GRK BLOG/ZINE

Beautiful panoramic pictures from the German ‘Luftfahrt Museum’ in Hannover.

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The Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file.

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Earlier this week Google released Google Earth 5.0 with a new ocean-centric upgrade. With Ocean in Google Earth you can dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

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Ever heard of these words?

blandiloquent = beautiful and flattering
umbrageous = shady
mellifluous = sweet-sounding
inspissate = to thicken
pelagic = related to the sea or ocean

The alphaDictionary says they are some of the 100 most beautiful words in English.

The game drawing by Artgerm(deviant art). Check out see Chun Li pics!

Tilt-shift miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model.

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geek: a person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who pursues skill and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.

gang signs: hand signs used by gang members to identify their membership.

Geek Gang Signs.

A company (vashprint.ru) at Russia is offering this Photoshop shirt, it shows a “paint bucket tool” at the center, filled the shirt up with the “background color” on the palette. No pricing announced. This shirt will definitely suit on designers.

[via Yaplakal]

Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City. There are now thousands of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied.

Just fly to ‘New York City’ and turn on the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. Tilt your view so you can see the buildings in all their glory.

Here’s something you could wait for. And it didn’t take long. Get your shoes ready and play Sock and Awe.

Someone with a lot of time on their hands made a Top 2000 of music videos.

It’s done by someone from my country so there may be some Dutch artists in there with songs that you may have never heard of but most of the other ones are probably familiar.

The 2008 crash is probably the most serious economic crisis we have faced after the Great Depression. Stock markets from around the world fell as much as 20% in a single week, dozens of banks either failed or were rescued by government and private institutions, and companies started laying off employees as a consequence of the reduced demand.

One day, better times will be here again but until then, cheer up a little by looking at some company logos… after the crisis.

Stop motion photography is a form of animation and allows otherwise lifeless objects to move and change.

Here are some examples of stop motion photography.

A collection of titles shown at the end of movies.

Take the How Dangerous Of A Driver Are You? test and find out whether you’re a safe driver or people have to flee for their lives.

Some really nice graphic work by Markus Hofko.

The music tools made by Roland back in the days have been remade by Hobnox to create a kind of online Reason.

Go make some beautiful music at HobNox Audiotool

Colorful and isometric graphics are part of the brief but very strong Behance’s portfolio of russian illustrator and designer Alexandre Efimov. The freshness of his work speaks by itself.

Today the Motorola Hint QA30 is official announced. It is the Motorola’s new Motorola QWERTY slider
design cellphone, it features includes 2.5″ 320 x 240 screen, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, microSD support up to 8GB. Its slider design reveals a full QWERTY keypad when open, Cool! Motorola Hint QA30 will be available in Q4 2008. It will support CDMA calling and EVDO data. [ link ]

The sight of a dragonfly on the wing is one of the more remarkable that nature has to offer. Here, with the help of some astounding macrophotography, we take a look at the life cycle of the dragonfly as well as its remarkable and unusual physiology.