 outings this week as their drivers continued to stay above the majority in their respective fields.
Frank Binnendijk is one of 2 drivers for the Formula Renault 2.0 Team. This week he had an impressive performance completing 2 races in Division 1.
These races were good enough to gain himself 132 Champion Points against an average field of strength of 2498 and claim 3rd on the leaderboards.
Szabolcs Szathmari is the second driver whom took the week off but still managed to stay within the Top 10 claimined 8th position on the leaderboards.
Both drivers look to have a strong week 4 and climb the leaderboards even further on their way to season Champion.
I was sitting there going, holy sh*t… this is real time mapping a face to an animation in something the size of a toothpick and it is doing it seamlessly. Facial mapping and animation is something I know a lot about considering my background at Blizzard Entertainment, the largest video game company in the world. This kind of process has always been taxing and resource intensive, but he was holding the tech I had spent years perfecting, fighting, and rendering for hours at a time in the palm of his hand, doing it all in real time.
I sat there, took a breath, and thought… wow… Now how are developers going to utilize this functionality and amazing tech for Apps, Augmented Reality, and other daily practices. The possibilities are endless.
We have actually talked a bit about this already here. But to sum it up, AR is going to explode in the coming months, years. Unlike VR, AR allows you to be in the world, while still being connected to all that stuff you look down at your current phone to see, missing the world around you. How we interact with it will depend a lot on the devices we have. With the incredible amount of tech in that tiny notch, it is hard to not see it truly helping to open that door wide open to developers. Who knows, maybe the return of Google Glass would make sense now as we disconnect ourselves from the physical parts of our phones more and more via assistants and the amazing tech in the notch.
For me the removal of the home button is freedom.
Untying ourselves from the physical connected bits of a smartphone is an amazing idea! 
I am truly excited for this. While some may be up in arms at the loss of a home button, I see this move away from buttons as a much bigger step for smart-phones. Giving the phone more control to do the things you want it to do. The Pixel is a great example of this with the Google Assistant, or the Amazon Alexa. We give so much control to these devices and expect them to perform tasks for us, so why shouldn’t we expect our phones to press a “home button” for us. iPhone X is beginning us on our journey to detaching from the physical and more toward the practical. But as with all things, change is hard, takes time, and often meets resistance. I say bring it on, I always wanted to be part of the resistance!
While it is still too soon to see how this will develop over time or hold up against tests and real life use, the first reviews are out for the basic functionality and it is smooth, fast, and just works.
I myself am excited to remove the physical parts of my phone!
It means pressing forward to a new future where my phone is not just a peripheral in my pocket but a tool and assistant that reacts to me versus just being the tool I use to react with. Putting the smart back in smartphone. Removing our very early ideals of physical keyboards(remember how that went? Blackberry…), buttons, peripherals, and redefining what a smartphone is and can be. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, so good thing we aren’t dogs!
Is the iPhone X the future? Not yet, but it is a damn good step in the evolution and will help a lot of people embrace the changes that are coming in the upcoming years. Sure iPhone isn’t the first to the market with some of the tech above, but so far, they have the most refined approach. According to those who are super techy, exactly 2 years ahead of any other smartphone with their face mapping abilities in the notch, not to mention their processing power to support it!
When was competition a bad thing anyway? We need this! It only benefits you and I as the consumers.
So here’s to the future of redefining a smartphone, not on how many amazing parts it has, but on how many amazing things it can accomplish for you! Apple and Google are definitely paving the way here with their iPhone and Pixel series of phones. Both in different and exciting ways. iPhone X showing us how we can move forward with less attachment to the physical, and Pixel 2 with it’s amazing smart assistant. So go at it you two! Keep up the good fight so we all get the best damn “smart”phone whatever it will be called in the future, regardless of ecosystem!
Editorial
SP-Arte/2015 announces the list of Solo and Showcase sector's galleries
The Solo Section, which brings galleries interested in presenting works by a single artist, will return for its second edition of SP-Arte. This is a sector for discovering new artists and reappraising emerging voices on the art circuit.
The exhibition is curated by Director of CAPC Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux María Inés Rodriguéz and art and cultural diretor of Inhotim Rodrigo Moura. Get to know more about the curators here.
These are the sector’s galleries and artists:
Aanant & Zoo [Mangelos] [Berlin]
AM Galeria [Ricardo Homen] [Belo Horizonte]
Broadway 1602 [Rosemarie Castoro] [New York]
Cortex Athletico [Sergio Verastegui] [Bordeaux]
Document Art Gallery [Augusto de Campos] [Buenos Aires]
Elba Benitez [Fernanda Fragateiro] [Madrid]
Espacio Minimo [Liliana Porter] [Madrid]
Instituto de Visión [Carolina Caycedo] [Bogotá]
NoguerasBlanchard [Wilfredo Prieto] [Madrid]
Paulo Darzé [Mario Cravo Junior] [Salvador]
Pilar [Montez Magno] [São Paulo]
Roberto Alban [Almandrade] [Salvador]
Showcase
The 2015 edition will also include the third year of the Showcase sector, a section highlighting works by up to 3 emerging artists.
The sector’s galleries are:
Blau Projects [São Paulo]
dconcept [São Paulo]
FASS [São Paulo]
Feroz Galerie [Bonn]
Fotospot [São Paulo]
Galeria Inox [Rio de Janeiro]
Galeria Mezanino [São Paulo]
Galeria Pilar [São Paulo]
Galeria Superfície [São Paulo]
Gallery Nosco / Frameless [London]
Isabel Aninat [Santiago]
Klemm’s [Berlin]
Myrine Vlavianos Arte Contemporânea [Florianópolis]
Plan B [Berlin]
Portas Vilaseca Galeria [Rio de Janeiro]
PSM [Berlin]
Referência Galeria de Arte [Brasília]
Talcual Gallery [Mexico]Barbara, I cheated on the label. I did it on the computer!!! Put it on my light box and traced it!! Was going to embroidery, but didn't feel I could do the letters as well as I wanted.
Thanks everyone, it was a wonderful journey. Most of the fabric came from my stash. We could sign up to receive a packet of fabric from Jeana, which was beautiful reproductions from the time period. I actually went through my stash, and found a lot of circa 1830 fabrics.
Lovely work, Lynne! Can’t wait to see it once it’s quilted. I love your center label. BP is not my idea of a good time, either!
It is gorgeous Lynne. Be sure to post an updated pic once it has been quilted & bound.
I joined a 10 month long project, given by Jeana Kimball. The journey was to do the project by hand. She included 2 blocks a month. I added 5. 2 were machine pieced,, hand piecing does not agree with my hands. The center block was to be Broderie Perse, I was unable to find anything I liked to fit that center, and I am not that fond of BP, so I used it as my label. It heads to the long arm quilter tomorrow. Size is 65 square.
This evening I will get the backing sewn and pressed.
Very nice, Barbara! Your borders help draw the attention inwards towards your blocks. Nicely done!
Very lovely projects Barbara. I know what you mean about our hands not working like they used to. Very frustrating to say the least!
I also looked up the Stonefield quilt. Looks like a lot of interesting little blocks to make. Will be lovely. Time has flown with all thedays seeming more or less the same. Been working on getting my stash in better sahpe to actually find stuff, and of course working on projects, mostly pieced with minor touches of applique in borders