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SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Coleran Reel 2008.06 HD from Mark Coleran on Vimeo.

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

AL BALAD - Beethoven from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

AL BALAD - Ghandi from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

AL BALAD - Napoleon from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

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London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/26/50-beautiful-and-creative-portfolio-designs/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/20/35-designers-x-5-questions/

Pixelmator is a Mac OSX image editor built by two brothers; Saulius Dailide and Aidas Dailide. Along with three other gentlemen, they seem to have built a good photoshop competitor. One big advantage is pixelmator uses your video card’s GPU to calculate image processing which allows your CPU to calculate other stuff. With with increased video memory you can expect “real-time responsiveness” on many operations. The biggest deal is the cost. They expect initial selling price to be $59. I for one will welcome this as great competition for over priced photoshop.

http://www.pixelmator.com/

Depending on your personality, you might see these as either empty beer or soda cans. Either way these are awesome and creative sculptures from Chinese artist Lei Xue.

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This robot created by Sylvain Calinon will ask if you would like to have a portrait “drawn” of yourself. If you answer yes it takes an image and then proceeds to draw it. Some I am sure will argue this is nothing but a high tech printer and in some ways it is but it is very exciting to see where the possibilities of this technology will take us.

Source: Neatorama

Stanford has an online tool that will convert images to 3D scene. The system will analyze parts of the image and figure out which parts would be edges to the 3d.

How does it feel when a sweater becomes a medium with which to record your own voice? Gelsomina, the voice knitting machine, makes it possible to transfer individual vocal melodies to a piece of clothing so that they become visible in the different varieties of knitted patterns.
The fashion designer and the product designer worked together to hack a knitting machine from the '70s. Just say a message into a microphone and the frequency of your voice is analyzed by a computer and turned into binary code that the machine will interpret to control 24 servo-motors which will turn your words into knitted pattern. And hop! You can wear an individual voice message on a sweater. No one will understand the message, it will stay in your head. The pattern doesn't just depend on the words but it varies also according to your modulation, whether you are excited or totally introverted. And of course wearing your voice is quite intimate so you might probably want to keep the garment just for you or offer it to someone you love.

http://www.motionportrait.com/e/

Ricky Swallows makes incredibly detailed wooden sculptures such as these seen below. Most of his sculptures are so detailed they appear to be made out of something besides wood. Ricky Swallows chooses to work with Jelutong which is very similar to balsa wood.

Source: Neatorama

http://gizmodo.com/381081/spider%2Bpig-and-homer-simpson-made-of-folders-are-good-excuse-for-desktop-clutter-art-contest

The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.

It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

Beautiful!

Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

Khoda is a 5 minute animation in which every frame was hand painted. Taking roughly 6,000 paintings and two years, this animation was inspired by the idea of being able to pause the animation at any point and have it be “like a painting.”

This is 01:58:31 and reflects a body of his work which imitates surveillance cameras. Betts uses proprietary technology to transfer pixels from a digital photograph to dots of acrylic paint onto a canvas, forming a grainy but coherent image. It's machine-made pointillism. Brilliant!

Thanks to an iPhone application called Brushes artists can digitally paint whenever the mood strikes. You can either paint over a photo or create a new painting from scratch.



The program features claims to have the best color picker available on the iPhone, realistic brushes, eyedropper tool, unlimited undo and redo, and zoom features.

This program seems to be something really useful and entertaining to artists.

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As flat-screen TVs look more and more like works of art, why not give them a proper display on the TV Easel ($1,000). Built from solid hardwood to hold televisions up to 60 inches, the TV Easel also features a height-adjustable design, integrated component storage and wire management, a hand-applied, four-step antiqued ebony finish, and the ability to double as, well, an easel, for artwork, mirrors, or other display items.

Glitch Art is abstract art inspired by computer crashes and digital data by British artist Ant Scott - there are some interesting images on the site that compare glitches to electron scans...

photo: The muse.mu limited edition box set of The Resistance, including a CD, DVD, double vinyl, USB flash drive and a poster.

The Resistance has received very positive reviews.

After listening to the album during an interview with the band, BBC Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe updated his Twitter account with a description of the album as "A beautifully recorded, strong, sweeping, fighting, uplifting, rocking, and inclusive record about love."[37]. On July 6, 2009, Zane Lowe was speaking about The Resistance on BBC Radio 1. Lowe mentioned how he thought it is the most focused recording that Muse has ever come out with, and that he thought the 3-part "Exogenesis: Symphony", which he said fits seamlessly into the rest of the album, is the most ambitious project that the band has ever pulled off. "There are massive riffs in there, there are quirky pop songs in there, there's all sorts of wonder in there, it is absolutely amazing".[38] During the end of June 2009, an editor for the Japanese music magazine Rockin' On went to Lake Como along with representatives of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland for interviews and to have a listen-through with the album. The editor, Yukiko Kojima, went on to state that the album was an "incredible masterpiece", that "the band succeeded to express art to a high degree, which consist with accessibillity", and even called it an "authentic miracle".[39]. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Dan Cairns mentions that "Muse have made an album of genius, brilliance and beauty".[40] Play.com described The Resistance as a "sweeping collection of songs where classical and rock influences collide but never clash" and even going so far as saying the album is "a genuine modern masterpiece".

Much of the album's praise has been directed towards the album-ending three-part "Exogenesis" which used over 40 musicians in the recording process. The Fly gave the album two scores, awarding the three-part "Exogenesis" 5/5 but 3.5/5 for the rest, saying that "'Exogenesis...' is a streak of utter brilliance across 'The Resistance's beguiling, inconsistent sky."[41] Q magazine, Uncut magazine, Mojo magazine and Hotpress magazine all rated the album 4 stars out of 5.

All songs written and arranged by Matthew Bellamy (With exception to the piano outro of United States of Eurasia, Collateral Damage, which is a loose recital of Nocturne In E-Flat Major, Op.9 No.2 by Frédéric Chopin).
1. "Uprising" – 5:04
2. "Resistance" – 5:46
3. "Undisclosed Desires" – 3:55
4. "United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)" – 5:47
5. "Guiding Light" – 4:13
6. "Unnatural Selection" – 6:54
7. "MK Ultra" – 4:06
8. "I Belong to You (+Mon Cœur S'ouvre à Ta Voix)" – 5:38
9. "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)" – 4:18
10. "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)" – 3:56
11. "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)" – 4:36

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Rafael Nadal is blogging again for The Times Online during his US Open campaign and discusses the "stolen kiss" incident:

Hello everyone,

Hope you all are good. I am great and feeling very good. Yesterday it was very late when I posted my blog. I think that it is the first time ever I have done it after coming back from the tournament so late. I ended up going to sleep after 4 am. It is quite late even for a Spaniard... Specially if you are a tennis player and have to play.

Many people asked me today about yesterday's match. I said to everyone who asked me that I found I played better, starting to feel good. But when I was elaborating on my game I was immediately cut and asked not about the match but about the incident of the guy jumping on court and kissing me and everything you've seen on TV.

To be honest, I didn't see the guy coming. I'd just taken my shirt off to change it when I saw a guy coming to me, kissing me and saying that he loved me... Then I saw the security jumping to him. I didn't think it was important, not serious, and tried to stop the security at some point to leave the guy. You can actually read my lips saying "it's OK". Not that I know a lot of English to explain to them that it was OK, that he was cool and that for me it was OK. Not that I liked the kiss... :-)

So I didn't really give too much importance to it. I just thought, as I say it was funny.

I understand that the tournament's security got nervous, but I was cool with it. As a matter of fact, when I was in the locker room, one of the main guys of the tournament, David Brewer, came to the locker and asked me if I was OK and if the guy had hurt me. I told him I was fine and to please not to do anything to the guy. Jokingly I said "One fan I have tonight - please leave him". I was told that the guy was going to be prosecuted (I think it is the correct way to say it). Hope he is OK.

I understand it is a delicate issue but I have to say that this tournament really takes good care of me. They are really, really nice with me and have lots of attentions with me and my team. From my side no complaints whatsoever, on the contrary I have to thank them for everything they do. Maybe the only complaint is the scheduling... We'll talk another day about that...

Hope this whole thing is taken positively and no one suffers for something like this.

So thanks US Open staff for everything.