Happy New Year 2012

#Happynewyear #2012. May this year be the end of anything bad in your life and the beginning of lots of good things coming your way.

Truly yours,

Bonlebon

Insanely #Funny #2012 New Year's #Ecards

Insanely #Funny #2012 New Year's #Ecards: The best way to wish a fruitful 2012.

Thanks, Internet: Out-of-Print Blade Runner Sketchbook Surfaces Online

Thanks, Internet: Out-of-Print #BladeRunner Sketchbook Surfaces Online: It pretty much goes without saying — but we’ll say it anyway — that Blade Runner is one of the most visually stunning sci-fi films ever made. There’s a reason for that: Every detail, from Rick Deckard’s gun to the parking meters, was painstakingly planned and executed.

The 25 Most Powerful Songs of the Past 25 Years

The 25 Most Powerful #Songs of the #Past #25 #Years: #music They’re not the most beautiful songs, or the most musically important. In fact, a few could literally drive you nuts. But the following tunes—some as old as Mozart, others as current as Beyoncé—have fundamentally altered the world we live in at some point in the last quarter century. They’ve saved lives, brought glory to America, and gotten teenagers to use deodorant. Somehow, they’ve made a difference. So, ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the ultimate power playlist. Let the countdown begin!

Collaborative Film 99% Documents Occupy Protests

Collaborative Film #99% Documents Occupy Protests: #OWS Most documentaries involve months of planning before the first frame of film is shot, but the creators of an in-the-works Occupy Wall Street documentary didn’t have that luxury. The protest movement was happening around them when they decided to make the film.

11 Who Died in 2011 (And Were Not Named Steve)

#11 Who #Died in #2011 (And Were Not Named #Steve): This article is not about Steve Jobs. He died this year -- yes, we all know that -- but gone too is Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of the Unix operating system that powers Apple's computers. Also departed are Jack Goldman, the man who came up with the idea to start Xerox PARC, where Jobs got his graphical user interface, Paul Baran, an important Internet pioneer who developed packet switching, and Nobutoshi Kihara, who was known as Sony's "Mr. Walkman," long before Jobs was flogging the iPod.

10 predictions for 2012

10 #predictions for #2012: The other day, I retrieved my crystal ball from the Pink family self-storage unit. Here’s what I glimpsed through the haze about the coming year.

Facial Motion Capture (Mocap) in blender 2.6 (modeling)

Facial Motion Capture (#Mocap) in #blender #2.6 (modeling): I show you how to do Facial Mocap in blender 2.6 latest trunk version.

Animators toolbox for 2D and audio

#Animators toolbox for #2D and #audio: #design Most of you know about Gimp, Inkscape and of course Blender. However animation also touches the area of 2D and of course sound design. I compiled a list of applications here for you ranging from 2D to audio. This also includes the growing amount of online web applications, which recently reach a professional level such as Audiotool.

Free MP3 Music United State of Pop 2011: World Go Boom

#FREE #MP3 United State of Pop 2011: #World Go #Boom: 2011 gave us songs of regret and anger, pride and perseverance, and lots of fire.
When someone’s taken everything from you, what do you do?

Best photos of the year 2011

#Best #photos of the year #2011 #NSFW: #journalism #photography #NSFW WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN GRAPHIC CONTENT OR NUDITY From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year. 100 PHOTOS

Creating a platformed in the Blender Game Engine

Creating a platformed in the #Blender #Game #Engine: #programming #design I have just finished a video tutorial series that explain how to create a simple but complete platformed in the blender game engine. The series is aimed at complete beginner and and has the goal to explain in great detail how everything is working so that you can use it as you want later.

So, You Got a Space Rocket But Nowhere To Launch It?

So, You Got a #Space #Rocket But Nowhere To #Launch It?: #invention So, you want to build a space rocket or maybe you already have? Unless you represent a government agency, have access to Californian deserts or Siberia you might soon realize you have a problem. The problem faced by everyone building rockets.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

#merrychristmas #muppets #joy

The next frigging thing in transportation: The Hoverbike

The next frigging thing in transportation: The #Hoverbike: #cool #invention #wow #bike An Australian chap named Chris Malloy has built a hoverbike from motorbike parts, which he claims can fly at 173mph at an altitude of 3,000 metres.

The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011

The 45 Most Powerful #Images Of #2011: #photos #impact #photography What a year! Here's to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive year.

Q&A: How Does A Pixar Short Film Get Made?

Q&A: How Does A #Pixar #Short #Film Get Made?: #movie #cgi #3d Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about how Pixar develops and produces their feature animated films, but we’ve learned very little about how the beloved short films get created. So I decided it was time we find out. I shot a message over to Enrico Casarosa, the director of Pixar’s next short film La Luna, who was happy to shed some light on the process. “How Does A Pixar Short Film Get Made?” Find out, after the jump.

And the best 2011 Youtube street musician video is...

And the best 2011 Youtube street musician video is...: An amazing one-man-band street performer in Rijeka, Croatia called Cigo Man Band.

Incredibly Animated Target Dreaming Girl Commercial

Incredibly Animated Target #Dreaming #Girl Commercial: #animation #stopmotion An ad for Target Australia.

Most Popular Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks of 2011

Most Popular #Photography #Tips, #Tricks, and #Hacks of #2011: This was a great year for all things photography, with posts to help you behind the camera, in front of it, when you're shooting, and when you're editing. Here's a look back at our most popular photography tips, tricks, and hacks of 2011.

A DIY UAV That Hacks Wi-Fi Networks, Cracks Passwords, and Poses as a Cell Phone Tower

A #DIY UAV That #Hacks #Wi-Fi Networks, #Cracks #Passwords, and Poses as a #Cell Phone Tower: Last year at the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas, a former Air Force cyber security contractor and a former Air Force engineering systems consultant displayed their 14-pound, six-foot-long unmanned aerial vehicle, WASP (Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform). Last year it was a work in progress, but next week when they unveil an updated WASP they’ll be showing off a functioning homemade spy drone that can sniff out Wi-Fi networks, autonomously crack passwords, and even eavesdrop on your cell phone calls by posing as a cell tower.

Video depicts stunning Titanic recreation in CryEngine 3

#Video depicts stunning #Titanic recreation in CryEngine 3: #cgi #engine #3d The latest video in a project-related series from "ORM Entertainment" depicts the famous Titanic ship interior, as rendered in CryEngine 3. Suffice it to say, the results are stunning.

Insane Downhill Mountain Biking in the Slums

DANNY STAY ON YER BIKE!!!!! in the Slums #mountain #bike #Danny!!! watch out for #yer efing dooog!!!

DIY spray paint

#DIY #spray #paint: #graffiti #art Making your own custom spray paint is easy and produces some interesting results. Maybe they don't sell the exact colour you're looking for, or you just want to a use for all those old almost-empty cans of paint you have hidden in your garage. Time to put them to good use and make your own spray paint!

A map of every extraterrestrial space mission

A map of every #extraterrestrial space mission: #NASA is all set to launch Curiosity, the most advanced (and expensive) Mars rover to date, on Saturday. Curiosity will land in Gale Crater, on the surface of Mars, to investigate a three-mile-high (5km) mountain with its impressive array of drills, lasers, scoops, and other scientific tools for signs of life.

Teenage Honduran builds open source eye-tracking computer interface for the disabled

Teenage #Honduran builds open source eye-tracking #computer interface for the #disabled: #invention #innovation This unique and worthwhile project was put together by a 17-year-old electronics and programming whiz from Honduras, of all places. The Eyeboard system is a low-tech eyeball-tracking device that allows users with motor disabilities to enter text into a computer using eye gestures instead of a physical interface. This kind of system is not unique - there's plenty of eye tracking interfaces out there - but Luis Cruz has figured out a way to build the full system into a set of glasses for less than US$300, putting easier communication within reach of users in developing countries. He's also releasing the software as open source to speed up development. Personally, I spent my year as a 17-year-old in a series of heroic failures trying to impress girls with my air guitar.

How to disappear completely

How to #disappear completely : #paranoia #bigbrother It seems you can't move in today's world without leaving a digital footprint. The good news is that escaping the panopticon doesn't have to mean living in a cave in Tora Bora. Frank Ahearn, a former skip-tracer and the author of How To Disappear, reveals how to pull off the ultimate vanishing act.

Your Favorite Websites' Office Art

Your Favorite Websites' Office #Art: #design #creativity Because you love looking around other companies' offices, especially at all the stunning and weird artwork.

Looting gone social

Looting gone social: Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”

The Muppets are back, but where have they been?

The #Muppets are back, but where have they been?: #movies In honour of the release of The Muppets, and the conclusion of our Tournament of Muppets, Steve Murray takes a look at what Jim Henson’s crew of furry creatures have been up to since the release of the last Muppets film 12 years. They’ve been busy! Click through to enlarge the above image.

A way to watch porn at the office ;)

A way to #watch #porn at the office ;): #DIY #cool #NSFW Finally you can do something with that old LCD monitor you have in the garage.
You can turn it into a privacy monitor! It looks all white to everybody except you, because you are wearing "magic" glasses!

Where are they now? Vancouver riot Kissing Couple

Where are they now? The #Vancouver #riot Kissing Couple: #YVR #canada Today, Jones and Thomas share a flat in Melbourne, having relocated there during the summer. "We had always planned to move," he said. "The picture was taken about three days before we planned to leave Vancouver. We were going to holiday in California for three weeks and then leave for Australia."