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Space Invaders Wallpaper

March 3rd, 2013 | Robot, Space

Space Invaders Wallpaper

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In 1978, Space Invaders ushered in the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Shortly after its release, you could find coin-operated machines pretty much everywhere — grocery stores, restaurants, bars, movie theaters. But in the smart phone era, there isn’t much room for this type of gaming.
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You can easily pull up Angry Birds, Temple Run, and even Space Invaders on your phone and play them instantly, for free.

So I guess acting on a bit of nostalgia for gaming of the past, I decided to create this replica of the original Space Invaders Arcade Cabinet. I attempted to keep the design as close as possible to the 1978 U.S. release.

Here’s a summary of the gameplay in case you’re not familiar:

“Space Invaders is a two-dimensional fixed shooter game in which the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at descending aliens. The aim is to defeat five rows of eleven aliens—some versions feature different numbers—that move horizontally back and forth across the screen as they advance towards the bottom of the screen.
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The player defeats an alien, and earns points, by shooting it with the laser cannon.
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As more aliens are defeated, the aliens’ movement and the game’s music both speed up. Defeating the aliens brings another wave that is more difficult, a loop which can continue indefinitely.”

Space Invaders was recently chosen by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as one of 40 that the curators wished to add to the museum’s collection in the future. This has sparked some debate about whether video games are actually art, and Paola Antonelli, senior curator for the museum’s department of architecture and design, was quoted on the subject:

“Frankly, I am not interested at all in the discussion about video games or even chairs being art. I find design one of the highest form of human creative expression and when something has great design that is more than enough.”

I agree with her.

-RSB

NYC Tunnels

February 21st, 2013 | Space

Alien Caverns run deep beneath New York City somewhere near Grand Central Station and Park Avenue. Patrick Cashin of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently captured the NYC Tunnels in the harrowing photographs seen here.

Do they look somewhat familiar?
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Here’s a screenshot from Prometheus:

The NYC Tunnel project was first started back in 2006 but it won’t be completed until 2019.

“The tunnels extend from Sunnyside, Queens, to Grand Central, routing 24 trains per hour at peak capacity. That’s an amazing 162,000 passenger trips to and from Grand Central per day. These images by New Yorks’ Metropolitan Transportation Authority show the progress as of February 12, 2013.”

“Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.

This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
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“This photo shows work on tunnels leading into caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.”

I can’t imagine what it would be like to work in this environment on a daily basis.

Find more from the Flickr site.

-RSB

[via Gizmodo]

The Sun from Alan Friedman

February 19th, 2013 | Space

“A hibernation project… a warm weather sun set aside to work on during the cold, sunless days of January. Captured June 10, 2012, completed today.
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“Not a mouse, of course, but a mammoth solar filament stretched across the sun today. Filaments are prominences from a different point of view… gigantic splashes of hydrogen plasma seen in front of the disk of the sun rather than against the background of space.”

“The sun is quiet in late August… perhaps on vacation, like everyone else”

Alan Friedman is responsible for these incredible High-Definition photographs of the Sun. He shoots the images from his backyard in downtown Buffalo with a setup that looks like this:

Of course, no images of the sun come out of the camera with such dazzling precision and color. Alan performs days of post-processing to give the photographs the finished look.
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You can read more about the process at his blog.

-RSB

[via Visual News]

Earth’s Brain from Hector Garrido

February 7th, 2013 | Brain, Space

El árbol de agua (The Water Tree)

Animal durmiente (Animal Sleeping)

Bifurcaciones (Bifurcations)

Caminos de agua (Water Ways)

$Cementerio fractal$

Cementerio fractal (Fractal Cemetery)

El laberinto del Minotauro (The Minotaur’s Labyrinth)

Huellas de gigante (Giant Footprints)

Isla arbolada (Wooded Island)

Río doble (Twin River)

Sopetón (Abruptly)

“Our world should be called Water not Earth” – Hector Garrido

As we continue our exploration for water on Mars, I thought it would be nice to share Spanish photographer Hector Garrido’s aerial photographs of the effects of water on Earth. Most planetary scientists make the claim that liquid water is a necessary component for the creation of life as we know it. The biochemical reactions that sustain life need a fluid to work, so even ice and water vapor won’t do the trick. In a liquid, molecules can dissolve and necessary chemical reactions can occur. It is for this reason that NASA searches the vastness of space for evidence of liquid water.

And in regards to these images, Hector Garrido has done an exceptional job capturing the beauty from above. Oscar Wilde famously wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” The carved out soil from these photographs looks eerily similar to the sulci and gyri of the human brain. It’s fascinating to see biological patterns mirrored at different levels of life.

For more from Hector Garrido, check out his website.

-RSB

And I ♥ Space Jam

January 26th, 2013 | Space

‘…but what if there really were two paths, I want to be on the one that leads to awesome.”

-RSB

“The Land of Giants” – Power Line Design

January 25th, 2013 | Robot, Space

I recommend you listen to Sigur Rós while reading this post. Ok, please continue.

“The Land of Giants” is a concept from architecture & design firm Choi+Shine. It was proposed back in 2008 to grace the pristine Icelandic countryside, but unfortunately, the structures were never built. Iceland is on the top of my list for future eco-travel destinations. It’s an untouched land of hot springs, spurting geysers, glaciers and waterfalls, and these giant structures would be the perfect complement to the ghostly landscape which has been featured in movies such as Prometheus.

From the architects:

“Like the statues of Easter Island, it is envisioned that these one hundred and fifty foot tall, modern caryatids will take on a quiet authority, belonging to their landscape yet serving the people, silently transporting electricity across all terrain, day and night, sunshine or snow.”

I was amazed to find out that this design didn’t even win the competition… My only guess is that the judges were not ready for such a bold concept. But the time is now!