Beauty Fashion Illustration - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/beauty-fashion-illustration.htm Latest news and articles about Beauty Fashion Illustration en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008.§/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:11:07 GMT Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:11:07 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - How to draw an apple in Photoshop http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/how-to-draw-an-apple-in-photoshop-2008104596.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/how-to-draw-an-apple-in-photoshop-2008104596.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:03:06 GMT Eren Göksel provides a step-by-step for drawing this apple. How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration... Boingboing.Net How to draw an apple in Photoshop {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Eren Göksel provides a step-by-step for drawing this apple. How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration...
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NORTH AMERICA > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/society-and-culture/politics/news-and-media/mitchell-joachim-redesign-cities-from-scratch-20080994130.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/society-and-culture/politics/news-and-media/mitchell-joachim-redesign-cities-from-scratch-20080994130.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn't your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don't get him started on sustainability. "I don't like the term," he says. "It's not evocative enough. You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning." Efficiency doesn't cut it, either: "It just means less bad." Even zero emissions falls short. "This table does zero damage," he says, thumping the one in his office. "No VOCs, no carbons. Whatever. It doesn't do anything positive." Joachim spent a decade working with architect Michael Sorkin, followed by a short spell with Frank Gehry. He now teaches at Columbia University and is a partner at Terreform 1, a nonprofit focused on ecological design. A kind of Frederick Law Olmsted for the 21st century, he spends most of his time thinking about how to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. It's not a short-term project. "It took 15 to 20 years to get a hybrid car," he says. "To change the basic paradigm for how we make buildings, 40 to 50 years. To change a city? That's 100 to 150 years." If the next president is smart, he'll want to get started sooner rather than later. At the top of the agenda, Joachim says, is mobility and its inefficiencies. Citing US Department of Energy statistics, he says that while 29 percent of the nation's energy expenditure--what he calls "the suck"--now goes toward getting around, "in 50 years that will double." Among the biggest sources of waste, he argues, is the automobile--not only in energy but in the space it occupies (cars, he notes, spend more than 90 percent of the day parked). For nearly a century, Joachim says, "cities have been designed around cars. Why not design a car around a city?" So he did just that. One of his concept vehicles, the City Car , was named to Time magazine's Inventions of the Year list in 2007. His various cars would be less machine than Facebook on wheels. Instead of rpm gauges, there'd be social networking software telling drivers where their friends are and how to get there. Made from neoprene and other soft materials, cars would no longer suffer traffic-fouling fender benders, merely what he calls "gentle congestion"--picture a flock of urban sheep grazing against one other. Like Zipcar vehicles, the cars would be shared. They would "read" potholes and send warnings to nearby drivers and city repair crews. Urban parking would be eased by intelligent real-time supply and demand management, with people bidding remotely for available spots. Of course, there'd also be more spaces to begin with, since his cars could be folded and stacked like shopping carts. The average New York City block could handle 880 of the vehicles, he says. In this vision of downtown Atlanta (based on Joachim's renderings), the city is transformed by wind power and flooded parking lots. Illustration by Christoph Nieman For Joachim, reinventing the city doesn't stop at the curb; he's been reimagining just about every part of the modern urban landscape. To help cool Atlanta, Joachim suggests flooding an area of the city now filled with parking lots to create a "munificent pool"--a large pond filled with fish, plants, and algae, surrounded by trees. It would counteract the urban "heat island" effect and process gray water and sewage. The waterworks would be powered by wind turbines. Some of Joachim's ideas are more conceptual than practical: His vision for the future of New York City includes airborne public transit. He imagines low-hung blimps tethered to buildings, moving through the city 24/7. They would function like a ski lift, and commuters could hop on and off with relative ease. "We put the funk in functionalism," he says. Architecture needs radical reengineering, too, and Joachim envisions a retro-futurist alternative for home building: "Let's grow it onsite." That's the concept behind his Fab Tree Hab, currently on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Rather than cutting down a tree and transporting it from forest to mill to lumber-yard to building site, the house is the tree. It's the ancient art of "pleaching"--training and joining plants to create structures--with a 21st-century twist, using milling software to achieve precise geometries. "You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land," he says. "In fact, with a positive carbon contribution." Or why not build cities out of garbage? Joachim notes that if you could somehow convert waste into construction material, you could make another Empire State Building out of what New Yorkers throw away in two weeks. There's enough trash in the city's Wired.Com Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn't your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don't get him started on sustainability. "I don't like the term," he says. "It's not evocative enough. You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning." Efficiency doesn't cut it, either: "It just means less bad." Even zero emissions falls short. "This table does zero damage," he says, thumping the one in his office. "No VOCs, no carbons. Whatever. It doesn't do anything positive." Joachim spent a decade working with architect Michael Sorkin, followed by a short spell with Frank Gehry. He now teaches at Columbia University and is a partner at Terreform 1, a nonprofit focused on ecological design. A kind of Frederick Law Olmsted for the 21st century, he spends most of his time thinking about how to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. It's not a short-term project. "It took 15 to 20 years to get a hybrid car," he says. "To change the basic paradigm for how we make buildings, 40 to 50 years. To change a city? That's 100 to 150 years." If the next president is smart, he'll want to get started sooner rather than later. At the top of the agenda, Joachim says, is mobility and its inefficiencies. Citing US Department of Energy statistics, he says that while 29 percent of the nation's energy expenditure--what he calls "the suck"--now goes toward getting around, "in 50 years that will double." Among the biggest sources of waste, he argues, is the automobile--not only in energy but in the space it occupies (cars, he notes, spend more than 90 percent of the day parked). For nearly a century, Joachim says, "cities have been designed around cars. Why not design a car around a city?" So he did just that. One of his concept vehicles, the City Car , was named to Time magazine's Inventions of the Year list in 2007. His various cars would be less machine than Facebook on wheels. Instead of rpm gauges, there'd be social networking software telling drivers where their friends are and how to get there. Made from neoprene and other soft materials, cars would no longer suffer traffic-fouling fender benders, merely what he calls "gentle congestion"--picture a flock of urban sheep grazing against one other. Like Zipcar vehicles, the cars would be shared. They would "read" potholes and send warnings to nearby drivers and city repair crews. Urban parking would be eased by intelligent real-time supply and demand management, with people bidding remotely for available spots. Of course, there'd also be more spaces to begin with, since his cars could be folded and stacked like shopping carts. The average New York City block could handle 880 of the vehicles, he says. In this vision of downtown Atlanta (based on Joachim's renderings), the city is transformed by wind power and flooded parking lots. Illustration by Christoph Nieman For Joachim, reinventing the city doesn't stop at the curb; he's been reimagining just about every part of the modern urban landscape. To help cool Atlanta, Joachim suggests flooding an area of the city now filled with parking lots to create a "munificent pool"--a large pond filled with fish, plants, and algae, surrounded by trees. It would counteract the urban "heat island" effect and process gray water and sewage. The waterworks would be powered by wind turbines. Some of Joachim's ideas are more conceptual than practical: His vision for the future of New York City includes airborne public transit. He imagines low-hung blimps tethered to buildings, moving through the city 24/7. They would function like a ski lift, and commuters could hop on and off with relative ease. "We put the funk in functionalism," he says. Architecture needs radical reengineering, too, and Joachim envisions a retro-futurist alternative for home building: "Let's grow it onsite." That's the concept behind his Fab Tree Hab, currently on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Rather than cutting down a tree and transporting it from forest to mill to lumber-yard to building site, the house is the tree. It's the ancient art of "pleaching"--training and joining plants to create structures--with a 21st-century twist, using milling software to achieve precise geometries. "You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land," he says. "In fact, with a positive carbon contribution." Or why not build cities out of garbage? Joachim notes that if you could somehow convert waste into construction material, you could make another Empire State Building out of what New Yorkers throw away in two weeks. There's enough trash in the city's
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > Society and Culture > Politics > News and Media {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - Japantown retail space 860-3950 sf, next to Safeway, Yoshi's, more (lower pac hts) $3 1000sqft http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/japantown-retail-space-860-3950-sf-next-to-safeway-20080997122.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/japantown-retail-space-860-3950-sf-next-to-safeway-20080997122.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:56:48 GMT Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com Location: 1449 Webster Type: Retail (ground floor) Size: Appoximately 860 - 3,940 sf (see floorplans below) Available: Immediately Rent: negotiable Lease Term: 3 years (negotiable) Parking: 260 spaces - free Website: www.webstersquareSF.com High Profile Location: San Francisco Jazz District (Fillmore & Geary) 260-space parking lot in front of building Neighbor to 1500 unit residential hi-rise developments Convenient public transportation Easy access to freeway Surrounded by Establised Businesses and Services : Safeway (on same lot) Blockbuster Video (next door) Subway, Panda Express, Domino's Pizza, Starbucks International Cuisine Restaurants Professional Medical Office Center Japantown Shopping Center (across Geary) Kabuki 8 Theater Hospitals - UCSF Mt. Zion, Kaiser, CPMC Schools - USF, Pacific Dentistry University American Realty & Construction Inc. Nelly or Nikki 415-928-6600 www.amrci.com Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com Here are some points of interest within the property and the surrounding blocks: Safeway Fillmore Heritage Condominiums Webster Tower Apartments The Fillmore Center Apartments Japantown Shopping Center Starbucks The Fillmore Yoshi's (coming soon) Fillmore Community Center Sheba Piano Lounge Boom Boom Room Kabuki Theater Subway Panda Express Popeyes Foot Locker Hanmi Bank Sushi Boom Option #1 Lease the entire space of approximately 3,940 sq ft Option #2 Divide to 860 sf or 3,080 sf Option #3 Divide to 1,220 sf or 2,720 sf Option #4 Divide to 2,692 sf or 1,248 sf Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com The information presented herein is inteded for illustration purposes only. Neither owner, agent, nor Real Showing guarantees or warrants the accuracy of such information or other information presented online. It is your sole responsibility to review and verify all information. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Japantown retail space 860-3950 sf, next to Safeway, Yoshi's, more (lower pac hts) $3 1000sqft {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com Location: 1449 Webster Type: Retail (ground floor) Size: Appoximately 860 - 3,940 sf (see floorplans below) Available: Immediately Rent: negotiable Lease Term: 3 years (negotiable) Parking: 260 spaces - free Website: www.webstersquareSF.com High Profile Location: San Francisco Jazz District (Fillmore & Geary) 260-space parking lot in front of building Neighbor to 1500 unit residential hi-rise developments Convenient public transportation Easy access to freeway Surrounded by Establised Businesses and Services : Safeway (on same lot) Blockbuster Video (next door) Subway, Panda Express, Domino's Pizza, Starbucks International Cuisine Restaurants Professional Medical Office Center Japantown Shopping Center (across Geary) Kabuki 8 Theater Hospitals - UCSF Mt. Zion, Kaiser, CPMC Schools - USF, Pacific Dentistry University American Realty & Construction Inc. Nelly or Nikki 415-928-6600 www.amrci.com Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com Here are some points of interest within the property and the surrounding blocks: Safeway Fillmore Heritage Condominiums Webster Tower Apartments The Fillmore Center Apartments Japantown Shopping Center Starbucks The Fillmore Yoshi's (coming soon) Fillmore Community Center Sheba Piano Lounge Boom Boom Room Kabuki Theater Subway Panda Express Popeyes Foot Locker Hanmi Bank Sushi Boom Option #1 Lease the entire space of approximately 3,940 sq ft Option #2 Divide to 860 sf or 3,080 sf Option #3 Divide to 1,220 sf or 2,720 sf Option #4 Divide to 2,692 sf or 1,248 sf Visit our website to see a more complete presentation of this property: www.webstersquareSF.com The information presented herein is inteded for illustration purposes only. Neither owner, agent, nor Real Showing guarantees or warrants the accuracy of such information or other information presented online. It is your sole responsibility to review and verify all information.
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - Gallery: Sci-Fi-Inspired Concept Ships Show Future of Travel http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/gallery-sci-fi-inspired-concept-ships-show-future-20080934129.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/gallery-sci-fi-inspired-concept-ships-show-future-20080934129.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT : Image: Nicolas Bouvier Future worlds described by science fiction visionaries like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Robert Heinlein often included wildly inventive methods of transportation to other planets, galaxies and dimensions. These brief glimpses into the possible future of travel were left largely to the readers' imaginations, but a flourishing group of dreamers, designers and illustrators are bringing those creations to life -- at least online. The conceptships.org website run by Igor Tkac showcases these artists' renditions of spaceships and other fantastical creations. From retro-futuristic aerial attack machines to automated deep-sea treasure hunters, here are some of the coolest. Left: Nicolas Bouvier has always been fascinated with space travel. Growing up in Cape Canaveral, Florida, he vividly remembers watching shuttles and rockets launch. Now a game designer with credits including Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Assassin's Creed, Bouvier also designs book covers. He fashioned this illustration for a French edition of a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories. See more of Bouvier's work. : Image: Jeffrey Turley Jeffrey Turley's otherwordly aquatic vessel is an archeologist's -- or treasure hunter's -- dream. The underwater vehicle submerges to unexplored depths to locate lost artifacts and document unusual life forms. Turley, a visual development artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, said he dreams up his concept creations in his spare time. "It was just for fun," said Turley. "I do these warm-ups now and then to keep my art fresh." See more of Turley's work. : Image: David Levy For this ship's ethereal design, David Levy decided to upgrade an old concept -- the pirate ship -- with a sci-fi twist. Levy, art director of visual design studio SteamBot Studios, envisioned a space boat voyaging across the universe undetected, thanks to advanced disguise technologies that would keep the craft hidden from enemies. Additionally, the expansive wings of the sleek ship are solar-powered and can be rotated to face the sun as the ship travels. Even the ship's captain has a revamped first mate: "The bird on the shoulders of the pirate is a robot," said Levy. "Which is why it does not need any breathing apparatus." See more of Levy's work. : Image: Ben Mauro Although 23-year-old designer Ben Mauro painted this haunting vessel as an assignment for an art class, sketching and illustrating concept ships is an avid pastime of his. Mauro based this ship's bulbous skeleton on shapes formed by musical notes and rhythmic formations. According to Mauro, the cruiser's main purpose would be largely for surveying foreign lands, exploring unknown areas and conducting reconnaissance missions. See more of Mauro's work. : Image: Michal Jelinek Industrial designer Michal Jelinek came up with this cargo ship concept as part of an instructional lecture for his students. "The main purpose of this ship is to deliver goods across the planet and to outer space," said Jelinek. The carrier, with its powerful jet engines positioned on the hull for maximum steering control, would also be capable of navigating extreme atmospheric conditions, he said. See more of Jelinek's work. : Image: Joel Carlo Aymat Multimedia artist Joel Carlo Aymat pieced together this clover-shaped ship while experimenting with his favorite graphic applications, Photoshop and ZBrush. Aymat pictured it as a perfect vehicle for everyday intergalactic traveling -- though he still needs to concoct a fuel-efficient power source. "It would probably be a pretty snazzy hybrid commuter," said Aymat. "It'd be like the Toyota FT-HS of space travel!" See more of Aymat's work. : Image: Jake Parker When Jake Parker isn't at his day job developing special effects for big-budget animated films like Ice Age and Robots, he's bringing his own creations to life in comic books. This vessel would compete in aerial death matches, so Parker envisioned a vehicle with superior speed and lethal attack functions. "I love the designs of pre-WWII racers," said Parker, who works as a designer for high-end CGI firm Blue Sky Studios. "Their sleek lines and full shapes always appealed to me." A bright yellow paint job with black racing stripes gave way to the craft's nickname -- The Wasp. See more of Parker's work. : Image: Theodor Waern Swedish concept artist Theodor Waern took inspiration from dystopian sci-fi thrillers Aliens and Terminator to illustrate a menacing battleship for deploying troops to and from pockets of action. Dubbed the "Ferro," Waern's war machine is equipped with weapons and can carry up to eight passengers and a pilot. See more of Waern's work. Wired.Com Gallery: Sci-Fi-Inspired Concept Ships Show Future of Travel {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : Image: Nicolas Bouvier Future worlds described by science fiction visionaries like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Robert Heinlein often included wildly inventive methods of transportation to other planets, galaxies and dimensions. These brief glimpses into the possible future of travel were left largely to the readers' imaginations, but a flourishing group of dreamers, designers and illustrators are bringing those creations to life -- at least online. The conceptships.org website run by Igor Tkac showcases these artists' renditions of spaceships and other fantastical creations. From retro-futuristic aerial attack machines to automated deep-sea treasure hunters, here are some of the coolest. Left: Nicolas Bouvier has always been fascinated with space travel. Growing up in Cape Canaveral, Florida, he vividly remembers watching shuttles and rockets launch. Now a game designer with credits including Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Assassin's Creed, Bouvier also designs book covers. He fashioned this illustration for a French edition of a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories. See more of Bouvier's work. : Image: Jeffrey Turley Jeffrey Turley's otherwordly aquatic vessel is an archeologist's -- or treasure hunter's -- dream. The underwater vehicle submerges to unexplored depths to locate lost artifacts and document unusual life forms. Turley, a visual development artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, said he dreams up his concept creations in his spare time. "It was just for fun," said Turley. "I do these warm-ups now and then to keep my art fresh." See more of Turley's work. : Image: David Levy For this ship's ethereal design, David Levy decided to upgrade an old concept -- the pirate ship -- with a sci-fi twist. Levy, art director of visual design studio SteamBot Studios, envisioned a space boat voyaging across the universe undetected, thanks to advanced disguise technologies that would keep the craft hidden from enemies. Additionally, the expansive wings of the sleek ship are solar-powered and can be rotated to face the sun as the ship travels. Even the ship's captain has a revamped first mate: "The bird on the shoulders of the pirate is a robot," said Levy. "Which is why it does not need any breathing apparatus." See more of Levy's work. : Image: Ben Mauro Although 23-year-old designer Ben Mauro painted this haunting vessel as an assignment for an art class, sketching and illustrating concept ships is an avid pastime of his. Mauro based this ship's bulbous skeleton on shapes formed by musical notes and rhythmic formations. According to Mauro, the cruiser's main purpose would be largely for surveying foreign lands, exploring unknown areas and conducting reconnaissance missions. See more of Mauro's work. : Image: Michal Jelinek Industrial designer Michal Jelinek came up with this cargo ship concept as part of an instructional lecture for his students. "The main purpose of this ship is to deliver goods across the planet and to outer space," said Jelinek. The carrier, with its powerful jet engines positioned on the hull for maximum steering control, would also be capable of navigating extreme atmospheric conditions, he said. See more of Jelinek's work. : Image: Joel Carlo Aymat Multimedia artist Joel Carlo Aymat pieced together this clover-shaped ship while experimenting with his favorite graphic applications, Photoshop and ZBrush. Aymat pictured it as a perfect vehicle for everyday intergalactic traveling -- though he still needs to concoct a fuel-efficient power source. "It would probably be a pretty snazzy hybrid commuter," said Aymat. "It'd be like the Toyota FT-HS of space travel!" See more of Aymat's work. : Image: Jake Parker When Jake Parker isn't at his day job developing special effects for big-budget animated films like Ice Age and Robots, he's bringing his own creations to life in comic books. This vessel would compete in aerial death matches, so Parker envisioned a vehicle with superior speed and lethal attack functions. "I love the designs of pre-WWII racers," said Parker, who works as a designer for high-end CGI firm Blue Sky Studios. "Their sleek lines and full shapes always appealed to me." A bright yellow paint job with black racing stripes gave way to the craft's nickname -- The Wasp. See more of Parker's work. : Image: Theodor Waern Swedish concept artist Theodor Waern took inspiration from dystopian sci-fi thrillers Aliens and Terminator to illustrate a menacing battleship for deploying troops to and from pockets of action. Dubbed the "Ferro," Waern's war machine is equipped with weapons and can carry up to eight passengers and a pilot. See more of Waern's work.
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]]> News > Breaking News {COMPUTERS > INTERNET} - Last Call: WebCGM 2.1 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/last-call-webcgm-2-1-20080951931.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/last-call-webcgm-2-1-20080951931.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT 2008-09-17: The WebCGM Working Group has published the First Public Last Call Working Draft of WebCGM 2.1. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in 1999, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM utilization in Web document applications. It therefore represents a significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and implementers of the ISO CGM standard. Comments are welcome through 01 November. Learn more about the Graphics Activity. (Permalink) W3.Org Last Call: WebCGM 2.1 {new window}   Www.W3.Org - 2008-09-17: The WebCGM Working Group has published the First Public Last Call Working Draft of WebCGM 2.1. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in 1999, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM utilization in Web document applications. It therefore represents a significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and implementers of the ISO CGM standard. Comments are welcome through 01 November. Learn more about the Graphics Activity. (Permalink)
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]]> Computers > Internet {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - $400-$700 ART, MUSIC, LIVING, NANNY BARTER. Audiopharmacy (lower haight) $700 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/400-700-art-music-living-nanny-barter-audiopharmacy-20080983724.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/400-700-art-music-living-nanny-barter-audiopharmacy-20080983724.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:10:31 GMT hmm... We have a nice spot for you if youre interested. One block from alamo square and the 21 hayes bus, 2 blocks from the 22 filmore bus, 3 blocks from divisidero, and 3 blocks from haight street. It is central to pretty much anything...(the mission, haight, downtown, golden gate park, panhandle...) The place itself is top notch and clean. the room: mid-large room with two closets sunny peaceful & quiet clotheslines outside window quiet but the neigbors never stressed off turntables and a boomin system. hardwood floors tall ceilings the home: this is a supa huge flat with a good vibe there are four bedrooms a recording studio living room / common area large back porch with plenty of sun and space to paint etc. washer and dryer huge kitchen with shared food or not...whuteva pantry hardwood floors tall ceilings chill neighbors projection screen tv free illegal cable (not much of a tv driven house though) wireless internet (dsl) two toilet rooms with windows one shower/bath/sink room cigarrettes outside, other smoke..don't trip. tenants: Your housemates are definitely laid back and mature. All of which are artists and can kick it but mind their own business fashrrr. (dj/turntablism, world instruments, conscious music…hip hop, roots/ reggae, mc/poets, graph/illustration and tattoo art, knitting, jewelry making, music production, video, conversation). we are a mix of ethnicities.. habla espanol? This place is mainly inspiration for the creative elements. the age span here is 24-31 (2 girls, 3 guys..and sometimes a 3 year old little girl), we don't discriminate against age but a mature mindstate is appreciated. the scenario: The flat is home of the San francisco's conscious independent recording label, Audiopharmacy Prescriptions, (Audiopharmacy live ensemble, Dj Stepwise, Teao n Offerings, One Struggle, Panthelion, Manufranctured, Kaotic Souls, II Sense,...ect.) Peep: Audiopharmacy.com or myspace.com/audiopharmacy. What we are looking for: …If you are an artist it is a plus, but a trustful good heart definitely goes a long way. Permanent or temporary is fine… oh, and on-time rent paying is a good trait for sure. Thanks for reading our longwinded-ass e-mail. Please respond to thepharm@audiopharmacy.com. One more thing: The rent is $700, but we are willing to work out a deal on the rent for someone suitable to nanny the 3 year old heartbreaker (Shishin)at times. Only a few hours needed…Tues thru Friday from 4:30pm til 10pm, mainly while Audiopharmacy is on tour out of town. paz to hear songs, catch photos (of the little one as well), merch, or watch videos: www.myspace.com/audiopharmacy www.audiopharmacy.com www.myspace.com/stepwisedj Sfbay.Craigslist.Org $400-$700 ART, MUSIC, LIVING, NANNY BARTER. Audiopharmacy (lower haight) $700 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - hmm... We have a nice spot for you if youre interested. One block from alamo square and the 21 hayes bus, 2 blocks from the 22 filmore bus, 3 blocks from divisidero, and 3 blocks from haight street. It is central to pretty much anything...(the mission, haight, downtown, golden gate park, panhandle...) The place itself is top notch and clean. the room: mid-large room with two closets sunny peaceful & quiet clotheslines outside window quiet but the neigbors never stressed off turntables and a boomin system. hardwood floors tall ceilings the home: this is a supa huge flat with a good vibe there are four bedrooms a recording studio living room / common area large back porch with plenty of sun and space to paint etc. washer and dryer huge kitchen with shared food or not...whuteva pantry hardwood floors tall ceilings chill neighbors projection screen tv free illegal cable (not much of a tv driven house though) wireless internet (dsl) two toilet rooms with windows one shower/bath/sink room cigarrettes outside, other smoke..don't trip. tenants: Your housemates are definitely laid back and mature. All of which are artists and can kick it but mind their own business fashrrr. (dj/turntablism, world instruments, conscious music…hip hop, roots/ reggae, mc/poets, graph/illustration and tattoo art, knitting, jewelry making, music production, video, conversation). we are a mix of ethnicities.. habla espanol? This place is mainly inspiration for the creative elements. the age span here is 24-31 (2 girls, 3 guys..and sometimes a 3 year old little girl), we don't discriminate against age but a mature mindstate is appreciated. the scenario: The flat is home of the San francisco's conscious independent recording label, Audiopharmacy Prescriptions, (Audiopharmacy live ensemble, Dj Stepwise, Teao n Offerings, One Struggle, Panthelion, Manufranctured, Kaotic Souls, II Sense,...ect.) Peep: Audiopharmacy.com or myspace.com/audiopharmacy. What we are looking for: …If you are an artist it is a plus, but a trustful good heart definitely goes a long way. Permanent or temporary is fine… oh, and on-time rent paying is a good trait for sure. Thanks for reading our longwinded-ass e-mail. Please respond to thepharm@audiopharmacy.com. One more thing: The rent is $700, but we are willing to work out a deal on the rent for someone suitable to nanny the 3 year old heartbreaker (Shishin)at times. Only a few hours needed…Tues thru Friday from 4:30pm til 10pm, mainly while Audiopharmacy is on tour out of town. paz to hear songs, catch photos (of the little one as well), merch, or watch videos: www.myspace.com/audiopharmacy www.audiopharmacy.com www.myspace.com/stepwisedj
$400-$700 ART, MUSIC, LIVING, NANNY BARTER. Audiopharmacy {...}
Published: September 16, 2008, 8:10 am - Indexed: September 16, 2008, 9:10 am - Page Size: 7KB
Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - How to draw a USB key icon in Photoshop http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/how-to-draw-a-usb-key-icon-in-photoshop-20080994926.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/how-to-draw-a-usb-key-icon-in-photoshop-20080994926.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:10:44 GMT Here's another cool Photoshop tutorial by Eren Göksel. In this tutorial, I?ll show you how to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface. We?ll be adding numerous details that will make this illustration shine. Notice how the PSDTUTS name reflects off the floor in the illustration. These are the little details that add a degree of realism to your work. Make a Floating in Air USB Key Illustration Previously on Boing Boing: ? How to create a super shiny pencil icon in Photoshop ? Photoshop tutorial: drawing a glass of beer... Boingboing.Net How to draw a USB key icon in Photoshop {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Here's another cool Photoshop tutorial by Eren Göksel. In this tutorial, I?ll show you how to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface. We?ll be adding numerous details that will make this illustration shine. Notice how the PSDTUTS name reflects off the floor in the illustration. These are the little details that add a degree of realism to your work. Make a Floating in Air USB Key Illustration Previously on Boing Boing: ? How to create a super shiny pencil icon in Photoshop ? Photoshop tutorial: drawing a glass of beer...
How to draw a USB key icon in Photoshop - Boing Boing {...}
Published: September 15, 2008, 11:10 pm - Indexed: September 16, 2008, 9:14 am - Page Size: 51KB
Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - "America's financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday." http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/america-s-financial-system-was-shaken-to-its-core-20080961923.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/america-s-financial-system-was-shaken-to-its-core-20080961923.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:01:13 GMT Not the first line you want to read in the top story in every major newspaper on the first day of the week. There it is, though. Today was one of the most bleak days ever in Wall Street's history, and Monday looks like it's gonna suck. The headlines will surely be easy to find; I'm publishing this post mostly just to create an open thread for the BB community to discuss whatever unfolds, and where it all leads. Snip from today's lead item in the WSJ: The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp. The U.S. government, which bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a week ago and orchestrated the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in March, played much tougher with Lehman. It refused to provide a financial backstop to potential buyers. Without such support, Barclays PLC and Bank of America, the two most interested buyers, walked away. Late Sunday night, Lehman said it intends to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Hang on to your bindles, friends. Here's more on insurer AIG's related meltdown, and here's the article from which the preceding graf was snipped: Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash (Wall Street Journal). Greenspan today characterized this as a "once-in-a-century" crisis. Referring to smaller regional institutions most vulnerable to consolidation -- commercial banks, not the troubled investment banks at the center of this news cycle -- one particularly pessimistic investor quoted by CNBC predicts "a thousand banks will close" in the coming months. Krugman in the NYT: "Will the U.S. financial system collapse today, or maybe over the next few days? I don?t think so ? but I?m nowhere near certain." I'm also following Floyd Norris' liveblogging on Monday. BB commenter Seg says: For anyone wanting a primer on how the mortgage crises started, I highly recommend listening to the whole hour of This American Life: #355: The Giant Pool of Money. It's the best reporting I have ever heard on anything, let alone the housing crises. While it doesn't go beyond events after April 08, it will bring you mostly up to speed. Image: Ape Lad's prescient Laugh Out Loud Cats, a sweet illustration not actually created with any of this in mind.... Boingboing.Net "America's financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday." {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Not the first line you want to read in the top story in every major newspaper on the first day of the week. There it is, though. Today was one of the most bleak days ever in Wall Street's history, and Monday looks like it's gonna suck. The headlines will surely be easy to find; I'm publishing this post mostly just to create an open thread for the BB community to discuss whatever unfolds, and where it all leads. Snip from today's lead item in the WSJ: The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp. The U.S. government, which bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a week ago and orchestrated the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in March, played much tougher with Lehman. It refused to provide a financial backstop to potential buyers. Without such support, Barclays PLC and Bank of America, the two most interested buyers, walked away. Late Sunday night, Lehman said it intends to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Hang on to your bindles, friends. Here's more on insurer AIG's related meltdown, and here's the article from which the preceding graf was snipped: Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash (Wall Street Journal). Greenspan today characterized this as a "once-in-a-century" crisis. Referring to smaller regional institutions most vulnerable to consolidation -- commercial banks, not the troubled investment banks at the center of this news cycle -- one particularly pessimistic investor quoted by CNBC predicts "a thousand banks will close" in the coming months. Krugman in the NYT: "Will the U.S. financial system collapse today, or maybe over the next few days? I don?t think so ? but I?m nowhere near certain." I'm also following Floyd Norris' liveblogging on Monday. BB commenter Seg says: For anyone wanting a primer on how the mortgage crises started, I highly recommend listening to the whole hour of This American Life: #355: The Giant Pool of Money. It's the best reporting I have ever heard on anything, let alone the housing crises. While it doesn't go beyond events after April 08, it will bring you mostly up to speed. Image: Ape Lad's prescient Laugh Out Loud Cats, a sweet illustration not actually created with any of this in mind....
"America's financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday." - Boing Boing {...}
Published: September 15, 2008, 7:01 am - Indexed: September 16, 2008, 9:14 am - Page Size: 253KB
Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {SYSTEMS > NEWS AND MEDIA} - PSDTUTS points out 20 Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects including one of ours! http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/systems/apple/macintosh/news-and-media/psdtuts-points-out-20-comic-book-style-photoshop-20080999131.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/systems/apple/macintosh/news-and-media/psdtuts-points-out-20-comic-book-style-photoshop-20080999131.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:43:10 GMT While I'm linking to other people's awesome Photoshop tutorials, I wanted to point out this list of 20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects posted by PSDTUTS. It includes everything from Comic Book Style Graphic Design and Comic Style Painting to Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein and How to Go From Sketch to Vector Illustration. It even includes my own Comic Art Effect at #4. Pair any one of those tutorials with some nice fonts from Blambot or Comicraft and you've got the start of a new and creatively stimulating hobby. Macmerc.Com PSDTUTS points out 20 Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects including one of ours! {new window}   Www.Macmerc.Com - While I'm linking to other people's awesome Photoshop tutorials, I wanted to point out this list of 20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects posted by PSDTUTS. It includes everything from Comic Book Style Graphic Design and Comic Style Painting to Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein and How to Go From Sketch to Vector Illustration. It even includes my own Comic Art Effect at #4. Pair any one of those tutorials with some nice fonts from Blambot or Comicraft and you've got the start of a new and creatively stimulating hobby.
MacMerc.com: PSDTUTS points out 20 Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects including one of ours! {...} MacMerc.com is a one stop shop for Pro Mac users. We have editorials, tutorials, forums, news and a whole lot more! {...}
Published: September 11, 2008, 5:43 am - Indexed: September 18, 2008, 12:47 pm - Page Size: 18KB
Category: Computers > Systems > Apple > Macintosh > News and Media

]]> Computers > Systems > Apple > Macintosh > News and Media {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - Gallery: Distilling 2.0 -- Bye-Bye Boiling, Hello Health Care http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/gallery-distilling-2-0-bye-bye-boiling-hello-health-2008099668.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/gallery-distilling-2-0-bye-bye-boiling-hello-health-2008099668.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California ? For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to detect disease and purify water using tiny stills. The creation of the still around A.D. 500 was one of humanity's earliest, and still quite popular, technological advancements. Traditionally, a still boils liquids in order to vaporize and separate them. Now, using nanoparticles and lasers, liquids no longer need to be boiled to be separated. Removing the heat requirement from distillation means the process could be used to separate living cells without killing them, which could lead to advanced disease detection. Other applications include extracting water cheaply and efficiently from sea water in low-energy saltwater distillation plants. How do they do it? Take a tour through professor David Boyd's lab and go behind the scenes of this revolutionary process. Left: A green laser evaporates the water from a liquid. This is the final stage of nano distillation. : Here is a diagram of the basic nano still technique. At top is the initial setup with gold nanoparticles sitting on top of a glass slide. The fluid waiting to be distilled is enclosed from above by a silicone rubber chip. In the bottom diagram, a green laser operating near the resonant frequency of the gold particles is applied. The laser heats the gold nanoparticles, which then transfer the heat to the surrounding fluid. This small amount of heat is just enough to cause controlled evaporation over the gas bubble barrier, leaving pure water on the right-hand side of the diagram. Click through to the next photo to take a closer look at each of these steps. Illustration: Chemical Separations by Bubble Assisted Interphase Mass-Transfer, David A. Boyd, James Adelman, David Goodwin, and Demetri Psaltis: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis spin coater is used to spread out the thin layer of gold nanoparticles on the glass slide. A drop of the gold solution is placed on the slide and the coater spins extremely fast. This spinning spreads the solution evenly and coats the slide with a nearly uniform 15-nanometer layer of gold. To get a controlled spacing of particles there needs to be a structure in place to hold them. To achieve this, scientists add a polymer to the gold solution. This polymer forms a uniform lattice to structure all the gold. But observant readers will notice there was no polymer in the previous diagram. Where does it go? Click to the next photo to find out. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is an oxygen etcher. Once the glass slide is covered with the polymer-and-gold solution, this etcher burns off the polymer, leaving just the gold behind. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is a sample slide covered with a matrix of gold nanoparticles. The purple streaks on the slide are the nanoparticles, visibly spreading out from the initial drop applied to the slide during the spin coating. For those readers expecting the entire slide to be purple, scientists actually need only a small portion of the slide to be covered uniformly by the gold, so these streaks will suffice. The particles have a unique property of rapidly dissipating heat, which is a key factor in how the still works. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn another part of the lab, the piece of silicone rubber is made. If you think back to the second image in this gallery, you'll recall that the silicone rubber encloses the fluid between itself and the glass slide. This piece of silicone is called the microfluidic chip because of the fluid channels carved into it. The machine pictured at left is called a mask aligner. It creates a mold for the microfluidic chip. It does this by exposing an image (in this case, the shape and design of the chip) to a photosensitive material. The unexposed portion of the material is discarded, and the shape of the mold is all that's left. It's similar to a photo enlarger, but instead of a two-dimensional image, a fully formed nano structure is made. The final mold is then used to create fluid channels in a piece of silicone rubber. This silicone rubber ends up being the microfluidic chip. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comHere, the silicone rubber chip is drilled to create ports for the nano still. These ports will be used to inject solutions for distillation and to extract the distilled liquid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comTiny plugs of silicone are the doughnut holes of the micro-fabrication world. Sadly, these plugs will remain uneaten.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comAfter fabrication of the microfluidic chip, we're ready to put it all together. The chip is glued to the gold-coated slide that we made earlier (pictured at center-left inside petri dish). Now we have a nano still, which has an electronic sensor attached for measuring the conductivity of the fluid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comSometimes science is messy. This workbench is covered with a collection of syringes and gold nanoparticle-coated glass slides. The syringes are used to inject fluids through the ports into the channels in the still, which we'll see in the next photo.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn this photo, blue "Smurf blood" food-grade dye is injected into the nano still through a syringe. The dye makes it easy to see when the liquid has been distilled. The distilled water will be clear and the remaining water will become darker due to the higher concentration of dye.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comA low-powered green diode laser shines down into the still. The laser is roughly the same strength as an off-the-shelf laser pointer. Very little energy is needed in the microdistilling process thanks to the heat-dissipating properties of the gold nanoparticles. Professor Boyd, the lead researcher on the project, reveals that this process was largely discovered by accident. "We had this problem with [an] air bubble, so we started hitting it with a laser. Instead of getting rid of it, we saw that we were actually causing the distillation process to occur, which was completely unexpected," Boyd explains. Wired.Com Gallery: Distilling 2.0 -- Bye-Bye Boiling, Hello Health Care {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California ? For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to detect disease and purify water using tiny stills. The creation of the still around A.D. 500 was one of humanity's earliest, and still quite popular, technological advancements. Traditionally, a still boils liquids in order to vaporize and separate them. Now, using nanoparticles and lasers, liquids no longer need to be boiled to be separated. Removing the heat requirement from distillation means the process could be used to separate living cells without killing them, which could lead to advanced disease detection. Other applications include extracting water cheaply and efficiently from sea water in low-energy saltwater distillation plants. How do they do it? Take a tour through professor David Boyd's lab and go behind the scenes of this revolutionary process. Left: A green laser evaporates the water from a liquid. This is the final stage of nano distillation. : Here is a diagram of the basic nano still technique. At top is the initial setup with gold nanoparticles sitting on top of a glass slide. The fluid waiting to be distilled is enclosed from above by a silicone rubber chip. In the bottom diagram, a green laser operating near the resonant frequency of the gold particles is applied. The laser heats the gold nanoparticles, which then transfer the heat to the surrounding fluid. This small amount of heat is just enough to cause controlled evaporation over the gas bubble barrier, leaving pure water on the right-hand side of the diagram. Click through to the next photo to take a closer look at each of these steps. Illustration: Chemical Separations by Bubble Assisted Interphase Mass-Transfer, David A. Boyd, James Adelman, David Goodwin, and Demetri Psaltis: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis spin coater is used to spread out the thin layer of gold nanoparticles on the glass slide. A drop of the gold solution is placed on the slide and the coater spins extremely fast. This spinning spreads the solution evenly and coats the slide with a nearly uniform 15-nanometer layer of gold. To get a controlled spacing of particles there needs to be a structure in place to hold them. To achieve this, scientists add a polymer to the gold solution. This polymer forms a uniform lattice to structure all the gold. But observant readers will notice there was no polymer in the previous diagram. Where does it go? Click to the next photo to find out. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is an oxygen etcher. Once the glass slide is covered with the polymer-and-gold solution, this etcher burns off the polymer, leaving just the gold behind. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is a sample slide covered with a matrix of gold nanoparticles. The purple streaks on the slide are the nanoparticles, visibly spreading out from the initial drop applied to the slide during the spin coating. For those readers expecting the entire slide to be purple, scientists actually need only a small portion of the slide to be covered uniformly by the gold, so these streaks will suffice. The particles have a unique property of rapidly dissipating heat, which is a key factor in how the still works. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn another part of the lab, the piece of silicone rubber is made. If you think back to the second image in this gallery, you'll recall that the silicone rubber encloses the fluid between itself and the glass slide. This piece of silicone is called the microfluidic chip because of the fluid channels carved into it. The machine pictured at left is called a mask aligner. It creates a mold for the microfluidic chip. It does this by exposing an image (in this case, the shape and design of the chip) to a photosensitive material. The unexposed portion of the material is discarded, and the shape of the mold is all that's left. It's similar to a photo enlarger, but instead of a two-dimensional image, a fully formed nano structure is made. The final mold is then used to create fluid channels in a piece of silicone rubber. This silicone rubber ends up being the microfluidic chip. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comHere, the silicone rubber chip is drilled to create ports for the nano still. These ports will be used to inject solutions for distillation and to extract the distilled liquid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comTiny plugs of silicone are the doughnut holes of the micro-fabrication world. Sadly, these plugs will remain uneaten.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comAfter fabrication of the microfluidic chip, we're ready to put it all together. The chip is glued to the gold-coated slide that we made earlier (pictured at center-left inside petri dish). Now we have a nano still, which has an electronic sensor attached for measuring the conductivity of the fluid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comSometimes science is messy. This workbench is covered with a collection of syringes and gold nanoparticle-coated glass slides. The syringes are used to inject fluids through the ports into the channels in the still, which we'll see in the next photo.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn this photo, blue "Smurf blood" food-grade dye is injected into the nano still through a syringe. The dye makes it easy to see when the liquid has been distilled. The distilled water will be clear and the remaining water will become darker due to the higher concentration of dye.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comA low-powered green diode laser shines down into the still. The laser is roughly the same strength as an off-the-shelf laser pointer. Very little energy is needed in the microdistilling process thanks to the heat-dissipating properties of the gold nanoparticles. Professor Boyd, the lead researcher on the project, reveals that this process was largely discovered by accident. "We had this problem with [an] air bubble, so we started hitting it with a laser. Instead of getting rid of it, we saw that we were actually causing the distillation process to occur, which was completely unexpected," Boyd explains.
See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com {...}
Published: September 5, 2008, 5:00 am - Indexed: September 7, 2008, 9:39 am - Page Size: 35KB
Category: News > Breaking News

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