Month: September 2006

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team ~ that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.
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We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

The still life on the cover of this week’s issue of Science is not a photograph but a computer-generated rendering of five famous mathematical surfaces. The result, created by Richard Palais of the University of California, Irvine, and graphic artist Luc Benard, is a virtuoso display of modern computer-graphics technology. (Notice how the glassy surfaces are reflected in one another and in the glass-covered, wood-grained tabletop.)

The image is the first-place winner in the illustration category of the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

The links on this page will take you to articles describing the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, as well as an online slide presentation that showcases the competition’s winners and honorable mentions.

The ‘Forfun‘ has the body of a normal Smart Fortwo mounted on an all-terrain Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406 series.

I can see myself driving to work in this.

via bog-brush

SkyCeilings are photographic illusions of real skies that fit into standard ceiling grid systems. Luminous SkyCeilings feature fluorescent or LED lighting that illuminate the translucent images from behind.

This is a project i did for illustration class.

Its not a game, its a toy. What i mean is there is no goals to achive and there is no score.

Try jumping without crashing, then advance to extreme jumps. (Warning: Potty language in last link)

A monumental feat will become reality in 2006 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Never before has an attempt been made of such magnitude, but Paco will be the first to push the envelope and take graffiti art to a higher power.

This summer Paco will be the first artist in the world to bring the Sistine Chapel to the Cedar Valley — all in spray paint.

Recent visitors, Rosic said, included art teachers from Minneapolis and an employee from the New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa.

Aerospace engineering is the merging of two interrelated disciplines, aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Aeronautical engineering works specifically with aircraft or aeronautics. Astronautical engineering works specifically with spacecraft or astronautics. At the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, you will have the opportunity to learn about both as well as the closely related fields of earth observation and wind energy.

Aerospace engineering is one of the most widely applicable engineering disciplines. Its future development promises to be as challenging and exciting as its history. In a little more than a century, aerospace engineering technology has grown from the Wright brothers’ first flight to the complexities of manned and unmanned space travel.

Aerospace Engineering students from ISU can also study in Delft, the Netherlands.

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