The new fashion of very tall and very thin buildings in New York The new materials allow breaking the proportions of height / width / depth, making possible buildings that would be impossible before. Modern techniques of movement compensation (mass dampers), and more rigid materials, have achieved that the last floor of these buildings does not make you dizzy more than a boat with storm surge.
The model with golden legs After surviving toxic shock syndrome and the loss of both legs, Lauren Wasser talks rediscovering her style and finding new ways to engage with fashion.
Πως ένας ψεύτικος σχεδιαστής μόδας μπήκε στο Paris Fashion Week Ο Oobah Butler από το διαδικτυακό περιοδικό VICE, ανακαλύπτει την μάρκα φθηνών ρούχων Georgio Peviani στις λαϊκές αγορές του Λονδίνου. Με σκοπό να μπει στην επίδειξη μόδας Paris Fashion Week, μεταμορφώνεται σε Georgio Peviani και προσποιείται πως είναι ένας εκκεντρικός σχεδιαστής μόδας.
Take a bath with a crocodile Occurred on February 25, 2018 / Northern Territory, Australia I went for a bath and in true Aussie fashion I took my pet crocodile Swampy in with me.I was a little concerned he might attempt to chomp on my tackle but he seemed quite content where he was, even with my terrible singing.
Meet the Runway Model with One of the World’s Most Advanced Prosthetic Limbs | Mashable Docs Rebekah Marine, a New Jersey-based congenital amputee, almost gave up on her dream of becoming a fashion model when a casting director told her she would never make it. But she didn't let that stop her. In recent years, she has strutted down some of the fashion industry's most exclusive runways, all while modeling one of the most advanced bionic arms on the market.
Kino: Kinetic, “living” jewelry for dynamic fashion This work explores a dynamic future where the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the body. Engineered with the functionality of miniaturized robotics, this "living" jewelry roams on unmodified clothing, changing location and reconfiguring appearance according to social context and enabling multitude presentations of self. With the addition of sensor devices, they transition into active devices which can react to environmental conditions. They can also be paired with existing mobile devices to become personalized on-body assistants to help complete tasks. Attached to garments, they generate shape-changing clothing and kinetic pattern designs–creating a new, dynamic fashion.
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control We present a real-time character control mechanism using a novel neural network architecture called a Phase-Functioned Neural Network. In this network structure, the weights are computed via a cyclic function which uses the phase as an input. Along with the phase, our system takes as input user controls, the previous state of the character, the geometry of the scene, and automatically produces high quality motions that achieve the desired user control. The entire network is trained in an end-to-end fashion on a large dataset composed of locomotion such as walking, running, jumping, and climbing movements fitted into virtual environments. Our system can therefore automatically produce motions where the character adapts to different geometric environments such as walking and running over rough terrain, climbing over large rocks, jumping over obstacles, and crouching under low ceilings. Our network architecture produces higher quality results than time-series autoregressive models such as LSTMs as it deals explicitly with the latent variable of motion relating to the phase. Once trained, our system is also extremely fast and compact, requiring only milliseconds of execution time and a few megabytes of memory, even when trained on gigabytes of motion data. Our work is most appropriate for controlling characters in interactive scenes such as computer games and virtual reality systems.
Making a Guitar | Handcrafted Woodworking | Où se trouve: Greenfield Guitars Meet Michael Greenfield, a musician who began tuning, repairing, restoring, and making guitars in the 70s and since then has become a seasoned luthier of bespoke guitars. Having experience with vintage and antique guitar repair and restoration, he brings a unique insight to his craft, creating personalized musical instruments and functional works of art for artists, collectors and those who deserve the very best. His workshop is based in Montreal, where we visited over a period of 5 months, filming as he and his apprentice, Julien, transformed slices of spruce, ebony, mahogany, and other tree species into glistening guitars. It was all of our collective vision to present the process in the most candid, down-to-earth fashion, so in this hour-long documentary you will see all the glue, smudges, shavings, dust, and callouses. His guitars feature Florentine cutaways with spalted beech rosettes, violin-style body purflings and simple decorative purflings along edges, Laskin style arm rests and rib rests, amongst other features. This documentary follows several different steel-string guitars from beginning to finish. As Michael puts it, the guitar still thinks it’s a tree until it receives its first set of strings and that is when the instrument is born. After many months of work, the magical moment when we hear a guitar’s first notes is like hearing a child’s first words.