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Having spent over 2,000 hours working on the enormous -- and enormously impressive -- Skyrim mod "Falskaar," Alexander Velicky was dead set on getting a design job in the game industry. " I set my sights on a professional design job pretty early, I lowered my head, charged forward, and rarely looked back," he said in a recent forum post. Though you might expect his Skyrim chops would land him at Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind the beloved first-person RPG, he's just accepted a job at Bungie Studios working on Destiny.

Velicky spent much of the last four years working on modding, first getting his start in Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3. When Skyrim launched in 2011, he continued working with Bethesda's modding tools, only this time he created a massive game with "20 - 30 hours" worth of exploration and questing -- he even recorded new voiceover work and a unique soundtrack.

That whole cloth approach to modding assuredly helped land Velicky the new gig at Bungie, and it's not the first time we've seen as much. Armed Assault 3 modder Dean Hall created Day Z, which is now being published as a standalone project. Take that as a lesson, y'all: dreams do come true! At least if you work incredibly hard at them.

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situated off the eastern coast of africa by pemba island, a private floating island at the manta resort provides guests with an all-inclusive hotel room submerged four meters below the surface.

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Last week we assembled a dedicated group of watch lovers at En Japanese Bistro in New York City's West Village to take a closer look at both Grand Seiko and the Seiko Astron. CEO of Seiko USA, Yosh Kawada welcomed guests and a master watchmaker was on hand to explain the finer points of Seiko's technical prowess. It was a wonderful way to celebrate Japanese watchmaking and the approach that makes it truly unique in the world of horology. Thank you to all our guests and to Seiko for a wonderful evening. We hope you enjoy these photos from the event:

mobile and foldable, the individual well being oasis provides the option of leaving overcrowded beaches behind, while still having enough space and comfort.

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thousands of birds twist, weave, and undulate in concert with each other, adjusting to the ever changing motions of their flockmates, creating a visual mesh of kinetic fluctuation.

The post alain delorme captures the balletic murmurations of wild birds appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

wanting a memorial that could be visited and viewed forever, but limited by its inaccessible locale, the association of the victims’ families set out to build a massive monument on the surface of the sand that could be seen and accessed thorough the satellite view of google maps.

The post UTA flight 772 satellite memorial in the middle of the sahara appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

through referencing and sourcing local materials, hassell studio have been able to create a residential property at one with its environment.

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the book is rich in visual imagery that captures some of the most exotic baths, spas and retreats across the globe.

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the halloween happening features more than 5,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins, like massive dinosaurs, snakes, and spiders in a elaborate walk-through experience.

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sterling silver embellishes the interior and exterior details of the luxury one-off, making it the most valuable vehicle that has emerged from the BMW individual manufaktur line to date.

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to keep up with the maturation and growth of jaffa, the kastiel family with architect alex meitlis have completed an overhaul of the penthouse suite's interior to give it a contemporary refresher.

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a church from the late medieval period is elegantly transformed into a bookstore, caterer, and exhibition.

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foster's new library in berlin featuring a large curved glass roof is captured in photographs by felix loechner.

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laucala island is a small, private oasis lying to the east of taveuni, fiji that includes including 25 villas where celebrities can visit to escape the paparazzi.

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create unique pictures rendered entirely with emoji icons with this app developed by emojify

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eerie, and sometimes frighting animated renderings demonstrate the range of human emotion.

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Modular robots have long been a reality, but they often require human intervention to assemble or aren't very clever. MIT's new M-Block robots don't need such help. Each cube-shaped machine includes a flywheel and edge magnets, the combination of which lets it attach to its fellow robots simply by ...

Calling Grand Theft Auto V one of 2013's most anticipated video game releases would be a massive understatement, but if you wanted some sort of monetary proof of the claim, Take-Two interactive has it. According to a press release issued today, GTA V has cleared over $1 billion in sales in its first three days on the market; crunch the numbers, and that adds up to more than 16.5 million units sold. Take-Two says that it believes this makes it the fastest selling entertainment property in history -- the last major release to make that claim, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, took 15 days to reach the milestone. It's an impressive accomplishment, but it's potentially only the tip of the iceberg: GTA V is rumored to be ported to PC and next generation consoles, and has a literal product lifetime to hold down its sales record.

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You don't have to ask Reggie Watts to make music. He just does. As he fumbles around for cords and components in the drawers and bookshelves of his Brooklyn apartment, everything that falls within eyeshot becomes a song. Spending a few minutes in his presence, you get the feeling that Watts would have been doing this in some form or other, no matter what career path he'd ultimately settled on, making a name for himself as the singing lawyer or beat boxing chef. But the stars aligned for the musician / comedian, aided in no small part by the increasing availability of cheap, affordable technology.

"I grew up in what i like to call 'the perfect technology curve,' " explains Watts. "When I was a kid, I had organic instruments. There wasn't super high tech stuff. All the super high tech stuff would have been way too expensive. The idea of owning a synthesizer in 1980 was insane for a kid. I [eventually owned] Casio keyboard. That was awesome. I got to experiment with that and make it does things in was it wasn't designed to do." The technology now forms the backbone of Watts' improvisational music making, inhibited only by the constraints of his knapsack. "Everything fits in my backpack," he says. "That's my setup, that's my rule. If anything else comes along, it would have to fit in my backpack."

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informed by the towering masses of the dolomites and the alps, the museum sports deeply angled, PV panel-studded roof planes.

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take a secret tour through the world's most beautiful private pools.

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amongst some of the usual program, the world's largest building also contains a replica of a mediterranean village and an artificial beach with realistic sunsets.

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a series of villas sit on a venetian-like landscape on the balinese cliffs overlooking the sea.

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Designed by Brazilian practice Bernardes + Jacobsen Architecture, Casa GR sits on a near 600m² suburban lot in São Sebastião. The bedroom spaces, located on the upper levels float above in a white framed metal box, shielded from the tropical heat with vertical timber screens. The living and kitchen areas open to the lush landscape at times with double height spaces to engage with the family areas above.

WALK through an international city and you will see quite a lot of English. Walk through an expat-dense neighbourhood in Berlin, like the one Johnson has recently moved to, and you’ll see more than the average, such as “Fastfood”, “Women’s wear”, “Coffee to go” on three storefronts spotted the other day. Using English in a city where many visitors and even residents don’t speak German makes sense.

Besides English-as-English, though, German itself has also taken on quite a lot of English words. The on-line, user-written Wiktionary lists some 900 of them (surely under-counting). The definitions begin with abgefuckt (“in a sorry state”) and end in der Zoom (the feature on camera lenses). The liberal salting of English words into German sentences is called “Denglisch” (Deutsch and Englisch), and it tends to annoy traditionalists.

There are several different kinds of Denglisch. One is the English word that has become fully standard in German: das Baby is the normal way to refer to a new human, edging out the older...Continue reading

Let's face it: even clever 2D printers aren't usually fun to watch. Mugi Yamamoto's Stack concept livens things up a bit, however. Instead of relying on a tray, the printer swallows paper from a column underneath -- like an animal that only eats company reports. The trayless design isn't just for novelty's sake, though. Stack is more portable than its conventional peers, and it's much less of a hassle to reload. Yamamoto has had a working Stack prototype for months, but he now tells Wired that he's looking for companies that could produce a commercial version. We're hoping that someone takes him up on his offer; it could add a little more excitement to our office printing jobs.

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Via: Wired

Source: Mugi Yamamoto