Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Sneakerfiends, graphic designers, photographers and money grubbers should all check out Format Magazine’s Sneaker Wallpaper Contest 2 for a chance to with the upcoming Puma x Yo! MTV Raps shoes, as well as exposing your art to the world.
Wallpapers can be submitted in any media, but they must relate to sneaker culture.
Hurry though, because you only have until April 31.
Here Comes Another Bubble was a fantastically viral video about the Web 2.0 bubble that was taken down recently by a San Francisco photographer’s DMCA take-down notice over her ’stolen’ image.
Thankfully, that photographer’s photo has been removed, and the video is back as v1.1:
Unfortunately for The Richter Scales, the group behind the video, their 15 minutes hasn’t exactly been profitable:
I guess DMCA notices don’t necessarily need to be correlated to lost compensation!
[The Richter Scales - Announcing "Bubble" Version 1.1]
[Via: TechCrunch]
Ever wonder how good photographers take great portraits?
There has to be a trick, right?
Well, according to Eric Hamilton, there’s actually a few tricks, and thankfully, he’s nice enough to let you in on some of them in his guide to The Art of Portrait Photography.
Rule number one is proper use of light, though he also mentions subject, focus, background, composition, texture, color, and exposure, with examples of each.
Ready to take your photos up a notch?
Then read on and find out what you need to do.
PopSci staff photographer John Carnett may be the greatest inventor of all time. What he’s created, and what you see here is the world’s first All-In-One Beer Making Machine. Called simply ‘The Machine’, it features a stainless-steel two-cart brewing system that starts with wort, or pre-fermented beer, and ends with a perfect, chilled pint.
Concentrated wort extract goes into the boil keg along with water and hops. A propane burner heats the mix for about 90 minutes.
After the boil, the wort moves through a heat exchanger, cooling it to between 53ºF and 63ºF before it reaches the fermenting tank.
An electronic controller monitors the temperature inside the fermenting keg; When it needs cooling, a pump circulates water through a nest of copper tubing sitting on a cold plate—chilled by Freon in its interior—and wrapped around the keg.
After 10 to 15 days, depending on the brew, the wort becomes beer. Carnett swaps hoses and turns a valve to move the beer to one of two settling kegs, where the CO2 tank adds carbonation and debris falls to the bottom.
Finally, the beer moves into one of two serving kegs. Pull the tap, and the beer travels through the cold plate, so it’s chilled on the way to your glass, eliminating the need for constant cooling and ensuring a frosty brew anytime.
The next step? Add a third cart to make wort from raw grain instead of extract, though he’s got a lot of ‘testing’ to do before taking on that monumental step.
[PopSci - The Ultimate All-In-One Beer Brewing Machine]
[Via: Uber-Review]
