Posts Tagged ‘3d’
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Well, here it is, coming to a drug deal near you, the new $100 bill for 2013 and beyond.
You see, those North Koreans think it’s funny to counterfeit our money and this is the response from the U.S. Treasury.
All right, via NewMoney.gov, from the front:
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Now, see it lit up from the back:
Here’s it lit with ultraviolet light:
And here it is from the back:
“April 24, 2013
Federal Reserve Announces Day of Issue of Redesigned $100 Note
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that the redesigned $100 note will begin circulating on October 8, 2013. This note, which incorporates new security features such as a blue, 3-D security ribbon, will be easier for the public to authenticate but more difficult for counterfeiters to replicate.
The new design for the $100 note was unveiled in 2010, but its introduction was postponed following an unexpected production delay. To ensure a smooth transition to the redesigned note when it begins circulating in October, the U.S. Currency Education Program is reaching out to businesses and consumers around the world to raise awareness about the new design and inform them about how to use its security features. More information about the new design $100 note, as well as training and educational materials, can be found at www.newmoney.gov.
For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.”
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
There is a resemblance, non?
Thena from Novato, 1993:
Merida from Emeryville, 2012:
Brave is due for release on June 22, 2012 in North America
Tags: 1993, 2012, 3d, Alameda, animation, bay area, brave, brigid, Brigid Brannagh, Brigid Conley Walsh, Brigid Walsh, california, Conley, county, curly, Disney, film, haired, marin, movie, Novato, Pixar, Quest of the Delta Knights, red, redhead, San Francisco, Walsh
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Remember happier times back in aught-eight, when “Pribot,” the famous autonomous Prius, was roving the Streets of San Francisco with a huge SFPD escort and teams of camerapeople in tow?
Well, those halcyon days are over, so now Pribot has been relegated to getting ticketed by DPT, just like regular nonrobotic cars.
See?
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You can’t see the the damage from when Pribot scraped its left side exiting the Bay Bridge, but these days there’s evidence he/she/it has had more driving trouble.
See?
Did Pribot crash into something? Or maybe a careless San Francisco driver backed up too far? Or maybe a human master made a mistake?
(Of course, when you’re making an omelet, as Google is doing in full force in 2011, you’re going to break a few eggs. Anyway…)
Poor Pribot!
All I could do was put a spare Kraftwerk mixtape under one of its windshield wiper arms and then turn to walk away.
Pribot, you were the first, you are the ur-robotic Prius, you are the Jetfire of the autonomous car universe.
Bon courage, Pribot!
Tags: 2008, 3d, 510, 510 Systems, Anthony Levandowski, Anthony's Robots, Autonomous, bay bridge, Berkeley, Beyond Productions, bus, camera, Class 1, contest, DARPA, DARPA's, discovery, Discovery Channel, DPT, engineer, escort, Ghostrider, google, google's, GPS, grand challenge, guidance, hybrid, inertial, infrared, island, laser, lasers, map, Motorcade, mountain view, mta, Oakland, october 15, parking, Pier 7, police, Pribot, prius, Prototype This!, pulsed, pulsed laser, robot, robotic, RTK base station, SFMTA, silver, sponsor, TI, ticket, Topcon, toyota, treasure, treasure island, TV, UC, university of california, University of California at Berkeley, vehicle
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Never noticed the art on this retaining wall:
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See how it matches up with the real thing?
Here it is, San Francisco’s busiest and largest traffic sewer:
I assume that retaining wall and the art went in for the recent One Rincon Tower high-rise…
Tags: 1rc, 2011, 3d, art, bay area, bay bridge, california, cars, center, images, Oakland, one rincon, photo, Photographer, rincon, San Francisco, tower
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Telstar Logistics makes note of a new bit in the Wall Street Journal:
“California: The Lindsay Lohan of States – Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn’t expect a bailout.”
This is the sole illustration for the article – looks like a Bill Wilson shot, actually:
Is this really our image Back East?
Is California really in this bad kind of shape compared to every other state in the union?
Mmmmm….
Tags: 2010, 3d, ALLYSIA FINLEY, bailout, bay area, california, Funny, gavin newsom, glasses, Lindsay Lohan, Mayor, red, sacramento, San Francisco, states, The Lindsay Lohan of States, wall street journal
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Berkeley’s famous Doug McCune is at it again. Earlier this year he pwned Apple / Steve Jobs over Adobe Flash phobia and now he’s taken arrest data for San Francisco and displayed it in three dimensions (sort of) to answer the query:
“What If San Francisco Crime Were Elevation?”
First with the drugs. No surprises here, really. Note the bump in the Lombard / Marina area where it’s cheaper to live in a motel than live in an apartment for some reason. Also note, the hillock in the outer Outer Sunset way out there near La Playa – that surprises me not. However, I was not aware of some of the other baby hills on this map. (Also, appears as if some of our youthful USF students are more into the drugs than their peers at SFSU…)
Simply, this is an awesome way to display this data:
Now, with the sex workers. Again, Lombard Street seems to have more than its fair share of elevation.
The bumps in the Sunset and the Richmond – I can’t relate them to my mental map of San Francisco. But there they are:
Doug beseeches us to not consider these maps ”as being accurate,” but it’s a little late for that for me.
Anyway, it’s quite an art project. (In fact, there’s your art show right there – just do these maps in 3D for real using paper or whatnot and then get the National Endowment for the Arts on the horn.)
This is doubleplusgood. Three cheers!
Tags: 2009, 2010, 3d, arrests, crime, datasf, dept., district, drugs, elevattion, lombard, map, mission, motels, mount loin, narcotics, police, prostitutes, richmond, San Francisco, sfgov, SFPD, street, sunset, tenderloin, TenderNob, three
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Not exactly sure what kind of photography rig this fellow was using in Civic Center the other day. It could be something as simple as two SLR cameras in a box, or maybe it has something to do with video or 3D.
(Perhaps he was scouting locations for the next Wes Anderson movie?)
Dude has quite a conversation piece, anyway.
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Tags: 2010, 3d, april, camera, City Hall, civic center, hat, hipster, lens, San Francisco, shoebox, slr, Video, wes anderson
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