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You can do lots of cool things with a single stencil layer in Photoshop. For example; creating killer graphics for a t-shirt print. Over at Stencil Revolution they’ve got a cool tutorial that’ll show you how to create a stencil from a color photo.

 
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Originally from Lifehacker on May 8, 2006, 4:00pm

Emeka from the Timbuktu Chronicles sent in the Fully Belly project, a worldwide effort to build peanut shelling machine in developing countries - “The vision of the Full Belly Project is that the residents of rural communities in developing countries live lives of abundance - that they awake each morning to days of economic possibility and go to sleep each night with bellies that are full. Our mission is to relieve hunger by taking advantage of the highly nutritious properties of peanuts through appropriate agricultural technology. Our strategy is to effect international distribution of unique labor saving devices, and where necessary, provide the parts to construct such devices whose uses will relieve hunger, improve nutrition, and provide economic opportunities to impoverished rural areas…” - Link.

Related:
Malian Peanut Sheller in Action in Uganda - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 6, 2006, 7:13pm

Daniel made a digital pinhole camera from a Canon 350D, the photos turned out great! - Link.

Related:
Pinhole camera projects - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 6, 2006, 4:50pm

Micro.Spheres by Julius Popp takes place in a room, containing around 16 autonomously acting robots, which visitors are allowed to enter and experience. The robots act according to a dogmatic command that drives them to perpetually place themselves in the spatial centre of their immediate environment.

What results is a chain reaction which seems highly complex but can be easily explained as it is simply a result of each robot having an effect on its neighbour, all the way to the borders of the room. This process necessarily has to affect all elements of the system. The system remains active as long as the visitors continue to move. When the visitor remains still the system is able to find a new stable pattern. When there is more than one visitor within the system, the complexity of the shapes and processes increases. Micro.spheres reflects on the complex interrelations that exist between ‘living’ bodies and their environment. In particular, it addresses the changing social structures of our present day and age.

I’m also pleased to hear from Julius that his Bitfall project I posted a couple of weeks ago is also close to completion

Originally by Ruairi from Interactive Architecture dot Org on May 7, 2006, 7:36pm

The latest Citizen Scientist is out, it’s filled with great science news and a couple fun projects - “…a home-brewed panoramic photo of a supercell thunderstorm in northern Illinois on 16 April 2006. This storm produced several wall clouds, but the rear-flank downdraft was too cold to allow a tornado to spin up. This panoramic photo was created using Canon’s PhotoStitch software. This software allows you to interactively choose where the overlap fields in the photo will occur. Then it crops the entire image to allow it to fit in a rectangular frame.” - Link.

Other projects include - How to Discover Asteroid Impacts: The Story of the Discovery of Two Impact Craters - Link & False Color Infrared Photography with a Webcam - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 6, 2006, 11:53am

These acid-etched, stainless steel, oil lamp shadow projectors look pretty neat, you light them and they cast a shadow from a cut shape - I’m thinking of remaking these using the 9V LED battery project and cutting some metal, not sure what the shape(s) will be and what will be the best/cheaperst way to do it yet, but we’ll see what happens! - [via] - Link.

Resources:

• Make 3D parts…Big Blue Saw - Link.
• Make a PAC LITE only smaller - Link.
• HOW TO - Make a TicTac flashlight - Link.
• DIY LED Flashlight - Link.
• HOW TO - Make a windup flashlight - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 7, 2006, 3:41am

Fashion designers Diana Eng (recently of Bravo’s “Project Runway”) and Emily Albinski first made headlines when their Inflatable Dress made the cover of ID Magazine last fall. In their first fashion show together, Diana and Emily are pleased to also launch their new collection under their brand “Blackbox Nation.” The duo strives to push forward technology in the fashion world.

Mashing up biological and technological concepts with fashion gives them a great edge in the fashion world. A fan’s slideshow of the event is here.

This dress is designed to incorporate a hacked vacuum cleaner to inflate the dress and give it volume. A sexy plastic cast corset with lots of switches embedded in it completed the look. Never has a vacuum cleaner looked so sexy!

Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 9, 2006, 12:48am

Graham writes - “The project began after considering building a really small machine much like Matt Keennon’s Microbat and deciding a better bet might be to use an existing rubber design as a basis for a larger model to start with. It seems great minds think a like as you will see in this thread here. After seeing that I sat down at the PC, made some design decisions and drew a few parts in Rhino to be cut out on my little CNC. “ Thanks Ben! - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 8, 2006, 8:34pm

Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection today - so now might be a good time to check out this old favorite - How To Turn a $175,000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge [via] - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on May 9, 2006, 2:44am

Via Pharyngula, yet another example confirming the notion that Creationism (and the whole conservative worldview) is intimatelly involved with the fear of women and an unhealthy, perverse relationship to sex:

Privates by Satan:

I think it is revealing that creationists seem to have a real problem with biological structures that we among the laypeople might refer to as boobies, beavers, and the weenus.

A review of a genital-less anatomy textbook. Read the rest…

And would the illustrations in zoology books look like this, or is that too immodest?
(What’s that called - a quintakini?)

(Image stolen from Daily Snooze)

Originally from Science And Politics on May 5, 2006, 2:11pm

My reason for irregular postings on Pixelsumo has been due to curating and coordinating the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art exhibition. After a huge amount of work by the team, I can now happily say that the exhibition is now open and we have 12 truly great pieces installed in the gallery space. I highly recommend you get to London to check it out. Full documentation of all the work will be posted online, but I don’t want to ruin any surprises for now.

We have commissioned 5 new works, plus showing many existing works.
The works have been selected for their exciting approaches to creative interactivity. They move beyond the ‘screen, keyboard, mouse scenario’ and respond to physical input, proximity, sound, kinetics, elapsed time and the surrounding environment.

Dates: Monday 8th - Saturday 20th May
Location: Phonica Records / Vinyl Factory, Soho London
map & opening hours

Preview video 1 - Preview video 2
Behind the scenes photos
List of artist & works

Originally by chris from Pixelsumo on May 8, 2006, 4:51pm

a personal(ity) visualization in form of a colorful “DNA strip” that reflects your personality characteristics. this representation can be retrieved by taking a new kind of personality test that employs innovative & visual-focused answering techniques (e.g. sliders, “buckets” & XY charts).
[personaldna.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on May 7, 2006, 11:56pm

a strip of blue light of 7 floors tall that gracefully follows people wandering on the pavement below. the Podium Wall accentuates the individual, & the patterns that are created as many pass by together. a specialized video tracking system recognizes persons walking speed & direction. should soon be located on the South & North facades of the new 7 World Trade Center, New York. [kinecity.com & medienkunstnetz.de|via bartlett.ucl.ac.uk]

Originally from information aesthetics on May 7, 2006, 8:42pm

fully interactive implementation of google maps rendered as black & white ascii signs.
[asciimaps.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on May 4, 2006, 5:13pm

a series of paintings in which the individual panels visually & aesthetically blur different abstract data sources, including satellite images, stock market charts, corporate logos, or morse code communications. these multi-paneled works fuse historical content with the contemporary issues while skating the line between representation & abstraction.
see also visitor files & day to day.
[dykhuis.ca]

Originally from information aesthetics on May 8, 2006, 9:26pm

A Telephone bag? But the amazing part, it actually makes phone calls! Just plug it into a landline.

[via Sci Fi Tech Blog via Techie Div'as Guide to Gadgets via Phoneyworld]

Now you finally have a place to carry your blue box around. Phashionable phreaking. –GH

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 8, 2006 at 07:43 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 8, 2006, 7:43am

Well, thanks to the onslaught of new technologies and tools, from blogging software to memory sticks to high definition camera phones with lots of storage space and other ‘life capturing and storing devices’, an almost biblical flood of ‘personal content’

Originally posted by noplay from del.icio.us/tag/future, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 8, 2006 at 08:31 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 8, 2006, 8:31am

In the last 24 hours I’ve heard or read comments from several people suggesting that the Brooklyn College MFA thesis show difficulties [see also] might have been avoided had the gallery posted a “warning label”. I’m also dismayed by the recent sighting of these labels outside some Chelsea galleries.

I totally disagree with the idea that we have to warn people - anywhere - when human sexuality is addressed. Only in America would such a suggestion be met with anything but ridicule.

I think “warnings” are particulary inappropriate where art is concerned. Nothing interesting ever happens when people encounter only what they expect.

Is it necessary to point out that if you can find your way into an exhibition you can find your way out?

And I cannot accept the argument that it’s for the sake of the children. Kids will only be traumatized if their parents make a scene.

I would add that this country has already become far too “infantilized” if I didn’t have so much respect for Les Enfants we think we are protecting to use that word. Let’s just agree we do no service to people of any age by dumbing-down an entire culture.

Won’t somebody please think of the children? –GH

Originally from jameswagner.com, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 7, 2006 at 03:11 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 7, 2006, 3:11pm

Originally posted by tomcullen from del.icio.us/tag/eyebeam-reblog, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 8, 2006 at 08:41 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 8, 2006, 8:41am

In the 1960s, artists working with video and television had revolution on their mind. As Nam June Paik wrote in the first issue of the publication Radical Software, ‘If revolution meant for Russians in 1920s electrification… then the revolution in the 60s means electronicification… mind to mind… planet to planet…’ This utopian spirit, this belief that broadcast technology could be used as a tool to affect social change has returned repeatedly in decades since. ‘Flipped Chips’ is an evening of video curated by prolific artist duo LoVid, to be held at Ocularis, in Brooklyn, tonight. The program pairs early video artists, like Paik, Dan Sandin, and Steina and Woody Vasulka, who built their own audio-visual technologies, with a younger generation of artists doing the same. These include noTendo, Cory Arcangel, Paul Slocum, Karl Klomp, and collective Paper Rad. The juxtaposition highlights a difference in their two respective eras. Unlike the early generation for whom video was entirely new, these younger artists were born with TV and socialized by the net. Variously hacked together or carefully programmed, kitschy or politicized, their works speak to a more enmeshed relationship with mainstream media. Discern the generational difference for yourself: In what form does this group of DIY tech pioneers carry on the early flame of media revolution? - Lauren Cornell

http://www.ocularis.net/

Originally from Rhizome.org Net Art News, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 8, 2006 at 08:32 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 8, 2006, 8:32am