(AP) - U.S. Marine Cpl. Brian Knight, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, pauses briefly in the heat to rest with his heavy pack filled with mortar equipment, ammunition, food, and water in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
(AP) - A U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines pauses briefly in the heat to rest with his heavy pack filled with mortar equipment, ammunition, food, and water in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
(AP) - U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines pass by Afghani villagers in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
(AP) - A 6-week-old unnamed female panda cub is seen at the Chiang Mai zoo in the northern city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)
(AP) - A Michael Jackson impersonator (who refuses to give name) performs dance steps in front of a crowd Saturday, July 4, 2009 in a mall in suburban Pasay City south of Manila, Philippines. The event was staged to attract customers and as a tribute to the late King of Pop. (AP Photo/ Pat Roque)
(AP) - Masahiro Tomiyama, a staff member of Sunshine City International Aquarium, holds baby fennecs, who were born in mid-May, in Tokyo, Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
(AP) - In this picture provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Liberty, a male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wears a hat and waves an American flag in honor of the Fourth of July at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Friday, July 3, 2009. Liberty, born on July 4, 1990, was named after his birth date, and this year turns 19 the same day the nation marks its 233rd year. (AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)
(AP) - Terri Pines signs a large poster at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Friday, July 3, 2009, site for the late pop star Michael Jackson memorial service Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
(AP) - Meatball lets out a big yawn while awaiting the start of the 2009 UFO Festival Alien Pet Costume Contest Friday, morning, July 3, 2009 at the Roswell Convention Center in Roswell, N.M. Meatball took 2nd place in the contest. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
(Reuters) - U.S. soldiers of Mortar Platoon from the 4-25FA Battalion, 3 Brigade, 10th Mountain Division fire shells for targeting as they prepare for possible attacks ahead of the United States Independence Day at the Combat Operation Outpost (COP) Conlon in mountains of Wardak Province, Afghanistan, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
On July 5th, 1946 a French engineer called Louis RÉard unveiled an outfit "smaller than the world's smallest swimsuit." It arrived with a bang, so named after the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and remains popular to this day.
Despite heightened international efforts to halt wildlife smuggling, dozens of species continue to be killed, felled or captured alive in India to be smuggled to China and other parts of East and South Asia. By Madhur Singh
Optical: ESO/E. Helder; X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Utrecht/J.Vink et al.
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Using Chandra, growing supermassive black holes have been discovered in a sample of blobs, immense reservoirs of hydrogen gas located in the early Universe.These black holes and bursts of star formation are believed to be illuminating and heating the gas in the blobs. This represents a “coming of age” for the galaxies and black holes as they start to switch off their rapid growth.
This image of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86. This remnant is the remains of an exploded star, which may have been observed on Earth in 185 AD by Chinese astronomers. By studying this remnant, a team of astronomers was able to understand new details about the role of supernova remnants as the Milky Way’s super-efficient particle accelerators. The team shows that the shock wave visible in this area is very efficient at accelerating particles and the energy used in this process matches the number of cosmic rays observed on Earth.
The VLT data (colored red in the composite) was used to measure the temperature of the gas right behind the shock wave created by the stellar explosion. Using X-ray images from Chandra (blue), taken three years apart, the researchers were also able to determine the speed of the shock wave to be between one and three percent of the speed of light. The temperature found by these latest results is much lower than expected, given the measured shock wave’s velocity. The researchers conclude that the missing energy goes into accelerating the cosmic rays.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Chandra X-ray Observatory, E. Helder, ESO, J. Vink, NASA, RCW 86, University of Utrecht
In this album you'll find Dark-Eyed Juncos, hawks, black-capped chickadees, carolina wrens, ruby-crowned kinglets, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and eastern wood-peewees.
(AFP/Getty Images) - Rays of light from inside Neverland Ranch shine in the early morning darkness as fans worldwide continue to mourn the loss of singer Michael Jackson near Los Olivos, California. Funeral plans for Jackson are slowly taking shape one week after the pop icon's death as federal drug investigators joined the probe into the superstar's sudden demise.(AFP/Getty Images/David Mcnew)
(AFP/File) - A video released Thursday showed Michael Jackson, seen here in 2002, vigorously practicing a song-and-dance routine days before his death, supporting accounts he had been in good health.(AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)
(Reuters) - Singer Michael Jackson (2nd R) poses with his children Michael Joseph Jr. (L), Paris Michael Katherine (C) and Prince Michael II (front C) and real estate developer Mohamed Hadid (L), with Hadid's unidentified children, on November 27, 2008 at Jackson's Holmby Hills residence in Los Angeles, California. REUTERS/Mohamed Hadid/Image.net/Handout (UNITED STATES ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
(AP) - A model presents a creation from the spring-summer 2010 collection of the fashion label Lala Berlin during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Mode Woche, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
(AP) - A sand sculpture is displayed during the international sand sculptures festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, July, 2, 2009. The town holds the festival for the second time. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
(AP) - Anna Kane, 5, of Alton, Ill. lays down on 'The Ledge,' the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
(AP) - Anna Kane, 5, of Alton, Ill. looks down from 'The Ledge,' the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
(AP) - Participants to the preview of 'The Ledge,' stand on the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
(AP) - In this June 2, 2009 photo, the Statue of Liberty is seen in New York harbor. The crown is set to open July 4 after being closed since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
(Reuters) - Children stand on "The Ledge" and look down through a glass floor 1,353 feet (412 meters) above Wacker Drive in Chicago July 1, 2009. The Ledge is part of Skydeck Chicago located on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower. It opens to the public on July 2. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
(Reuters) - Children stand on "The Ledge" and look down through a glass floor 1,353 feet (412 meters) above Wacker Drive in Chicago July 1, 2009. The Ledge is part of Skydeck Chicago located on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower. It opens to the public on July 2. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES SOCIETY)
(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle) - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies.(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle)
(Reuters) - Tai Lihua (C), art director of China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe, leads deaf dancers to perform "Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or "Guan Yin", a Chinese goddess, in Suining, Sichuan province June 30, 2009. Feeling music through speakers and guided by hand gestures, the troupe takes steps to champion the rights of disabled people around the world. Since forming in 1987, the troupe has performed in more than 40 countries and raised money for disabled people's charities. Picture taken June 30, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
(Reuters) - A jet, its vapour trail streaming out behind, flies past the waxing moon over Zurich June 30, 2009. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
(Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Gulf of Alaska, in this handout photo taken on June 22, 2009. The John C. Stennis is participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on detecting and tracking units at sea, in the air and on land. Picture taken on June 22, 2009. REUTERS/Ronald Dejarnett/U.S. Navy/Handout (UNITED STATES MILITARY SOCIETY TRANSPORT IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
(AP) - FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2002 file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home. Tampa police say Mays, the television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
(AP) - Pabst competes in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Petaluma, Calif. The toothy 4-year-old Boxer mix won top honors. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
(AP) - Miss Ellie competes in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Petaluma, Calif. The blind 15-year-old Chinese Crested Hairless won the pedigree category. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
(AP) - Miss Ellie celebrates her win in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest's pedigree class at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Petaluma, Calif. She is a blind 15-year-old Chinese Crested Hairless. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
(AP) - A large waterspout forms above the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. on Friday afternoon, June 26, 2009. The spout dissipated as it reached the other side of the river. The Fuller Warren Bridge is seen in the foreground. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Will Dickey)
(AFP) - Sandy tribute : A sand sculpture by artist Sudersan Pattnaik in tribute of US performer Michael Jackson is seen at the Golden Sea beach in Puri, India. (AFP/Asit Kumar)
(Reuters) - Elephants painted as pandas are led on a walkabout in Ayutthaya province, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, June 26, 2009. Five elephants were led on a walkabout to send a message to the Thai public not to ignore its elephants, the symbolic animal of Thailand. A female panda and its newborn baby in Chiang Mai zoo have captured the attention of the public. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND ANIMALS SOCIETY)
(AP) - A stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a killer whale, whose fin can be seen below the ray, just off St. Heliers beach in Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald Photograph, Brett Phibbs)
(AP) - A man walks near a sand sculpture of an iguana as Tropical storm Andres moves away from the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Wednesday June 24, 2009.The remnants of Tropical Storm Andres were dissipating over the Pacific on Wednesday after flooding homes and killing at least one person on Mexico's southwestern coast. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
(AFP) - Rook gets ready : A 21-year-old male sealion named Rook tries to wear sunglasses, as he will obeserve a solar eclipse next month at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo. The sealion, who has never seen an eclipse, will observe the solar eclipse with guests on July 22. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
(Reuters) - A waxy monkey frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagaii), which lives in the dry Gran Chaco regions of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia, sits atop vegetation in a display at the American Museum of Natural History's "A Chorus of Colors" live frog exhibit in New York City, June 10, 2009. More than 200 live frogs from around the world are on display at the museum through January 3, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft captured this image on January 14, 2008, during its closest approach to Mercury. The image reveals a variety of intriguing surface features, including craters as small as 300 yards across. The image also shows landscapes near Mercury’s equator on the side of the planet never before imaged by spacecraft. These highly detailed close-ups enable planetary geologists to study the processes that have shaped Mercury’s surface over the past 4 billion years. One of the highest and longest scarps cliffs yet seen on Mercury curves from the top center down across the right side of this image. Great forces in Mercury’s crust have thrust the terrain occupying the left two-thirds of the picture up and over the terrain to the right. An impact crater has subsequently destroyed a small part of the scarp near the top of the image. This image was taken from a distance of 3,600 miles from surface of the planet and shows a region approximately 100 miles across.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: Carnegie Institution of Washington, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Mercury, MESSENGER, NASA
In 1787, astronomer William Herschel discovered the Eskimo Nebula. From the ground, NGC 2392 resembles a person’s head surrounded by a parka hood. In 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the Eskimo Nebula. From space, the nebula displays gas clouds so complex they are not fully understood. The Eskimo Nebula is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star only 10,000 years ago. The inner filaments visible above are being ejected by strong wind of particles from the central star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year long orange filaments. The Eskimo Nebula spans about 1/3 of a light year and lies in our Milky Way Galaxy, about 3,000 light years distant, toward the constellation of the Twins (Gemini).
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Andrew Fruchter, Eskimo Nebula, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, NGC 2392, STScI, WFPC2
We passed the milestone of being one-third of the distance to Pluto last year, but today — March 19, 2009 — after 38 months and almost 2 billion kilometers of flight, New Horizons has completed precisely one-third of the days in its journey to Pluto. That’s quite a milestone, and we on the mission team celebrate the closing of this chapter of our historic journey across the great expanse of our planetary system, and the opening of mid-cruise, as I described in my January posting
But you won’t have to wait another three years for our next significant distance and flight-time milestones — they come next year, when we cross the halfway point! But whenever quoting such milestones, I have to be careful about the meaning. So when will our spacecraft be halfway to Pluto? Well, that depends on which halfway you mean. (No, I am not kidding.)
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: Alan Stern, artist's illustration, ESO, L. Calcada, New Horizons, Pluto
During the STS-119 mission’s first spacewalk, astronauts Richard Arnold and Steve Swanson (out of frame) connected bolts to permanently attach the S6 truss segment to S5. The spacewalkers plugged in power and data connectors to the truss, prepared a radiator to cool it, opened boxes containing the new solar arrays and deployed the Beta Gimbal Assemblies, containing masts that support the solar arrays.
Image Credit:
NASA
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: Beta Gimbal Assemblies, Earth, International Space Station, NASA, Richard Arnold, S6 Truss, Spacewalk, Steve Swanson, STS-119
Mars’ seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes directly from ice to vapor) every spring. In this region we see troughs that form a starburst pattern.
In other areas these radial troughs have been referred to as “spiders,” simply because of their shape. In this region the pattern looks more dendritic as channels branch out numerous times as they get further from the center. The troughs are believed to be formed by gas flowing beneath the seasonal ice to openings where the gas escapes, carrying along dust from the surface below. The dust falls to the surface of the ice in fan-shaped deposits.
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: HiRISE, JPL, Mars, NASA, University of Arizona
This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn’s faint G ring.
In each image, a small streak of light within the ring is visible. Unlike the streaks in the background, which are distant stars smeared by the camera’s long exposure time of 46 seconds, this streak is aligned with the G ring and moves along the ring as expected for an object embedded in the ring.
Cassini scientists interpret the moving streak to be reflected light from a tiny moon half a kilometer (a third of mile) wide that is likely a major source of material in the arc and the rest of the G ring. Debris knocked off this moon forms a relatively bright arc of material near the inner edge of the G ring, the most visible part of the ring in these images. That arc, in turn, leaks material to form the entire ring.
These images were captured by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on Oct. 27, 2008. The first image (left) was taken in visible light, the second image (middle) was taken in red light, and the third image (right) in near-infrared light centered at a wavelength of 750 nanometers. Image scale for the first image is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. The second and third images were taken at reduced resolution. These spatially compressed images were captured at 14 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel and then displayed at a size equal to the first image. This view looks toward the un-illuminated side of the rings from about 5 degrees above the ringplane. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (751,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 23 degrees.
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: Cassini, JPL, moonlet, NASA, Saturn, Space Science Institute
NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
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The “Cat’s Eye” nebula, or NGC 6543, is a well-studied example of a “planetary nebula.” Such objects are the glowing remnants of dust and gas expelled from moderate-sized stars during their last stages of life. Our own sun will generate such a nebula in about five billion years.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has studied many such planetary nebulae in infrared light, including a variety of more distant ones, which have helped scientists identify a population of carbon-bearing stars near our galaxy’s center.
The infrared emission from the Cat’s Eye is generated by a variety of elements and molecules. The bright inner region of this nebula shows a complex structure reminiscent of a feline eye. Outside this compact region lies a series of other structures representing material that was ejected slightly earlier in the central star’s life, when it was a giant star.
The image is a composite of data from Spitzer’s infrared array camera. Light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns is rendered as blue, 5.8 microns is displayed as green and 8.0 microns is represented in red. The brightness of the central area has been greatly reduced to make it possible to maintain its visibility while enhancing the brightness of the much fainter outer features. Overall colors have been enhanced to better show slight variations in hue.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), Cat's Eye Nebula, Constellation Draco, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, J. Hora, JPL-Caltech, NASA, NGC 6543
The Expedition 18 crew photographed the Russian segment of the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.
During the spacewalk, Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov installed the Exposing Specimens of Organic and Biological Materials to Open Space (Expose-R) experiment mounted on the Zvezda Service Module’s the universal science platform.
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: Commander Mike Fincke, Earth, Expedition 18, International Space Station, NASA, Yury Lonchakov, Zvezda Space Module
While freedom is a wonderful thing, sometimes the constraints of a medium or the circumstances in which work is created can serve as the springboard to something remarkable. Just think of Michaelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, one of the most demanding of media. While he had no choice but to work quickly on a large scale before the pigment-impregnated plaster dried, a contemporary French artist has chosen to paint tiny portraits within the space of a few minutes... on Paris subway tickets.
So you've been ogling the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS3 Extended but there's no sign of an upgrade? In fact, you may be watching the 3D train leave the station with that helpless feeling of once again falling behind. You know you could extend the scope of the graphics and documents you're currently creating by adding 3D content. But how? The good news is that the cross-platform DAZ Studio provides a simple, free way to begin incorporating 3D into your Photoshop workflow.
The release of Adobe's new Media Player has made quite a splash this week but those in the creative community using the firm's design tools have received an extra treat, in the form of the simultaneously-launched Adobe TV site.
While not yet announced, the FontStruct site, created by noted font vendor FontShop, is already attracting attention from those eager to try out its font-creation capabilities, as well as download fonts from the galleries.
Marion Bataille is a French illustrator who has provided the imagery both for her own books and those of others, including a volume of Surrealist poetry geared to younger readers. The clip above shows her latest book, ABC3D, in action, with video being the perfect medium to demonstrate the kinetic apects of her inventive pop-up alphabet.
If you need to display digital content in such a way that it just can't be overlooked, the traditional approach is to move to bigger and bigger displays. But once you've covered every wall with screens, things start to get a little banal. What's needed is the ability to let content escape the confines of the screen and inhabit the three-dimensional space of the viewer. A novel approach to this is provided by the PufferSphere, from Scottish firm Pufferfish.
Most publishers of art and design books don't extend their relationship with their authors beyond distributing the books and sending the occasional royalty check. But one German publisher is showing that more is possible to bring creative projects to the attention of a wider audience via inhouse-created video.
A fixation on light and electricity has moved British Artist, Richard Box, to create some mesmerizing installation art pieces which he has had documented by various photographers on his Website.
The focus on Box's Site right now is is a series which illustrates an installation whereby Box erected more than a thousand fluorescent tubes by planting them in the ground beneath a large electrical pylon. The photographs show the the lights illuminated only by the magnetic field being generated by the pylon and overhead electricity cables.
Let's face it, the applications in Adobe's Creative Suite are not always employed for work that most of us would care to define as "creative." But Adobe couldn't really call it the Ugly Banners For My Company Suite or the Painfully Dull Marketing Flyer Suite, now could it? No, if you use Adobe's Suite, the pixie dust of creativity will simply alight magically on your work and if not... well, I guess you just weren't that creative in the first place.
"The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade."
Okay the name is annoying—we're long past the point where any new product or technology should have a lower-case letter i slapped in front of it—but once you get past that, iPaper provides an interesting approach to displaying documents on the web. Whether it's PDF, Word, PowerPoint or other formats, this is yet another example of Adobe Flash contining its relentless march unabated, swallowing all media types in its path.
While here in the West we think of some chefs as artists, access to the rarefied dishes they create remains restricted to the happy few. But why shouldn't more of what's on our plate be consciously designed? As is often the case, the Japanese are way ahead of us aesthetically, having created centuries ago the practice of eating cold dishes from compartmentalized boxes, known as bento.
Has the domination of Photoshop completely killed vector illustration? While Illustrator remains a graphics application that's difficult to love, the use of vector-based imagery has been making something of a comeback. Fueling this are a number of boutique content creators, amongst them Kapitza.
