Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Advertising vs. Reality

A German website, Pundo300, took photos of food products and compared them with the depictions on their packages.
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Paper Heads

Artist Bert Simons makes realistic papercraft heads. Link

Elephant Cam

From Neatorama:

Film-maker John Downer had a brilliant idea. He attached cameras to elephants and let them loose in an animal reserve to capture wildlife photos as you’ve never seen before:

He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.

Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor. […]

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Skills USA Regionals

Hey All-

Be sure to give Jason and Waylon some props for winning First Place at Skills USA Regionals!!! Way to go, guys - now it's time to bring it to States. :-)

Monday, March 3, 2008

NIN offers free music

Nine Inch Nails goes Creative Commons remix-friendly with new album

Nine Inch Nails have released the first nine tracks of their new album, Ghosts I-IV, as a free download under a remix-friendly Creative Commons license. The band is selling a selection of collectible, high-margin media with the music on it, and will presumably tour and sell tickets to people who got turned on by the freely copyable music.

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