Archive for July, 2010

Pacific Star II

This is the second trip of my home made high altitude weather balloon photography project, Pacific Star.

The balloon was launched at 5:37pm (PST) from Oxnard, CA and reached an altitude of 125,000 feet snapping photos and recording video along the way.

The balloon burst, the parachute deployed, and the payload floated down for 35 minutes, landing near an old olive orchard Northeast of Santa Paula.

Anthony Lau, Floating City 2030

[The] Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism […] gives new life to decommissioned ships and oil platforms by converting them into hybrid homes adapted for aquatic living […] By utilising the flooded landscape, a floating city of offshore communities, mobile infrastructure and aquatic transport will allow the city to reconfigure through fluid urban planning. Wave, tidal and wind energy will be ideal for this offshore city and the inhabitants will live alongside the natural cycles of nature and the rhythms of the river and tides.

[This] strategy for creating a self sufficient floating city by reusing ships and marine structures can also be applied to island nations such as the Maldives. Over 80% of its 1,200 islands are around 1 m above sea level. With sea levels rising around 0.9 cm a year, the Maldives could become uninhabitable within 100 years. Its 360,000 citizens would be forced to adapt and they could become the first floating nation.

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Chaocipher

Chaocipher is a device that has recently been donated to the National Cryptologic Museum. ItAuses two rotors (plaintext alphabet on the right rotor and the ciphertext alphabet on the left rotor) with a process called"twizzling" the alphabets are altered slightlyAafter it goes through each letter. One could Vigenere the cipher, but itAis practically unbreakable, learn more by clicking the link below.

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Joachim Lapotre : Frontiers 2009-2010

Works from Joachim Lapotre’sAFrontiers, 2009-2010.

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Shift Magazine Calendar Competition

TheAShift Calendar Competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators. Enter the 8th competition for Shift, a Japanese-based online mag.

It pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a "calendar" as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.

The deadline for this competition is on August 20th, 2010.

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teknines : 9mm 18K Earphones

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A Transumer Manifesto

The manifesto says that ownership is a last resort, a tradeoff, always looks better in hindsight and experiences provide more lasting happiness than material possessions. What do you you think?

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Information Overload

How to deal with information overload? Consume information consciously, practice attention fitness and breathe.

"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." - Denis Diderot

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