I’m really enjoying these digital illustrations by artist Tebe Interesno, who explores a wide variety of themes from surrealism to science fiction. While his blog hasn’t been updated in a while there are pages of work going back several years that are well worth a look. If you like this, also check out Alex Andreev.
Duuuude, I totally dogged too drug much. Wait… what?
Because I feel bad if I don’t reblog…
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters… S.T..R …
My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.)
She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.
Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this…
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the ‘3’ steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions :
S * Ask the individual to SMILE ..
T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg ‘It is sunny out today’).
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
NOTE : Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is
1. Ask the person to ‘stick’ out their tongue.
2. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.
A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
And it could be your own.First reblog post that actually saves a life.
This is a life-saving post.
the more you know
yeah don’t think that this can’t happen to you or someone you know if they’re young. my cousin’s wife is 33 and she had a stroke last year
I’ve had a stroke. It happens to people, and the more you know about this kind of stuff, the better.Because it could be important to know.
LIVE SAVING. WOOOAHH. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG
Had a family member almost die of one, so signal boosting because you never know when you could save a life.
A few years ago, my next door neighbor was home alone and called his wife to complain about not feeling well. A couple hours later, he collapsed, and was rushed to the hospital. Turns out, he was having a stroke, and is now paralyzed from the neck down. If you don’t feel well, please do not delay medical attention. Just go to the hospital, and if it turns out that nothing is actually wrong with you, it’s still better to be safe than sorry.
my best friend in high school died from a stroke. she was on the phone with best girl friend, when she collapsed in the living room. her last words were, “i have a headache." she died an hour later. it’s serious, real thing. she was 16.
I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULDN’T BE TEACHING ME THIS.
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There are tons of red, white and blue food recipes out there for your Independence Day party, but dying foods a few colors is pretty boring and basic. If you really want to impress, make firecracker cupcakes that actually explode in your mouth courtesy of Pop Rocks. It's a fireworks show in your mouth and only patriots are invited.
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Photo by James Martin, The Mint Museum
Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto (previously) recently stopped by Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina to pour one of his immense, twisting clouds of salt. Titled “Floating Garden” the piece was created over several weeks from February through March before an crowd of attendees was permitted to destroy it. Watch the time-lapse above to see everything come together (and apart). Via the museum:
Salt, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, is used in funeral rituals and by sumo wrestlers before matches. It is frequently placed in small piles at the entrance to restaurants and other businesses to ward off evil spirits and to attract benevolent ones. Motoi forged a connection to the substance while mourning the death of his sister, at the age of twenty-four, from brain cancer, and began to create art out of salt in an effort to preserve his memories of her. His art radiates an intense beauty and tranquility, but also conveys something ineffable, painful, and endless.
You can see numerous installation and process photos over on Facebook.
Former wrestler Matt Osborne—aka Doink the Clown—died a few days ago. Justin Halpern, bestselling author and co-creator of the upcoming Fox sitcom Surviving Jack, told us this story about working with Doink way back in 1998. Halpern believes the Doink mentioned here is Osborne, but given that Doink was portrayed by a number of wrestlers over the years, we can't verify it. Either way, read this now.
    
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America's birthday is coming up, and nothing says, "I love the USA!" more than deep-fried deliciousness. But now is not the time to limit yourself to the same old standbys. French fries are delicious, but pretty standard as far as unhealthy foods go.
It's time to heat up the oil, because we're about to take deep frying to a whole new level. We're talking deep-fried Fourth of July breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert
So save the salad for tomorrow, and check out these 21 suggestions for crisping up your all-American celebration. Read more...
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Bullet time has been around since at least the first Matrix movie (actually there was a Gap ad before that), and despite it being an oft-used cinematic technique, it still hasn’t gotten old. [Jeremiah] wanted to tap into the awesomeness of bullet time, and managed to come up with a great camera rig using only a GoPro and a ceiling fan.
The build really relies on only two components: a GoPro camera and a ceiling fan. In [Jeremiah]‘s videos, a ceiling fan is mounted between two trees on a sturdy piece of lumber. The GoPro is suspended from one of the fan blades with the help of a piece of wood, a hinge, and a short bit of cable. After [Jeremiah] wired up the fan to a dimmer switch he could control the speed of the fan and Bob’s your uncle.
This isn’t the first time a GoPro has been used for a bullet time rig. In fact, our buddy [Caleb] did a similar build by spinning the camera around on a lazy suzan. Gotta love the high frame rate available on the GoPro, huh?
Vidias after the break.
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Simon Roth’s chickens are misbehaving. They’re supposed to be a passive food source in his sci-fi god-game, but in the early build he’s showing me they’re compelled by instinct to waddle into the nearest puddle of lava. The way a thing breaks can tell you much about how it’s built, and Maia breaks in very interesting ways.
“Dungeon Keeper meets Dwarf Fortress,” is how Roth describes it, which is apt when you consider that chickens were snacks in Bullfrog’s demon management sim, but Maia’s systems promise much more than AI programming in the ’90s could ever deliver. Dungeon Keeper’s hatcheries churned out brainless sprites. In Maia, chickens have minds of their own.
“They’ll seek out warmth,” Simon explains. “It’s cool because chickens do do that, and it means they’ll try and crawl inside reactors and stuff. The bug at the moment is the lava is the brightest, hottest thing in the game.”
The sombre exodus that occurs when a worker robot exposes some magma is both tragic and darkly amusing. It won’t happen like that in the finished game, of course, but this cocktail of horror and humour is exactly what Roth and his team are trying to capture. It’s a sandbox comedy-of-errors simulator set on a space colony inspired by ’70s hard sci-fi.
Maia is the name of the primordial planet that wants to kill you. With the help of a floating cursor-claw and an elevated, godly perspective, you must sustain a small human colony on a vicious, procedurally generated slab of alien terrain. Decompression, solar flares, nuclear meltdowns and mental breakdowns can all scupper a colony in minutes, and the surface world is populated by indigenous beasties only too happy add humans to their diet.
Underground dwellings provide an uneasy solution to some of these problems. Loyal ‘imp’ robots can carve rooms into the planet’s crust and mine ore to build better equipment. The surface presents two square kilometres of dangerous alien tundra, but Maia’s crust is also two kilometres deep. You have a choice: create an insulated warren and risk starvation, or raid the surface world and face the dangers of the wild.
Either way, you’ll need power to sustain a breathable atmosphere. The movement of energy through Maia’s ecosystem is precisely simulated. The efficiency of solar panels will alter depending on cloud cover and rainstorms. The rate at which surface foliage grows is decided by how much rainand sunlight they receive. All commodities – power, food, research – can be stored, moved and destroyed.
“Everything. Everything is simulated,” Roth says enthusiastically. “As soon as a new bit of grass pops up that’s a new thing in the world. It exists and the colonists are aware of it.” That may sound minor, but it reflects the design philosophy that informs every aspect of Maia. Plants aren’t just textures, they’re entities, which means colonists and creatures can use them and form associations with them. The same goes for lights, sounds and even furniture.
“I can make people afraid of concepts. It lets us do really crazy things. We can make imp bots that hate doors. They hate doors and they’ll go trash an airlock and blow out the base.”
All the humans, aliens and pets in Maia’s sandbox have personalities, governed by a web of needs and procedurally generated histories. They’re a bit like Sims, but more autonomous, and mad. Living with hunger and filth will increase the risk of mental collapse, which can mean a murderous psychotic break, or eccentric inaction. Rather than delivering direct orders to your people, you create a command and someone fulfils it. If a colonist is depressed or petrified by door-phobia they might not respond. You can tweak their mood subliminally using different colours of light and they can take mood boosts from relaxation and pets.
Here Maia’s layers of simulation trigger another emergent misfire. Roth tells me about a recent playtest in which he observed a cat acting strangely. It was only when he dug into the animal’s traits that he discovered that the cat was an alcoholic.
That’s why Maia is exciting. There’s a rich logic behind the impulses that make chickens walk into lava and cats raid ration packs in search of booze. These broken moments show that Maia’s confluent simulation systems are capable of producing narrative. The behavioural system is forming attachments with the resource system and producing an event – in this case: “the cat is getting wasted on petrol.” If it all comes together, Maia could be a truly extraordinary story generator
The post Maia preview: battle with starvation and psychosis in this smart SF survival sim appeared first on PC Gamer.
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Etsy seller Mary Jenkins has created an adorable line of chibi magnets featuring you favorite characters. They get even cuter when you realize they’re mix-and-match so you can give Captain Hammer’s body to Doctor Horrible or even mix-up all eleven Doctors!
See more magnets after the break…
Product Page ($3 and up via The Mary Sue)
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Android: We've covered several Android alarm clocks, but WakeVoice is different. Instead of waking up to music, WakeVoice rings, then speaks to you when it's time to get up. It can play a personalized message, read the news headlines, or fill you in on the weather for the day, all while you drag yourself out of bed.
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During World War One, 10% of all casualties were civilians.
During World War Two, the number of civilian deaths rose to 50%.
During the Vietnam War, 70% of all casualties were civilians.
In the war in Iraq, civilians account for up to 90% of all deaths.
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One of the worst aspects of fracturing a bone, other than the excruciating pain and subsequent hospital bill, is the itchy, smelly, plaster cast. Sure, all your friends get to write hilarious things on it, but you end up being the kid in the shallow end of the pool with their arm stuck inside a giant trash bag. Definitely not cool. What if a cast could be functional as well as aesthetically pleasing? Jake Evill, a graduate from the Architecture and Design school at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, has been exploring such a concept and he calls it Cortex.
Evill says that the “Cortex exoskeletal cast provides a highly technical and trauma zone localized support system that is fully ventilated, super light, shower friendly, hygienic, recyclable and stylish.” Patients would first receive an x-ray to pinpoint the nature of the break and would next have their arm scanned to determine the outer shape of their limb. Lastly the Cortex cast would be 3D-printed, with optimized levels of support around the break area to provide a snug fit.
It’s safe to say that with present technology the 3D-printed method would take considerably longer to fabricate than a typical plaster cast, but the idea is intriguing. It reminds me of the present movement to make prosthetic limbs more beatiful and personalized. Read more about Cortex here. (via dezeen)
We’re all in the mood for a melody, and you’ve got us feelin’ alright.
This Sloth Boogie Woogie clip had nothing to do with Arbroath. Lyric (slightly altered) by B. Joel.
“I never said I made the individual clips. All I am saying is that I completely edited this compilation. It’s a compilation of some of the funniest videos from around the internet.” — Sir NOSAJ
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