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Photo from a model portfolio shoot with Inka in Espoo, Finland.
Lighting info: SB-900 in a small white shoot-through umbrella at camera left on a light stand, SB-800 with a green gel at camera right, pointed at the background. Pop-up flash as an on-axis fill. Remote flashes triggered by pop-up flash and optical slave mode.
Thanks to Treehugger for featuring this pic!
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Expensive real state in the area. The apartment is small, but it also has natural light on both sides, one of which has a window facing a big tree.
Small is not always limited, nor ugly, nor cheap, nor limited.
Photographed at the "Art of the Brick" exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon.
like their bee brothers and sisters around the world, our local, organic bees are thriving while much of the rest of the population is suffering from colony collapse disorder.
i've heard more than one local bee keeper theorize that the culprit is high fructose corn syrup produced from genetically modified corn containing bacillus thuringiensis, but apparently the data doesn't fully support that conclusion.
whatever the reason, we're thankful to have what seems to be a nearly unlimited supply of yummy raw honey fit for a pooh.
For our third street drop we decided the street wouldn't quite cut it so decided on a more natural habitat for this one...
Suzy here is what most people would describe as a 'tree hugger' but although she's concerned with the environment at large it's this particular tree she likes to hug. It reminds her of happier times.
She and Roche carved their names into it as proof of their love for each other. She hasn't seen Roche in over 2 months. He went to the shop for a packet of wine gums and some rizla and she hasn't seen him since. Poor Suzy. Poor tree. Poor Roche?
Cheers
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Royalty-free clipart picture of a group of four blue men standing in a circle around a tree, holding hands.
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Cleaning Up Oil Spills With a Swarm of Autonomous Sailboats
by Fast Company Staff on 04.11.11
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business."
Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable sailboats, equipped with oil-sucking booms, that would autonomously sail to the spill and soak up the oil. Or, if we need accurate data about radiation in the water outside another power plant approaching meltdown, we just sent in our fleet of boats, because we don't feel bad about submitting our robot slaves to radiation. That's the vision of the Protei project
Its creator, Cesar Herada--formerly of Ushahidi and MIT's Sensable City Lab--hopes it will soon be sailing the ocean, cleaning up our messes for us.
In the Gulf, the "open-source sailing drone's" detachable boom could collect 2 tons of oil on each trip (and imagine that multiplied for an entire fleet..). But that's just the beginning. The boats can be retrofitted to deal with any environmental disaster at sea where it's difficult or dangerous to send human workers: The original vision--pre-Deepwater--was for the boats to head the Pacific Gyre and pick up trash in nets, because it seems that no human is ever going to lift a finger to clean it up.
Right now, the current version of Protei needs to be controlled from shore, but the vision is of thousands of Protei ships, controlled by a swarm algorithms and using GPS data, attacking environmental disasters. Herada even has picked up on the latest fads, and has an eye toward game-ifying environmental clean-up by giving control of individual Proteis to computer users around the world and having them sail the boats to spills. You can watch Herada talk about his thinking and design process in this video:
Protei6, Collaboration Design Process from Cesar Harada on Vimeo.
While things in the ocean move downwind, the genius of Protei's design is that it can tack into the wind without loosing power, using a front rudder. It would start at the end of the oil spill and work upwards as the oil was blown toward it.
Right now, Herada is working on a prototype at full size so he can begin testing and then manufacturing. The project is on KickStarter (only three days left!) to help pay for the next iteration and further testing. Bonus: Protei is entirely open source, so you can take the designs and make your own boat--for evil, even, if you want--or help Herada make new versions of the original with ideas. And, because it's requisite when talking about interesting Gulf Spill clean-up innovations, here is a mention of Kevin Costner and/or Waterworld.
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By Morgan Clendaniel at Fast Company
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger, is taking an interesting approach to decreasing his carbon footprint. He introduced his new project LIfe Edited, launched yesterday on the PopTech stage. This project is a crowdsource approach where Hill is encouraging his audience to edit his life for him and to create a more sustainable lifestyle.
More on cleaning with vinegar and baking soda:
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