change body temperature instead of wasting energy treating air

article by: WIRED
Wristify, as they call their device, is a thermoelectric bracelet that regulates the temperature of the person wearing it by subjecting their skin to alternating pulses of hot or cold, depending on what’s needed. The prototype recently won first place at this year’s MADMEC, an annual competition put on by the school’s Materials Science and Engineering program, netting the group a $10,000 prize, which they’ll use to continue its development. It’s a promising start to a clever approach that could help alleviate a serious energy crisis. But as Sam Shames, the MIT senior who helped invent the technology, explains, the team was motivated by a more prosaic problem: keeping everyone happy in a room where no one can agree where to set the thermostat.

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/an-ingenious-wristband-that-keeps-your-body-at-the-perfect-temperature-no-ac-required/

animation turned up to eleven: audience participation required

it's up to the viewer to actively watch and follow the action with there personal viewing device. animation will be composed inside a 360 degree world of view adding to the list of various material using a panorama presentation as their medium. Google is one example of a company incorporating 360 degree visuals to help the viewer's experience with understanding a location at street level before actually traveling to that location. Video games seem to be one of the first variations to use a 360 presentation with participation as other entities, such as; Maps/streets, star gazing, animation/video/film, virtual tours, and large format photography are becoming more user friendly with the new medium. Can you think of other entities that I missed?

(article related)
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/motorola-google-mouse/?cid=13731474
Google/ Pixar: Changing Storytelling

Call for Placemakers: MKE Rejuvenation project

http://creationaltrails.com/call-for-placemakers/

Call for Placemakers for West Wisconsin Avenue

Tents: Pioneering Public Space
Pioneering Idea Submissions due November 13, 2013

A rejuvenating weekend of overnight urban camping to make Wisconsin Avenue feel like home.

The Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) along with ART Milwaukee and beintween received a generous grant from ArtPlace America for ‘Creational Trails: A Placemaking Experience in Milwaukee. As part of ‘Creational Trails, we are pioneering public space on West Wisconsin Avenue in Downtown for the summer in 2014 as an extension of the many gorgeous existing recreational trails and an expression of the inspiring cultures throughout Milwaukee.
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Submission
- Idea Statement: 500 words or less

- Audio-visual Expression: 1-3 digital images, 3 minute of video  or audio footage and/or 1 website link

- Bio: 300 words or less

- Budget:
We have $50,000 in total funding to provide approximately 2-4 Placemaking teams for labor, supplies and other costs associated to production. Exact funding awards will be determined once the TOURNAVATION is complete. Once the finalists are selected, we will seek further support from our community partners.

- Timeline:
October 9, 2013: Tournavation Begins
October 21-30, 2013: Tournavation Public Information Sessions
November 13, 2013: Pioneering Idea Submissions Due
November 22, 2013: Semi-Finalists Announced
December 2, 2013: Refined Presentations Due
December 10, 2013: Tournavation Pitch at City Hall with Finalists Announced
January-June 2014: Placemaking residencies along West Wisconsin Avenue
June 14-15, 2014: Tents launch with overnight camping
June-September 2014: Tents installations and events (TBD)
October 1, 2014: Tents closing with deinstallation to follow

Focal Length Simulator

cameras' order of importance: LIGHT > LENS > PIXELS/Film/CardRec

SIGMA:
a visual representation of zoom/cropping with lenses.

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/product/45mm-f28-ex-dc-hsm-circular-fisheye

Sony’s New Mirrorless Cameras: Full-Frame Sensors

The Sony Alpha 7R is priced at $2,300 for the body only, while the Alpha 7 will sell for a slightly more-modest $1,700 or $2,000 with a 28-70mm/F3.5-F5.6 kit lens.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/sony-7r/?cid=13188224#slideid-222481

Bike trail update: MKE

Grand Opening of KK River Bike Trail!  (Kinnickinnic River Trail)
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/10/11/bike-czar-grand-opening-of-kk-river-bike-trail/
by: BIKE CZAR
By Dave Schlabowske, Bike Federation of Wisconsin - Oct 11th, 2013 10:13 am

https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203662244324500109620.0004dc9011abfdcdeb209&msa=0&ll=43.0113,-87.891397&spn=0.035774,0.077162

Prince Rupert's Drop

Prince Rupert's Drop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_Drop
"The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to unusual qualities, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking, while the drop will disintegrate explosively if the tail end is even slightly damaged." - wiki

change is coming and i hear a jingle

Disruption guru Christensen: Why Apple, Tesla, VCs, academia may die

VCs aiming too high

Christensen said he thinks the venture capital world needs to be disrupted because it is focused too much on making big killings on big investments at a time when there are plenty of good smaller investments to be made on companies that will be disruptive.

He offered as an example his friend, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Before teaching, Christensen ran a small company in Massachusetts at the same time Romney started Bain Capital, and the firm invested $1 million in Staples when it was just starting out.

Romney actually took the time to call and to ask him to buy his supplies from Staples, even though he was just a small business. But when Christensen some years later sent another friend who was raising $1 million for a good idea, Romney told the man that Bain didn’t make those kinds of investments any more. They only wanted to invest $10 million or more.

“Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. It’s like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 'Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.' People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can’t get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/07/disruption-guru-christensen-why.html?page=all

Nikola Tesla and the Myth of the Lone Inventor

article by: PACIFIC STANDARD

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result,” he wrote in 1900. “He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.” 

- Tesla

http://www.psmag.com/science/nikola-tesla-edison-inventors-apple-samsung-54501/

COPYRIGHT © 2013 · PACIFIC STANDARD

GSF2013: young people thinking outside the box

Google Science Fair
https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/2013/

It's an online science competition, open to students between the ages of 13 and 18 from around the world.

...and more!
https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/2013/faqs

SmartWatches: the phone on your wrist

GIZMODO article:

Qualcomm Toq:
http://gizmodo.com/qualcomm-toq-hands-on-this-is-tonnes-better-than-the-g-1262608083?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Samsung's Galaxy Gear:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/09/galaxy-gear-everything-you-need-to-know-about-samsungs-smartwatch/

COMIC BOOK GIFs!!!

The CreatorsProject: article about using GIFs as comic "book" enhancers 

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/schoolgirls-is-a-new-comic-in-gif-form

The next chapter of digital graphic novels may look a lot like those by French animator and illustrator, Stephen Vuillemin. His comic, Schoolgirls, utilizes gifs to infuse panels with bursts of animation. The tenth and final episode in the 300 GIF series premiered this week as part of the Arte supported publication, "Professor Cyclope."

"I read comics very fast. I don't spend a lot of time looking at the pictures," explained Vuillemin. "I wanted my readers to be able to do the same with my comics, despite the animation. So I came up with some rules. One: if there is a speech bubble, it stays on for the loop, so that the reader doesn't have to wait for it to appear to read it. Two: a single frame of each picture should give enough information to understand the action. The animation is kind of a "bonus" to it, but you should be able to read it without looking at the animations."

the car commercial by Casey

Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/how-casey-neistat-shot-an-amazing-car-commercial-with-z-1253143554?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Casey Neistat: We started with video 1, which was about describing the why, you know, why would I do the campaign and what does Mercedes-Benz mean to me personally? Video 2 is about us actually discovering the car. Video 3 is following us discovering and creating this commercial. Video 4 is the commercial.

YAHOO! logo: new (video)

GIZMODO article:
"The new logo was designed by an in-house team at Yahoo, and it's based on a typeface designed by Hermann Zapf in the mid-1950s called Optima. The design team chose to add quite a bit of depth to the mark, both through shadows and through an extruded line that runs down the middle of each character. The result is jarringly three-dimensional, and paired with a blinding new hue of purple, was clearly designed to stand out on mobile screens."

video link that GOOGLE refuses to acknowledge as a working link:
http://youtu.be/_0b6qaPY-CQ

http://gizmodo.com/yahoos-new-logo-is-a-bore-and-thats-the-whole-point-1255515185?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

rethinking the way we live

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual international design Challenge awarding $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems. Named "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award" by Metropolis Magazine, it attracts bold, visionary, tangible initiatives focused on a well-defined need of critical importance. Winning solutions are regionally specific yet globally applicable and present a truly comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach to solving the world's complex problems.
http://challenge.bfi.org/

donation with rewards: http://www.bfi.org/about-us/support-us

GIZMODO: Can Bugs, Toilets, and Mushrooms Change the World?
http://gizmodo.com/can-bugs-toilets-and-mushrooms-change-the-world-1216820798?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

road building: video of resurfacing

Unlimited Access: I-57 Road Construction

E.T. Simonds, a local construction company based in Carbondale, Illinois. We have full access to the entire construction site, which made for some really unique shooting opportunities. The project consisted of widening a four-mile stretch of I-57 from 2 to 3 lanes. The site is located just outside Mt. Vernon, Illinois, and is slated for completion in December of 2013.

The video follows all of the major steps of resurfacing, from laying down chairs and rebar, to dumping concrete, and the hand-finishing of each lane. We even made a trip to the local Ready Mix plant to see how the concrete is prepared and delivered.

The project was shot on a Canon 5D Mark III. There are also a few aerial shots that a friend shot with a remote control multirotor helicopter.

heartBeat powered dress

http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/

'Intimacy 2.0' features Studio Roosegaardeʼs new, high-tech wearable dresses composed of leather and smart e-foils which are daringly perfect to wear on the red carpet. The e-foils become transparent and opaque in response to the heartbeat of the model wearing the e-dress.

dress turns clear when body "turned on"

flying car

unsure of the current status of this project:

Terrafugia TF-X (introduction)

 Terrafugia.com

i'll use this post as a reminder to further research.

Infinity Pool Designs and lighting examples

http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/23/invisible-edges-15-death-defying-infinity-pool-designs/

NANO: please take me to the moon

nano technology please hurry up, you mentioned a space elevator in 2004... and i'm still waiting ;)

competition for accessory carry: bellyPack

like the fanny pack, we now have a variation of the clunky "bag attachment" on one's self. This time it's incorporated into the shirt.  looks aside, is it even practical to retrieve and place items in this bag? carrying something in a neat little location is great until you need to use that item.
http://gizmodo.com/never-be-pocket-less-with-a-gadget-again-941535111

i'll have to send Gizmodo a press-release when i'm ready with the ultimate accessory carry system :)

premium sign paint: NOVA

Nova Color Artists' Acrylic Paint supplies
http://www.novacolorpaint.com/

NOVO Painting & Property
primary service involves residential and commercial painting projects
http://novopainting.com/
(not sure about this paint, think they are playing off of "Nova")

illustrator scripts: work smarter, not harder

Vectips
Illustrator® tips, tricks, and tutorials
http://vectips.com/tricks/10-free-and-extremely-useful-illustrator-scripts/

camera man; you just a "dime a dozen"

once again NETWORKING proves to be the number one ruler of success.

Wanted: The networked photojournalist
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/opinion/2284469/wanted-the-networked-photojournalist

"In an age when the visual image has become a ubiquitous commodity, a photojournalist's visual aesthetic isn't enough, writes Jason Cone, Doctors Without Borders' communication director in the US. Instead, what NGOs are now looking for is a photographer who already has an established audience"
Author: Jason Cone of Doctors Without Borders

Patents: the formal way to snuffing out innovation and progressive thought

The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on JANUARY 4, 2012
http://c4sif.org/2012/01/the-productivity-of-patent-brainstorming/

example of article substance:
- Protection of a Company’s Products, Services, and Income
- Generating Cash by Licensing Patent Rights to Others
- Obtaining a Legitimate Monopoly for Future Exploitation
- Protecting Research and Development Investments
- Creating Bargaining Chips

the digital artist: .gif animations

A BLOG OF .GIF ANIMATIONS.
CREATED BY MATHEW LUCAS
WHILE LEARNING BLENDER / CINEMA 4D / AFTER EFFECTS.
http://www.89a.co.uk/

The Gif Connoisseur
http://thegifconnoisseur.tumblr.com/

The Creators Project is a global celebration of art and technology.
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/take-a-virtual-vacation-with-13-exotic-gifs
(where i originally found the above artists, and more)

maps and maps

Meet the Man Who Wants to Teach the World to Make Maps
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/anthony-robinson-mooc/?cid=9854334

What is ArcGIS Online?

ArcGIS Online is a collaborative, cloud-based platform that lets members of an organization create, share, and access maps, applications, and data, including authoritative basemaps published by Esri. Through ArcGIS Online, you get access to Esri's secure cloud, where you can manage, create, store, and access hosted web services, and because ArcGIS Online is an integral part of the ArcGIS system, you can use it to extend the capabilities of ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS applications, and ArcGIS APIs and Runtime SDKs. You also get access to ready-to-use apps for making maps in Excel, monitoring activities and events through a common operating picture, and creating and sharing maps in the field. For more information, see What is ArcGIS Online?

http://www.arcgis.com/home/

Banners: printers and costs

Specialized Output Printing, Inc.
http://www.specializedop.com/
402 Travis Lane Unit 63, Waukesha, WI  53189

Specialized Output Printing, Inc. is a unique digital printer offering the highest quality output for the trade. In large format printing, etc...

blade banner similar to GuitarTown banners
9' tall
Estimate: $650 for both
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Echod Graphics proudly serves America's media companies, many large ad agencies, local sign shops, churches, schools, event planners, corporations, sports teams, cities, government agencies, small business owners, retail stores, bands and individuals just like you on a regular basis as their vinyl banner printer, averaging over one million square feet of banner printing each month.

https://www.echodgraphics.com/
http://www.echodgraphics.com/BannerStands.aspx

Echod Graphics Inc.
433 Park Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Tel: 718-643-1454

Estimate: status; waiting
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SIGNARAMA 
262-737-8614
http://www.signarama.com/banners/fabric

We’re the world’s largest sign franchise. SIGNARAMA was founded in 1986 by Ray and Roy Titus. We started with a single store in Farmingdale, New York and expanded into North Palm Beach less than a year later.

Estimate: status; waiting
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The cost for the Blade Banner Double Sided finished Size 13' tall.
Cost $359 plus tax each.

If you have any questions please feel free to call me.
Thank You.

Michael Milner
General Manager
DH Graphics & Signs, Inc.
303 Sentry Dr.
Waukesha, WI 53186
dhsigns@sbcglobal.net
www.dhgraphicsandsigns.com

P: 262-446-5385
F: 262-521-0691
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Attention Flag
http://www.attentionflag.com/

Questions?  Comments?  Special Requests?
Contact Us Via Email: sales@attentionflag.com
Contact Us Via Phone: 1-877-ATT-FLAG (288-3524)
Contact Us Via Snail Mail: PO Box 474, Belmont, MI  49306-0474
If you don't see what you're looking for,
give us a call - we'll create it!

single side/ reverse blade banner:
- 12' - $439 each
- 14' - $477 each

(both estimates include flag, poles, ground stake, and shipping)
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FLAG CENTER
Founded in 1973, the Flag Center has been owned by the Pluster family since 1993. We believe in providing you, our customer, with attentive and timely service that only a family owned business can provide. We support this customer focus by maintaining state of the art systems throughout our operation; including production, graphic design, and IT management.

Our products are "Made in the U.S.A." and are always of the highest quality. We specialize in hands-on customer service and rush jobs are always given our closest attention in order to meet your deadlines. Give the Flag Center your most challenging flag and flagpole issues and let us help you solve them in record time.

http://flagcenter.net/

Wisconsin - 414.778.1776
Toll Free - 800.795.4295

FLAG CENTER - WAUWATOSA
2954 NORTH 117TH STREET
WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN 53222
PHONE 414-778-1776
HOURS: 9am-5pm M-F, 9am-Noon SAT

contact: Kim
kim.nikolaus@flagcenter.net

11.5' tearDrop banner
$270 read: right/wrong
$350 read: right/right
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Innovative Signs, Inc.

Casandra Denevan
Project Manager
www.innovative-signs.com
Innovative Signs, Inc.
21795 Doral Rd. Suite B
Waukesha, WI 53186

P: 262.432.1330
F: 262-432-1331
casandra@innovative-signs.com

Zoom Flag 12' H, Feather or Straight Double Sided GROUND SPIKE ONLY
$552.57 each, plus art fee and tax = $1,203.54

2 important tech/communication developments: Dropbox and Voxer

DROPBOX

"it's moving forward with what it calls Datastores, a new API that will power third party apps. "

http://gizmodo.com/dropbox-just-changed-everything-about-how-you-use-apps-722387495?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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VOXER
http://voxer.com/

Voxer is the only live Push-to-talk app
where you never miss a message.

Voxer Pro Business is a system to manage,
archive and control all employee
push-to-talk communication.

eInk

http://www.eink.com/developer_center.html

The Digital Reader
Your Best News Source for Tablets and eReaders
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/category/e-ink/#.Ud2nHT7XQ09

turn parking spaces into people spaces

Parklets (san Francisco)

http://sfgreatstreets.org/parklets/photos/

before

after

give me a bike and i'll ask for a place to park

although we live amongst machines, the human body is also a machine that requires exercise.
things like this bike park space shows and encourages healthy lifestyles now instead of prescription-life later.

http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2011/05/07/alterra-opens-milwaukees-first-on-street-bike-corral/

go Milwaukee!! let's catch up to the coasts :)

Galco holsters: the leader in carry

http://www.usgalco.com/

http://www.usgalco.com/HolsterP2.asp?CatalogID=453

http://www.usgalco.com/HolsterPT2.asp

price: $199.95

bike container/carry ideas

i need something, a carry bag, that sits in the middle/inside of the bike frame yet allows for waterBottle and bikePump.  probably get some outdoor-treated canvas and make my own.
http://surlybikes.com/blog/post/im_-_8132009_105600_am

fox river crossing: homemade raft

Eagles Nest Outitters Inc website shares how to create your own  hammock raft.

http://thehomesteadsurvival.com/build-hammock-raft-project/#.UcvU3j7XQ09

little coins of information add up to big CACHE: iPhone restore time

reminder for myself and sharing with others. do this when your "Unknown" data is taking over valuable HD space.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/clear-exchange-mail-cache-iphone-64047.html

article has details; here's simple concept:
- save iphone apps/settings on computer (sync)
- restore to default/ start iphone as new
- put back apps
- re-establish accounts

safety first, fun work second

 http://www.midwestunlimited.com

Midwest Unlimited was established in 1947 as Midwest Machinery & Supply Co. Previously Midwest was primarily a supplier of heavy construction equipment to contractors in the local area. Today Midwest Unlimited has grown into a global distributor of contractors' equipment and supplies as well as rigging, safety equipment, tools and hardware.

We sell over 100,000 products and components from more than 500 major manufacturers and is continually adding new lines for various applications, including: Tower and Steel Erection, Mining, Oil field, Bridge & Highway construction, Roofing, Arborist work, home renovation and more...Let us know how we can make your job easier.

Crushpath: Pitch your business

http://vimeo.com/60192645
Example:
http://graphic-visions.crushpath.me/custom

got a second to spare?

are you waiting in line and need something to occupy your ever-so-constant-thinking brain?

12 mobile friendly displays of sweetness!!!!
http://newrafael.com/html5/

by: Rafaël Rozendaal

the easy and FREE method of PDFing

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
adobe should have caught on to this idea of offering PDF services for free.
oh well, monopoly histories repeat as others have stepped up to the plate...

the sweetest online PDF'er online thus far: http://www.sejda.com/
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/
http://www.sejda.com/

seriously, never knew i could get so excited about PDFs, hahaha!!!

more Animated GIFs and HOW TO MAKE GIFs

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/travel-through-space-in-these-disorienting-gifs

once again, it's all about lighting

this ad is constructed in a way that you must be "short" or down-low looking up...
all thanks to lighting and the plethora of ways to manipulate light.
http://gizmodo.com/this-ad-has-a-secret-anti-abuse-message-that-only-kids-493108460?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

"This Ad Has a Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
In an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for help, a Spanish organization called the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR for short, created an ad that displays a different message for adults and children at the same time."  - from linked page

OSB vs MDF vs Particle

so now you know...
- Oriented Strand Board (OSB)

- Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF)

- Particleboard

http://www.diy-live.com/particle.html

animated GIFs: StereoManila

i think in the near future i will be returning to my love for animation. perhaps a simple animated GIF collection to start things off... i will keep you posted :)

http://stereomanila.com/

Demonstrating Samsung Smart TV’s new gesture control system at the Samsung SEA Forum 2013 in Jakarta.

http://stereomanila.com/post/45022870874/demonstrating-samsung-smart-tvs-new-gesture

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LIKES.COM (the never ending page of image scroll)

12 Tripped-Out GIFs

http://likes.com/weird/12-tripped-out-gifs-that-belong-in-another-dimension?v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDgyNDAxNDA0OCwgInBvc3RfaWQiOiAyNDU3Njc3Mn0

Catalogue of art related videos

ArtBabble
http://www.artbabble.org/

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Art-Bab-ble [ahrt-bab-uhl]

noun; verb (used without object) -bled, -bling   1. free flowing conversation, about art, for anyone.   2. a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion - no art degree required.

ArtBabble was conceived and built by a cross-departmental team at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It is intended to showcase art video content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives.

Babble On.
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It is our pleasure to welcome you to ArtBabble.org, a place to find videos about art. In order for all of our users to enjoy ArtBabble, it is important to follow the terms and conditions described in these Terms of Use. It is our goal to provide you with an innovative experience with video art content. If you have any questions or comments about these Terms of Use, please contact us at contact@artbabble.org.

Copyright © 2012 Indianapolis Museum of Art. All rights reserved. 

presentation of photos online/mobile: Colorado

one interesting site: BigPix Media Center
http://www.denverpost.com/bigpix
The Denver Post photography department is using GigaPan and documenting Colorado!!

Read more: BigPix Colorado GigaPan images - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/bigpix#ixzz2RUzAucXz
Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse
Follow us: @Denverpost on Twitter | Denverpost on Facebook

analogue and digital vibrations: aural sex

NEON INDIAN (AUDIO ARTIST)

http://neonindian.com/

"Neon Indian is the brainchild of Alan Palomo" -website Bio

PAL198X

there was a contest in 2012 using this device, sponsored by neon indian

http://paluserinitiative.neonindian.com/

the return of the bicycle (messager)

maybe it's not a full return because they (bikes) never really left but it seems more cities are designing/implementing bike features into road-ways. i think riding a bike lets one absorb the surroundings versus an inclosed vehicle that creates a false sense of knowing.  it's like when you drive past an area multiple times and then, for some reason, bike and/or walk that same area produces a different perspective. now, GO RIDE A BIKE!!

BIKE CZAR
How to Deliver 500,000 Packages

http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/03/22/bike-czar-how-to-deliver-500000-packages/

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also related:
Line Of Sight - Lucas Brunelle
http://youtu.be/0npCFw9TEnA

coffee ice cubes

i've had this idea of coffee ice cubes although now i'm thinking espresso ice cubes might be slightly better of an idea :)  perhaps then, one may use an esp. ice cube in their water to add some flavor. one shot per cube?

i would suggest not pouring hot coffee right into the plastic tray, but cool it first.  that's just coming from a guy that's not a big fan of plastics and food.  my grandparents had metal ice cube trays, and 70 years later the grandkids now have them. not everyone participates in the "reduce and reuse" part of the cycle.

"It's long been known that infinitesimal bits of plastic get into our food from containers. The process is called "leaching" or "migration." The chemical industry acknowledges that you can't avoid this transfer, noting on its web site that "[v]irtually all food packaging materials contain substances that can migrate into the food they contact."
The amounts are small, says Laura Vandenberg, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in biology at Tufts University in Boston. "But almost any plastic container can be expected to leach trace amounts of plastics into food," she says.  http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cookware-plastics-shoppers-guide-to-food-safety 

TISC Studios promotes quality over quantity and is against the idea of Planned Obsolescence. 

it's all about LIGHTING

lighting techniques are taught in film/tv classes but i think lighting should be taught in elementary school.  it's more than just knowledge for someone shooting a scene w/ a camera. light plays an important role in everyone's life. first of all, with no light we would all be "blind".  simple to think about but easy to take for granted we can see, and we can see only because there are waves bringing our eyes information.  sure we learn about some technical stuff about waves and light in high school, but those are trees and i'm talking about the forest of light.  every time someone says, "oh, i didn't notice that", 99% of the time missing something is because of the lighting, the other times it's a trick someone played on him/her.  there are lots of objects out there that we humans think are working or not working just by looking at a light.

another example of light: SHADOW DANCING · Art by: Diet Wiegman
http://www.ignant.de/2013/03/21/shadow-dancing/

google calendar (to remind or not to remind)

i love google and the products it offers.  i just wish more things were set to manual than full-blown auto; eg. google calendar.  every time i create an event it automatically sets TWO reminders (one email and the other a pop-up) for 10 minutes before the event starts.  THEREFORE... every time i create an event i spend a couple of seconds deleting shit i don't need off of the event.  reminders are worthless, most likely because whatever the event is that i'm attending is going to be farther away than 10 minutes.

ONCE in a great while i do need to use the reminder for an event and then you come to realize that reminders don't work past 4 weeks... OK, i have a reception in July, the RSVP is 2 months before that and it's now only march?!?!?!?!?!?!  i can't set a reminder because i can only go back from july to june so i have to then create a NEW EVENT just to remind myself... and of course i need to delete both auto-reminders again for that too.

AUTO - 0
MANUAL - 1

blogs pages posts viewBlogs new windows tabs etc...

sometimes google tries too hard and gets more confusing as, i assume, it tries to be more helpful.

so from a HTML web creating background i land on a page that lets me visualize my various blogs, i have 2. inside each blog they offer "overview, pages, posts, comments, google+, etc..."

long story short... creating a NEW PAGE is easy.  adding posts to that new page is really difficult. sometimes it opens a new tab to view blog and other times it doesn't.  i'm sure i'll understand it all someday but it's frustrating when there is a backend to a backend to a backend and then i find out my blogger wasn't connected to my g+ so i added it and when i added it google told me i already had my google profile attached to my account.

GO FISH.

A fresh new start for storing ideas

after spending a LOT of time thinking about how to manage ideas that come across my mind throughout each and every second of the day i decided to come back to "the blog". funny how things work. originally thinking i would use facebook as a means of storing info... DAMN! i wasted a lot of time with that... the timeline feature, etc... it's all hogwash. it's great for staying up to date but to use facebook as a tool is like trying to spoon out peanut-butter with a ritz cracker.