Der lecker „Süßkram“ heisst passenderweise Great Balls of Fire und wer so ein Teil länger als drei Sekunden im Mund behalten kann, bekommt von mir ‘ne Pizza spendiert. Sind sie zu stark, bist Du zu schwach.
Ghost Pepper Super Hot Candy Balls are exactly what their name implies. They are candy balls that have Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) powder inside and coating them. The result is over 1 million SHU of heat! Why? Because we know you like hot balls, and because we wanted to make sure you had the hottest balls available. Ghost Pepper Super Hot Candy Balls will blow your mind and kick your mouth’s butt. “It was like my tongue was punched in the face with a fistful of atom bomb,” says young Zack, our photo-victim-du-jour. So trust Dr. Timmy, and get some of these Ghost Pepper Super Hot Candy Balls for yourself, your friends, and your enemies. If you dare!
Prime Burger Restaurant-Videoportrait
Vimeo Direktburger, via Ronny
Toll fotografiertes Videoportrait des Prime Burger Restaurants in Manhattan von This Must Be The Place. Der Laden wurde in den 30ern eröffnet und seit den 60ern wurde nichts an der Einrichtung verändert. Die Slow-Version von Fast Food, quasi.
Prime Burger Restaurant, in Midtown Manhattan: For many of the guys that work here, the restaurant is like a second home – some of them have been slinging burgers, making shakes, and waiting on customers at this location for decades. Opened in 1938, the place hasn’t been altered since the early ’60s, and it looks all the better for it.
Here the waiters and workers of Prime Burger discuss their views on their chosen profession, and the unique nature of the place itself.
Yours truly heute beim Game Culture Circle
Ich sitze nachher in einer Diskussionsrunde im Games Culture Circle, wo ich mit Jan Hegenberg und Mathias Mertens über den ünsäglichen RTL Beitrag zur Gamescom vom letzten Sommer und den Shitstorm danach reden werde. Ich weiß selber noch nicht genau, wie das ablaufen oder ob das aufgezeichnet wird, bin aber sehr gespannt.
Als RTL im Sommer 2011 einen diffamierenden Beitrag über die Messebesucher der Gamescom sendete, dessen Niveau selbst für die Verhältnisse des Boulevards überschaubar war, keilten die Gamer zurück.
Foren wurden belagert, Hate-Groups auf Facebook gegründet, Youtube-Videos in den roten Bereich gevotet. Und die angesäuerte Fachpresse warf sich mit Rache-Video-Beiträgen und Kommentaren schützend vor ihre Klientel. Shitstorm, so nennt man das heute. Und was dem Privatsender aus dem Netz entgegen wehte, war ein regerechter Shit-Hurrican.
Doch die schiere Wucht und Bandbreite der Gegenmaßnahmen schien auch ein wenig übertrieben. Da hätte dem Gamer ein wenig mehr Gelassenheit gut zu Gesicht gestanden. Oder gilt hier das Sprichwort „Getroffene Hunde bellen?“
Links for 21. Januar to 2. Februar: Akira Storyboards, Punk Economics, Deus Ex Titlesequence and Donkey Tron
Ryan Andrews :: Sarah and the Seed
En Masse @ Miami MMXI – Part Two on Vimeo
TRANSPORT by Reggie Watts / Noah Kalina on Vimeo
LE PETIT THEATRE DE L’EBRIETE on Vimeo
MIRARI 2012 REEL on Vimeo
Space Stallions – YouTube: As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion, a spark of hope is born. Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of darkness, Destructo.
Temps Mort on Vimeo
Skin on Vimeo: Directed by Ryan Hope, Skin is a dark, stylish examination of tattoo culture as high art, and a film that tests the boundaries of art and the human body.
Underworld: Awakening Reel on Vimeo
Inside B&H conveyor system… on Vimeo
Punk Economics: Lesson 1 – YouTube: David McWilliams, Irish economist, gives us our first lesson in punk economics.
HARD. The interactive Bookazine. on Vimeo
Eclectic Method: Enter The Dragon Remix (EM) on Vimeo
Portal 2 – This Is Aperture – YouTube: The full music-video for ‘This Is Aperture’ – a Portal-style remake of ‘This Is Halloween’ (by Danny Elfman) from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Jeff Soto – The Black Keys poster – YouTube
SUNSHINE SAKAE 2012 – YouTube: Commercial von Michel Gondry
Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film on Vimeo: A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.
Origami Skateboarding Intro – YouTube
Reading Kills on Vimeo
Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing – YouTube: 2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create.
The Famous 1930s Skyscraper Daredevil – Dangerous New York Stuntsman ‘Ben Dova’ – YouTube
BibliOdyssey: Calligraphy Letterform Album: 'Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen' (calligraphic writing styles) was produced in the 1620s in Germany by the scribe, Johann Hering.
BibliOdyssey: Stripping Turtles: The very rare, 2-volume series, 'Anatome Testudinis Europaeae', by LH Bojanus was published in 1819-1821 (in Latin), and includes 39 stipple engravings by F Lehmann after drawings by the author.
Google Web Fonts Families
Deus Ex: Human Revolution opening title sequence | Art of the Title
YouTube – One Hour Per Second
urbandictionary.tv
Donkey Tron
Strange Forgotten Space Station Concepts That Never Flew | Wired Science | Wired.com
» Knappe 400 Seiten des originalen Storyboards von Akira | Minds Delight
Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine
Why History Needs Software Piracy | PCWorld: How copy protection and app stores could deny future generations their cultural legacy.
WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay | TorrentFreak: A new WordPress plugin makes it dead easy to uncensor blocked websites. In just a few clicks people can setup their own proxy site with the popular blogging software. An essential tool for people whose speech is restricted by oppressive regimes, and handy for downloaders in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other countries where ISPs are blocking The Pirate Bay. Additionally, the plugin partially defeats the PIPA and SOPA bills in the US.
Pruned: Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers
The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to ‘sell out’: A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.
What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology – Ross Andersen – Technology – The Atlantic: What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers.
Focus on the User: How much better would social search be if Google surfaced results from all across the web? The results speak for themselves. We created a tool that uses Googles own relevance measure – the ranking of their organic search results – to determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded.
All of the information in this demo comes from Google itself, and all of the ranking decisions are made by Googles own algorithms. No other services or APIs are accessed.
Dragon Head Beer-Rhytons
Jason und Jane Chischilly verkaufen auf Etsy schicke Drachenkopf-Bierkrüge, die auf alten Gefäßen aus dem antiken Griechenland basieren. Die Dinger sind nicht teuer und ich bin wirklich schwer am überlegen, das schicke Teil oben ist leider ausverkauft, die haben aber noch andere in ihrem Shop.
This is an original work of art by Chischilly Pottery, designed after a unique drinking vessel known as the Rhyton. A rhyton (plural rhytons or, following the Greek plural, rhyta) is a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk, or else poured in some ceremony such as libation (.libation (Σπονδή spondee in Greek) is a ritual pouring of a drink as an offering to a god or deity). Rhytons were very common in ancient Persia, where they were called takuk (تکوک). The English word rhyton originates in the ancient Greek word ῥυτόν (rhŭtón).
After a Greek victory on Persia, much silver, gold, and other luxuries, including numerous rhytons, were brought to Athens. Persian rhytons, which appear in Athens suddenly in great quantities after the war, were immediately imitated by Greek artists.
Tree Leaves from Human Hair
Jenine Shereos macht Blätter aus Haaren, die sie miteinander verknotet und verknüpft. Würde ich als Grobmotoriker in tausend Jahren nicht hinkriegen.
In this series, the intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair. Inspired by the delicate and detailed venation of a leaf, I began stitching individual strands of hair by hand into a water- soluble backing material. At each point where one strand of hair intersected another, I stitched a tiny knot, so that when the backing was dissolved, the entire piece was able to hold its form. Creating this work was a very meditative process for me, as I found myself lost in the detail of the small, organic microcosms that began taking shape.
Watchmen Prequels officially announced
DC Comics haben heute in einer breit angelegten Aktion die Watchmen-Prequels angekündigt. Dazu haben sie auf mehreren Websites von Wired bis zur New York Times Cover-Artworks und Interviews mit den Autoren gestreut, am interessantesten dürften natürlich die Rorschach und Comedian-Runs von Brian „100 Bullets“ Azzarello werden, aber auch sonst haben sie sich ein paar Schwergewichte ins Boot geholt, unter anderem J. Michael Straczynski, der in jüngster Zeit Superman Grounded geschrieben hatte (fand ich toll).
Die Prequels erscheinen über mehrere Monate in wöchentlichen Ausgaben, hier im einzelnen:
● RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
● MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
● COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
● DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
● NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
● OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
● SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda ConnerEach week, a new issue will be released, and will feature a two-page back-up story called CURSE OF THE CRIMSON CORSAIR, written by original series editor Len Wein and with art by original series colorist John Higgins. There will also be a single issue, BEFORE WATCHMEN: EPILOGUE, featuring the work of various writers and artists, and a CRIMSON CORSAIR story by Wein and Higgins.
Hier das Statement von Alan Moore in der New York Times (wo es noch dazu ein Interview mit Brian Azzarello gibt):
Mr. Moore, who has disassociated himself from DC Comics and the industry at large, called the new venture “completely shameless.”
Speaking by telephone from his home in Northampton, England, Mr. Moore said, “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”
Comicbook Resources: EXCLUSIVE: JMS TALKS “BEFORE WATCHMEN: DR. MANHATTAN” (Interview with writer J. Michael Straczynski)
Wired: Ozymandias Cover for Dreaded Watchmen Prequel (Interview with writer Len Wein)
Hollywood Reporter: DC Entertainment Returning to ‘Watchmen’ with 7-Book Prequel Series (Interview with writer J. Michael Straczynski)
Entertainment Weekly: DC Comics to publish controversial ‘Watchmen’ prequels (Interview with writer Darwyn Cooke)
LA Times: ‘Watchmen’ prequels: DC dares to expand on classic (Interview with writer/artist Darwyn Cooke)
USA Today: DC gives Watchmen a graphic past (Interview with writer Brian Azzarello)
Associated Press: Watchmen The Prequels: DC Comics Eyes Will Launch 7 Miniseries To Preface 1986 Series (Interview with writer Len Wein and artist John Higgins)
Pirate Bay goes to Jail
Das oberste Gericht in Schweden hat grade die Berufung der Gründer von Pirate Bay abgelehnt. Damit wandern die Erfinder der größten P2P-Site im Netz erstmal in den Knast und zahlen 6,8 Millionen Dollar Schadenersatz. Jetzt wollen sie mit ihrem Fall vor den europäischen Gerichtshof ziehen.
Peter Sunde, also known as Brokep, now awaits 8 months in prison. Fredrik Neij, also known as TiAMO, faces 10 months. Businessman Carl Lundström has the lightest sentence of 4 months. All will have to pay their share of a combined 46 million kronor ($6.8 million) in damages.
A fourth defendant, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, was absent from the appeal hearings due to medical circumstances. Having also failed to appear at a subsequent hearing, it was announced last year that the District Court ruling of 2009 against him of 1 year in prison and a share of the damages would be made permanent.
“The verdict is absurd,” said Carl Lundström’s lawyer Per E Samuelsson. “I am disappointed that the court is so uninterested in dissecting and analyzing the legal twists and turns of one of the world’s most high-profile legal cases of all time.”
One of the defendants informs TorrentFreak that they will now appeal at the European Court of Justice. But this, however, won’t prevent the sentences from being executed in Sweden.
Pirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
Speech reconstruced from Brainscans
Wissenschaftler haben Worte aus Brainscans rekonstruiert und in ein paar Jahren werden wir keine Texte mehr eintippen, sondern über ein Brain-Interface in Kombination mit Spracherkennung direkt ins Netz denken. Vor ein paar Jahren hat man bereits Bilder aus Gedanken rekonstruiert, das hier ist der nächste Schritt: Eine Telepathie-Maschine. Einerseits. Andererseits dürfte der Spruch „Die Gedanken sind frei“ bald echt der Vergangenheit angehören. Brave new world.
When you read this sentence to yourself, it’s likely that you hear the words in your head. Now, in what amounts to technological telepathy, others are on the verge of being able to hear your inner dialogue too. By peering inside the brain, it is possible to reconstruct speech from the activity that takes place when we hear someone talking.
Because this brain activity is thought to be similar whether we hear a sentence or think the same sentence, the discovery brings us a step closer to broadcasting our inner thoughts to the world without speaking. The implications are enormous – people made mute through paralysis or locked-in syndrome could regain their voice. It might even be possible to read someone’s mind.
Imagine a musician watching a piano being played with no sound, says Brian Pasley at the University of California, Berkeley. “If a pianist were watching a piano being played on TV with the sound off, they would still be able to work out what the music sounded like because they know what key plays what note,” Pasley says. His team has done something analogous with brain waves, matching neural areas to their corresponding noises.
New Scientist: Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves, PopSci: Translating Brain Waves to Reconstruct Sounds and Conversations You’ve Heard, hier die Studie als PDF: Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex (via /.)
