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“Kairos” animated trailer by La Cachette studio (for the promotion of Ulysse Malassagne’s comic book)

This is pretty cool.

Nuevamente, Daft Punk sorprendió al mundo el pasado fin de semana con un nuevo mensaje sobre su siguiente álbum titulado Random Access Memories. El dúo francés, no solo utilizó de nueva cuenta el programa de televisión Saturday Night Live para emitir un anuncio comercial, sino que también lo hizo en las pantallas del festival Coachella.

En este anuncio de apenas un minuto de duración, podemos escuchar un fragmento del nuevo sencillo de Daft Punk, titulado “Get Lucky”, en cual claramente se confirma la participación de Pharrell Williams, así como de Nile Rodgers. Escúchenlo arriba.

Un nuevo episodio de la serie The Collaborators se estrenó hoy, y es precisamente el correspondiente a la participación de Pharrell Williams, véanlo a continuación.

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“Awkward Handshake: The Game” by the Montreal-based Moving Mind Studio is a short video that imagines various social situations as a first person shooter video game.

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Un nuevo vídeo del intrépido y entretenido Chris Hadfield desde la Estación Espacial Internacional mostrándonos su vida cotidiana. El otro día, por ejemplo, nos mostraba lo difícil que es llorar en gravedad cero.

Hoy nos muestra lo difícil que es escurrir una toalla. Hadfield libera una toallita de una cajita con el logo de la NASA y la empapa con agua potable de una bolsita, la que utilizan los astronautas para beber, y…

donde vai wn?

Lo que se encuentra tras la señorita es la Canvas Chair del estudio de diseño YOY. Puede parecer una imagen extraña porque se supone que es un lienzo, pero el "secreto" se descubre con la siguiente imagen:

Exacto: la Canvas Chair es, ante todo, una silla. Y, por lo que parece, bastante incómoda. Pero si uno tiene intención de hacer de su salón una sala de exposiciones tiene que pensar en esos detalles: los asientos de los invitados, el camarero desnudo con máscara de luchador que pasea con la bandeja de copas, aquella pareja que aseguraba una performance inusual en la que se asesinaban mutuamente (pase único) y la mujer que se regurgita a sí misma en un bucle infinito, que siempre se gana las simpatías de todos y no es muy cara. Nadie dijo que ser anfitrión fuera fácil.

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As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.

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Aaron Diaz, the creator of Dresdan Codak, has put together a proposal for new Legend of Zelda game where Zelda is the hero sent to rescue Prince Link. Here’s what he says on the topic:

Clockwork Empire is set 2,000 years after Twilight Princess, and is not a reboot, but simply another iteration in the Zelda franchise. It just so happens that in this case, Zelda is the protagonist. I’m a very big Zelda fan, and worked hard to draw from key elements in the continuity and mythos.

This concept work is meant to show that Zelda as a game protagonist can be both compelling and true to the franchise, while bringing new and dynamic game elements that go farther than being a simple gender swap.

Here’s my question: If Link is now the prince instead of the hero, wouldn’t this game be The Legend of Link and not another installment in the Zelda series?

Happiness levels caputred by Tweets rise logarithmically with distance from our average location, say computer scientists studying Twitter sentiment

Tea Cup SlingsHOT, a design concept by Samir Sufi, seems like a smart idea. A built in groove lets you pull the teabag tight against the edge of the cup to squeeze liquid out of the bag and keep it out of the water when you think your tea is ready. Hope this will go into production!

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Works on Gnats too!

Items needed:

1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
2-liter plastic bottle

1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are drawn to the color black or white.)

Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.

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Thanks Cari

We’re probably all familiar with the classic techniques of photographic toning from seeing various examples of Sepia toned images, but for years analog photographers have been experimenting with chemical toners to create various processing effects. One such technique is to split tone a print to create a dark blue and copper coloured image with a dark dejected mood. In this tutorial we’ll look at using Photoshop to replicate this classic technique in digital form, using Color Balance adjustments to achieve the same range of blue and yellow tones.

Typical sepia toning of a photograph gives the image that classic orange/brown appearance, resulting in a much warmer atmosphere than the basic black and white alternative. Split toning on the other hand produces much more stark effects by creating unusual colour combinations. One popular technique is the bleaching of highlights with sepia, followed by the treating of the shadows with selenium to give a harsh mix of blue and yellow tones. The result is a cold and dejected mood which works great with photographs of abandoned ruins or urban exploration. Here’s an example of this effect applied to a photo from a friend’s exploration of Chernobyl. See more of his great shots of Dark Pripyat.

Split toning in Photoshop

Sepia/Selenium split toning effects work best with photographs that feature some kind of desolate scene in order for the dark blues to give the image a gloomy atmosphere. My buddy Ric kindly supplied one of his Dark Pripyat shots as the base for this tutorial.

The whole purpose of photographic toning was to inject some colour into a basic black and white image before the colour film was available. Therefore the first step we need to take in Photoshop is to convert our modern digital image to monochrome. The best way to do this without losing the image’s contrast is to click the “New adjustment layer” icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select Black & White.

Add another Adjustment Layer, this time selecting Color Balance. There’s a few different ways to adjust the toning of your image, such as Gradient Maps or Curves adjustments on each channel, but the Color Balance option make it easy by allowing you to adjust the amounts of specified colours such as Yellow or Cyan.

Make sure the Preserve Luminosity checkbox is selected, then change the Tone option to Shadows. Increase the Cyans and Blues in the shadows to create the Selenium effect by moving the sliders to 30 Cyan and 40 Blue.

Next, change the Tone selection to Highlights, then adjust the sliders to represent the sepia tones in the highlights. This means moving the sliders to 25 Red and 35 Yellow.

The image has already been given the dark split toning effect, but final adjustments of the overall tone can be made using the Midtones sliders. Adding just an extra +10 Red helps warm up the sepia tones a little, or conversely adding more blue will enhance the coldness of the effect.

The split toning effect is complete, but I always like to sharpen up images with a quick High Pass filter. Press CMD+A to Select All, then go to Edit > Copy Merged. Paste a copy of the image at the top of the layer stack.

Go to Filter > Other > High Pass then adjust the slider until the details are subtly appearing from the grey background.

Change the blending mode of the high pass layer to Linear Light then reduce the opacity to around 30% to tone down the sharpening effect until it looks more natural.

The final sepia/selenium split toning effect replaces all the tones of the image with blues and yellows and creates a dark and gloomy mood which enhances this particular subject of an abandoned city.

Download the source file

It’s easy to dismiss this one at first glance. But once you hear [Tychsen81] playing the thing you’ll want to know more.

He posted the demonstration way back in 2009. It wasn’t until a year later that he filmed the particulars of how the thing was made. The strings are actually bass guitar strings, an A and D string that are tuned down to E and A to play along with Black Sabbath’s “Ironman”. The neck is made out of two boards. One serves as the fingerboard, which is fretless. The other is mounted under that in order to provide negative space for the bridge while keeping the strings at the right height for the fingerboard. The water bottle helps to amplify the sound and that’s why the bottom end of the strings pivot on the bridge, pass through the neck, and are anchored on the bottom edge of the bottle.

We’ve embedded both the demo and the build videos after the break.

If this gets you thinking about making your own instruments you will also be interested in the Whamola.

“Ironman” Demo:

Build video:

[Thanks Herb]

Long distances (and big numbers) can be difficult grasp. Designers Jesse Williams and David Paliwoda took a stab at it and made it easier to understand the distance from Mars. Simple and totally fun. I'm not sure how accurate the travel time and distance are, but I'm guessing it takes differing orbits into account.