Today I would like to take a look at the art of manipulations with the use of Photoshop. Photoshop manipulation is the process of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception, through digital means. In this little collections is some extraordinary work that must have been challenging yet fun. So if your looking to do a little bit of photoshop manipulation then this will give you some good inspiration.
Google is one of the best things that has happened to us in this 21st Century. Google has come a long way in it's growth and understanding of it's users and it is only going to get better. I would go over the history but it would be a very long essay type blog. So instead I found a video that will show the milestones of Google in 2 minutes.
Little Fact
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of the word "googol",which refers to 10100, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb "google" was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.
Finally a new Playlist is up today for your listening pleasure. Playlist-05 has some great bands that can get you swaying back and forth in enjoyment. I have compiled a good track list of artist new and old that are worth checking out. Happy listening.
Cover art by: Damion Schweizer
Tracklist
1. Dawn Of The Dead - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
2. Dear God - Monsters Of Folk
3. House of Cards - Radiohead
4. Spain - Between the Trees
5. 1901 - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
7. Meet Me on the Equinox - Death Cab For Cutie
8. Keep Your Eyes Ahead - Helio Sequence
9. Animal (Mark ronson Remix) - Mike Snow
10. Boardwalk Theme - Desolation Wilderness
11. In My Head- Until June
12. Rhubarb (Addled's Edit) - Aphex Twin
My friend Doug brought this to my attention this morning. Microsoft's new project Natal. Project Natal is a full-body motion control that doesn't require a controller of any kind. In watching the promotion video for the Natal I was very intrigued and excited in this new innovation.
Project Natal is a bar that sits above or below your TV, much like the Wii's sensor bar. But instead of sensing controllers, this thing has a camera, sensors and a microphone inside that lets it get an accurate sense of your space and you in it. This lets you control games just by moving around; kicking, jumping, whatever. But that's really just the start.
You can also move through menus by swiping your hands back and forth. The camera allows for fun features like facial and voice recognition. When you have it running, your Xbox will recognize your face and sign you in automatically.
This innovation is going to be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to things that developers will be able to build to interact with the users. It will bring the living room experience to a higher level from past generations of living room gadgets. Check out the video below of promotion of Project Natal.
Boxee is a new way to enjoy your entertainment needs via your computer and T.V. Boxee provides online TV, movies, music, and photos for the couch potato in all of us. This application that Boxee provides has been the go too application for viewing pleasure. One of the main reasons that it has yet to become a household name outside of the tech community is the need to have a full fledged PC to run it. So if you don't have a media center computer hooked up to your TV then more than likely you can only view it from your computer. However, this all about to change. Boxee announced that it has located its first-ever partner, which basically means that some sort of Boxee set-top box is on the way. Boxee has informed us that more details will be provided on December 7th when it reveals its first Beta software. However, obviously there are any number of small form-factor platforms available on the market today to get this done for the folks at Boxee - perhaps an NVIDIA Ion-based system might do the trick? In fact, the mock below looks a lot like an Acer Aspire Revo or maybe it's based on something a bit more powerful?(hothardware.com). If your still unsure about what Boxee has to offer watch the video on there main page. Click Here
So I have returned from vacation and what a trip. It was a great time with friends and with the new ones I made on the trip. So in seeing how I was on vacation it would be a given that I would have taken some photography pictures with my Samsung camera. Here is what I took and with a little use of Photoshop these are my results. Let me know what you think?
I will be unable to do any blog post this coming week due to vacation. I will be returning on Nov 13th and will continue posting more great posts upon the return from my vacation. In the mean time enjoy this picture I took a couple weeks ago on my way to work.
I was searching around on flickr today and I stumbled upon Ultra's photo's. Here real name is Sara Perovic and she is located in Berlin. That was the only information that I was able to find out about her.
There is a nostalgic feeling when viewing her photography. Some of her work takes me back in the past and some are just a simplistic memory. They have that alone feeling or a silence to each of the photos. Let me know what you think of her work.
It was made over 25 years ago. WABOT-2 was a robot that was developed by Waseda University in 1984 as an intelligent humanoid keyboard player.
Playing a keyboard instrument was set up as an intelligent task that the WABOT-2 aimed to accomplish, since an artistic activity such as playing a keyboard instrument would require human-like intelligence and dexterity. Therefore the WABOT-2 was defined as a "specialist robot" rather than a versatile robot.
The robot musician WABOT-2 can converse with a person, read a normal musical score with is eye and play tunes of average difficulty on an electronic organ. The WABOT-2 is also able of accompanying a person while he listens to the person singing. The WABOT-2 was the first milestone in developing a "personal robot".
Here is a clip of the robot demonstrating it’s chops at Expo ‘85 in Tsukuba, Japan with a performance of Kitaro’s new age classic “Silk Road.”
