On this site, you can tell every little nasty thing about your neighbors… and of course, you still have the advantage of anonymity. That’s nice. Bucharest isn’t yet covered, but trust me, once the word is spread, it will be full of red houses … Don’t they make huge apartment blocks icons as well 
I mean, for multiple sets of “good neighbors” 
?
Jeff Koons, Ilona on Top (Rosa background), 1990. Private collection, courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
While in London, until the 27th of January 2008, go and visit the Barbican Art Gallery with this most amazing art exhibition. Erotic art and erotism is everywhere and in any artform, in any age.
Jeff Koons with his Made in Heaven series is hardly my preferred artist, but I have chosen him to illustrate my post as he seems to me the most vulgar in expression. I guess sexuality was the same always, and continues to be the same in the years to come, yet seeing kitsch mixed with sex, a thin line from art to porn, seems to be the key to this exhibition.
Get seduced!
thanks to Eamonn Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day blog entry
For today, a good animation for a Tom Waits song,
rotoscope video, traced frame by frame.
www.myspace.com/cibelleblackbird
Impecable illustration and composition!
So, as we’ve seen earlier this month, I have been baaged ;;) Today I’ve received the invitation to join and have a look at this tool.
Well, I like it 
. So far it is in the beta version, so I expect many improvements and tools to be developed until the final release. I like the fact that it is all modular and interactivity is taken to its extreme. I checked the source, it’s all JavaScript or so it seems… niiice job, guys.
Can hardly wait to see the release. I would add a more sense of the community, right now it’s a little hard to see what is happening in the community, unless you type search terms and find other people’s baagz.
Way to go! Nice job!
As Wired blog says here, the robots used in military actions sometimes do terrible mistakes and seem to have a life of their own.
I’ve been three days away form the computer, and i already miss my usual habbit for digging up stuff. This weekend I’ve been in a training on a self-concept course.
Using NLP techniques, the training was focused on personal growth. We’ve worked on making good qualities even better, ambiguous ones less ambiguous and the bad ones juuuust a little good and on adding more qualities where there were none.
Not very easy, I can tell you that, especially with the bad and ambiguous ones. Yet, the change is very powerful, as changing the representational system, one can really change ways of communicating thoughts and ideas and seeing the reality clearer.
In fact, the map is not the territory, and I have to agree with NLP on that.
Interaction means communication, if communication is limited, the interaction is as such … communication means a certain protocol as well… so where the protocol is ambiguous, the communication is the same … that’s the nlp stand point, and after the training this weekend I completely agree. The toughest part is the communication with yourself. how can I be sure that I am doing what I like, if I am not sure for what exactly do I like.
So on this course I’ve worked on three qualities, I let you decide which one is bad, good and inexistent in me - analytical approach to life, intuition and empathy.
Love this very geeky love statement. Xkcd takes a very geeky approach to comics, my guess the author is someone with lots of wits and immune to talented drawing plus … happy thoughts.
Anybody remember the Karnaugh map ? Nice 2nd year semester, good times, I remember the main idea of the theory, still… rather vaguely … And who would have thought to find this theory in a Valentine card ?
I’m kinda geeky sometimes myself, but then again I always try to come back to the normal state… and I’m always happy to see there are others that go far beyond
Another one …. soooo good
gToon on audio production, Simon Taylor the narrator and additional sound design by Overman. The music is by Tilopa (album Out of the Blue) and is available from Magnatune.com (Filmed entirely in the Sims 2, October 2006)
The first European Machinima Festival took place this weekend in Leicester, UK.
Not very sure what you know about this form of animation films, I encountered the term machinima in 2005 at Linz Ars Electronica where there was a full seminar on this subject alone. Machinima, pronounced ma-shin-i-ma means making movies using videogames, the word being an amalgamation of machine and cinema and it is a fusion of film-making and gaming.
Although its history goes back on 1996, for me it was like discovering that someone invented the wheel. The idea behind these animated films is so simple, yet it brings such a shift in perception. Until finding out what machinima means, I thought animation and films can only be made by a script and by animating scene by scene all using the design of an illustrator/animator. Yet, it had never occured to me that entire scenes from videogames can be captured and rendered as a film of its own with a true script.
My favourite is still the “red vs blue” series, by roster teeth. The first episode is a true classic.
Developed by exalead.com team, baagz.com [currently in its beta form] aims to become a new form of social networking. Sharing multiple forms of content, not just a mere profile of oneself is the target for the baagz team.
Short dictionary - extract from the baagz brochure
baagz is the name of the service
a baag (plural baagz) is a shared interest
baagboyz and baaggirlz is what you expect, and they are all baagerz
to baag an information is to put the information into a baag
let’s bag it! is what a user say when finding a cool site
I am waiting to be accepted as an user (so far registration is only by means of invitation, so I have to wait for now) and dive into this new social networking ubercool site 
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