Artist Diane Meyer adds pixelated sections to her photographs by embroidering pixel-like squares directly on to the photos with a needle and thread. The embroidered areas obscure the underlying photo, much like digital pixelation is used to obscure portions of a photo or video. She has used the technique on photos from her past in the series “Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten,” and on photos of Cold War relics in Berlin in “Berlin.”
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Connecticut-based photographer, Ty Foster, has made a career of documenting dogs and sometimes humans. His latest ongoing photo series, “Lick“, catches dogs in the action of licking their chops. He was inspired by the “Shake” photo series of dogs shaking off water by Carli Davidson. His previous projects include “Unleashed“, a portrait series in which dogs were outfitted as famous WWE wrestlers and “Ink“, showing the relationship between dogs and their tattooed humans.
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The Washington Post reported the latest revelations about NSA surveillance last week, writing that the spy agency intercepted data from Google and Yahoo's private "clouds" by tapping into fiber optic cables overseas. And despite NSA pushback stating otherwise, the Post is standing by its story.
In light of the data tapping piece, the government's response took a different tack than what's been seen over the past several months. It didn't say the disclosures were damaging to national security or irresponsible; they just flat-out said the stories were wrong.
Asked about reports that the NSA "broke into Google and Yahoo databases worldwide," Gen. Keith Alexander said flatly "that's never happened." He continued, "I can tell you factually we do not have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers."
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MIDI master TheSuperMarioBros2 composed this utterly manic rendition of “Bad Apple” in MIDI with a mind-boggling 4.6 million notes. The song is an example of Black MIDI, an electronic music genre in which the songs have so many notes that the musical notation is a solid black mess (hence the name). “Bad Apple” is from the game franchise Touhou Project.
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Diagram illo of android from the “Not Quite Human” young adult novels I looooooved as a kid. I probably drew a lot of androids like this. (HE KEEPS SCREWDRIVERS IN HIS LEG)
Some Bears fans showed up to Lambeau Field to watch Bears-Packers, and they came prepared with a head-based zinger.
You see, Packers fans wear cheeesheads, so these guys have cheesegrater heads.
I applaud their ingenuity in the field of sports fan accessory. However, I'd like to point out some logical flaws with their outfits.
1. Cheeseheads depict cheese with holes in it. We can presume this is swiss cheese. Swiss, a soft, malleable cheese, is rarely served grated. A cheese slicer would have been more apropos.
2. The cheesehead does not in fact indicate that the fans are supporting pieces of cheese -- the team is the Packers, not the Cheeses -- so destroying cheese does not imply the Packers will be destroyed.
3. Cheese graters, one might argue, are pro-cheese: they facilitate the eating of cheese.
4. If they actually grated the cheeseheads of their opposing fans, it would look super weird, since they'd be standing inches apart rubbing each other's heads rhythmically back and forth.
However, I can't recommend a more fitting cheese-themed headpiece for Bears fans, so for now, I fully endorse Cheesegraterheads.
(Note: we have been told Lions fans have done this in the past.)
Jeff Wasson’s self-proclaimed “wife” in plate armor made from 1050 hardened steel. From the website:
Notice that her breastplate covers her ribcage and stops at the narrowest part of her waist. Below that a fauld of hooped lames covers her hips, flexing and allowing her to bend.
The breastplate is very rounded and has a crest running down the center. Both of these attributes allow it to deflect blows, and give the wearer plenty of room to breath. The pauldrons overlap the breastplate and have reinforcing plates.
The phrase ‘self-proclaimed “wife”” always gives me a laugh here and I’m not sure why. That is indeed Stacy Wasson, all-around badass jouster. She was also the rider in that “Female Armour” shot, riding the bay horse with the marvellous two-point seat. I totally think she looks like Joan of Arc with that haircut!
The new Microsoft advertisement touting the new Surface 2 tablet that is plastered on subway stations, bus shelters, and telephone booths across the country has an undeniably error. The ad depicts a spreadsheet of vacation expenses—from airfare to surf rentals—and totals them.
The budget is shown as totaling $9,000, but the true sum of the values—2500+4000+500+1500+500+200+300—is $9,500. Microsoft is off by $500—which happens to be the approximate price of a new Surface 2.
Microsoft declined to comment on this story or give any insight into how the inaccuracy wasn’t caught before the ads went live.
The company can take solace in knowing they’re not alone in crafting sloppy Excel formulas. Renowned economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff failed to sum data correctly in their landmark study Growth in a Time of Debt.
PREVIEW: LEGENDS OF RED SONJA #1 (of 5) from @DynamiteComics
Gail Simone, Nancy A. Collins, Devin Grayson (w) Jack Jadson, Noah Salonga, Carla McNeil (a) Jay Anacleto (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+Dynamite Entertainment presents a bold new experiment in graphic storytelling, as the biggest female stars in the…This comes out tomorrow, first issue of a mini-series that I could only have dreamed about when I started in comics.
It’s a Who’s Who of some of the finest female writers in comics, and we all worked together to create an anthology of Red Sonja stories, tied together by a tale of a ruthless gang of mercs who have decided to hunt her down.
It’s prose giants like Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey, Nancy Collins and Meljean Brook. It’s comics legends like Devin Grayson, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Marjorie M. Liu, and Leah Moore. It’s the brilliant Nicola Scott’s first comics script. It’s top writers from games and tv like Rhianna Pratchett and Blair Butler.
In short, it’s all heroes of mine. I hand picked them because they are concentrated awesomeness. And they turned in gold!
Get this book, it’s a ton of fun, and there’s never really been anything quite like it in comics!
Gail’s done a fabulous job with the structure here and while I’ve been impressed with all the scripts I’ve read (I think I’ve seen about half? I know I have NOT read Marjorie’s, which I’m certain is amazing because… well, because she is Marjorie and amazing is what she does), I have to say, Blair Butler’s piece is something special. Anxious to see it on the page.
Gasping for oxygen in the noxious air that so often enshrouds northern China is never pleasant. What really twists the knife is that the state media often refer to it simply as “fog,” not pollution, as though it came wafting in on a zephyr, and wasn’t belched by a smokestack in Hebei.
Well here’s some vindication for anyone who ever found this annoying. The Chinese government has realized that whatever it is clogging the atmosphere, it’s rendering government surveillance cameras ineffective (paywall), reports the South China Morning Post. Since that compromises national security, the government has hired two teams of scientists to come up with a fix, says the newspaper. But one reason they’re flummoxed by their assignment is that the haze is not simply “fog,” says Yang Aiping, a digital imaging expert and leader of one of the teams.
“Most studies in other countries are to do with fog. In China, most people think that fog and smog can be dealt by the same method,” Yang told the SCMP. “Our preliminary research shows that the smog particles are quite different from the small water droplets of fog in terms of optical properties.” For example, infrared imaging, which can usually help cameras penetrate fog or even smoke, can’t see through the thicket of particulate matter in Chinese air.
This is a big worry for the Chinese government, which as of January 2013, had installed some 20 million cameras on streets, public parks and even in elevators throughout China. So is the government going to redouble its already controversial efforts to reduce pollution? Probably not. Yang told the SCMP her team would “heavily revise, if not completely rewrite, algorithms in some mathematical models” for the imaging software used with the security cameras. The effect of the pollution might be to make China’s surveillance state even better at its job.
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the only way to stop Tom Brady with a gun
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My sister got me a Thor bobblehead.
This is what I did with it.
since I’m a serious grown adult, I have a reply for you
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I AM CRYING
legitimately crying
My Yoda bobble-head has something to say…
it got better
IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER
THISSSSSSSSS
firehosepoor Seneca Wallace
you'll always be a hall-of-famer to me
RIP Mexico City Lions-4-time Super Bowl Champion Browns Madden 2006 franchise
The Packers-Bears game is turning out exactly how you thought it would ... once Aaron Rodgers left the game. Seneca Wallace, Rodgers' backup, tried to make this ball-on-fire pass, for some reason. Julius Peppers just happened to be in his way.
Not to worry, the Josh McCown-led Bears were forced to punt on the ensuing drive. Green Bay's special teams unit blocked the kick, recovered the ball and the offense converted it to a touchdown from James Starks.
Can you spot the difference between these two global celebrities? Clue: one is an adorably goofy Muppet and close friend of Tom Hiddleston, and the other is the Cookie Monster.
Separated at birth… :)
