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Spacewalk

WIP technical work(3ds Max and Unreal) for Christy Speakman's Watershed, an art installation and downloadable world scheduled for late Fall. The textures are placeholders to test lighting, water, and best practice for material to be generated by a trip to the Louisiana wetland's this summer.  

The Bronx: Louis A. Risse’s Grand Concourse of 1897

The Bronx

“Nature has provided a Grand Boulevard and Concourse for the North Side and the City of New York such as no other city in the world possesses. Northward from the Cedar Parks, west of the Harlem Railroad stretches a magnificent ridge extending all the way to Mosholu Parkways near Van Cortlandt Park, a distance of four and one quarter miles. Its varied topography, charming views, natural condition and peculiar adaptability for a Grand Boulevard and its location, geographically considered, is in the centre of the upper half of  New York City, where means and access for the entire Metropolis can be furnished. The location is selected on top of an almost continuous crest and the solution of the most difficult question, how to cross the Concourse without interfering with the unimpeded use of it is by constructing transverse roads under the same.” 

Map: Map of the 23rd and 24th Wards, New York, compiled for an index to volumes of Important Maps. (1888-1897) / E. Robinson

Michael McGillis.

Outdoor installations by Michael McGillis.

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Nuclear Swords to Plowshares

For nearly 20 years, the United States has been using weapons-grade uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads to fuel domestic nuclear power plants. The program, expected to end in 2013, has recycled 450 metric tons of Russian bomb-grade uranium since 1994, according to the George Washington University Face the Facts initiative. It has at times generated as much as 10 percent of the U.S. electricity supply. There are 104 working nuclear reactors in 31 states; the United States is one of 30 countries that generate electricity via nuclear power. Since the start of the program 450 metric tons of bomb-grade uranium has been recycled into 13,258 metric tons of low enriched uranium for American electricity. The amount of uranium recycled equals to 18,000 nuclear warheads eliminated. Yet, this agreement between Russia and the United States is slated to end in 2013. At the end of its run, it will have converted an estimated 500 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium. Read more: http://www.voxxi.com/russian-nuclear-warheads-power-homes/#ixzz2UvBkaz7m

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Illustration from Square’s patent of Final Fantasy’s ATB system.