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Monday, August 23, 2010

3D illusion paintings, are too cool for me

How in the world do they do this? What is the process? My guess is that they're using a lot of math and computers. Kudos to you guys for figuring out how to make this a reality.

 
 

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via MAKE Magazine by John Baichtal on 8/22/10

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I love the optical illusion art of French art collective Paper Donut. [Via NotCot]

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Bill Gates Convinces 40 Billionaires to Give Away Half Their Fortunes [Bill ...

WHAT?... and then ... YAY?

 
 

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via Gizmodo by Kat Hannaford on 8/4/10

Our favorite charity-worker Bill Gates has successfully signed up 38 billionaires to give away half of their wealth to those less fortunate, in what could be the largest-scale philanthropic work ever. More »



 
 

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Old School Design

This is how I usually go about working on my little projects for the St. Art Gallery. I feel vindicated in my low-tech approach to design and production. It's good to use computers for some things, but not for everything. There's a tactile element to design that has to be accounted for somehow, and computer programs like Blender, Sketch-up etc. haven't advanced far enough to replace the human sense of touch, smell and other more subtle ways we engage an object.

 
 

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via MAKE Magazine by Matt Mets on 8/7/10

Here's a neat video about a design firm in the '60s, and what it looked like to build things before the days of 3d modeling and rapid prototyping. Designers drew out many different plans, then the favorites were cut out in a machine shop, cast, and assembled painstakingly by hand. Looks like fun! [via core77]

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