Antimatter

Conceptual art can solve any problem, and Jonathan Keats saves the world from economic disaster. . .

“Economic equilibrium is upset by our unbalanced pursuit of material wealth,” explains Mr. Keats. “My plan is to offset materialism with modern science, by exploiting the economic potential of antimatter, which is the physical opposite of anything made with atoms, from luxury condos to private jets.”

Backed by private Swiss funding, his scheme will be implemented beginning on November 12, 2009, when the First Bank of Antimatter opens in San Francisco’s Monadnock Building, the location of Modernism Gallery.

The bank will serve as a hub for antimatter transactions worldwide, eventually financing the building of antimatter infrastructure and providing the public with a full range of investment opportunities. “But our first order of business will be printing money,” says Mr. Keats. “Cash is the foundation of any economy, and an anti-economy is no exception.”

via beyond the beyond

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Glorious Geek Power

D&D camp, circa 1982

I am slightly jealous.

via BoingBoing

Another rendering

This was the third and final submission for this model. This was my first project using a renderer that does global illumination, and was complicated by the fact that it had to be presentation board size, at print resolution. I simplified the process by breaking up the image into light groups. I used Blender for modeling, the GIMP for compositing and texture synthesis, and Inkscape for a few patterns. It was rendered with Yafaray.

A high resolution version and some process images are in this Picasa album.

New Broadcast

Gratuitous Space Battles

Brutal Legend Gameplay

Edit: Here's a short vid about the game's art-direction.

Americana

Such a parade of people makes me wonder aloud about Bush voters. Perhaps it's true that they were made up of the top five-percent of income and the bottom fifty-percent of intelligence. What does that mean for my deeply held egalitarian beliefs? Why is it safe to assume that this man does not support health care reform?
Link. (NSFW)

Jason Scott on Mario 64 & Life

I apologize for my absence. I was up against a deadline through August and early September. I have a few posts queued up, but first something I saw last night that amused me greatly. I've been enjoying computer historian Jason Scott's BBS documentary because of the fascinating cross-section of the population it shows. Here he is giving a impassioned talk about a game that I am certainly nostalgic about. Link, via the Internet Archive.

Charles Manson says sep 11 was an inside job