National Library Of The Girolamini Oratory, Naples, Italy
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The new face of education.
14-year-old girl shot by Taliban sent to UK for treatment
Reuters: 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist who was shot by Taliban last week, has been sent to the United Kingdom for further treatment.
A military spokesman announced the transport Monday. The spokesman said Yousafzai will require long-term care to recover. Yousafzai was shot because of her activism work against the Taliban’s efforts to keep girls from receiving an education.
Photo: A student holds an image of Malala Yousafzai who was shot on Tuesday by the Taliban, during a rally in Lahore on October 14, 2012. (Mohsin Raza / REUTERS)
Could Voyager 1 have finally left the Solar System?
Voyager 1: beyond the edge of the solar system at last?
This graph may hold the tell-tale pieces of data showing that Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. The sudden reduction in the number of charged particles that hit the craft’s detectors signal that it crossed some sort of boundary in September. Perhaps this means that it is no longer being bombarded by the solar wind, and that it has reached interstellar space?
(via Basic Space)
Voyager is my favorite spacecraft. This news makes me happy.
(yes… I am geeky enough to have a “favorite spacecraft”)
Nikita Nomerz is a Russian artist that travels to various cities and transforms abandoned structures through graffiti installations.
World Architecture Festival 2012: the Cooled Conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects at the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore have been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
Completed earlier this year, the two shell-shaped structures are the largest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world and form part of Bay South, the largest and first to complete of three gardens at the 101-hectare site beside the marina in downtown Singapore.
3D-Print Your Own Ancient Art at Museum Scanathon
Now you can create a museum right in your own home!
Last week, with the San Francisco Asian Art Museum closed to the public, Christian Pramuk baby-stepped his way in a half-circle around Standing crowned Buddha with four scenes of his life, using a DSLR to snap upward of 40 photos of the thousand-year-old stone sculpture.
“It doesn’t need to be perfect,” he said as he shot. “You just want to make good photographs, is the most important thing.”
He made a second pass, capturing different angles and more detail. ”I want to see surfaces from three different directions to get the full articulation of the surface.”
The Asian Art Museum allows photography (without flashes), but rarely do visitors document the art with such detail. Pramuk’s shots weren’t just for photography, though. He was using 123D Catch — the free software he oversees as a product manager for Autodesk — to create a 3-D digital rendering of the Buddha as part of an informal collaboration between Autodesk and the museum. Dubbed “Scanathon,” an invited handful of artists, friends and coworkers from Autodesk and Instructables, and 3-D enthusiasts carted iPhones, iPads, and DSLRs around the museum last Monday and Tuesday, using 123D Catch to capture art and print 3-D models of it.
Not every museum would welcome such digital ripping (though the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and MakerBot collaborated on a similar, larger project earlier this year). But for the Asian Art Museum, it’s an opportunity to open up the art to visitors and give them a new way to interact with it.
“Having people come and actually re-interpret these ancient artifacts in a different way is actually really in line … with our vision,” said Janet Brunckhorst, the museum’s manager of web and digital media. “That said, we want people to use the credit lines. We like people to know what they’re looking at.”
The museum invited Autodesk and pals to capture whatever art they wished, asking only that they include five pieces the museum deemed historically significant and good for scanning. (Stone, with its rough texture and low reflectivity, makes for particularly good modeling.)
But it’s not just about modeling the statues on a screen. All of the digital files from Scanathon will be available on the 3-D object compendium Thingiverse, free for anyone to download and even print.
Issac Asimov
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Tom Hanks makes me smile.
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I want one of these.
CONTEST: Celebrate Sol LeWitt’s 84th birthday (yesterday, Sept 9) by baking or decorating your own LeWitt-inspired birthday cake! Winner gets a MASS MoCA tshirt (and endless bragging rights). Photos should be emailed to eevans@massmoca.org by Sept 16.
This photo of an art-inspired cake from SF MoMA’s coffee bar.
Best to always have a nude model in the studio, even if you’re not actually painting her.
Photo of Salvador Dalí painting The Temptation of St. Anthony
This is what the internet used to look like.
We just need to try harder. The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space—each of them discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the decision to press forward.
The defining moment of a century of progress.
(Neil Armstrong describes the lunar surface as he steps off the LEM (referring to the Apollo Lunar Module). This video includes his famous words “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”)
The name Neil Armstrong will be in history books for as long as we have history books.
(Astronaut Neil Armstrong on a one-day Gemini VIII mission in March of 1966. Gemini was a stepping-stone project, working toward the upcoming Apollo missions.)
