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Collage progression glitch VR fashion
Collage progression of glitch art variations of our earlier Virtual Reality fashion feed photo. As we mentioned earlier (on our IG feed), various algorithms can create all sorts of Andy Warhol-style Pop Art effects on the images, including the psychedelic one. The last photo on the bottom right was to date the all-time most popular photo ever on our Instagram feed by a wide margin. Any guesses as to which databend glitch techniques were applied here? A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restSatire and satirical drawings in 1789 could get you killed
Satirical drawing from 1789. We started off this series (on our IG) of French Revolution postings with a United Nations graphic on current inequality (or an inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.) We wanted to help illustrate why some current theory says it’s important. Historians debate the causes of the revolution, but commentators at the time pointed out inequality. This is one of the social commentators arguing the social inequality aspect, but doing so with a cartoon rather than words. (The 3rd estate is carrying the wealthy 1st and 2nd estates on its back. The 3rd estate were the commoners in the French ancient regime. Amongst other things, they were subject to much heavier taxation than the other two estates.) Then, as now, these cartoons could get you in trouble. This was 18th century drawing was published anonymously. If it annoyed the King too much, the 18th century police would launch an investigation to trace the source.… Read the restCaveman design keychain: blog image to 18K gold jewelry 3D print!
We’re having fun showing our most popular blog and photo posts can now be turned in real, shop-ready products thanks to the maker movement. As an example of data-driven social media, we repurposed a popular image from our social media feed into a 3D printed jewelry item available that is ready-for-purchase in 18K gold and other materials. (Separately, we also converted this blog photo into an in-game virtual reality object, permitting a virtual reality fashion shoot.) This caveman design keychain was co-designed and generated in part by an 11,000-year old caveman illustration of a woolly-mammoth in France. (You can read our original blog article with illustration here. Also, check out a cool data-driven social media video we created featuring some of these items, as well as more serious pop-scientific article on potentially de-extincting the woolly mammoth for interstellar space travel someday.) You can use the Shapeways widget below to manipulate the 3D object and see it from a variety of viewpoints (as well as buy the physical object in a wide-variety of materials, from the extremely inexpensive to the very expensive): So we can say that this keychain was truly co-designed by a French Cro-magnon caveman living 11,000 years ago.… Read the restLife on Mars: Artist concept drawing
Life on Mars: Continuing our recent Mars theme, this is a 2005 Nasa futuristic artist concept drawing of how life on the red planet might look. It is hoped within a few decades this science fiction scene will become science fact, and life on Mars will become a reality. (Why? There are concerns the colony is needed to mitigate against a growing list of existential threats to civilization. Not the least of these is mineral and rare earths depletion, which new technologies like the Martian colony might address. We’ve previously talked about existential threats to humanity as well as concerns about peak rare earths in our previous posts on the Singularity.) A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restRecent Comments
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