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William Shatner is back, “Seeking Major Tom”
William Shatner is back, turning legendary songs into odd, campy, contemplative compositions with the album “Seeking Major Tom.” If Shatner’s proudly quirky style is up your alley, you’ll find it hilarious listening as Shatner talks his was through songs such as Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” What’s particularly interesting about the album is how a simple…
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shapeways: The 3D printing revolution, and why making is manufacturing (Wired UK) Thanks to technologies such as 3D printing, the process of boundaries between making an manufacturing have dissolved, meaning that hobbyists can now mass produce in a way that they never could before, according to Chris Anderson, Wired’s US editor-in-chief, at Wired 2011 this…
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Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs (by Kevin Karsch) “Abstract: We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable…
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Knowing that it could be risky to accept such a designer’s descriptions of his own works at face value, author Rick Poynor chose a more effective way to describe Jan van Toorn’s work: instead of describing its appearance or speculating about the rationale behind it, Poynor looks in detail at JvT’s reading list. The idea…