The initial sketch:
Emerging in the workshop:
We're excited to see it mounted in the hopsitals garden come spring!
-G & G
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March 20, 2013
Nike
As a memorial to a nurse, my father and I were commissioned to create a sculpture of an angel. We based the sculpture on the Nike of Samothrace, which currently is in the Louvre. Instead of marble we used 1/4" sheets of plate steel which we will let rest into an umber-ocher patina. It is at 1:1 scale.
The initial sketch:
We're excited to see it mounted in the hopsitals garden come spring!
-G & G
The initial sketch:
We're excited to see it mounted in the hopsitals garden come spring!
-G & G
February 2, 2013
Fertilization
Honourable mention in the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge:
Tons more great animaions from Nucleus Medical Media can be found at their youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/nucleusanimation?feature=watch or here: http://catalog.nucleusmedicalmedia.com/nucleusindex.php?
via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/science-visualization-winners/?pid=6148&viewall=true
Also check out the Cell in HD: http://blog.geoffchristou.com/2012/10/the-cell-hd1.html
Tons more great animaions from Nucleus Medical Media can be found at their youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/nucleusanimation?feature=watch or here: http://catalog.nucleusmedicalmedia.com/nucleusindex.php?
via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/science-visualization-winners/?pid=6148&viewall=true
Also check out the Cell in HD: http://blog.geoffchristou.com/2012/10/the-cell-hd1.html
November 11, 2012
Vacuum Maglev Train
"The National Power Traction Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University is developing a vactrain, or a maglev train that runs through in an airless tunnel, allowing it to run at speeds of 600 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers per hour, Beijing Times reported."
From: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-08/02/content_20624621.htm
Also see:
Trans-Atlantic Maglev Train:
Norway has studied neutrally buoyant tunnels (concluding that they’re feasible, though expensive), and Shanghai is running maglev trains to its airport. But supersonic speeds require another critical step: eliminating the air—and therefore air friction—from the train’s path. A vacuum would also save the tunnel from the destructive effects of a sonic boom, which, unchecked, could potentially rip the tunnel apart
...Then air would be pumped out, creating a vacuum, and alternating magnetic pulses would propel a magnetically levitated train capable of speeds up to 4,000 mph across the pond in an hour...
From: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-04/trans-atlantic-maglev
From: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-08/02/content_20624621.htm
Also see:
Trans-Atlantic Maglev Train:
Norway has studied neutrally buoyant tunnels (concluding that they’re feasible, though expensive), and Shanghai is running maglev trains to its airport. But supersonic speeds require another critical step: eliminating the air—and therefore air friction—from the train’s path. A vacuum would also save the tunnel from the destructive effects of a sonic boom, which, unchecked, could potentially rip the tunnel apart
...Then air would be pumped out, creating a vacuum, and alternating magnetic pulses would propel a magnetically levitated train capable of speeds up to 4,000 mph across the pond in an hour...
From: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-04/trans-atlantic-maglev
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October 19, 2011
Submarine Cables
An amazing interactive website documenting all the submarine fibre-optic cables which create the "scaleless", "fluid" internet... those visualization of the internet as this abstract series of nodes is highly deceptive, as the internet is at every moment travelling back and forth across these cables as pulses of light: a highly concrete phenomena (if light can be said to be concrete... but you know what I mean)
check it out here: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
check it out here: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
September 7, 2011
Apollo 12 Landing Site
NASA just released updated high-res images of a bunch of landing sites. I redrew the path that the Apollo 12 astronauts took... to make it a bit clearer.
original link
original link
September 5, 2011
Franklin's Walking Stick
"Franklin received a cane while serving as ambassador to France during the 1780s. In his will he bequeathed this reminder of the Revolution and its ideals to George Washington"
"My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a Sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it."
"Washington's grandnephew donated the cane to the U.S. government in 1843; it was transferred to the Smithsonian from the State Department in 1922."
via http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=57
"My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a Sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it."
"Washington's grandnephew donated the cane to the U.S. government in 1843; it was transferred to the Smithsonian from the State Department in 1922."
via http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=57
September 2, 2011
Disappearance of glacial river stuns B.C. hikers
via CBC
"One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.
"You see where the bergs had been dragged along the bottom and you could see the drag marks in the mud from all the various icebergs."
photos at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html#
"One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.
"You see where the bergs had been dragged along the bottom and you could see the drag marks in the mud from all the various icebergs."
"The maps will have to be redrawn a bit because there's no more river there," he said.
Atlin residents weren't the only ones caught off guard by the shift. Icefield researchers working in the area this summer found normally dry walking trails to the Llewellyn Inlet flooded with chest-deep water.
photos at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html#
August 31, 2011
Fight, Flight, or play dead?
From CBC:
Riley Teufel, 19, says he was walking along South Alder Street when he heard some rustling in the bushes.
He then saw the bear walking towards him.
“I could tell it wasn't going to go away, so I thought the best thing to do was play dead,” he said.
So he lay on the ground while the bear sniffed him from head to toe for several terrifying minutes.
Teufel says he'll always remember the smell of the animal.
“Garbage and poo and just everything nasty put together…. It was just not a good smell — just a wretched smell,” he said.
Fortunately for Teufel, the curious bear was scared off by a driver who honked his car horn.
via http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/08/30/bc-vancouver-island-bear-encounter.html
B.C. bear sniffs man from head to toe
Man played dead while bear inspected him
He then saw the bear walking towards him.
“I could tell it wasn't going to go away, so I thought the best thing to do was play dead,” he said.
So he lay on the ground while the bear sniffed him from head to toe for several terrifying minutes.
Teufel says he'll always remember the smell of the animal.
“Garbage and poo and just everything nasty put together…. It was just not a good smell — just a wretched smell,” he said.
Fortunately for Teufel, the curious bear was scared off by a driver who honked his car horn.
via http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/08/30/bc-vancouver-island-bear-encounter.html
August 28, 2011
Brilliant Stop Motion
Wonder if we could also get each person to speak a part of the line of a narrator of the story, and splice each of these persons 1/24th of a second of the word they are saying into the voice and just combine it as it is get this ur-narration to be composed of the collective story telling also of these people.
via Azzo.
August 24, 2011
Cafe Racer
Movie is very relaxed.. but there are some beauty bikes tucked away in the doldrum pace.
Cafe cowboy from benedict campbell on Vimeo.
Thanks to Jimmy for the video.
Cafe cowboy from benedict campbell on Vimeo.
Thanks to Jimmy for the video.
August 21, 2011
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August 11, 2011
Birds and Bees
"Baby birds gaze up at the night sky for hours, watching the slow rotation of the constellatoins. They find the point about which the stars appear to move, and record it's position with respect to several nearby constellations to maintain a constant heading... Honeybees perform a dance that tells their hivemeates the direction and distance of a food source with respect to the sun: the dancer uses an internal clock to compensate for the movement of the sun between the time she discoovered the source and the time she passes on the information. If it's cloudy the other bees estimate the direction using the polzarization of light in the sky"
- Karl Von Frisch and James Gould
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