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8Aug/11Off

The Marvelous Floating Stage of the Bregenz Festival In Austria

See more amazing floating opera sets here.  What is it about opera that motivates people to spend huge amounts of money on productions that get a few days' run?

 

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7Aug/11Off

Photographer Uses 3D Objects as Film

Rather than use ordinary film to capture 2D images, photographer ShiKai Tseng shoots using 3D objects as film. After painting the objects with Liquid Light to make them light-sensitive, he uses a specially designed pinhole camera to expose them to light from all directions. It’s a pretty neat way to decorate things like vases (which he demonstrates in the above video). ....

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4Aug/11Off

Jeff Koons Must Die!!!

Would you pay 25 cents to smash one of Jeff Koons’s enormous balloon animal sculptures? Artist Hunter Jonakin explores this violent fantasy with an arcade-style video game. Below, he offers his theory about why people love to hate Koons and discusses videogames as art.

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1Aug/11Off

3D Technology takes on fabrics and fashion

Ariel scientists have spent more than three years developing the technology by bringing patented 3D tools to the laundry category for the first time. “Our Ariel scientists used new 3-D technology to see and understand fabrics, fibers, and stains like never before,” he closed.

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14Jul/11Off

Share personalized movie clips

Percy3D has licensed a selection of clips from well-known movies for use in its PercyFX app, which enables users to embed personalized text into the original scene.

Once a consumer has customized a clip, PercyFX delivers a shareable video that can be used on an iPhone and iPad, Facebook or YouTube.

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14Jul/11Off

Surreal 3D Architectural Illustrations by Victor Enrich

Freelance architectural illustrator, Victor Enrich, creates mind-bending 3D architectural images, many with a political message.

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12Jul/11Off

SpongeBob Tells a Twitter Tale

SpongeBob SquarePants’ next adventure will be shared solely on Twitter, in the latest example of companies finding ways to use the platform to meet business goals. Nickelodeon announced that its absorbent yellow hero will star in The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale, as it unfolds from Tuesday through Friday in a project created specifically to be told in bites of 140 characters or less.

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10Jul/11Off

Futurama shows what will have happened … in 3D

Oh you'd like to think that title's a typo, wouldn't you? Well here are a bunch of choice quotes from this partially 3D-erific episode of 'Futurama' that should shed some light on things.

Futurama - Season 6, Episode 17 - "Law and Oracle"
“Ever heard of the Future Crimes Division?” – Captain
“Tomorrow I have!” – Fry
“So where we going?” – Bender
“Pandora.” – Professor
“That dangerous 3D planet? Can’t we just send our avatars?” – Leela
“Noooo! It’s cheaper just to have you die.” – Professor
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6Jul/11Off

First 3D scan of St Kilda’s Village Bay ruins released

The project's team are recording all five of Scotland's Unesco World Heritage sites and five others around the world.

It is hoped the 3D scans will aid the conservation and management of the sites.

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6Jul/11Off

UK researchers developing 3D printer that crafts with chocolate

Chocolate: its a helluva drug. If you’re a fellow chocoholic, you’ll be ecstatic to learn that researchers in the UK are developing 3D printing technology that will allow you to have your own little chocolate factory.

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