Comments (0) Two nice 5ks coming up in May, both located in the lower Hudson Valley. Each run is less then an hour north of NYC.
11th Annual RCPES 5k
Piermont, NY
Sunday May 2, 10:00am
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Online registration: link
Chester Kiwanis 5k
Chester, NY
Saturday May 29, 8:45am
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Pernice and Christian Hanson were inspired by Apple’s Photo Booth software to create a mask modeled after a somewhat typical looking Photo Booth shot. The filter applied is one of the distort options (stretch, squeeze, dent) and the mask came out to be an almost perfect replica.
Using Apple’s Photo Booth application as inspiration, the idea was to take the 2D image that it manipulated and create a tangible face in a real environment, then in turn bring it back into a 2D image. Using Photo Booth on the mask itself may create some sort of paradoxal shift where I cease to exist.
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The Alice app brings an interactive element to the pages of this children’s classic, with features that are based on the original illustrations and allow readers to stretch Alice’s body when she comes to the table with the “Drink Me” bottle, to throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts and watch them bounce off her, and to rock the baby that turns into a pig. The app costs $8.99, although there’s also a free “lite” version.
Could this the future of e-books? It’s certainly a great example of the kind of full-color and interactivity and motion (using the accelerometer) that isn’t possible on other e-readers. This could open a whole new realm of creativity and possibility for the publishing market; sort of a 21st century pop-up book. Whoever said eBooks would kill the publishing industry was wrong; it will just make it more fun.
Download it now from the app store! Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall. This is Alice in Wonderland digitally remastered for the iPad. Play with the White Rabbit’s pocket watch – it realistically swings and bounces. Help Alice swim through a Pool of Tears. Or hand out sweets that bounce and collide with the magical talking Dodo. This wonderful lite edition is the first instalment of Alice’s journey and includes an amazing selection of animated scenes. Watch as full screen physics modelling bring the classic illustrations to life.
Someone get on the phone with Dr. Seuss..
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Artist Jason LaFerrera makes wildlife collages out of old maps. His first show is coming up in Richmond, VA, and he’s posted some samples of the material he’ll be showing, along with some limited run prints on Etsy.
The textures and contours of old maps are fascinating, even the tattered and stained parts. In this series, I digitally manipulate cartographic materials to create fauna, mostly birds, in poses reminiscent of field guides from a similarly early era of publication. The patterns of forests and shores often become an animal’s feathers or fur, while the rings of topography often trace out wings or antlers.
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Dave Devries takes children’s sketches of monsters from their imagination and renders them in paint, bringing them to life with scary details.
The process is simple. I project a child’s drawing with an opaque projector, faithfully tracing each line. Applying a combination of logic and instinct, I then paint the image as realistically as I can. My medium is mixed—primarily acrylic, airbrush, and colored pencil.
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“Pixels” was created by Patrick Jean and follows a swarm of pixels as they take over New York. The pixels spawn some iconic video game characters to help in the destruction
Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard.
If Pinocchio says his nose will grow, but it doesn’t, he is lying.
But his nose grows when he lies, so he would be telling the truth.
Robert Harrison uses a digital camera, a GPS device, some duct tape and a balloon to take some fantastic pictures of the Earth, in what he calls “The Icarus Project”.
(He) used a collection of cheap parts costing £500 to create a balloon-mounted camera that can travel up to 21.7 miles (35km) above the surface of the Earth. The result is a series of pictures taken from a height that only a rocket or weather balloon can reach. Mr Harrison, an IT director from Highburton, West Yorkshire, has launched 12 high-altitude balloons (HABs) since 2008.
After a few successful launches he was contacted by NASA, who was rather impressed by his photographs.
“A guy phoned up who worked for Nasa who was interested in how we took the pictures,” Mr Harrison told The Times. “He wanted to know how the hell we did it. He thought we used a rocket. They said it would have cost them millions of dollars.”
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