Posted by Peter Rasmussen on August 16, 2007
A new way of distributing movies
Perfect for machinima.
As well as being available on DVD, Stolen Life is now available streamed and via direct download.
This system is perfect for all kinds of machinima. At the moment the Si-Mi web site has many short clips available for a few cents. There is at least one other feature film I know of on this site. It’s like YouTube with revenue.
This new system allows us to offer Stolen Life for much less than the DVD.
Follow the links from the Stolen Life web site to check out this new service.
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~raz/nima/SL_Tumb/sl_ss.html
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Posted by Peter Rasmussen on August 16, 2007
It’s Jack and the Beanstalk on photons. Spaceward’s vertical race is on again.
The Spaceward Foundation runs an annual contest in the fashion of the “X” prize. They are attempting to drag the science fiction concept of a cable car to Earth orbit into the real world of practical science.
Nanotubes now make it theoretically possible to make a tether strong and light enough to reach from the Earth’s surface to geostationary orbit.
The contests consist of two main types. The first pits rival nanotubes, two at a time in a tug of war to find the strongest.
The second is a one at a time race of prototype elevators up a few hundred meters of vertical ribbon.
They don’t have an extension cord long enough to reach orbit so they are throwing the power up at the rising elevator. They are using Infra-Red, microwaves, White light, whatever is handy.
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