Category: Culture
-
Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter
For the Science Fiction fans that stop by this site, here is a new monthly online web site whose #2 is just published. Very good reading material, interesting authors and you can even have your own work published (and be paid for it). Very nice, very pro: Darker Matter.
-
Thelonious Monk on video
While looking around in a search engine, you may find a few nice things. Today, I stopped by the quite large list of videos listed on Google search engine for the keywords “Thelonious Monk”. The guy was one of the most inventive jazz players. The first time I heard him, I was nearly rocked off…
-
Extreme macro photography
When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…
-
April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…
-
25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece
This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…