Billboard Houses As more and more advertising goes online and transportation conservation becomes an increasing economic and ecological concern, what is the future fate of the infamous billboard? One proposal by Front Architects suggests turning these into lofted homes – small houses to be sure, but located in some potentially fascinating places. Some of these unusually thin homes could be built in place from scratch, others could be transported to new locations or even left where they are in the urban environment. As with so many good design projects the feasibility of this specific idea as such is not of singular or even primary importance – the concept provides a foundation for rethinking everyday urban structures, artifacts of the built environment, that we might find new and different uses for as times change. Alas, the above image is only a computer-generated overlay in a real situation.
Vegan Recipes & Healthy Diet Food | Cuisine Vegan Cooking 30 Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop Photoshop allows designers to create amazing posters that can be used for a variety or purposes like movie promos, product promos, event promos, as well as just for fun and practice. There are a lot of quality tutorials out there that teach the process of designing a poster in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 30 poster tutorials from a variety of different designers. Looking for hosting? Luis
LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality | Elemental LEDucation LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality Okay, this is just freaky. We know LED lights are versatile enough to be used for practically anything, but LED contact lenses? Once miniature green LEDs are developed (and they’re in the works, as of now), full color displays will be possible. Lead researcher Babak Parvis comments “You won’t necessarily have to shift your focus to see the image generated by the contact lens,” it would just appear in front of you and your view of the real world will be completely unobstructed when the display is turned off. Ah, the real world. Thanks to Extreme Tech for the quote and Trendhunter for the images. By the way, these freaky LED contact lenses may still be a product of the future, but a lot of cool LED products are of the present!
Cupcake Recipes The Sad World Of The Misunderstood House Spider | Runt Of The Web If there’s one arthropod with an unfortunately bad rap in the human world, it’s the common house spider. Generally reclusive and non-threatening to people, spiders eat all the creatures that annoy humans (mosquitoes, flies, and roaches) while occupying the empty crevices of human shelter. And yet their very presence makes the average person go after these benevolent creatures with a fury. Enjoy the misunderstood house spider meme?
The Man Who Lives Without Money Think you couldn’t live without money? Irishman Mark Boyle challenged this notion and here’s how he finds life with no financial income, bank balance, and no spending. “If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal.” According to Boyle, the plan back then was to ‘get a good job’, make as much money as possible, and buy the stuff that would show society he was successful. Like most individuals raised in a consumer-driven society, he never second guessed those goals. The change in life path came one evening on the yacht while philosophizing with a friend over a glass of Merlot. The two friends began talking about all the major issues in the world – environmental destruction, resource wars, factory farms, sweatshop labor – and wondered which of the issues they could best devote their time to. The next concern was shelter. Sources: World Observer The Guardian
List of legendary creatures (B) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature Battlefield 3 Becomes Real - Creating The Ultimate FPS Simulator -... Battlefield 3 launched with over 3 million pre-orders alone, and already players and teams of people are trying to find new and more immersive ways of playing the game. The hosts of UK’s Channel 5 The Gadget Show decided to take this to the next level by creating a simulation device that sports a full 360 degree HD projected screen – for total visual immersion – and a combination of roller driven omni-directional treadmills and infra-red cameras so that players can actually “walk around” inside the game and be tracked accurately. All of this is housed inside of a giant silver tent that reminds me of the clown tent I set up in my living room every so often, but even more awesome. This video shows the research and construction of the simulation tent from start to finish, and over all I’m pretty damn impressed with what these guys came up with. Battlefield 3 Simulator Tent My favourite piece of technology they used is probably the roller driven omni-direction treadmill.
7 Movies That Put Insane Work Into Details You Didnt Notice Easter eggs are usually kind of a bum deal. Sure, when you finally find one it's like having a secret conversation with your favorite director ... but he's kind of a jerk, the conversation is one-sided and it's usually all about how much of a loser you are for spending a hundred hours sifting through the special features on your Firefly DVD just to find something Joss Whedon slapped together in five minutes. What follows are the direct opposite of that: These are seven instances where the creators poured their blood, sweat and several other more unsavory fluids into creating something and put it right in front of your face ... and you didn't even notice. Now who's the jerk, huh? #7. When making Se7en, David Fincher knew that the movie's strength relied on "John Doe" being as deeply unsettling as possible. There's something unsettling about that word scrawled in blood on the floor, but we can't put our finger on it. No, seriously, like a total goddamn maniac. And you don't stop ... #6. #5.
Eating App Tells You How Healthy—or Not—Your Meal Was Most people have a pretty good idea of what it means to eat healthy foods, but few manage to do it. A new app called the Eatery aims to change that by having users rate one another’s meals and providing slick data visualizations of a person’s habits over time. The app’s users have rated more than two million meals so far. When overlaid on maps, this data reveals patterns in healthy eating in cities like New York and San Francisco. Eatery users snap a photo of a meal, and that photo is automatically tagged for location. The app uses those meal ratings to provide users with statistics, including changes from week to week in what they ate, the places where they ate the most healthy and least healthy meals, and their best and worst meals of the week. See images from the Eatery on the following pages.
20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru :: Reflex Stock Photo Blog - StumbleUpon Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. 1. Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3. Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. Mental waves do not exist, but if they did they’d look rather like this. 7. This tutorial is so versatile. 8. 9. 10. 11. Portraits occupy the more advanced end of the Photoshop learning spectrum.