Rust. It’s the product of metal oxidation, which we interpret as everything from a ruined car to a highly sought antique patina. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture the beauty (or horror) of rust.
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You might be a budding writer with a script for what you think could be the next big thing in movies. But making the words leap out of the page and onto a storyboard is difficult if you don’t have the artistic skills to carry out your concept. The Storyteller tool that Amazon has just debuted is designed to help you out with this.
Bring your ideas and vision to life by clicking through the Storyteller’s various menus and adding pre-drawn and custom backgrounds, characters, props, and settings. This will help you sell your story and hopefully find a director or producer who’ll be willing to work on your film once they see what your concept is all about.
Amazon Studios director, Roy Price, explains why they came up with the tool: “We’ve found that many writers want to see their story up on its feet in visual form but find it harder than it should be to create a storyboard. Storyteller provides a digital backlot, acting troupe, prop department and assistant editor – everything you need to bring your story to life.”
Sounds neat, doesn’t it? You can try out Amazon Storyteller here.
[via Dvice]
Primary colors—you probably haven’t used them since some grade school art class. But red, yellow and blue are making a comeback in a major way. [ed note: they aren’t]. Here are all of your best, primary color shots.
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A fancy design in the foam atop your latte can make your morning cup of coffee even more of a pick me up. But even the world’s most artistically-inclined baristas can’t compete with this coffee machine that prints photos, submitted by the customer, directly on their latte.
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Not everybody’s into chemistry but you have to be a special kind of insane to not have a fondness for the Muppets. This periodic table of Muppetry is a wonderfully organized and colorful take on the history of the form than anyone (with a soul) can appreciate, chem-geek or not.
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The last time James Turrell staged a major installation in a New York museum, lawsuits ensued: two visitors, who ostensibly didn’t realize what they were in for, sued Turrell after they became disoriented and fell inside of an installation in 1980. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped Turrell manipulating our senses—in fact, this month, he’ll unveil what critics are calling one of the most daring installations ever attempted.
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You’re never really alone on the Internet. Chances are if you’re on a webpage, someone else is there too; you just don’t see them. It doesn’t have to be that way though. "We See in Every Direction" is a web browser you can share with dozens of other Internet denizens all at once. It is the best and the worst.
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Telekinesis isn’t real, but you can fake it if you really put your mind to it. Conceptual artist Lisa Park did just that and surrounded herself with vibrating pools of her own brainwaves. But her final trick, total brain silence, turned out to be just a little too hard to fake.
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What do a giant wooden egg, a crazy Japanese tech office, and a 3D printing factory have in common? Nothing, really. Except they were some of our favorite design posts this week. Check them out, plus a lot of awesome art, architecture, and more generally wonderful things below.
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It’s a sad fact that when nature and man collide, nature usually loses. Many of us hate to cut down trees, but sometimes you have no choice. Maybe it is mandated by local authorities or maybe it needs to go because it is in danger of falling. Isn’t it much better to carve a dragon out of that fallen tree, instead of just turning it into firewood? Hell yes!
Redditor Aboiement’s neighbor paid an unnamed artist to sculpt this amazing dragon from the trunk of this deceased tree. It looks awesome and now his front yard is basically a fantasy realm. I bet hobbits and orcs come to fight it in the wee hours when no one is looking. I guess the guy carved this with his magical powers and then just walked off into the sunset, not seeking glory or anything.
One imgur commenter said it best…
“The dragon was always there, he just removed the tree bits.”
[via Nerd Approved]
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