A short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
http://www.blublu.org/
http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto…
Music by Andrea Martignoni
Assistant: Sibe
More videos at: http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/video.htm
Photo by Abby Martin
PALM BEACH POST– If you don’t want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security
agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a
thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this
holiday season.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport.
That person will have to remain on the premises to be questioned by the TSA and possibly by local law enforcement. Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest.
“Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process,” says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami.
Koshetz said such passengers would be questioned “until it is determined that they don’t pose a threat” to the public.
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Teri Barbera said PBSO deputies stationed at the airport would become involved when requested by the TSA.
“We will handle each incident on a case-by-case basis,” she said.
Read full article HERE.
© PALM BEACH POST, 2010
Photo by The Consumerist on flickr
FACT SHEET: Know Your Passenger Rights on TSA Opt-Out Day
WIKIPEDIA– “Alive in Joburg” is a 2005 science fiction short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Simon Hansen and Sharlto Copley in Canada, and released by Spy Films. It was filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa with soundtrack featuring composer sound designer Drazen Bosnjak’s “Harmonic Code”. The film explores themes of apartheid and is noted for its visual effects as well as its documentary-style imagery. Blomkamp’s 2009 feature film District 9, starring Copley, expands themes and elements from this short film.
BBC– Antimatter atoms have been trapped for the first time, scientists say. Researchers at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have
held 38 antihydrogen atoms in place, each for a fraction of a second.
Antihydrogen has been produced before but it was instantly destroyed when it encountered normal matter. The team, reporting in Nature, says the ability to study such antimatter atoms will allow previously impossible tests of fundamental tenets of physics.
The current “standard model” of physics holds that each particle – protons, electrons, neutrons and a zoo of more exotic particles – has its mirror image antiparticle.
The antiparticle of the electron, for example, is the positron, and is used in an imaging technique of growing popularity known as positron emission tomography.
Continue reading about Antimatter Atom Trapped For First Time, Say Scientists.
© BBC, 2010
Photograph by flickr user Temari 09
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS– Octopuses are thought to be one of the most intelligent invertebrates
and can change the color and texture of their skin to blend in with
rocks, algae, or coral to avoid predators. But until now, an octopus
with the ability to actually assume the appearance of another animal had
never been observed.
“Having studied many octopus species in
the wild, I am never surprised by the color and shape change capacities
of these animals,” said Mark Norman of the Melbourne Museum in
Australia. “However, this animal stood out as it was the only one we’ve
encountered that goes beyond camouflage to take on the guise of
dangerous animals.”
Norman and fellow researchers Julian Finn of
the University of Tasmania in Australia and Tom Tregenza of the
University of Leeds in England describe the octopus mimic in the
September 7 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
“This,” Tregenza said, “is a rather dramatic animal.”
Mimicry
is a fairly common survival strategy in nature. Certain flies, for
example, assume the black and yellow stripes of bees as a warning to
potential predators. But the adaptable octopus is the first known
species that can assume multiple guises.
© National Geographic, 2010
