thisistheverge:

Master Chief’s evolution: the concept art of ‘Halo 4’

Halo 4 is the first original game to come out of 343, but Garza has actually worked at the company for around four years now. He met Kenneth Scott, 343’s senior art director, at a conference in Dallas, and eventually was invited to come join a secret project in Kirkland, Washington. Garza describes himself as a Halo fan — he’d played the games and followed the series’ fiction closely — so the decision to join 343 was a pretty simple one. “It was a no-brainer for me,” he says.

(via gamefreaksnz)

thedailywhat:

Shut Up and Take My Money of the Day:

1. Download Minecraft World Exporter (Windows).
2. Choose a portion of your Minecraft world.
3. Upload it to FigurePrints and place order.

thisistheverge:

Fantasy electrical standards, via very small array » Grounded

parislemon:

A bird! A plane! No, a space shuttle on plane! (Taken with Instagram)

thisistheverge:

xkcd: Exoplanets

ianbrooks:

Space Shuttle Flight Decks photos by Ben Cooper

I’ve played enough video games during my tenure to safely assume that I could easily jump behind the joystick of one of these beauties and immediately be sailing at a smooth near-lightspeed. It’s gotta be that easy, right? My secret to success: mash every button until it does something you want. Ben Cooper took these absolutely gorgeous fisheye shots of the space shuttle flight deck interiors, with prints available at launchphotography, to post up on your wall and gaze longingly at.

(via: Boing Boing)

nerdology:

Sizing up the new iPhone 5 against its Android and Windows Phone competition

I know that I’m late to the game today. Sorry about that, I was working like a crazy person. By now I’m sure you know everything you needed to know about the iPhone 5 but this post by Chris Welch does a great job of putting Apple’s new hardware in perspective against it’s competition.

[via The Verge]

thedailywhat:

Samsung FTW of the Day: Back in May, on a lark, 26-year-old Shane Bennett sent a message to Samsung via Facebook:

Hello, I have bought many Samsung products. I currently have a Samsung LCD TV, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung laptop. I was just wondering if I could get a free Galaxy S3. I have attached a picture of a dragon I just drew for you.

Bennett was amused at the company’s reply, and promptly posted it to Reddit:

Thanks for inquiring about scoring a free Galaxy S III. Unfortunately if we gave a free S III to everyone who asked, we’d probably be out before they ever went on sale, and we’d go under as a company. That being said, your drawing of the dragon is epic, so we’re returning the favor. Please find attached a drawing of a kangaroo on a unicycle.

The kicker? Samsung kept in touch with Bennett, and earlier this week, he received his free Galaxy S III, personalized with his original dragon drawing. 

Well played, Samsung. 

[thanks, chris!]

thisistheverge:

Windows 8: hands-on with your next OS

David Pierce checks out the future of Windows.

(via microsftw)

thisistheverge:

25 wonderful years. Thank you, Animated GIF.

nerdology:

Xbox 720 document leak reveals $299 console with Kinect 2 for 2013, Kinect Glasses project

Whoa. A massive amount of information just leaked about the next Xbox. A 56 page document talks about a new console, smart glass (they showed this off at E3), and a new Kinect. Those were pretty easy to guess were coming.

The craziest part of the document says, “Xbox experience served up from the cloud. Instantly on any screen.” It also says “never need to upgrade hardware again.” I don’t even know what that means. Is Microsoft planning on turning gaming into OnLive?  That’s the only way you’d get Halo running on a tablet or phone (pictured). It’s really interesting and I’m really excited for it.

[The Verge via Scribd]

thisistheverge:

@ftrain

Pure evil

thisistheverge:

Warren Ellis » The Plan To Build A Real Starship Enterprise

Obvious area of fascination: taking a fictional object and attempting to make it real as a historic feat of mega-engineering. Something that started out as a plastic model on a stick in a tv studio becoming the most expensive single object of all time.

thisistheverge:

The Believer - Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity

Few people in 1939 had ever ridden in a plane. Looking down, they saw everything from experimental farms and “floating” airports to seven-lane highways, multi-decked bridges, and radio-controlled traffic moving beneath suspended pedestrian walkways—all radical concepts at the time. More than twenty-four million people waited for up to five hours, in rain and hot sun, to experience it. Today, Futurama is considered the most iconic Fair exhibit of all time.

drawnblog:

jockohomo:

“Alan Belcher has produced new work for this exhibition, a ceramic multiple edition. Known for his pioneering of the “photo-object_ genre (artworks which fused the disciplines of photography and sculpture); he has furthered that exploration with a multiple series of what can be seen as perhaps the ultimate “photo-object”. Belcher has taken the ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg, and solidified its default icon into a standard image surrogate. The edition entitled “______.jpg” was fabricated in China, is a series of 125 pieces each signed and dated.” 25 Years of Talent at Marianne Boesky Gallery, curated by Michelle Grabner May 2 - Jun 16, 2012.

EDIT: Here’s Alan Belcher’s profile at Saatchi Online.

I kinda want one of these. And I never would have been curious about this question until now, but: who took this photo originally, and who now owns the rights to it? (I assume Apple) But until it was made into an object like this, I never even thought twice about the image itself.

(via thisistheverge)