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POPSArt Comes to Life Watch this Reuters video showing South Korea's the "Alive Gallery" which transforms famous art masterpieces from 2-d images into life-like, 3-d characters. Visitors can now interact with Mona Lisa and Jesus and his disciples at the last supper.
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POPSRadio Paradise - listener-supported eclectic online radio My very favorite online radio station. Bill Goldsmith is an old-time radio DJ, from back in the day when programming a sequence of songs that flowed from one to another was an important skill. They play a wide variety of music from all kinds of genres, from blues to folk to punk to alternative to classical to world music to... I'm running out of genres that I know the names of! ;-) Good stuff. Tune in and give it a try. If you're not in sync with the mood he's got going on the first time you listen, check back later. I don't know why the graphics aren't showing up in the clip. *sigh*
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POPSWhere mathematic and art meet - Fractal art ..inspirational "A fractal is generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.” -Wikipedia
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POPSInteractive graphic demonstrations of everything "The Wolfram Demonstrations Project: A free source of interactive visualizations, from elementary education to the frontiers of research." Strong on beautiful interactive science graphics - but see broad list of topics at end of clip - machines, business, life sciences, kids and fun, creative arts
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POPSact,build,eat,invent,learn,live,move Laky’s text treatment really seems to declare once and for all that the best solutions might literally be right in our own backyards and communities, with materials and practices that simply need to be re-examined and better utilized. As the artist openly states, “Natural materials are very expressive…they also connect me to nature which is a deep love of mine.” According to her artist website, Laky considers herself to be an environmentalist, with her work often employing materials harvested from nature and/or agricultural sources with select recycled elements incorporated. “She is attracted to humble materials and simple, direct methods of hand construction…Laky has (also) been a strong advocate for the establishment of an environmental sustainability curriculum in design and art at UC Davis.”
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POPSSpread the Word Here's your FSM toolkit. Put on your white shirt and tie*, hope on your bicycle and start ringing those doorbells. Join the proslytyzing bandwagon. *White shirt and tie optional. Pirate costume entirely appropriate.