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Bit of fun, decided to check mask straps on my tensile strength testing machine (as one does💅🏻). Single strap attachment point load limit: 3M VFlex 9105: 1,564g Zhou Liang's mask ZM9541: 2,421g Zhou Liang's mask claimed 40n (4kg) across the whole strap (both points) so they overshot by a... show more

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When I saw the mask "Tribes of the Calf" from Kanbas I knew I had to make it into reality. The jewelry and gold really made it stand out for me. Since Sam Spratt's The Masquerade was revealed, I have been spending time sculpting and dissecting the mask to recreate it in 3D as faithfully as possible. I delved into the creation of this mask for many reasons. I love a good challenge and this mask surely was one for me. Creating something in 3D from a 2D image is not easy, and especially when the source has generative nature, some stuff is hard to interpret, but I tried my best to make sure the visual integrity of the mask is as close to the original as possible. Splitting the whole mask into parts, filling the missing pieces so I can build the textures was quite a lot of work. I tried to present the mask in my own style with a slightly different colorway to adapt to the mask itself. Please enjoy this short animation, and turn on sound🔊 This piece is my statement that I am here to stay. That I have a voice that often feels being lost in the void. That I have been creating and posting digital art for over 20 years now and will continue until I'm gone. I have a story to tell and I want to be heard. The space we have here is small, and is shrinking day by day. It doesn't have to be like that. We need to support each other and push ourselves and people here, otherwise we are all doomed. As Kanbas has put in their observation of the mask: "Inspirational. Emotional. Natural." This is what our space can be, and this is me making a statement with this homage. I will share a 4k still below as well as a short video showing the 3D GLB interactive model together with a yt link to the 4k video since compression here is pretty bad.

When I saw the mask "Tribes of the Calf" from Kanbas I knew I had to make it into reality. The jewelry and gold really made it stand out for me. Since Sam Spratt's The Masquerade was revealed, I have been spending time sculpting and dissecting the mask to recreate it in 3D as faithfully as possible. I delved into the creation of this mask for many reasons. I love a good challenge and this mask surely was one for me. Creating something in 3D from a 2D image is not easy, and especially when the source has generative nature, some stuff is hard to interpret, but I tried my best to make sure the visual integrity of the mask is as close to the original as possible. Splitting the whole mask into parts, filling the missing pieces so I can build the textures was quite a lot of work. I tried to present the mask in my own style with a slightly different colorway to adapt to the mask itself. Please enjoy this short animation, and turn on sound🔊 This piece is my statement that I am here to stay. That I have a voice that often feels being lost in the void. That I have been creating and posting digital art for over 20 years now and will continue until I'm gone. I have a story to tell and I want to be heard. The space we have here is small, and is shrinking day by day. It doesn't have to be like that. We need to support each other and push ourselves and people here, otherwise we are all doomed. As Kanbas has put in their observation of the mask: "Inspirational. Emotional. Natural." This is what our space can be, and this is me making a statement with this homage. I will share a 4k still below as well as a short video showing the 3D GLB interactive model together with a yt link to the 4k video since compression here is pretty bad.

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Robert Englund on how he was influenced by the performances of Klaus Kinski & James Cagney for his role as Freddy Kruger in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984): "I saw the Klaus Kinski version of "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979, Herzog) with Isabelle Adjani, and I was so blown away by his work and I'm a big fan of Klaus Kinski's and so his freedom, his physical freedom in that film also influenced me to be freer and not be afraid to dance a little bit; to dance to Freddy a little bit or, as we say in the theatre, to wear the scenery a little bit. And sort of find my composition because so much of the scenery that Freddy is involved with is larger than life, it's surreal, it's the boiler-room, it's exaggerated, the set is mutating for whatever reasons and so Freddy, to kind of fill that frame, that rectangle, that picture frame, I wanted Freddy to be able to do that and kind of wear that scenery as if he was almost manifesting it himself in the imagination of whichever victim was hallucinating or dreaming it or having a nightmare in that landscape, so to speak. Yeah and that influenced me a lot and I would also use the hat a lot. I liked to use the hat to reveal the bald head - I liked to use the hat as silhouette and shadow and I liked to use the hat to hide behind. I could like literally hide my eyes from the light under the brim, and then at other times I could just barely lift my head and let the light in under the brim to catch my own eyes. So that was really informed part of Freddy, and then I think there was a little bit of Jimmy Cagney in there. There was a kind of a plant your legs wide, almost a little bit of Jimmy Cagney gangster thing. These are all like images that actors used, almost like having a bulletin board with scraps on them and they kind of inform you in your imagination and then they kind of manifest. I don't think anybody watching me would say Klaus Kinski or say Jimmy Cagney or say Bob Fosse or any of those things. But they did inform me a little bit. Because Freddy knows you're dreaming him, so it's almost like he's on stage. Freddy knows you're dreaming him and you're experiencing him as a spectre so I thought he would exploit that a little bit and milk it a little bit, you know." (Robert Englund's interview with Kwenton Bellette, Screenanarchy, 2012) P.S: Happy 79th birthday, Robert Englund!

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Bill Maher asks the 'democracy' crowd on the left to respect the fact that Trump won the popular vote, and has a 'mandate' to execute his agenda: Bill Maher: "You can't scream about democracy, and then have a guy run the table like this, and not say 'Well it's a mandate, right?' I saw Kamala was on SNL, as the losing candidate often is. I'm sure every single member of the SNL cast was a Harris supporter. What if one of them wasn't? Would they have been comfortable saying so? I really don't think so. That's not a good place for us to be. That happens even more on the left. I remember when Elon Musk hosted. A number of the cast members, they didn't want to deal with him. You could talk to one of the most interesting brilliant people that the world has ever produced. But you don't to even deal with him? That's what I hate about the left. You're brats." The issue with the left is you could be literally acknowledged to be one of the smartest people on Earth, but if you disagree with their dogma you're dismissed as a 'sexist' 'racist' 'bigot'. Until they change that, they'll never win again.

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Iga Swiatek says the first set against Elena Rybakina was decided by a couple of points, but Elena stepped up the power & precision in the 2nd set “For sure I didn’t serve as well as in Cincinnati for example against Elena. My serve was kind of normal. And sometimes it could’ve given me a bit more. As I said, in the first set I think it was a difference of a couple points. She also gave me some chances on her serve. Sometimes I used them… sometimes it was like 30-30 and for example, I missed one return. I wanted to be aggressive on the second serve. So sometimes you will make mistakes. But if you want to break you need to make it in in a moment like that. In the 2nd set, I felt that the pace from her got a little bit even higher. She was more precise. Maybe I dropped the intensity at the beginning especially. I have some stuff I wanna work on. It’s never been so flawless for me playing on these courts, as they’re fast. I guess I’ll try next time anyways.” (via Australian Open Press)

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The Tennis Letter

40,731 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

$As with i/o, each track on the new album will be accompanied by a piece of art and Been Undone has a cover image called Ciclotrama 156 (Palindrome) by São Paulo–based artist Janaina Mello Landini. ‘The first artwork is a special piece from Janaina Mello Landini. The way she takes the rope and moves it out, unravelling it, is almost like fractals or tree trunks and looks like the brain in some ways too, so I see a lot of entry points. I am delighted that Janaina is willing to participate and be part of the process. We are using one of her existing images for this month to open the whole proceedings but I'm excited that she's now going to create a piece, especially for the song. That always gives it a little more excitement from my end to see what's going to come up. Please do check out her work.’$

As with i/o, each track on the new album will be accompanied by a piece of art and Been Undone has a cover image called Ciclotrama 156 (Palindrome) by São Paulo–based artist Janaina Mello Landini. ‘The first artwork is a special piece from Janaina Mello Landini. The way she takes the rope and moves it out, unravelling it, is almost like fractals or tree trunks and looks like the brain in some ways too, so I see a lot of entry points. I am delighted that Janaina is willing to participate and be part of the process. We are using one of her existing images for this month to open the whole proceedings but I'm excited that she's now going to create a piece, especially for the song. That always gives it a little more excitement from my end to see what's going to come up. Please do check out her work.’

Peter Gabriel

23,788 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

“University Of Washington professor learns crows don’t forget a face”— It is not just how the crows remembered, but how the information was transferred to EVERY crow in a 25 mile radius in hours. The story: “To test the birds’ recognition of faces separately from that of clothing, gait and other individual human characteristics, Marzluff and two students wore rubber masks. He designated a caveman mask as ‘dangerous’ and, in a deliberate gesture of civic generosity, a Dick Cheney mask as “neutral.” Researchers in the dangerous mask then trapped and banded seven crows on the university’s campus in Seattle. In the months that followed, the researchers and volunteers donned the masks on campus, this time walking prescribed routes and not bothering crows. The crows had not forgotten. They scolded people in the dangerous mask significantly more than they did before they were trapped, even when the mask was disguised with a hat or worn upside down. The neutral mask provoked little reaction. The effect has not only persisted, but also multiplied over the past two years. Wearing the dangerous mask on one recent walk through campus, Marzluff said, he was scolded by 47 of the 53 crows he encountered, many more than had experienced or witnessed the initial trapping. The researchers hypothesize that crows learn to recognize threatening humans from both parents and others in their flock. ‘Spectacular’ results After their experiments on campus, Marzluff and his students tested the effect with more realistic masks. Using a half-dozen students as models, they enlisted a professional mask maker, then wore the new masks while trapping crows at several sites in and around Seattle. The researchers then gave a mix of neutral and dangerous masks to volunteer observers who, unaware of the masks’ histories, wore them at the trapping sites and recorded the crows’ responses. The reaction to one of the dangerous masks was ‘quite spectacular,’ said one volunteer, Bill Pochmerski, a retired telephone-company manager who lives near Snohomish. ‘The birds were really raucous, screaming persistently,’ he said, ‘and it was clear they weren’t upset about something in general. They were upset with me.’ Again, crows were significantly more likely to scold observers who wore a dangerous mask, and when confronted simultaneously by observers in dangerous and neutral masks, the birds almost unerringly chose to persecute the dangerous face. In downtown Seattle, where most passers-by ignore crows, angry birds nearly touched their human foes. In rural areas, where crows are more likely to be viewed as noisy ‘flying rats’ and shot, the birds expressed their displeasure from a distance. Though Marzluff’s is the first formal study of human-face recognition in wild birds, his preliminary findings confirm the suspicions of many other researchers who have observed similar abilities in crows, ravens, gulls and other species” If we don’t have a cohesive theory on the “outliers”, we have no theory.

“University Of Washington professor learns crows don’t forget a face”— It is not just how the crows remembered, but how the information was transferred to EVERY crow in a 25 mile radius in hours. The story: “To test the birds’ recognition of faces separately from that of clothing, gait and other individual human characteristics, Marzluff and two students wore rubber masks. He designated a caveman mask as ‘dangerous’ and, in a deliberate gesture of civic generosity, a Dick Cheney mask as “neutral.” Researchers in the dangerous mask then trapped and banded seven crows on the university’s campus in Seattle. In the months that followed, the researchers and volunteers donned the masks on campus, this time walking prescribed routes and not bothering crows. The crows had not forgotten. They scolded people in the dangerous mask significantly more than they did before they were trapped, even when the mask was disguised with a hat or worn upside down. The neutral mask provoked little reaction. The effect has not only persisted, but also multiplied over the past two years. Wearing the dangerous mask on one recent walk through campus, Marzluff said, he was scolded by 47 of the 53 crows he encountered, many more than had experienced or witnessed the initial trapping. The researchers hypothesize that crows learn to recognize threatening humans from both parents and others in their flock. ‘Spectacular’ results After their experiments on campus, Marzluff and his students tested the effect with more realistic masks. Using a half-dozen students as models, they enlisted a professional mask maker, then wore the new masks while trapping crows at several sites in and around Seattle. The researchers then gave a mix of neutral and dangerous masks to volunteer observers who, unaware of the masks’ histories, wore them at the trapping sites and recorded the crows’ responses. The reaction to one of the dangerous masks was ‘quite spectacular,’ said one volunteer, Bill Pochmerski, a retired telephone-company manager who lives near Snohomish. ‘The birds were really raucous, screaming persistently,’ he said, ‘and it was clear they weren’t upset about something in general. They were upset with me.’ Again, crows were significantly more likely to scold observers who wore a dangerous mask, and when confronted simultaneously by observers in dangerous and neutral masks, the birds almost unerringly chose to persecute the dangerous face. In downtown Seattle, where most passers-by ignore crows, angry birds nearly touched their human foes. In rural areas, where crows are more likely to be viewed as noisy ‘flying rats’ and shot, the birds expressed their displeasure from a distance. Though Marzluff’s is the first formal study of human-face recognition in wild birds, his preliminary findings confirm the suspicions of many other researchers who have observed similar abilities in crows, ravens, gulls and other species” If we don’t have a cohesive theory on the “outliers”, we have no theory.

Brian Roemmele

344,570 просмотров • 2 лет назад

$An interesting fact I learned today about Angkor (where I currently am): the only surviving eyewitness account of the city at its height is that of a Chinese emissary to the Khmer empire, Zhou Daguan. Which is pretty extraordinary given that it was, by any measure, one of the greatest cities in the world at the time, with a population estimated at 1 million people and an urban area covering something like 1,000 square kilometers ( making it the largest low-density pre-industrial urban agglomeration ever identified. And larger than most large cities even today. For comparison, Paris, the largest European city at the time, was estimated at 200,000 people, one fifth the population of Angkor. And a tiny little fraction the area of Angkor (less than 1%!). Zhou Daguan recorded meticulously the life and customs of Angkor in a book he published in 1297 upon his return to China called "The Customs of Cambodia" ( For instance he describes how "the city was surrounded by a wide moat crossed by bridges with sculptures of 54 figures pulling a nine-head nāga" and how "on top of the city gate there were five Buddha heads, four of them facing four directions, the one at the centre was covered with gold." Bridges and city gates that still exist today and that we happen to have crossed today on our rental scooters (see video)! How come no actual record remains from the Khmer people themselves? The Khmer were not an illiterate people - they were an incredibly sophisticated civilization that left thousands of stone inscriptions across their temples. But these inscriptions are largely dedicatory or religious in nature - stuff like religious dedications, military victories, royal lineages - they don't describe what daily life, customs or governance was like. There's in a way something a bit sad about this: the fact that a civilization - one of the greatest in history - can collapse so thoroughly they themselves don't have any record of what they used to be. And a lesson perhaps that record-keeping is never a luxury - it can literally be the only thing that prevents your civilization's total oblivion.$

An interesting fact I learned today about Angkor (where I currently am): the only surviving eyewitness account of the city at its height is that of a Chinese emissary to the Khmer empire, Zhou Daguan. Which is pretty extraordinary given that it was, by any measure, one of the greatest cities in the world at the time, with a population estimated at 1 million people and an urban area covering something like 1,000 square kilometers ( making it the largest low-density pre-industrial urban agglomeration ever identified. And larger than most large cities even today. For comparison, Paris, the largest European city at the time, was estimated at 200,000 people, one fifth the population of Angkor. And a tiny little fraction the area of Angkor (less than 1%!). Zhou Daguan recorded meticulously the life and customs of Angkor in a book he published in 1297 upon his return to China called "The Customs of Cambodia" ( For instance he describes how "the city was surrounded by a wide moat crossed by bridges with sculptures of 54 figures pulling a nine-head nāga" and how "on top of the city gate there were five Buddha heads, four of them facing four directions, the one at the centre was covered with gold." Bridges and city gates that still exist today and that we happen to have crossed today on our rental scooters (see video)! How come no actual record remains from the Khmer people themselves? The Khmer were not an illiterate people - they were an incredibly sophisticated civilization that left thousands of stone inscriptions across their temples. But these inscriptions are largely dedicatory or religious in nature - stuff like religious dedications, military victories, royal lineages - they don't describe what daily life, customs or governance was like. There's in a way something a bit sad about this: the fact that a civilization - one of the greatest in history - can collapse so thoroughly they themselves don't have any record of what they used to be. And a lesson perhaps that record-keeping is never a luxury - it can literally be the only thing that prevents your civilization's total oblivion.

Arnaud Bertrand

106,495 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад