Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
I've been playing around with open source 3D software, namely the Blender modeling and animation suite, to see what I can squeeze out of it for possible use in school projects and beyond. Here are some of my first experiments:
These two are the slightly jazzed up products of Blender tutorials, ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's view of the Earth and how it is changing. Make sure you watch this visually stunning video in HD if your equipment will let you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
also available as a copyright-free torrent:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2657160No related posts.
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
One of my favorite architectural blogs brings us news of serious concern over human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi, involving some of the world's leading "starchitects":
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/darkening-dubai/
This only adds to my qualms about the whole idea of stardom in architecture - not only is crap often purveyed as art under the ...
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