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Creative murals by designer and street artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo are turning Tehran, Iran’s streets into an outstanding open-air gallery. Executed on two-dimensional blocks of concrete, Ghadyanloo’s artworks deceive the viewer’s eye by skillfully using methods from op art and 3D painting.

Mehdi has established a mural-painting company Blue Sky Painters, which helps him to work with the large-scale street art projects. What is not very frequent in the field, is that Ghadyanloo is fully backed up by the city’s municipality. According to the artist himself, it is one of the government’s goals to promote mural art in Tehran.

“The city is an architectural mishmash with buildings often having only one facade and the other three just left blank and grey. This doesn’t make for a beautiful city but it is a great environment for mural work. I think the municipality really felt the need to bring some cohesion or at least colour to the often confused and smog-smeared architectural face of the city.”

Ghadyanloo graduated from MA in Animation, which brought him closer to storytelling and surrealism. The latter has really influenced his style in urban murals. His scenes often depict unrealistic sights and actions such as cars flying in the air, man bicycling down the wall, people defying gravity and so on. Many of Ghadyanloo’s creations also cleverly interact with their surroundings bringing even more life to the streets of Tehran. (via: My Modern Met)

 

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On a scale from one to ten, how good is series 8 going to be?

Twelve!

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Creations from French Girls, an iPhone app where people draw portraits based on selfies of others. [via]

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Some of the most persistent exports from the United States in the past 30 years are pop culture items. Movies, music, and other trends—no matter how popular they are back in their native land—have gone on to have second lives in other countries, sometimes with exciting and unexpected results. Combine that with the trend in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s of adapting blockbusters into comic books and one has the ingredients for some surprising graphic treats from overseas. As recounted by Vern on his site, the Hungarian comic book adaptations of various ‘80s films resulted in some interesting images that offer a glimpse into how these films were perceived elsewhere. The garish covers with their attempts at approximating the faces of the actors gave way to black-and-white panels that are just jam-packed with words, nearly edging out the rest of the artwork. These comics used to be hosted ...

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Twenty-Two Nighthawks. Total Cost: $2,446,400,000.

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45 years ago, three astronauts blasted off on a mission to put man on the moon.

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Another day, another dollar

A Solar Filament Erupts

In his 1983 book En Torno a la Traducción, Spanish philologist and translator Valentín García Yebra cites a Portuguese poem by Cassiano Ricardo entitled “Serenata sintética”:

rua
      torta

                       lua
                             morta

                                              tua
                                                    porta.

Broadly, it’s an image of an evening tryst, but its import is so embedded in its language that García Yebra found himself unable to convey it in another tongue.

“In this short poem, phonemic form is everything,” write Basil Hatim and Ian Mason in Discourse and the Translator. “The words themselves are evocative: a small town with ‘winding streets’ (rua torta), a ‘fading moon’ (lua morta) and the hint of an amorous affair: ‘your door’ (tua porta). But their impact is achieved almost solely through the close rhyme and rhythm; the meaning is raised from the level of the banal by dint of exploiting features which are indissociable from the Portuguese language as a code.

“García Yebra relates that he gave up the attempt to translate the poem even into Spanish, a language which shares certain phonological features with Portuguese.”

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Filming a rainbow when suddenly.

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Well, maybe check down the street at Wal-Mart. They’re always open. From I Have Seen The Whole Of The Internet.

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Американская компания Tiny Tango представила необычный карманный компьютер Tango – «самый мощный карманный компьютер в мире». Вообще, новинка состоит из двух частей: собственно ПК и док-станции. ПК легко умещается в руке (125 x 80 x 13,5 мм) и содержит процессор, батарею, а также заменяемые оперативную память и SSD. Все порты, дополнительный источник питания, система охлаждения и модуль Wi-Fi располагаются на док-станции. Например, вы можете иметь дома и в офисе по док-станции с подключенными к ним монитором, мышью и клавиатурой, а всю «начинку», то есть Tango, носить с собой. При отключении от док-станции Tango не выключается, а лишь «засыпает», когда же встроенная батарея разряжается, ПК переходит в режим гибернации. Размеры док-станции — 135 x 135 x 27 мм. Надо заметить, кроха и в самом деле получилась довольно мощной для своих габаритов: четырехъядерный процессор AMD A6-5200 (2 ГГц) с интегрированной графикой GCN HD8400, от 2 до 8 ГБ SODIMM DDR3 RAM, накопитель емкостью от 32 ГБ. В настоящее время цена Tango стартует от 350 долларов – в апреле, при появлении в розничной сети, решение наверняка будет стоить дороже. Видео далее.

Tango – самый мощный в мире карманный компьютер (+ видео)

The working paper (pdf) describes it in this way:

Filecoin is a distributed electronic currency similar to Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin’s computation-only proof-of-work, Filecoin’s proof-of-work function includes a proof-of-retrievability component, which requires nodes to prove they store a particular file. The Filecoin network forms an entirely distributed file storage system, whose nodes are incentivized to store as much of the entire network’s data as they can. The currency is awarded for storing files, and is transferred in transactions, as in Bitcoin. Files are added to the network by spending currency. This produces strong monetary incentives for individuals to join and work for the network. In the course of ordinary operation of the Filecoin network, nodes contribute useful work in the form of storage and distribution of valuable data.

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