Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam

Camera technology has improved dramatically in the past decades, but one thing about even the newest cameras has stayed constant: They all have lenses. Now, that's changing. Engineers in Texas are building a camera that can make a sharp image with no lens at all. Why would you want such a camera? Richard Baraniuk, a professor of computer and electrical engineering at Rice University, says lenses make a camera bulky. He and his colleagues wanted to build a camera that could fit into spaces where traditional cameras could never go. To design their camera, MORE

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New nature Art

Many nature scenes to chose from Nature canvas prints ready for display.

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Kamara's debut album "Earth Hero

" is a spellbinding collection of meticulously crafted songs, many of which early fans have been listening to and loving for over a decade. The album draws a meandering line from past to present, containing some of Kamara's earliest solo work as well as a few of her latest songs. "Earth Hero" transports the listener from a lost-love journey through the mythic American landscape (My Kentucky), to a lovely, angelic apocalypse (Lily Gloriosa), through a modern witch's confession-manifesto (Red Wing), to a timeless ode of love/hate in the bedroom (You Wreck Me). "Earth Hero" is a classic, coast-to-coast road trip album, traveling from melancholy to majestic. Its heart is Kamara's milky-wayed warble and her powerful storytelling, channeled through a poetic gaze and an obsession with America's landscape and psyche.
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About Kamara -
Songspeller. Storyteller. "Channeling dusty Americana, rootsy folk, and classic rock à la Neil Young, Kamara Thomas (singer and bassist for the acclaimed hard rock band Earl Greyhound) spins hazy narrative paeans to America’s epic landscape and mythic past. Her bewitching live performance incorporates elements of Native American shamanism, trance-inducing jams, and spellbinding stories of the fabled Old West." -- Brooklyn Academy of Music

The canary in the mine

Dear Artist,

Artists of the past often suffered poor physical and mental health due to the materials they worked with: lead, powdered pigment, turpentine, carcinogens, etc. It's difficult to know if Vincent van Gogh put paint in his mouth, but someone, somewhere, may be trying to find out. Clinical pathologist Dr. Paul Wolf of the University of California cites that illnesses, rather than being obstacles, can be the paths to genius. He mentioned the likes of Einstein, Warhol, Newton, Cezanne, Goya, Michelangelo, Turner and Berlioz. According to Wolf, these folks suffered varying degrees of depression, autism, myopia, anxiety, chronic pain, gout, stroke and dementia. MORE:

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Watercolors

I have some new water color pieces that I will be listing on Fine Art America. Here is a sample, comments welcome.

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In need of Direct Buying Art Collectors?

In order for the majority of visual artists to maintain lasting art career success, a growing base of direct buying art collectors is recommended. As the art business experiences market gyrations and disruptions, you will find certain traditional venues are fading while new ways to sell art are brought into the mix.

Some of the changes artists face today include:

Dwindling gallery numbers.
Fear of another financial meltdown.
Changing consumer-buying habits.
Growth of online shopping.
Cheap, sometimes exact knockoff, imports.
Increased use of windows in residential design reduces wall art space.

Art Galleries still matter. To be clear, while there are fewer galleries, this does not diminish their importance in connecting artists and collectors, or in their ability to influence tastes in art buying. As such, it remains a smart move for most artists to include gallery representation in their diversified distribution methods.
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Web of Secrecy: YP23 Black Widow

“Web of Secrecy: YF-23 Black Widow II Declassified” is a 50 minute documentary about the making of the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 stealth fighter and its fly-off against the Lockheed YF-22 in competition for the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract with the Air Force—as told by the team members who built the airplane. Due to the sensitive nature of certain footage, and the complex rights and permissions required to publish this documentary, it was never shown on US television. Read more HERE.

This is one incredible aircraft. A true work of art.