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Just discovered this really nifty little iPad app called 3D cover, that allows you to map images onto objects like books, DVDs, etc. and add text. It then exports as a JPEG file. This is an example (and a hint to any Hollywood producers reading this). Click to enlarge. airship, books, design, promotion, publishing NAC probably isn’t a name for you to conjure with, but I’ve just found out via Dan’s Airship page that the Japanese operators of the Zeppelin NT have gone bankrupt. Exorbitant passenger fares, inaccessibility of the airfield, and (I’m guessing) high insurance have probably caused the demise of the company. If I had a few [...] I just started looking through an article entitled “The 50 Worst Inventions” when I came across one called Hydrogen Blimps, accompanied, of course, by the standard picture of the Hindenburg crashing and burning. When the Hindenburg was designed in 1931, its makers made the fateful choice to use hydrogen instead of helium to set the blimp [...] Many thanks to my Kaiju friend on Twitter who sent me the heads-up on this. A company in the US has successfully inflated the world’s largest gasbag (largest by volume, that is – the Zeppelin NT is longer). The time-lapse video of this is interesting – inflated in an indoor stadium, it appears to hold the [...] I took these earlier this month, but didn’t post them up here for some reason (the originals are on my Smugmug site, and may be seen there (click on the photos here to see them enlarged), together with some of my other pictures). The airship is the Zeppelin NT (Bodensee) built in Germany and operated [...] A friend very kindly brought back from New Zealand an old copy of The Millionth Chance – a 1957 technical account of the development and last flight of the British airship R101. For those who are unaware of this magnificent piece of over-engineering, the R100 and R101 were British attempts to make Britain the mistress [...] The USS Macon, one of the US Navy’s flying aircraft carrier scouts, crashed off the coast of California in 1935. Happily, only 2 of the crew of over 80 officers and men died in the crash (neither as a direct result of the crash), but it spelled the end of the US Navy’s work with [...] |
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