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A proper e-paper is now possible?
A British company has been working for a number of years constructing an e-paper like screen, based on polymer transistors, rather than silicone ones – this means that the transistors have the same characteristics as polymers, and are flexible: i.e. a bendable , light-weight plastic screen!
WANT!
The best of us
Ever since Zbrush came onto the 3d modelling scene, it’s given rise to a whole new style of characters. Great, stylized, edgy characters that people just didn’t seem to do previously. It’s really great – and a great example of how a tool affects your art, based on the possibilities and limitations inherent in the tool.
Here’s a render:
and here’s a link to the post on CGTalk by the Nexus guys who did the animation.
Ze Franks ‘music with pain’ project
The concept is this: a hotline was set up, and people encouraged to phone in and talk about something that cause them pain. These monologues of pain were then sampled and processed by musicians, and compiled into a set of samples, to be used in making music – sounds like something to check out 