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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo
more info http://www.blublu.org/
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I 17.000 mutilati statunitensi in Iraq
James Houston, un veterano di Pearl Harbor, abbraccia in lacrime e commozione il sergente Mark Graunke Jr, durante la Giornata dei Veternai di Guerra, nella città di Dallas, novembre 2004. Il sergente dei marine Graunke ha perso la mano e un occhio per l’esplosione di una bomba in Iraq.
Foto AP/The Dallas Morning News, Jim Mahoney.
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Wall-sized, multi-touch ‘Missile Command’ — every gamer’s fantasy
by Joshua Topolsky, posted May 13th 2008 at 11:24AMWhat could make a game of Missile Command more exciting?
Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA
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The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.
Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as ‘vodka’, ‘tractors’, ‘rockets’, and ‘Genghis Khan’, as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour.
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The Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that served as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union’s Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias and popular music.
In 1991, The Red Army Choir participated in Roger Waters’ The Wall concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. They performed an anti-war song “Bring the Boys Back Home”.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Red Army Choir has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia.
Jean-Yves Blondeau aka Rollerman - Extreme
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Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic Buggy Rollin’ suit in 1994, while he was a student at Olivier de Serres design school, in Paris. But the invention, which allows a wearer to top 60 miles per hour while maintaining any position found in the Kama Sutra, didn’t exactly catch fire with consumers. Not one to give up, Blondeau recently refined the suit to a stripped-down 31-wheel version and developed his own playbook of moves, like the Zaphial (rolling flat on your back with all four limbs pointed straight up) and the Smooth Buggy Dog (three limbs on the ground and one rolling along a wall).
How to Make a Cheap Multitouch Pad
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Multitouch Mini (MTmini) - a Cheap Multitouch Pad
Website:
http://ssandler.wordpress.com/MTmini
MTmini discussion thread: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1731/
-Materials-
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-Cardboard Box
-Piece of Clear Flat Sturdy Material (ie. Glass, acrylic, plexiglas)
-Paper (ie. printer paper, tracing paper, almost any paper)
-Webcam or Video Camera (I use a Philips SPC900NC)
-Computer (dual core recommended, but not needed)
-Optional Picture Frame
Total Cost: $5 - $50
-Finger Tracking Software-
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-Touchlib: http://nuigroup.com/touchlib
-Set touchlib to use front illumination xml file.
-THERE WILL BE A MAC VERSION OF THE TRACKING SOFTWARE SOON. ALSO A PACKAGED VERSION WITH TRACKING SOFTWARE AND EXAMPLES/DEMOS COMBINED. STAY TUNED! =)
-Other Software/Demos-
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-Windows Mousedriver: http://nuigroup.com/touchlib
-Smoke Demo: http://nuigroup.com/touchlib
-MultiKey Application: http://ssandler.wordpress.com/my-software/
-Coming soon:
-Photo Application
-Ripples
-Wall Pong Game
-Physics Demo
-How’s it Work and What Conditions are Necessary?-
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For this to work, all you need is a room with (at least) some light. The results will be best when the room lighting is even (no bright lights shinning from one direction onto the multitouch pad).
When you place you fingers on the surface, shadows are created where your fingers are. The webcam sees these shadows and sends the image to the tracking software which tracks the shadows as they move around. It’s really that simple!
For more information, visit:
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-http://ssandler.wordpress.com/MTmini
-http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1731/
-http://www.nuigroup.com/forum
-http://www.nuigroup.com
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How to pay for anything with blank paper
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Derren has a wallet with blank paper. He pays with this blank paper and gets whatever he wants. This doesn’t work all the time as you will see 
Great watch.
Psssssst….. The embedded commands arent even subtle anymore!
From Derren’s new series (episode 2) Trick or Treat.
