Pumpktris

Since today is Halloween, I decided to post something related to the season. I then found Pumpktris. Pumpktris is a pumpkin that is infused with the awesome tetris mechanics. All with the use of heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming to bring this creation to life. The game is then controlled by the top of the pumpkin. I thought this was a great concept when talking about art, science, and technology because it uses all of the above to create an outstanding piece of work. Have a great Halloween!

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Scratch This Portrait

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What you have scratched is a portrait by Picasso. Picasso, " Women Ironing", was said to contain a hidden portrait of Picasso's earlier artwork. This was found in 1989, with the help of inferred. Recently, this portrait was restored and now it is at the museum in new york. I decided to post about this portrait because I thought this find was amazing, to bring to life a forgotten image. It makes me wonder what other secrets lay within other footage, artwork, and gaming software. You might had already read the description of this portrait when you clicked the link, but I thought it is much better to interact with the image instead.

Ross Ching

I have recently found out about this video artist who's name is Ross Ching. He produces videos and I personally thought his videos were really neat. In relations to Multimedia Authoring, I thought it closely relates to video production. Anyways, take a look at some of my favorite videos from Ross Ching.

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The Starry Night..On a Vehicle.

Here is an image of "The Starry Night" on a car. I think it is a nice concept to have for a car. This image mixes both technology and art together to create something that you can use and show to people on the road. I just thought the car looked great with the image of the "The Starry Night". I thought the painting looks about right and it really blends well with the look of the car. I think this is definently art, even though its from Van Gogh, this person is showing the world Van Gogh's art.

A College Course: Study Skyrim

Rice University, In Huston Texas is apparently holding a course called, "Scandinavian Fantasy Worlds: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim". This is a junior level course which focuses on comparing the mythologies of old Scandinavian to modern fantasy, basically, why people today correlate to Scandinavian mythology in popular culture. Personally, having a class like this would be great to have at WSU. I think the concept is interesting because it is exploring a new form of study that is found in gaming.

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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.