Can he really be 91?

If you’re into materials at all you have to check these guys out. There are materials out there doing things you never imagined, and new inventions and process happening all the time.

I get their newsletter and then wish I was a materials engineer at MIT. Seriously!

Their featured material this month is called Dimpled Halftone.

Dimple Halftone is a new process intended to create a microlandscape of texture that, when viewed at different distances, can be recognized as a sharp image or abstract pattern.

So, basically you have textured panels made to look like an image from far away or viewing sideways.

Anyway, one of my job dreams is to have projects that require me to research new materials and build cool sets. Meaning a budget that lets me buy and use new materials whenever and however I want!

There’s a new book called, appropriately, Transmaterial 2, but I don’t have it, yet.

Materials, materials, materials. I love that word.

Transmaterial
Transmaterial Website
Dimpled Halftone
Transmaterial 2

Podcasts, I’ve been loving since my first iPod, which I got, not coincidentally, about three years ago.

Recently, I subscribed to a bunch of Oxford University lectures, mostly history, literature (not prose, theory), Internet studies, etc. and it’s been a great substitute.

I was worried about not learning as much since I’m off reading, but now I’m not.

***I tried to get a link but it wouldn’t work, so just type Oxford University in the search field on iTunes.

BTW Princeton and MIT have lectures there, too.

Oxford University
iPod
Adam Curry
Princeton
MIT
iTunes

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