Fuel Created From Air and Water

Scientist have recently discovered how to turn air and water into methanol that is converted into petrol. So far, in three month, they have accumulated 5 liters of synthetic petrol. In addition, this is clean energy and also the process has been successful so it is possible to use. The reason why their has only been 5liters produced is because this funding was done by a short fund and a small group of scientist. All that is needed now is a larger refinery that can help produce more synthetic petrol.

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Classic Toys

Scot's Hensey is an artist who has been in charge of sculpting classic toys from the 80's and 90's. I ran into this video that documents his experience of toy sculpting, which is quite an interesting video. I was surprised by the fact that Hensey has always enjoyed sculpting since he was a child. Hensey prefers to sculpt with chopsticks and I thought it was interesting when Hensey mentions his experience sculpting for digital artist. He , at first, thought they would be really picky but in reality they were happy to see their 3D animation come to life.

The DMCA at Work

A web hosting firm known as "FirmBreach" has been receiving notices from the DMCA ( or the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" from Pearson. Pearson is a publishing company who has published a handful of educational material. The culprit who got this notices was from one of "FirmBreachs" users, "Edublog", whom posted educational information for the public. "Edublog" has posted about 1.45 million blogs related to education. Now, Pearson and the DMCA has closed down the 1.45 million blogs from "Firmbreach" database of "Edublog".

The reason for this closure was because Pearson claims that "Edublog" has infringed content. The funny thing is that the closure was done because of one item, Farmer explained,"that the infringing material from 2007 was a reprint of "Beck's Hopelessness Scale," a 20-item self-evaluation questionnaire published in 1974 which Pearson sells for $120". "Edublog" did remove this after the warning but "Firmbreach" noticed it was still on file, so following Pearson and the DMCA orders, they took down all of "Edublogs" posts.

Personally, I think that this was something unfair because of one single content that was posted. I believe that just because Pearson is a larger company and Edublog is a smaller one, that they should have not have removed all of Edublogs posts. I believe that Edublog was just trying to help people get material that they needed when they couldn't find it elsewhere. I am very surprised that all of the 1.45 million blogs got taken down so fast.

Multimedia Authoring Is the Future?

Newsweek as confirmed that they will be moving away from print and making all their magazines digital. December 31st will be the last time that a print version of Newsweek will be in existence. The future of digital publication appears to be slowly creeping in our way. With the reliance of digital publication, I believe multimedia authoring is going to play an important role in designing digital media. Furthermore, designing apps, layouts, and arranging information in a digital space will most likely take place of print. Therefore, Multimedia Authoring will be an important skill for the future generations. At the same time, I think it is an important step in future publication, but I also worry about loosing print for our future generation. I worry because sometimes it is good to have an actual print copy of information but I suppose it will help with saving costs and reducing deforestation.

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DinoPokemon

I have recently stumbled upon a interesting illustration of Pokemon. This artist is known as "RJ Palmer" and he is a huge dinosaur fan. All his art is based on dinosaurs and he just recently started to create dinosaur Pokemon.

I decided to post about this because I am also an avid Dinosaur fan and I am deeply interested in this artwork. View More of His Art Here

Silhouette

Above are images by Olly Moss whom is a silhouette artist for our current era. She is an avid gamer and is considered a minimalist artist that will be releasing her book titles, "Silhouettes from Popular Culture". This concept is actually pretty awesome because of the simple style Moss is bringing to the 21st Century. I actually am curious of what other silhouettes that Olly Moss creates.

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True Portal Gun

Recently, a hacked version of a prototyped portal gun was completed. This technology was designed to levitate a "Companion Cube" by the use of magnets. I personally think this hack is quite amusing. In relations to multimedia authoring, this technology expresses how much of an advantage multimedia has on creativity. Having the proper technology and prototypes to make something great is most likely completed as a result of communication through other creative minds. Having a knowledge in design and programming helps further plan the "Hack" for these technologies.