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Aug 16
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Union Square San Francisco: Cut out and Keep

By Union Square San Francisco

After almost 1000 posts its time to head out of the city for a week and have a bit of a break. We are planning on putting the blog on ‘automatic’ mode with a series of posts buried deep in the blog archives.

First up is a ‘cut and keep’ version of Union Square San Francisco, with all the new Web 2.0 mapping companies around the bay area, its one for the desk.

Simply download the pdf file, cut out and fold along the lines to make your own view of Union Square San Francisco.

If anyone does this we would love to have a photo to add to the blog…

Download the PDF and Cut Out. (4.9mb).

Aug 13
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LivePlace: Cities in The Cloud – Remote Rendering

By LivePlace, Rendering, The Cloud

The movie below would be easy to dismiss as vaporware if it were not for the link to Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace.co. As such it is possibly a first glimpse of a new age of graphics and virtual worlds rendered not on the clients machine but on remote servers in The Cloud.

Cloud based computing is currently taking over systems ranging from email to word processing and graphics packages with a number of big players offering Cloud based services. It is a logical leap to take the concept of social networks and virtual environments along the lines of Second Life and move the processing to a remote server farm. Logical it maybe but technically we are amazed and to be honest more than a little skeptical.

There is a lot of hype on this one, the original movie was pulled and then rehosted by Tech Crunch. Regardless of the authoritativeness of the movie any ability to render graphics in The Cloud is something to undoubtedly look forward to, especially if those city graphics are real…

Thanks go to Sean for the heads up on the post over at Tech Crunch.

Aug 13
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LivePlace: Cities in The Cloud – Remote Rendering

By LivePlace, Rendering, The Cloud

The movie below would be easy to dismiss as vaporware if it were not for the link to Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace.co. As such it is possibly a first glimpse of a new age of graphics and virtual worlds rendered not on the clients machine but on remote servers in The Cloud.

Cloud based computing is currently taking over systems ranging from email to word processing and graphics packages with a number of big players offering Cloud based services. It is a logical leap to take the concept of social networks and virtual environments along the lines of Second Life and move the processing to a remote server farm. Logical it maybe but technically we are amazed and to be honest more than a little skeptical.

There is a lot of hype on this one, the original movie was pulled and then rehosted by Tech Crunch. Regardless of the authoritativeness of the movie any ability to render graphics in The Cloud is something to undoubtedly look forward to, especially if those city graphics are real…

Thanks go to Sean for the heads up on the post over at Tech Crunch.

Aug 12
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Cloud Gate Chicago Flash Panorama

By Cloud Gate Chicago, Flash Panoramas, Panorama of the Day

Above is a 360×180 degree panorama of Cloud Gate, Chicago. Click load to view – click and drag to look around. To view fullscreen (recommended) simply click ‘open’ and again click and drag.

Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor’s first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a “gate” to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.


Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.

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