(via NELSON CAN, Danish girl band, EP release January 30 2012!)
I can imagine this doing rather well. And I like it.
MakerBot's 3-D Printers Let Consumers Dream Up Prototypes Of Pretty Much Anything. But Do We Need More Plastic? | Fast Company
In Pettis’s view, the Thing-O-Matic is a particularly potent example of a “meta tool”—a tool to make other tools. “It’s like getting a superpower,” he says.
My story on MakerBot for Fast Company.
Sebastian Schramm - a photographer and art director from Frankfurt, Germany, who submitted his work via Flickr.
Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications.
What a lot of detractors miss about torrent repositories is how effective a means of sharing files they are, which is why this is sort of big news for the 3-D fabrication community. The biggest and best-organized site out there right now for these files is probably Thingiverse, which is great—it’s run by MakerBot Industries, the folks behind the MakerBot Replicator, which we awarded a PopSci Products of the Future award at this year’s CES. But it’s still a single-source site, and the Pirate Bay has the potential to host a huge number of torrents of these files and distribute them in a volume hardly anyone else could manage.
The “Physibles” site is already live; at the time of writing, there are only seven files in it, including a plan to print out a 3-D version of the Pirate Bay ship logo. But the site is adamant about the importance of this technology: in a post, they wrote, “We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.” And we agree!
Pirate Bay Starts Offering Tangible 3-D Objects For Download | Popular Science
“Hal,” Google Image search by Rob Walker. January 18, 2012
the NYPL has created a pretty amazing tool they’re calling the Stereogranimator that lets users create animated 3-D GIFs from the photos in the archive.
The New York Public Library Helps You Turn 100-Year-Old Photographs Into 3-D GIFs | Popular Science
Jack Dorsey on Social, SOPA and Asia - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD
What are the most important words to describe Twitter versus its competitors? “Public,” “real-time” and “simplicity,” said Twitter co-founder and executive chairman Jack Dorsey today in a talk at the DLD conference in Munich. Jack Dorsey at AsiaD What about “social”? Not so much, Dorsey said. Twitter is a way to learn about what your friends are doing, but more than that it’s a way to learn about what other people who are relevant to you, from all over the world, are doing.
Rachel Hobson of CRAFT correctly figures (in my case, anyway), ” you’ll enjoy this series of vintage photographs that have been transformed into portraits of superheroes by artist Alex Gross.”
Vintage photos transformed into superhero portraits - Boing Boing
What if employers didn’t care whether applicants held a college diploma but instead asked what educational “badges” they had collected?
Like Boy Scout merit badges for professionals, these marks of achievement would show competence in specific skills, and they could be granted by any number of institutions. This is the vision of a growing number of education reformers who feel that the standard certification system no longer works in today’s fast-changing job market.
The Mozilla Foundation, the group that develops the popular Firefox Web browser, is designing a framework to let anyone with a Web page—colleges, companies, even individuals—issue forgery-proof digital badges that will give potential employers details about an applicant’s training at the click of a mouse. In September, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a $2 million grant program, run in coordination with Mozilla, to encourage organizations to try the badge system.
More than 300 groups have applied.
Very cool news the other day via the Unconsumption Facebook page, from Alpha Wilson:
Greetings, today I modified the t-shirt totebag idea that is floating around Pinterest by adding a sewn-in drawstring bag to use to tote the tote bag when it isn’t full of stuff.
I inkjet printed the Unconsumption logo to the outside of the drawstring bag, which is made from a couple of pieces of cut-up t-shirt.
That’s awesome!
And definitely a worthy addition to The Uncollection — Unconsumption’s brand-with-no-products experiment, made up of things you have creatively reused or remade, and spruced up with Mr. Cart.
For more how-to detail on the T-shirt tote: Green is Universal ReUser’s Guide | FASTEST RECYCLED T-SHIRT TOTE BAG
For a photo journal detailing Alpha Wilson’s add-on, go here.
And if this inspires you to use Mr. Cart and join the Uncollection yourself, post info and pix here.
What is Philippine Volcanoes rugby team player John Odulio reading these days?
His reading fare is eclectic—from marketing and business books (“Buying In” by Rob Walker) to dating manuals (“Rules of the Game” by Neil Strauss).
Nice appreciation of Christine Schmidt, Yellow Owl Workshop, here: Yellow Owl Workshop - The Dieline: The World’s #1 Package Design Website -
And Poppytalk has news of a new Yellow Owl stamp set.
Yellow Owl of course is a friend of Unconsumption, participant in that project’s Uncollection.
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