its time to return home.
we have come a long way!!
from sticks and stones to
Bots & clones.
At the core of NASA’s future space exploration is a return to the moon, where we will build a sustainable long term human presence.
As the space shuttle approaches retirement and the International Space Station nears completion, NASA is building the next fleet of vehicles to bring astronauts back to the moon, and possibly to Mars and beyond.
THE HOOD IS JUICED ABOUT THIS ONE.
RZA MAKING ALL THE BEATS IT SHOULD A FUN PLAY.
SPACE TOY!!!
Artists have long been pioneers whose initially kooky-seeming notions later become mainstream; without them we’d probably not have loft living, for instance.
Now a handful of musicians are pioneering the adoption of touchscreen interfaces to execute something more complicated than ATM transactions: Light shows coordinated with music mixes. As digital piracy cuts into CD sales, live concerts have increased in importance for big-ticket musicians. And in an era of overstimulation, a stage and a mic just don’t cut it anymore.
Enter the JazzMutant Lemur, a Star-Trek-like device that looks as if it was designed at MIT’s Media Lab. The multitouch device controls sequencers, synthesizers, virtual instruments, and lights, giving musicians an absurd amount of control in the form of a little rectangle.
Takashi Murakami
Coming off an impressive showing at Germany’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, Takashi Murakami prepares for a pit stop at the Gagosian Gallery in the UK before the final showing of his retrospective tour at the renown Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. While the Gagosian show will run concurrent to the Guggenheim exhibition, it will open a week earlier on February 10th, 2009. For the meantime, we get a preview of a piece from the upcoming show featuring Takashi’s “Time Bokan” with an original camouflage backing, much like the wallpaper featured at last years Brooklyn showing.
Gagosian Gallery
ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW I CANT’S WAIT!!
BUT THEY WILL STEEL BUY FAPE!!
FUCKING SUCKERS HAHAH!!
After limiting their product primarily to the overseas market and select locations within the US, Bape looks to open their online store very soon. Offering up their limited edition goods and hard-to-find garments, the Japanese streetwear brand opens up their availability extensively. The only question remains whether the store is set-up for worldwide distribution or will remain strictly for the Japanese market. Stay tuned.
THE MAN CAN EVEN TAKE ON VADER!!
THE THE RIGHT WING DONT STAND A CHANCE
THE DEEPSPACE: Disruption-Tolerant Networking,
WOW THIS IS IT !!!
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers (20 million miles) from Earth.
“This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet,” said Adrian Hooke, team lead and manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
NASA and Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google, Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., partnered 10 years ago to develop this software protocol. The DTN sends information using a method that differs from the normal Internet’s Transmission-Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP communication suite, which Cerf co-designed.
The Interplanetary Internet must be robust enough to withstand delays, disruptions and disconnections in space. Glitches can happen when a spacecraft moves behind a planet, or when solar storms and long communication delays occur. The delay in sending or receiving data from Mars takes between three-and-a-half to 20 minutes at the speed of light.
Unlike TCP/IP on Earth, the DTN does not assume a continuous end-to-end connection. In its design, if a destination path can’t be found, the data packets are not discarded. Instead, each network node keeps custody of the information as long as necessary until it can safely communicate with another node. This store-and-forward method, similar to basketball players safely passing the ball to the player nearest the basket, means that information does not get lost when no immediate path to the destination exists. Eventually, the information is delivered to the end user.
“In space today, an operations team has to manually schedule each link and generate all the commands to specify which data to send, when to send it, and where to send it,” said Leigh Torgerson, manager of the DTN Experiment Operations Center at JPL. “With standardized DTN, this can all be done automatically.”
Engineers began a month-long series of DTN demonstrations in October. Data were transmitted using NASA’s Deep Space Network in demonstrations occurring twice a week. Engineers use NASA’s Epoxi spacecraft as a Mars data-relay orbiter. Epoxi is on a mission to encounter Comet Hartley 2 in two years.
“There are 10 nodes on this early interplanetary network,” said Scott Burleigh of JPL, lead software-engineer for the demonstrations. “One is the Epoxi spacecraft itself and the other nine, which are on the ground at JPL, simulate Mars landers, orbiters and ground mission-operations centers.”
This month-long experiment is the first in a series of planned demonstrations to qualify the technology for use on a variety of upcoming space missions, said Jay Wyatt, manager of the Space Networking and Mission Automation Program Office at JPL. In the next round of testing, a NASA-wide demonstration using new DTN software loaded on board the International Space Station is scheduled to begin next summer.
In the next few years, the Interplanetary Internet could enable many new types of space missions. Complex missions involving multiple landed, mobile and orbiting spacecraft will be far easier to support through the use of the Interplanetary Internet. It could also ensure reliable communications for astronauts on the surface of the moon.
The Deep Impact Networking Experiment is sponsored by the Space Communications and Navigation Office in NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate in Washington. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and Discovery Program in Washington provided experimental access to the Epoxi spacecraft. The Epoxi mission team provided critical support throughout development and operations.
My SPOON’S too big! Seen this on youtube? It’s HEElarious, so much so that I googled it. This awesome short is Don Hertzfeldt’s first self-made flick out of college. And, born in Fremont, dude is a Bay Area born himself.
The short “Rejected” was actually nominated for an Oscar, and is now a youtube classic, which pretty much means you’re a G.
From his obviously self-written Wikipedia:
“Hertzfeldt is an artist with anti-corporate leanings and in appearances has often told the humorous story of how he was tempted to produce the worst possible cartoons he could come up with for the companies, make off with their money, and see if they would actually make it to air. Eventually this became the germ for Rejected’s theme of a collection of cartoons so bad they were rejected by advertising agencies, leading to their creator’s breakdown.”
“REJECTED” By Don Hertzfeldt
DACCA BOOTS
…green fashion done not-so-cheesy. check these fly-ass recycled plastic boots from a Chilean industrial design student, Camila Labra…
only $45 a pair
These boots are the work of Chilean industrial design student Camila Labra, and made mostly of recycled plastic bags. The boots are built by fusing layers of plastic polyethylene bags together to create a thicker and more resistant material to work with. Their interior is covered with quilted piqué cotton fabric to make them more comfortable and prevent overheating. According to the designer, the boots are impermeable, flexible, light and non toxic.
The line of boots is named Dacca (aka Dhaka) after Bangladesh’s capital, one of the most polluted with plastic bags in the world (the bags were banned in the city in 2002).
Made after special orders, the boots are sold for 22,000 Chilean Pesos (45 USD).
http://botasdacca.blogspot.com/
camilalabra@gmail.com
G4 IS A MAN’S BEST FRIEND
iLL-LITERACY’s BLOG EMPIRE @ iLL-Literacy.com
iLL highlights at iLL-Literacy.com
speaking of blogs….
Adriel Luis and the Oakland-based spoken word crew iLL-Literacy has mastered the art of alternative media promotion through the blogosphere.
As a crew, iLL-Literacy’s been tearing up the national collegiate network – touring campuses and community events from the Bay to NY to, probably, all of Middle America. Coming up as a performance group at the same time hiphop-inspired spoken word really hit media attention, iLL-Literacy’s kept it fresh – promoting local Bay/Oakland/Cali love through undeniably dope lyrics and a genius promotions campaign. Like I said, blog gurus. Not only does iLL-Literacy.com provide you with dope updates out of the artistic, progressive minds of the crew – but just choose your own adventure after that stop to visit any of the other SIX active blogs linked to the crew.
So show some love for iLL-Literacy.com and, to cut corners, here’s a list of all of their blogs for ya:
ONCE AGIN KILLING THE FASHION GAME
MAKING HIS OWN HAND BAGS FOR MEN!!!
Skateboard P is alive! Spotted in the Bape Sponge Bob Crocs and his signature Hermes Bag, Dopeness as usual.
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