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Facial additions

Do fake stashes make my job tolerable? Almost.

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Digital imaging? Book arts? Combined??? WHAAA??? Perfect@!!!!

From BoingBoing today:

New method to date old books and prints

A scientist has come up with a new way to date books and prints created before the mid-19th century. The idea is that the wood blocks and metal plates used in the printing process degrade at a clocklike rate. That degeneration is visible in the prints themselves. The researcher who developed the idea, Penn State professor Blair Hedges, is a biologist but it was his passion for printed material that led him to this latest research. From Penn State Live:

Hedges, a biologist whose hobby involves Renaissance prints and maps, developed his "print clock" method by first measuring time-related changes in 2,674 Renaissance works. He found that the number of breaks in the lines of images printed from woodblock carvings increased over time, while the image intensity became more pale in copperplate prints. "Because woodblocks and copperplates were expensive to replace, they commonly were reused for decades to produce multiple editions of a book or print," Hedges said. His methods include taking digital photographs of the prints, which he analyzes with standard statistical methods and with widely used image-analysis software. Working with black-and-white pixels, the software can detect and count breaks in the lines of woodblock prints and can measure fading of the etched and engraved lines of copperplate prints.

The analyses reinforced the visible evidence that prints made from the same woodblock or copperplate were qualitatively different in later editions. Surprisingly, the analyses also revealed that the changes were usually clocklike on average, and therefore could be useful for calculating the printing dates of other art and books that currently are undated.

Step 1: Find contact info
Step 2: Confirm methodology
Step 3: Offer to help and find profit margin, wonderful!
Step 4: Retire to Canada. (suggested only)

More nonsense:

Leisure time should be spent leisurely. Another new favorite wasteland:

Strange New Products

Enjoy!

My Life of Travel - Travel Journals, Travel Blogs, Travel Reviews, Travel Photos
I wish I know about this site before we went to New Orleans. This is a pretty cool resource. They even have RSS feeds for people so you can keep up to date with their trip!

It is with great pride that I announce that the official launch of the PhillysideArts.com website will be this week! The website will officially be live so that you may go, explore and enjoy.

A great deal of effort has been put into the website by each individual artist, organization and our web programmer. Please feel free to use their contact information provided on the website to give them feedback about their art.

Information about our first contest will be provided soon, but in the meantime, let’s all get together and celebrate! The Phillyside Arts Launch Party will be held Saturday, June 24^th starting at 6pm with the inaugural presentation at 7pm. Come join us on the 1100 block of South Bodine in South Philly. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided, and we will also be setting up a display area for our contributing artists to bring and display their art! (If you are a contributing artist, please contact me in advance if you want to display your art. A follow-up email to artists will follow.)

Thank you to everyone who has helped bring Phillyside to life. Remember, there is no limit to talent, only the time and resources used to develop it.

C. Todd Hestand
Phillyside Arts
215.850.7881

Phillyside Arts Launch Party location:
1114 S Bodine St
Philadelphia PA 19147
6pm – 11pm

Daisy!

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ScienCentral Video News: Super Battery
I always thought that technology will be held back by batteries. It seems that someone has solved that with capacitor based batteris. Ingenious! And they charge in seconds. Read the article.
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