Meet the machine of the moment: the DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Matics that sit behind glass and 3-D print your tchotchke of choice.
The DreamVendor is the brainchild of Dr. Chris Williams, Director of Virginia Tech’s DREAMS Lab, and student Amy Elliot, who led the design. “We wanted an experience where someone could walk up and use a 3-D printer without having to worry about anything besides loading a file and selecting ‘Print,’” says Williams.
(via The Future of Stuff: Vending Machine That Prints in 3-D | Wired Design | Wired.com)
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DC Comics releases Batman: Death by Design next Wednesday, May 30. In this over-sized hardback, Batman must piece together a sting of seemingly unrelated accidents in the midst of one of Gotham City’s largest construction booms. Earlier in the week, I had the chance to speak with the graphic novel’s author, Chip Kidd, to discuss the importance of architecture to Batman’s world, the origins and evolution of the story, and the awesomeness of all those wonderful toys.
Masters: Why choose architecture as the theme for Batman: Death by Design? What’s the allure for you?
Kidd: It’s a key element of Batman’s mythology. Gotham is as vital of a character as Batman and Bruce Wayne. I wanted to focus on building a building and what it takes to get a building made. It’s a fantasy, but it’s based in reality.
More: Author Interview and Exclusive Preview: Batman: Death by Design
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So how did I not know about the amazing neuroimages blog? It has plenty of beautiful pieces like this taken from neuroimaging to historical neuroscience to, er, edible brain sandwiches.
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“Ask any publisher whether they would rather have the Proust and Joyce backlists or those of the Nora Roberts and Tom Clancy of Proust’s and Joyce’s day. Really good stories, like really good wines, really do drink well for a longer time” —
Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker
I think this is correct.
The transsubstantiatio.tumblr.com site collects sounds as images: tracks of audio that are, quite simply, opened in an unexpected and unintended computer program. A source file encoded so as to be heard is instead transferred through that which is meant to be seen. Up top, for example, is the resulting visualization of a track by Nine Inch Nails, “Pinion.”
Sure, I’ll follow that.
(via Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic? | BoF – The Business of Fashion)
(via Michael Kelley’s Mixel - May 15, 2012)
I signed up for Mixel but still haven’t actually used it.
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Pain Destroyer, y’all.
Found objects collected on Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York. From the series of photographs “Found in Nature” by Barry Rosenthal.
(Source: thingsorganizedneatly, via junkculture)