AUGUSTE RODIN

A look at the works of Auguste Rodin.

100 years of special effects on Film...

You may want to turn your speakers down a bit.... bad choice of music.

ZBRUSH 3.5

'Where the Wild Things Are' Theatrical Trailer

Radiohead - Saitama 2008 [TV Broadcast]

SACRED GEOMETRY

Metatron's Cube ~ Now there's a google search for you! 

From artist Charles Gilchrist's YouTube page:http://www.youtube.com/user/CGimaging 

    

....but beware the Fairies

Ron Mueck Video

Self Portrait?

Digging through my old books  I came across an old favourite. The Evolution and Ecology of the Dinosaurs. L B Halstead. 1975. Illustrated by Giovanni Caselli.

Buried within remains what must be the earliest artwork of that mine that exists. I have vague memories of drawing them and I know they were all drawn on separate occasions. The pencil figure in the top window is the earliest of them all, I have an impression that they both represent myself. So this is my first Self Portrait, from about the age of 4 or 5, I guess... 

 the next guy must be a Cave Man...

 I Hunt Big Chicken!

Posting this I remembered a funny story...

One day at First School, around six years old, we had to take a book in one day. On the day everyone had their books such as The Mr Men, Rupert the Bear, Peter & Jane, The Big Red Rock Eater... 

I had struggled to choose a book so had loaded four books into my bag. Two Encyclopedias on Animals and Two on Dinosaurs.

I learned a lesson that day when I had to struggle home from school with bag full of massive books.

:)

3D Printing allows parents to hold a life-size model of their unborn child

From: 

DAILY MAIL REPORTER 2:12 PM on 26th June 2009

It's a defining moment in a parent's life: Seeing their unborn child's image on an ultrasound for the first time. Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a life-size model of their unborn baby.

The startling new medical technology is the result of a Royal College of Art design student's PhD.

Your baby at 12 weeks old: A life-size model of a foetus created using imaging from an ultrasound scan

A 32-week-old foetus is modelled from scanned images

Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has pioneered the conversion of data from ultrasound and MRI scans into life-size plaster models of living embryos using a method called rapid prototyping.

'It’s amazing to see the faces of the mothers. They can see the full scale of their baby, really understand the size of it,' said Dr Lopes.

'The technology can be also be used as an emotional tool for parents whose foetus might be deformed or need treatment,' added Hilary French, who heads the School of Architecture and Design Products.

A good way of understanding how rapid protoyping works is to imagine a printer that prints plastic powder instead of ink.

Then as it prints layer up layer it slowly builds up a 3D model.

Aine Duffy from the RCA said: 'It's stunning technology - here at the RCA we use it for everything from newmedical devices, to car components, to jewellery, to architectural models.'

A foetus at 21 weeks

And a foetus at 18 weeks

Dr Lopes' workwill be displayed at an exhibition opening at the RCA in London today. The technology is currently being trialled at a clinic in Rio de Janeiro.

His supervisor, King's College head of obstetrics Stuart Campbell, called the invention 'absolutely unique' and 'a fantastic development'.

Professor Campbell, who pioneered the use of ultrasound in the 1980s, also hoped the technology would help mothers - blind mothers in particular - to bond with their babies.

'I don’t know whether I am looking at science or I am looking at art', commented an external examiner reviewing the student's PhD viva.

Dr Lopes also modelled conjoined twins, above, and separated twins, below, from a CT scan and MRI

Dr Lopes, who is sponsored at the college by the Brazilian government, had begun his research by looking at how model-making had been used in practical ways over the centuries, Ms French said.

He started with mummies, then moved on to dinosaurs, then foetuses - leaving friends joking he had gone from 'mummies to mummys'.

His work uses the latest computer techniques first exhibited by Ron Arad at an exhibition at the V&A at the turn of the century entitled Not Made By Hand, Not Made in China.

Arad, one of the most famous designers in the world and the head of design products at the RCA, called Dr Lopes' work a 'ground-breaking new field of world importance'.

Gentle Giant ZBrush Rapid Prototyping

I post this video again as the old link is dead and I love what the guys at Gentle Giant are doing...