Today, the DOJ (Department of Justice) filed a lawsuit in the New York district court against Apple, Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin for e-book price fixing - so reports Bloomberg. The DOJ has issues with the way Apple and publishers have adopted the “Agency Model” which allows the publishers to set book pricing, in turn Apple gets 30%. This is different than the way Amazon sells books, which is the “Wholesale Model” - in which publishers sell books to Amazon wholesale and then Amazon sets book pricing – often times selling books at a loss.
Apparently, texting and walking is as dangerous as texting and driving – with the only major difference being a giant brown bear. This dude find it our the hard way.
This is a small animation I did as an exercise to experiment and explore all the graphical possibilities of representing the idea of the SPHERE, always thinking in searching Gestalt and form. Its all done in 3d, but i was more interested in the graphical interest, flatten the surfaces, and only two colors, why more.The most difficult was to achieve the transitions between the different type of representation of the sphere, the morphing and metamorphosing….
A true sphere is a troublesome object and representing it can be extremely challenging. This is not because we are unable to truly imagine or witness the object but because of its shape. Sometimes it’s easier to understand a sphere, by making it from other more tangible objects – have a look at Ion Lucin’s stunning video.
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We’ve all seen the movie Armageddon – how Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck used nuclear bombs to save us from a giant “earth killing” asteroid. Yes, we even remember the animal cracker scene that truly shows off the acting range of both Ben Affleck and Liv tyler - Oscar winning. While the movie was amazingly crazy and pure hollywood sci-fi porn, the actual issue of an asteroid hitting earth is a serious problem. But is it “Armageddon” serious? According to Phil Plait, we don’t need Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.
You like sci-fi? Do you dream of a future with no hope? Do you enjoy oversized plasma rifles or airships powered by small nuclear reactors? How about America in a dystopian, not so distant future? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above questions, Lock-Out is the flick for you. Staring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, the plot goes something like this – Watch the first 5 minutes after the break:
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates…
I’ve always dreamed of ancient creature or life on far off planets and how absolutely wonderful they might be. How different and strange – how completely beyond my imagination, so it’s good that our current planet has plenty of artists with imaginations eclipsing mine. See the massive monster gallery, after the break…
It’s hard to turn down $1 Billion and it looks like the folks over at popular photo sharing service Instagr.am didn’t! On his fan page, Mark Zuckerberg posted the following message:
I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook…[Zuckerberg]
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James Cameron and crew put together the most complete (to date) CGI rendition as to how the Titanic hit an ice burg and eventually was brought to the depths of the Atlantic. The NatGeo special was broadcast in America on the 8th of April and the clip below is from that show. Cameron is no stranger to the sea, as he has been heavily obsessed with the story of the Titanic, even before undertaking the Hollywood blockbuster. Video after the break…
This is the result of a MP-E 65mm lens and some genius from Vimeo user Clemento (Clemens Wirth) – he has done a whole series using the macro lens, which I’ll post in the coming days. “It’s a very special lens and you need a little bit of patience, but the results are breathtaking.” See the video after the break…
“This series of images freezes a moment of time in each dancer’s aerial maneuver, and turns their movements into static sculptures that represents their motion and style. Original shots were stock photography and stylized to fit within the scene, sculptures and sets created entirely CGi…” Full gallery after the break…