Cooper Griggs

Nissan has begun testing its Leaf-based autonomous car prototype, not on private property, but on Japanese inner city roads and highways. To be exact, the automaker wants to put its "Piloted Drive" mode (part of its Intelligent Driving System) to t...

CBS has announced that it's going to make a brand new Star Trek TV series that'll begin airing in January 2017. The corporation has shoved a big pile of money in the face of Star Trek and Into Darkness co-writer Alex Kurtzman to be in charge of thi...

DJI has created a computer called Manifold that extends the capabilities of its Matrice test drone. It's a platform for developers to build on, which DJI says can turn drones into "truly intelligent flying robots that can perform complex computing...

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Now’s not the time to fear. That comes later…

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Me As Several Different Animals

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This season’s hottest new retro-kitsch action figures pre-date GI Joes and Power Rangers by nearly 500 years. If you’ve ever imagined what Michelangelo’s “David” would look like while locked in heated battle with Rodin’s “The Thinker,” or how “Venus de Milo” would use a brand new set of articulated arms, The Table Museum has your answer. These 6-inch limited edition action figures feature fully moveable arms, legs, and even eyeballs. Unfortunately the ordering window for several of the figures has already closed, but “David” is currently available for pre-order at around ¥4800 (~$40) and ships sometime in May of 2016. They even take PayPal. (via Boing Boing, Hyperallergic)

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The short film created in collaboration with European Space Agency to celebrate their pioneer Rosetta mission, which objective is to land on a comet for the first time in human history.

For full credits visit
platige.com/en/page/474-Ambition_Film
More about the production and the mission at
ambitionfilm.com/
youtube.com/user/AmbitionTheFilm
twitter.com/AmbitionTheFilm
esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta

Cast: Platige Image

Tags: Platige Image, ESA, Aidan Gillen, Tomek Baginski, Ambition, Rosetta, space, cosmos, comet, exploration and sci-fi

What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole?

Doctors have been working for years on using tiny nanoparticles covered in clot busting drugs to clear blocked vessels in stroke victims. The only problem is that when a vessel is completely blocked, a lack of blood flow in the affected area is a p...

In its bid to bring programming to the largest possible audience, the BBC supports all manner of hardware and devices for its popular iPlayer service. iPhone and iPad owners have been able to stream on-demand for some time, but the company never co...

Not long ago, Symantec revealed that it had issued bogus security certificates for numerous web domains, including Google's... and as you might guess, Google isn't happy. The search firm is warning Symantec that, as of June 1st, any Symantec certi...

When the UK government began pulling subsidies for onshore wind farms, it meant that private companies dedicated to harvesting renewable energy would no longer receive financial kickbacks when they sold their electricity to energy suppliers. The de...

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Artist Wilfried Grootens paints extraordinary figures comprised of dots and tendrils sandwiched between dozens of laminate glass layers. These strangely precise optical float paintings take on the form of some fantastic microscopic creatures and are sometimes reminiscent of the photos depicting the milliseconds before a nuclear explosion. The design of each cube is so precise, the thin layers of paint appear to completely vanish when viewed from a side angle.

At the age of 15 Grootens first apprenticed as a glass painter at the Derix Company in Germany where he learned to restore antique stained glass windows. Four years later he left on a near decade-long adventure to travel the world, play music, and experience the cultures of Asia and South America before eventually returning to his work with glass. In 1988, he received a Master Craftsman’s Diploma in Munich and by the following year had opened his own studio in Kleve.

Grootens will have work at the upcoming SOFA Expo Chicago through Habatat Galleries starting November 5th. (via ARTchung, Baby)

Where the Shark Bubbles Blow, 2012; 9.5 x 8.25 x 8.25 inches; optical float glass. Painted, laminated, polished.

Where the Shark Bubbles Blow 2015 PL 1 / Where the Shark Bubbles Blow E2 2015

Where the Shark Bubbles Blow III, 2013; 9.25 x 8.5 x 8.25 inches; optical float glass. Painted, laminated, polished.

For Halloween this year, Alexis Noriega of the Crooked Feather designed and built this wickedly amazing pair of pneumatic articulating wings that spring to action at the press of a button. What a great design, the sound of air pressure really adds to it. Noriega says she’ll soon have a tutorial online so you can build your own. (via Laughing Squid)

48

i’m home, enjoying the happiness of updating the map.

getting my 48th state crept up on me. i was so focused on our anniversary trip to santa barbara the weekend before, and on phil’s game timelines, that i completely missed the anticipation of the milestone i was about to face. i was oddly unprepared.

yet, after flying into chicago, driving toward ann arbor… as i drove across the state border into michigan… pure joy.

48. after 14 years, 48.

and michigan was great… lovely, friendly, unique. but i can say this of all the states really. they’re all beautiful, different, quirky. this big plot of land that makes up the continental u.s. is just lovely. i’m so fortunate to have seen so much of it.

2 more to go. it’s bittersweet. i’ve so enjoyed looking forward to every trip. now… i have to take phil to all my favorite spots.

it was all just recon after all. :o)

Google's Project Loon has big plans for 2016, including its first round-the-world coverage. Its vice president, Mike Cassidy, told the BBC that the team is hoping to launch 300-plus balloons next year to "make a continuous string around the world."...

The mass-murdering Michael Myers character in the 'Halloween' series of films sports what was originally a Captain Kirk mask.

@filmchris‘s post got me thinking about a thing i do that, if i recall, @coopergriggs taught me: memory enhancement

when your head is full of attachments to memories, like places that make you think of someone, or songs that make you think of a time in a relationship that didn’t work, and now you’re making a new start, you can “enhance” those memories by creating a new attachment.

for me, this is taking things that have a difficult or otherwise uncomfortable prior-my-current-happy-relationship memory attached to them, and then doing them again, very often with phil. sometimes it’s going back to a place i used to go to with an ex, other times it’s a movie or song that feels anchored to the past, and it may even be a type of meal or food that draws me back to another time that makes my stomach drop.

when i want to let that time go, to have a new point of reference for it, i “enhance” it by doing it again, creating new memories on my terms.

phil will even sometimes say “what’s this about?”, and all i have to say is “memory enhancement.”

i learned in my 30′s that you can’t run from the past. but damned if you can’t reclaim your present.