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Broken Skateboards Become Stunning Wooden Sculptures

As reported on Wired. BY MIKE SENESE View as gallery   Self-taught sculpture artist Haroshi uses the discarded leftovers of broken skateboards to create striking wooden creations. The 35-year-old Tokyo resident, who prefers to not use his full name, began skating at age 15 in Kanagawa, amassing a growing stack of broken decks and parts. Ten years later, his collection overflowing, a friend suggested he find a way to do something with them. Cutting into one…

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Aviary’s Developer Of Peacock Takes Popular Photo Manipulation Tool Independent, Calls It Nodewerk

As reported on TechCrunch. by ERIC ELDON Aviary isn’t done with the news this year. In a nod to power users, it’s sending its advanced flash suite off as an independent product. The suite’s original developer, Mario Klingemann, is leading the effort and today has relaunched a core part of it, node-based photo manipulator Peacock, as a new AIR download called Nodewerk. You can get it here and take a look at some of the visual creations from Peacock/Nodewerk by scrolling down here.…

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