![]() It has the potential to create a very large mess if you do not take the proper precaution. This technique uses a lot of paint, a lot of it drips off the edge. You will need to lay down a drop cloth or something else that will protect the area you'll be working on. There are also different ways to do dirty pour such as pouring the colours into a cookie cutter or colander on top of the canvas which has a really cool effect. 'Blow pour' - This method involves adding paint to the canvas then blowing it around with a straw, you can achieve stunning flowers with this method. 'Swipe' - Pouring the paint onto the canvas in lines, then using a damp paper towel swipe over the canvas to drag the colours on top of one another. Each puddle is poured in the centre of the last. ![]() 'Puddle pour' - Puddles are poured onto the canvas alternating between colour and your white/black paint. This gives a result similar to the rings in a tree trunk. ![]() 'Tree ring pour' - The paints are all added into one cup and poured in slow circular motion in the middle of the puddle using a circular wrist movement. 'dirty cup' or 'Flip cup' - This is when the paints are all added into one cup then the cup is flipped and lifted. There are several methods of pouring that will give differing results. The term 'pour painting' is in reference to the paint being poured onto the canvas. I personally still like to use silicone in my paintings. In fact, a lot of pour painting artists swear against the use of silicone in their art. Silicone is a great additive that creates intense cells but it doesn't need to be used to achieve cells. If you decide to use silicone oil in your piece, please note before any protective topcoat is applied, the silicone HAS to be 100% removed, this can be a tedious process, I have never gotten 100% of the silicone off of any of my paintings partly due to the silicone soaking into the canvas itself, residual silicone keeps the topcoat or resin from sticking to the canvas, leaving a rough patchy appearance. Silicone - Silicone oil is used to create cells in pour painting. It extends the paint but will not thin it out. It keeps each of the colours separate, without it you would end up with a muddy mess of colour that would honestly look rather sad. Pouring medium - Pouring medium is a transparent acrylic paint additive that reduces 'colour crazing'. The water is used solely for diluting the paints, while the glue acts to replace the binding agent that you just diluted out of the paint if you were to just add water your paints you would end up too runny. Glue + water mix - This mix is something I swear by, it cuts cost and brings the paints to a pourable consistency.
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![]() Also, production was moved to China (and Japan?) to reduce costs. I think the answer is that we weren’t buying the TR1 in the UK and, from the replies above, alternative makes that followed the TR1 were cheaper. My lecturer thought that early transistor radios were much cheaper. I have evidence of a manual worker earning about £14/week). The problem I had, at $49.95 (nearly £17 at $3 to the pound) the TR1 wasn’t cheap in the UK. Portable radios expended the music industry, pirate radio thrived to supply demand and Woodstock progressed from that. Portable radio allowed young people to listen to new styles of music, such as Elvis Presley. How? Well, in a nutshell, until the pocket sized radio came along radio listening was pretty much a family affair, often listening to what the parents wanted on. One of the themes in my essay is that the invention of the transistor in 1947 has a link to Woodstock music festival in 1969. ![]() I suppose from your point of view the pocket radios were the start of teenagers having pop music available to them anywhere and all the time. Batteries were more convenient than those used in valve sets and usually lasted longer. The first stage was a more or less technical one. It is useful to consider how long one has to work to be able to afford one.įor what it's worth I see two stages in the introduction of portable transistor radios. My own view, is to relate prices to earnings. The pocket radios arrived later in large numbers and these were relatively cheap but comparatively ( related to earnings ) still more expensive than today's pocket radios.Īs Paul says it is difficult to make price comparisons. There were others similar and about the same price in the early 60s. It is not however equivalent to the TR1 as it was quite large and not a pocket radio. ![]() This was similar in price and size to valve portables of the same period. The Bush TR82 was availble fron 1959 and the price then was £22/11/6 with purchase tax on top. The third edition of Jonathan Hill's book "Radio Radio" has an updated section on transistor radios and gives an indication of prices. ![]() "Kyeopta" is what people described her (Korean for cute) and the fans want to make her their "Jagiya" (Korean for honey or sweetie as used by couples). This means that currently, Samantha is only a 3D concept art, and is not an official product of Samsung yet, but may soon be due to her instant rise in popularity. The story is that a marketing company owned by Samsung has worked with Lightfarm to procure the 3D virtual assistant, and was intended to be pitched to the company for a new look of its phone AIs. ![]() Rather, she was leaked through several people that have found her on the now-deleted post by a digital design company called Lightfarm, and can only be viewed via its web archive. Samsung's Sam arrived in the most unexpected time possible, particularly because she was not introduced in a product launch or a release for her in the Samsung smartphone interface. Who is Samsung's 'Sam' 3D Virtual Assistant? Sam is short for Samantha (not Samsung), which has the typical look of a Korean idol in the virtual world and has now captured the hearts of people worldwide. Samsung's Sam is a 3D Virtual Assistant who was not even supposed to be an official product of the Korean smartphone maker, but speculations now point to her soon release following a crazy trend online. It is a genuinely appealing character model, like a Persona character run through a Pixar design, so it’s not a complete surprise that she’s popular. Much of it is not safe for work the “rule34” subreddit is absolutely flooded with smutty Samantha content. Through the long weekend, the internet created a bunch of Samsung content. She’s also the new love interest of seemingly the entire internet, which became enamored with her overnight. She’s a bright-eyed, perky lady who likes jamming to tunes on her Samsung phone, browsing apps, and texting friends. Now Samantha Samsung lives on, thanks to a sudden burst of popularity over the long weekend. Instead, the images were stored on the Lightfarm site for some time until the company deleted the post. A design firm named Lightfarm created these images with a marketing company owned by Samsung, but the final product was never incorporated into any kind of campaign. Samsung is in the news for an unexpected reason - everyone wants to smooch a new mascot character that was created for the brand. According to Unbox, it is highly unlikely to be based on an actual announcement from the company.Image: Lightfarm Studios, edited by Alyssa Nassner This could be an indication that Lightfarm created the character, Samsung Sam Virtual Assistant, on its own. ![]() The clip shared on Vimeo appears to have been deleted. In addition to the renderings, the multi-award-winning visual arts production house released a test clip of the new assistant in action. Samsung’s Virtual Assistant Sam In Action Say “Remind me to take medicine at 3:00 PM” to have Bixby remember the reminder.Say “Take a selfie and share it on Facebook” to force your device to do just that.Say “Enable HDR” to turn on this feature in the Camera app.Say “Open Messages” to open the Messages app.Here are the other Bixby features you should know about: Thanks to Samsung’s efforts, Bixby can currently know what you want, even if your statements are incomplete. On the other hand, this virtual function can also understand natural language, thus identifying what the user wants to do even when not speaking. ![]() See also How Much is Samsung Galaxy A72 Price in Nigeria? While this is the case, you can still get a feel for Bixby’s current capabilities. So far, Samsung has not confirmed the details of Sam’s features. How Does Sam Samsung Virtual Assistant Work? Professional photographers and digital artists currently use all editing software. The production company said they used Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Marvelous Designer, Blender 3D, and SideFX Houdini. On the other hand, Lightfarm Studios has also announced that the software will be used to create new photo renders of Sam. She has blue eyes, strong eyebrows, black hair, and smooth eyes.Īpart from that, she also wears a 3/4 shirt with the official Samsung Galaxy logo. The two companies were able to create a new character that looks like an anime. Thanks to the collaboration between Samsung and Lightfarm Studios. Original source /Q3JzM92ASa- Reference Emporium May 31, 2021 Art and model of Sam, the virtual assistant from Samsung. (Merck used that research to inform other Earth-based studies, but the findings have not yet been applied to drugs on the market, the company told CNN on Friday.) Scientists found that using crystals formed in space could create a more stable drug, one that could be administered by a shot rather than the time-consuming intravenous injection currently used. One key example, from research Merck carried out on the International Space Station, is the active ingredient pembrolizumab used in the cancer drug Keytruda. These space-formed crystals can then be used to create pharmaceuticals that the human body could more easily absorb - or overall better-performing drugs. Research has already established that protein crystals grown in space can form more perfect structures compared with those grown on Earth. In this weightless environment, such experiments aren’t bogged down by Earth’s pull. The goal is to create key components of pharmaceuticals while in microgravity. Then the experiment begins, carried out by simple on-board machines. (For Varda’s first few missions, the satellite bus will be provided by another commercial space company, Rocket Lab.) Once in orbit, the capsule detaches and begins flying through space attached to what’s called a satellite bus, a structure that will provide the power, propulsion and communications necessary to navigate the vacuum of space. Varda’s vision is straightforward: The company’s capsule will launch with an experiment already on board. Varda Space Industries plans to use a small capsule, shown in the rendering above, to conduct pharmaceutical research in space, commercializing work that has been carried out on the International Space Station for more than a decade. And some of this work may lead to changes in the drugs that people on Earth take today.īut whether Varda’s ambitious business plan is viable will depend on numerous technological and financial questions. ![]() Big pharma firms, including Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb, have sent experiments there, working with the ISS National Laboratory. ![]() The core of this idea - manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity - builds on experiments carried out on the International Space Station, which is operated by astronauts but hosts experiments from a range of private companies and research institutions. Eventually, the firm hopes that research will yield a golden ticket drug, one that proves to be better when manufactured in space and can return royalties to Varda for years to come. If successful, Varda hopes to scale its business rapidly, sending regular flights of satellites into orbit stuffed with experiments on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. On board the rocket, tucked among a bevy of other satellites, was the company’s first creation: a 200-pound (90-kilogram) capsule designed to carry drug research into microgravity. ![]() The company then confirmed in a tweet that its satellite successfully separated from the rocket.Ī SpaceX rocket took off the afternoon of June 12, 2023, carrying Varda Space Industries' first experimental satellite. Varda launched its first test mission Monday aboard a SpaceX rocket, which took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California just after 2:30 pm PT. “But the bet that we’re making at Varda is that manufacturing is actually the next big industry that gets commercialized.” “It’s not as sexy a human-interest story as tourism when it comes to commercialization of the cosmos,” said Will Bruey, Varda’s CEO and cofounder. Its research, company officials hope, could lead to better, more effective drugs - and hefty profits. One California-based startup, Varda Space Industries, is betting that big business will lie in relatively unassuming satellites that will spend days or months in Earth’s orbit quietly carrying out pharmaceutical development. For years, the private sector has envisioned an illustrious future in space - an extraterrestrial playground with tourists flying to and from orbiting hotels and the occasional trip to Mars being as easy as a transatlantic flight.īut if the space economy is to become a $1 trillion sector by 2040, as one Citigroup report suggested, not all of its enterprises will be so grandiose. |