Mark J. Stock

Although i don't understand the method behind his creation, i do appreciate how he uses his medium. I love the fact that he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. I have chosen a few of my favorites to show in this post

MAGMA 19
This is what i was talking about earlier how he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. This is a visual representation of the magma at the Earth's core. No one has ever seen the Earth's core before but with science, he is able to show us a glimpse. Awesome.

WAVE FOR HOKUSAI
I love how he uses appropriation in this piece. He is appropriating "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai and recreating the imagery using his own medium. It is beautiful and peaceful. I also like how he mentions in his captions below the picture, how this particular image was very important for both art and science. It is so appropriate that he uses this picture because we can see his love for both art and science and how he shows us that they can go together beautifully. 

SPRAWL
I love how he brings up large questions with his work. Here he questions the difference between science and nature. With this image, we can see that there isn't much of a difference at all. What can this mean for our future?

Fastest Supercomputer in the World

On June 20, 2011 the Top500 Supercomputing List released which Supercomuter was the fastest in the world: the K Computer.  The "K Computer" lives at the Kobe's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan and was made by Fujitsu. "K is a cluster of 672 server cabinets filled with over 68,000 Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx processors, with a combined processing punch 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second (8.2 petaflops)." (Quote from the New York Times.) For people like me who do not speak computer language, this computer is as fast as about a million desktop computers! It also uses the equivalent of about 10,000 houses worth of electricity!  

MZTV.com

Radio Show

Videos from the Brain

This is crazy. I still don't understand exactly how this can be possible. It also poses many many questions about reality versus perception. In the last paragraph of the article, it foreshadows our ability to be able to read people's mind and watch their memories. This is so invasive, I cannot even imagine it ever being legal in any way to be used in let's say a judicial manner. I can see how this would drastically change our judicial system because if there was a murder, we would just read the suspect's memories and watch them commit the murder if they were guilty. But this also brings into question the difference between imagination and reality. I can easily imagine myself committing a crime but that doesn't mean i actually committed it.

This is such a drastic jump in technology that it will take a lot of time for humanity to feel comfortable with it. As much as it scares me, i can see this being used in the distant future.

Here's my flip book animation. 

Frame by Frame animation

This is another frame by frame animation that i did for my digital arts class. It had to be creepy and inspired by Halloween. I also made the soundtrack.

Frame By Frame Animation

This is a frame by frame animation that i made for my Digital arts class. I also made the soundtrack.