The personal weblog of Ivan Reyes http://icr.23d.com/ Futurist musings, art nouveau, illustration, motion graphics, 23, robotics, Human Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality are a few of my favorite things. en-US Copyright 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:46:46 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Let's visit the uncanny valley CGI Woman - The Uncanny Valley This CGI woman in flash is awesome and creepy.

The Uncanny Valley links:
Wikipedia on the Uncanny Valley
more info on the Uncanny Valley


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]]> http://icr.23d.com/2008/03/let.html http://icr.23d.com/2008/03/let.html CGI creepy Flash Japan Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:46:46 -0500 How many 5 year olds can you take? 23. 23

I didn't try to skew my answers to get that number. I promise. :) ]]> http://icr.23d.com/2008/02/how-many-5-year-olds-can-you-t.html http://icr.23d.com/2008/02/how-many-5-year-olds-can-you-t.html Funny meme 5 year olds funny Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:03 -0500 Edward Tufte in Atlanta photo_edward_tufte.jpg











I am looking forward to this one-day course with Edward Tufte, at the Atlanta Grand Hyatt on March 24th and 25th.]]> http://icr.23d.com/2008/02/edward-tufte-in-atlanta.html http://icr.23d.com/2008/02/edward-tufte-in-atlanta.html Atlanta Atlanta Event Atlanta Data Visualization Powerpoint Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:16:52 -0500 funny names site updated

I updated the funnynames.com site the other day, and I thought It would be great to set up a gallery of illustrations submitted by the people. It would be sort of like the 700 hoboes project at e-hobo.com.

I asked R.Land to submit a cool t-shirt idea for the site a few years back and thought it would be great to launch the gallery with his illustration.




Other 700 projects:

]]> http://icr.23d.com/2008/01/funny-names-site-updated.html http://icr.23d.com/2008/01/funny-names-site-updated.html Funny Illustration Low-Brow 700 funny names funny Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:26:40 -0500 Bidi bidi bidi - Twiki @ DragonCon 2007 TWIKI.jpg







































Dragon Con 2007 is on!
I got an autographed picture of TWIKI [Felix Silla]


]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/09/bidi-bidi-bidi-twiki-dragoncon.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/09/bidi-bidi-bidi-twiki-dragoncon.html Atlanta Atlanta Event Robotics awesome bidi bidi bidi DragonCon robotics Twiki Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:08:19 -0500 Rhodesian Ridgeback Puppies for sale Update:They have all been sold. Our neighbors had some Ridgeback puppies for sale.
I posted a page with more info for them.

Rhodesian Ridgeback Puppies




]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/08/rhodesian-ridgeback-puppies-fo.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/08/rhodesian-ridgeback-puppies-fo.html Atlanta Misc Atlanta puppies Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:48:29 -0500 Character Sketchbook page 001

Here are two pages out of my sketchbook of characters.
I started this in February but haven't had a chance to post them.
I want to clean them up and perhaps vectorize them. you can click on the image for a larger image.
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/07/character-sketchbook-page-001.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/07/character-sketchbook-page-001.html Art Illustration art illustration Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:18:27 -0500 Billy Ray Shyster's House of Discount Special Effects

I love this video.
I found it the other day while cleaning my basement.
It was on the Siggraph 97 Visual Proceedings CD-ROM.


]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/07/billy-ray-shysters-house-of-di.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/07/billy-ray-shysters-house-of-di.html Funny Motion Graphics YouTube funny motion graphics youtube Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:16:56 -0500 LOLBOTS!!!



LOLBots! is an awsome new site mixing the LOLCats meme with robots.
The pics above are my entries.
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/05/lolbots.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/05/lolbots.html Funny Robotics funny robotics Thu, 31 May 2007 15:10:38 -0500 Genre Porn - a definition
Genre Porn: a highly saturated, "over the top" example of a "style", "category" or "kind", where the form, technique, content, subject mater, tone or theme are exploited to the fullest extent possible with current technology or creation methods.

In order for Genre Porn to work properly, there needs to be a large number of existing examples of that genre to combine for full effect.

One example of Genre Porn is the upcoming Tarantino/Rodriguez film "Grindhouse".

Other examples are cable channels such as "The Food Network".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/03/genre-porn-a-definition.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/03/genre-porn-a-definition.html Misc meme genre porn meme Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:34:27 -0500 dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot
anybots has designed the this awesome dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot. The video is spectacular! I love the way the other robot is poking it to try to make it fall down.

- Motion Planning for Humaniod Robots
- BDI - Big Dog
- Robots playing soccer video
- RobotSavvy website
- Space Robot Bonanza! < this is hilarious!!


]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/dynamically-balancing-walking.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/dynamically-balancing-walking.html Robotics Technology robotics technology Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:46:06 -0500 In the future you will grow your home
Popsci has an article about growing your own home, as does Physorg.

I have been talking about this for years. I always liked the idea of growing it from one seed or spore, similar to the way that a mushroom sprouts overnight from a spore to the top heavy structure that it is.
In my vision I see it growing very quickly and then hardening or petrifying to a usable structure.
You would have to feed it some sort of material perhaps some type of organic waste. (maybe soylent green)
Their process is probably closer to happening then my crazy idea. I think it would be a combination of bio-engineering and nanotech.

This is a different type of growing but in the same vein.

Contour Crafting will print one for you layer by layer.

squidoo post on Arborsculpture
Growing Home
The Chair that grew
Plantware
The man that grew his own chairs
Treedome
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/in-the-future-you-will-grow-yo.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/in-the-future-you-will-grow-yo.html Misc Nanotech Robotics Technology nanotechnology robotics technology Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:58:05 -0500 Hot quantum computer
more quantum computer porn here. Oh yeah baby!
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/hot-quantum-computer.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/hot-quantum-computer.html Art Physics Technology art physics technology Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:46:56 -0500 DNA Rainbow

DNA Rainbow took the genetic code from huge data files and assigned a color to every one of the four bases. Rendering human genetic code in color. Interesting and strange patterns emerge. I was kind of hoping to get a 3d image by crossing my eyes like those 3d noise images (SIRDS) I used to create with KPT 3D Stereo Noise.


But alas, it was not to be.

Single Image Random Dot Stereograms software:

SIRDS
Techmind owns the algorithm used to make these.
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/dna-rainbow.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/dna-rainbow.html Art Technology The Number 23 art technology the number 23 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:11:17 -0500 Found Photo Number 0001
This is a photo I found a long time ago in an antique store in south florida.
I love this photo. The look in their eyes and the cigarettes dangling from their mouths.
They have lived a hard life. But they have each other.
The shadow of the photographer is very ominous.
I have a bunch that I am going to scan in and upload maybe post to my flickr account, or maybe just here.
There are a few great ones.
]]> http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/found-photo-number-0001.html http://icr.23d.com/2007/02/found-photo-number-0001.html Found Photo found photo Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:35:09 -0500