In 1888, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche coined a phrase that would inspire lazy musicians for more than 100 years…
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“The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearers deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision to a tiny horizontal slit. The Isolator was invented by Hugo Gernsback, editor of Science and Invention magazine, member of “The American Physical Society,” and one of the pioneers of science fiction.”
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Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing a software system that lets users easily insert objects into photographs, complete with convincing lighting and perspective:
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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The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, designed by Jonas Pfeil as part of his thesis project at the Technical University of Berlin, creates spherical panoramas after being thrown into the air:
Our camera uses 36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone camera modules. The camera modules are mounted in a robust, 3D-printed, ball-shaped enclosure that is padded with foam and handles just like a ball. Our camera contains an accelerometer which we use to measure launch acceleration. Integration ...

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Gorgeous 3D rotoscoping into archival photos from the documentary Motalko about the first Hungarian petrol station…
(via likecool)

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Hey Mister, music video by the Magic Machines, is entirely made of animated gifs…

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(via EPICponyz)

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Ed Wood was born 87 years ago today…
This is an episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show hosted by Jonathan Ross.
(via Dangerous Minds)
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(via I have seen the whole of the internet)

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Jon Rafman’s http://codesofhonor.com

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Researchers at Berkeley have developed a system that reads people’s minds while they watch a video and then roughly reconstructs what they were watching from thousands of hours of YouTube videos.

Nishimoto and two other research team members served as subjects for the experiment, because the procedure requires volunteers to remain still inside the MRI scanner for hours at a time.
They watched two separate sets of Hollywood movie trailers, while fMRI was used to measure blood ...

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23 September – 23 October 2011 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, Rome, Italy tuesday-sunday 16.00-24.00 tickets: full price € 5,00; reduction € 3,00 tel: 060608 (everyday 9.00-21.00) www.fotografiafestival.it

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Jaime Martinez‘ solo exhibition “Ciencias Sobrenaturales” opens tomorrow at the Vice Gallery in Mexico City and I wrote a little curatorial text for it. Don’t miss it!
Testo in pdf (italian version)

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