Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 winners — from commons.wikimedia.org
Excerpt:
Below are some of the pictures from Greece.
On 01/24/2022,
in Africa, architecture, art, Asia, creativity, design, Europe, India, UK, United States,
by Daniel Christian
On 01/19/2022,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, art, business, change, changing business models, copyright/ownership/NFTs, creativity, ideas, immersion, innovation, marketing/social marketing,
by Daniel Christian
? The #NFT market has exploded over the past year.
? Sales soared past $24.9 billion in 2021, according to market tracker @DappRadar.
?? But more artists are sounding the alarm over thieves stealing their digital work.
?? How big is the industry’s fraud problem? ? pic.twitter.com/3CvrgqndpZ
— Thomson Reuters Foundation News (@TRF_Stories) January 18, 2022
5 brands already boldly embracing the metaverse — from thedrum.com by Dani Gibson
As part of The Drum’s Metaverse Deep Dive, we round up some of the best examples of brands causing a stir within the virtual online world by creating out of this world experiences.
Marketing in the metaverse — from thedrum.com
On 01/19/2022,
in A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, art, Australia, interactivity, participation, science, STEAM-related,
by Daniel Christian
Inside Melbourne’s Major New Interactive Gallery, Where Art and Science Collide — from broadsheet.com.au by Liv Downing
The inaugural Science Gallery exhibition tackles mental health head-on, but with an out-of-the-box approach. Across 3500 square metres, there’s a kaleidoscopic human-sized hamster wheel you can step inside, a gigantic white balloon trapped in a pink cage, and a fake bedroom where two performance artists will live for a week.
On 01/17/2022,
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by Daniel Christian
Concentric Vessels Nest Within Larger Forms in Matthew Chambers’ Perplexing Ceramic Sculptures — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Matthew Chambers
Sunlight Caps the Snowy Meili Mountain Range in a Majestic Photo Series — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert & Rainlook
Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Brazil. pic.twitter.com/AJir344WCY
— 3:00am (@3hr00am) December 15, 2021
In ‘Two Worlds,’ Split-View Photos Frame the Dual Environments Above and Below the Water’s Surface — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
Artist Spotlight: Sara-Vide Ericson — from booooooom.com
Black Sand Beach — from 500px.com by dronographer
Amazing Paper Art Made for Different Medias — from fubiz.net by Reina Takahashi, aka Reinasaur
On 01/15/2022,
in art, business, cryptocurrencies, economics, law schools, legislatures / government / legal,
by Daniel Christian
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT theft shows the ease of hacking crypto — from protocol.com by Tomio Geron
The blockchain puts power in the hands of individual crypto owners — which also makes them targets for criminals.
Excerpt:
The story of an art gallery owner who had $2.2 million worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other NFTs stolen is just the latest example of crypto theft, illustrating the vulnerability of buyers as a broader set of consumers venture into the field.
With NFTs, the issue has grown in importance as the market has transformed from a niche hobby to an active market filled with speculators and investors.
Todd Kramer of New York’s Ross+Kramer gallery fell victim to a phishing scam in late December, according to a now-deleted tweet. He stored his NFTs using an internet-connected hot wallet — a less secure method — and a thief made off with 15 digital tokens worth $2.2 million.
From DSC:
How’s the legal field doing here? Law enforcement? Governments? The banking systems?
On 01/14/2022,
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by Daniel Christian
Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills — from blog.neolms.com by Rachelle Dene Poth
Excerpt:
Because of the changes that we experienced in the past year, I believe that it is important to have various options, whether teaching in-person, hybrid, or virtually. Choosing methods like Genius hour or project-based learning, activities such as scavenger hunts or learning stations, or selecting digital tools that promote more interaction with and between students will help foster the development of essential future-ready and SEL skills.
There are many methods and tools to explore, but it’s important to focus on the why behind the choices we make for our students. The use of digital tools promotes collaboration, communication, creativity and many more essential skills while also promoting the power of choice for students to share what they have learned.
Also see:
- What is Breakout EDU and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks — from techlearning.com by Luke Edwards
Breakout EDU is a puzzle game based in the real world and digitally that’s great for team-based learning
Escape rooms have become very popular as a place teams can go to work out how to get free from the room in which they are “trapped.” It’s like a real-world version of a computer game that makes you work together to solve puzzles to escape from somewhere.
Breakout EDU helps to bring that experience to educators so as to better engage students and help them learn while having fun.
On 01/14/2022,
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by Daniel Christian
Animation Trends 2022: Experimental and Open-Minded — from graphicmama.com by Al Boicheva
Excerpt:
Just barely kicking off the new year, the Graphic Design trends are already in full power raising the game in all graphic design fields. With a wonderful mix of nostalgia, movement, and open-mindedness, the trends bring more excitement for animation as well. Do you love complex hyper-realistic CGI or do you prefer classic animation on the Lo-Fi end? What about dynamic typography or old school? Whatever the case, get ready for the Animation trends 2022 because this year is all about going fully experimental.
Get ready for…
On 01/06/2022,
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by Daniel Christian
Why Samsung built an NFT aggregator into its new TVs — from digitaltrends.com by Phil Nickinson
Excerpt:
Or, perhaps, it’s the idea of an “NFT aggregation platform” being built into the television. It sounds insane — baking something that most people don’t understand, let alone engage in — into a TV. Most of us can’t even describe what a non-fungible token is, let alone tell someone how to go get one. It’s a multi-layered process that’s far more difficult than taking a screenshot of something you saw on Instagram and then sticking it up on your TV.
But that’s also not the point.
…
“In 2022, Samsung is introducing the world’s first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace aggregator,” reads the press release, “a groundbreaking platform that lets you browse, purchase, and display your favorite art — all in one place.”
On 01/05/2022,
in animation, art, creativity, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, Emotion, photography, tools,
by Daniel Christian
Discover the Winners of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards — from fubiz.net
Panthera pardus kotiya — from 500px.com by Petr Kolb
In our hands – Directors: Dorian&Daniel from Dorian & Daniel on Vimeo.
Lauterbrunnen — from 500px.com by Michael Chlebek
Surveying the animation boom and its effects on the creative industry — from itsnicethat.com by Dalia Dawood and Alex Moy
“We’re seeing animation go into spaces that it’s not been in before” – leading studios shed light on a transforming industry and what it means for our screens.
Excerpt:
While kids’ animation remains popular – India-based children’s studio Toonz saw increased demand not only for feature films but “edutainment”, especially “social and emotional learning, an area kids missed out on when schools were shut,” says CEO P. Jayakumar – adult long-form animation has flourished. Such shows have evolved beyond slapstick humour to meet contemporary audiences’ interests, exploring serious issues such as mental health.
skihopp Gopro — youtube.com
The use of Gimbals to get stabilized images when recording digital video.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
Photography and imaging
Gimbals are also used to mount everything from small camera lenses to large photographic telescopes.
In portable photography equipment, single-axis gimbal heads are used in order to allow a balanced movement for camera and lenses. This proves useful in wildlife photography as well as in any other case where very long and heavy telephoto lenses are adopted: a gimbal head rotates a lens around its center of gravity, thus allowing for easy and smooth manipulation while tracking moving subjects.
Very large gimbal mounts in the form 2 or 3 axis altitude-altitude mounts are used in satellite photography for tracking purposes.
Gyrostabilized gimbals which house multiple sensors are also used for airborne surveillance applications including airborne law enforcement, pipe and power line inspection, mapping, and ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance). Sensors include thermal imaging, daylight, low light cameras as well as laser range finder, and illuminators.
Gimbal systems are also used in scientific optics equipment. For example, they are used to rotate a material sample along an axis to study their angular dependence of optical properties.
On 12/22/2021,
in A/V -- audio/visual, animation, art, career development, content development, aggregation, repositories, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, instructional design, interactivity, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, media/film, participation, passions, project-based learning, skills, story, storytelling, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, tools, vendors, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, youth,
by Daniel Christian
AnimatingKids.com — with thanks to Mrs. Julie Bender (an excellent art teacher within the K-12 space) for this resource
Free examples:
- 4 New Animation Kits Below
PDFs with How-to videos, secret animation recipes, and printable coloring sheets.
On 12/21/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Excerpt from this posting:
Welcome to day 21 of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. It’s been so much fun sharing all of these amazing tools each day across the month so far. With Google featuring twice already on the calendar, it’s great to share again the awe and wonder of human history in the arts and within our cultures with the sharing of this amazing free app. Thanks to Gustavo Calderón De Anda for suggesting it!
Also see:
- 14 measurement apps for teaching math & science — from teachthought and Glenda Stewart-Smith
Glenda Stewart-Smith of Surrey School District #36 in Canada, along with TeachThought staff, helped put together this collection of iPhone and iPad apps that offer all of these measuring abilities and more.
Heart of the Forest — from 500px.com
Dezeen’s top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2021 — from dezeen.com
????? by ??? https://t.co/x2akypEnXI #Photography pic.twitter.com/TJpqTudQyW
— #LuxuryTravel (@ZaibatsuPlanet) December 18, 2021
4 shades of blue. pic.twitter.com/88LBwKD1qX
— 3:00am (@3hr00am) December 18, 2021
Yosemite National Park pic.twitter.com/KTRkCAUhkl
— On the Road (@OnTheRoad34) December 20, 2021
On 12/17/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
RE:WIRED 2021: Beeple on Art as a Subscription — from wired.com by Greg Williams and Mike Winkelmann
Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future.
From DSC:
The idea was that you buy some digital art — and that art can change at any time. One day, you walk down the stairs, and it looks one way. The next day, things have changed in it.
NOTE:
I saw a much longer version of the above excerpted video when I was viewing the article at “LaTurbo Avedon Is Way Ahead of the Metaverse.” It looked like this:
On 12/17/2021,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, art, Blockchain, business, change, changing business models, content development, aggregation, repositories, copyright/ownership/NFTs, cryptocurrencies, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, economics, future, game-changing environment, ideas, innovation, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’m not saying not to go there…but one has to be very careful when dealing with cryptocurrencies. As the items below show, you can mess up…big time.
- A Man Accidentally Threw Out a Hard Drive Worth $357 Million in Bitcoin — from interestingengineering.com by Chris Young
And he’s been searching for it for a decade. - Crypto scammers stole almost $8 billion in 2021, up 81% from 2020 — from protocol.com by Benjamin Pimentel
More than a third of losses came from rug pulls, where developers rolled out crypto projects before vanishing with investor money - Frequently Asked Questions About Cryptocurrency — from 101blockchains.com by Georgia Weston
- Coin Worth $0.00004893 Highlights Crypto’s Wild Decimal Frontier — from bloomberg.com by Michael Regan
From DSC:
And that bit about the decimal point is key! I tried to locate an article that I recently read that described how one person lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because he misplaced the decimal in his asking price for a cryptocurrency. It was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he said that his big thumbs got in the way. He mistyped the asking price and hit the Enter key before he recognized his mistake. He sold the cryptocurrency for a fraction of its real value. In that case, one would hope that the buyer would extend some grace and readjust the price. But that didn’t happen in this case. Ouch!
From DSC:
Again, I’m not saying that this area may not represent an enormous new, impactful, prosperous wave to ride. But I need to do a whole lot more learning before I feel comfortable jumping into this ocean.
That said when I read the quote below…I wondered:
DC: I wonder if that sentence could also read:
“Crypto needed a use case, and it found it in a next generation learning platform.”#cryptocurrency #Cryptos #cryptocurrencies #lifelonglearning #onlinelearning #learning #CMS #LMS #platform
— Daniel Christian (he/him/his) (@dchristian5) December 17, 2021
On 12/17/2021,
in art, Augmented Reality (AR), communications, creativity, design, digital learning, digital storytelling, experimentation, graphics, reading, story, storytelling, tools, XR - extended reality,
by Daniel Christian
How Augmented Books should be? #JingleJangle pic.twitter.com/OfzECdbsuY
— Ori Inbar (@comogard) December 14, 2021