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NASA has a server called arc.nasa.gov (password-protected) with a subdomain at settlement.arc.nasa.gov which contains a number of odd things, including an archive of artists' renderings of proposed earthling settlements in space. The proposals are basically for big round greenhouses, rotating to simulate gravity via centrifugal force - not so different than what has been proposed in a lot of science fiction in movies and on TV.

Somehow I'm comforted that there are people making plans for this kind of thing, even though it's discouraging to see how so much of the optimism of the 60s and 70s (regarding space travel as well as almost everything else) never went anywhere.

Tilt-shift is still cool.
And 3-D is still cool.

3D effects can be achieved by simulating a tilt-shift style - essentially by selectively adjusting an image's blurriness and color saturation.

ArtCyclopedia has applied these techniques to some of Van Gogh's paintings with amazing results.

The Word Garden is a new collaboration at St. Michael's College in Colchester Vermont, as part of their Teaching Gardens

- Similar to magnetic poetry, but with stones outside

- A good example of staff and faculty from different departments working together.

- A set of 350 words from the stone artist, Chris Cleary (On the Rocks Stonecarving Studio).

http://www.youtube.com/SaintMichaels

"'365' is a knitting clock created by german designer siren elise wilhelmsen. according to wilhelmsen, time is a concept which unites us all, making it the lowest common denominator. on the one hand, time appears to be a as physical phenomenon, logical and easily divided into the past, present and future. on the other hand, time can be viewed very subjectively. how long a minute, an hour or a year takes can depend on how time is experienced in different situations. however, this does not alter the fact that a day has 24 hours, one hour has 60 minutes and one minute has 60 seconds.

'365' seeks to give a physical manifestation to the change of time. drawing from the change that is witnessed through the growth of human bodies and hair, the same concept is found in '365' which translates time through the growth of knitted material. the clock houses a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and roll of yarn. moving in clockwise direction, one day leads to a complete round, while a year gives users 2 meters of a complete scarf."

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/10606/siren-elise-wilhelmsen...

http://www.ufunk.net/en/humour/eizo-pin-up-calendar-2010-le-nu-plus-quin...

A brief conversation between the two men. Not much is said, but it's a window to another time: the overlap between the industrial age and the modern age, when people can make passing remarks about Hitler's attitude toward the public reception toward science fiction, and "Citizen Kane" needs a gratuitous plug to build awareness of it.

This would be great for stop-motion animation.

I like how dark it is. And I like the name "Filth Wizardry"

http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/06/diy-sand-art-lightbox.html

The Swedish Bed has a collection of movie posters painted by Drew Struzan.

I had no idea how iconic his work was until I saw so many of his images together. As a kid, the Star Wars movie poster was probably the single most important image in my life for a few years, but I had no idea that the images for the Indiana Jones movies and many other hits from the 70s and 80s were all done by the same guy.

The view from my office in Delaware.

This is way cool.

Mr Doob has created a web-based drawing tool called Harmony. It's coded in flipping JavaScript. JavaScript!

I made the picture of the bull above, in about 5 minutes. The great feature of Harmony is that you can feel like a great artist even when the computer is doing most of the work.

You have to have an HTML-5-compliant browser, such as the latest iterations of Chrome or Firefox in order to use it.

I haven't coveted the new iPad much, but this would be great on one of those.

from Mike C.