SculpTogether

Multiplatform social drawing tool.

VR is an isolating experience so the idea of using it to bring people together is really promising.

 

SculpTogether lets users on all platforms (GearVR, Rift, Vive, 2D) make 3D drawings and simple sculptures together. Users have hundreds of colors and hues to create with as they draw ribbons in mid-air and place primitive shapes in whatever orientation they wish.

via prostheticknowledge

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

 

“A compilation of the brightest outbursts seen at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s Osiris (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System ) narrow-angle camera and navigation camera between July and September 2015. After nearly two years apart, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft will join its stranded robot probe Philae on 30 September on the icy surface of the comet.”

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Playlist for the Indian Summer


Children back at school.

Apples falling.

People talking about Halloween already.

Indian Summer ahead.

This one is really long I ought to be doing these weekly.

 

Dot To Dot by Melt Yourself Down

 

Malukayi (feat Konono No.1) by Mbongwana Star

 

Spit It Out by Slaves

 

My Willing Heart by James Blake

22 (OVER S∞∞N) (Bob Moose Extended Cab Version) by Bon Iver

Baltimore by Nina Simone

 

TVR by Sleaford Mods

The Jordan River Song by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

 

Sele Genna by Alemu Aga

 

 

 

 

The Virtual Garden by Matthew Mauk

My summer project creating an art exhibit using the Vive virtual reality system and Google’s TiltBrush. The future of education, not only in art, but across all disciplines will be influenced by virtual reality.

by Matthew Mauk

found via the Nearsightedmonkey who added:

I love the shots of people ‘in the garden’ — the way their bodies behave while they are seeing things that aren’t otherwise there.  They are not only able to ‘see’ these images, they can put their heads inside of them.

 

Disciplines for the Aspirant

  • Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. If what you really love to read is y, it might be hard for you to write x.

  • Exercising is a good analogy for writing. If you’re not used to exercising you want to avoid it forever. If you’re used to it, it feels uncomfortable and strange not to. No matter where you are in your writing career, the same is true for writing. Even fifteen minutes a day will keep you in the habit.

  • You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

– Jennifer Egan – Why We Write

via Brain Pickings

Ballard.Text.Collage.c.1958

Ballard formed the ‘novel’ from scientific and technical material cut from professional literature such as Chemical and Engineering News (Ballard then worked for the journal of the Society of Chemical Industry). Letters, words and sentence fragments are pasted onto backing sheets with glue. Their design visually references everyday media, with headlines, body text and double-page spreads suggesting a magazine layout. Originally Ballard planned to display the work on billboards, as if it was a public advertisement.

From the British Library.

Found via @derekbeaulieu & @johnbrissenden.