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Award winning animation studio Pendulum shows a demo of compelling and emotive digital characters from AlterEgo, their facial performance division. AlterEgo demonstrates how they accurately translate an actor’s facial performance into believable and life like 3D character animation.

1 videoclip of the 3D facial animation demo by AlterEgo of Pendulum after the jump.

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Michael Kenna’s photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light which is achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions around the world and are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

More of Michael Kenna photography with 18 more pics after the jump.

Source: Trinixy

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The Dragonball Movie slated for a release date of April 3, 2009 is an American live action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball media franchise. These new screenshots shows the various characters such as Justin Chatwin as Goku, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi and Eriko Tamura as Mai.

I’m a bit skeptical how this movie would turn out since Dragonball is an over-the-top stylized animated series but with Stephen Chow as a producer, it does seems that the movie could turn out good.

8 more pics of the Dragonball Movie after the jump.

Source: Holy Cinema

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We had a look at Youtube’s office recently and now let’s take a look at the office of popular social networking site Digg which was started out by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky and Jay Adelson and launched on December 5, 2004. The office is located in San Francisco and looks well designed though it does not look extravagant like that of Youtube or Google.

Check out 9 more pics of Digg’s office after the jump.

Source: Email Bookmarking

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Large Hadron Collider Nearly Ready – (Boston)
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20 Insanely Modified Computers – (NetHackz)
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Telescopes – (Discover Magazine)
World’s 10 Ugliest Sea-Creatures – (Hotel Club Blog)
10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye – (Live Science)
8 Architecturally Awesome Sand Castles for Summer’s End – (Popular Mechanics)
Seven Google Easter Eggs – (Web Upon)
Awesome Lego Monsters and Aliens Sculptures – (Playland Station)

MythBusters first showed how a CPU drew a smiley face one paint ball at a time and then proceed to show how a GPU used parallel processing to draw an actual Mona Lisa drawing in 80 milli seconds. Add a slow motion version at the end and you get a sensational technology demonstration.

1 videoclip of MythBusters demonstration CPU vs GPU at NVision after the jump.

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A cool collection of decorative stickers from Diz Decor, a Brazilian design group that makes stickers to beautify walls. Not only does it brings life to one’s room, it changes the overall design perspective. It costs around USD200 after conversion which some might feel a bit pricey for a decal.

Check out 20 more pics of the decorative wall stickers after the jump.

Source: Abduzeedo

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Dede Koswara dubbed the Tree Man is back after nine months of operations to remove the woody growth from his body. He was once sacked from his job, deserted by his wife and shunned by his neighbors – treated like a freak becaused of his gnarled growths sprouting from his hands and feet. The warts on Dede’s body was the cause of a severe Human Papilloma Virus infection.

The 37 year old man’s life quality has improved where he now can use his hand write and use the cell phone. Dede still has to go through more surgery in October after the fasting month to trim more warts and was given strong course of medicine including vitamin A in an attempt to prevent the return of the growth.

Check out 2 more pics of Dede Koswara the tree man getting better after the jump.

Source: Metro UK

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‘Get Much More For Much Less’ is the theme for these Buenos Aires Zoo ads. Why spend so much on plush toys when you can go to the zoo and see the real animals? Well the comparison is way off since you own a plush toy while you can only make a visit to the zoo and take a look at the animals. Anyway the uncanny resemblance deserves some creative merit and advertisement agency Saatchi & Saatchi of Argentina are the creative minds behind these ads.

2 more pics of the ‘Get Much More For Much Less’ Bueno Aires Zoo advertisements after the jump.

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Beautiful Table Lamps Collection – (Toxel)
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An intriguing look at how dogs drink recorded at ultra slow motion from Discovery Channel. A comparison is made between how humans drink water like a dog and a real dog drinking. This shows how surprising things can be when we change the lens of time and how we can really see and understand our world in new ways.

1 videoclip of a dog drinking water in slow motion after the jump.

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The Big Picture is a project to create the biggest photo album in the West Midlands where the people there submitted over 110,000 photos. The photos are then used to create a huge record breaking photo mosaic the size of three tennis courts which was unveiled at Birmingham’s Thinktank at Millenium Point on 23rd August 2008.

British artist Helen Marshall is the creative mind behind the project where she worked with photo mosaic specialists PollyTiles to realize the enormous image.

2 more pics of ‘The Big Picture’ photo mosaic after the jump.

Source: The Big Picture UK

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There are no heros in war, only victims. A look at some of the US soldiers that came back from the Iraq war and each of them definitely has their own story to tell. Their tragedy will only be life reminders of how ugly war really is.

Check out 8 more pics of US soldiers back from the war in Iraq after the jump.

Source: Great Blog About

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Only geeks would understand the meaning of these graffiti collection from around the world. The above picture was taken on Microsoft’s Redmond campus which is a lovely spoof of the HTTP 404 error that we are so accustomed to.

The above original pic is at Flickr taken by Ryan Welsh used with permission.

Check out the rest of geek graffiti with 11 more pics after the jump.

Source: Euphoria Magazine

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