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Recently, I visited secret area of Google Data Center (where they process search queries). Here is the spy photo that I was able to make! Now we know how they really work! :-) More resolutions are at http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?485 The 'empty' version (without bubbles, just library) is also available at http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?486 Thanks!
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Great job. I just love your work for the creativity and fun nature of it.
*bow*
*bow*
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes ~
Bette Midler
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This is lovely - I like the bubble effects and the clarity of the books.
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Just spotted this in the VB...top marks for originality, great sense of humour and talent to create it. Into my favs with thanks..J
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Simply fantastic. Fabulous concept executed flawlessly as usual. This has a definite Lewis Carroll flavour to it - and I consider that extremely high praise.
It makes me think of the Bodleian in Oxford. I'm not sure if it is the same, but until recently, at least, one ordered books from the stacks (which are off-limits to readers) by writing your request on a little scrap of paper and giving it to somebody at one of the desks. The librarian rolled your paper up, inserted it into a special metal tube and then put it into a special chute. Vacuum then pulled the tube down to the stacks where it was opened, the slip read and the request processed. The book was then (hopefully) delivered to the reading room of one's choice. (In 1993 it took about 2 hours from the main stacks, by 1995 it took 48.)
I read somewhere recently somebody who thinks that the future lies in some sort of hybrid query system, which would involve humans as well as machines. I know that isn't new, but I think the idea was that this would become a major way of researching online, whereas now mostly it is done by entirely non-human search algorithms.
Or is it...?
- cfr
P.S. I don't think this meets E.U. health & safety regulations. I'm wondering where the centre is... I hope it isn't all farmed out to countries lacking labour protections or that they are not being enforced. Perhaps things are not quite as they seem, though.
P.P.S. If the required book is too high for any of the ladders to reach, does that trigger the "No results..." error message? It would explain a lot...
It makes me think of the Bodleian in Oxford. I'm not sure if it is the same, but until recently, at least, one ordered books from the stacks (which are off-limits to readers) by writing your request on a little scrap of paper and giving it to somebody at one of the desks. The librarian rolled your paper up, inserted it into a special metal tube and then put it into a special chute. Vacuum then pulled the tube down to the stacks where it was opened, the slip read and the request processed. The book was then (hopefully) delivered to the reading room of one's choice. (In 1993 it took about 2 hours from the main stacks, by 1995 it took 48.)
I read somewhere recently somebody who thinks that the future lies in some sort of hybrid query system, which would involve humans as well as machines. I know that isn't new, but I think the idea was that this would become a major way of researching online, whereas now mostly it is done by entirely non-human search algorithms.
Or is it...?
- cfr
P.S. I don't think this meets E.U. health & safety regulations. I'm wondering where the centre is... I hope it isn't all farmed out to countries lacking labour protections or that they are not being enforced. Perhaps things are not quite as they seem, though.
P.P.S. If the required book is too high for any of the ladders to reach, does that trigger the "No results..." error message? It would explain a lot...
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just love the way you capture pure innocence in your characters, and once again fantastic art work, can't wait for others to follow
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self tutored novice
I must especially applaud you for the level of detail here. I was looking for copied and pasted bookshelves, but couldn't find any; if you did it, you did it with style and subtlety. Excellent. ps, love the idea.
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Thanks a lot for posting your great work here every time. I see it that often in the VB and I am not to blame for that low c-index. You deserve more. This days I am able to enjoy your work here for free, one day I will have to pay for your books ...
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I would be happy, seeing you in my galerie. Today I've posted Ferdinand Raimund.
Love this one. It is just too funny and in a strange way, probably the truth. lol
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Angelle
"Words are like crayons and paints. The only difference is you have to work harder to see their colors.
love it! as well as all your other works!
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"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-[The Serpent saying to Eve] in George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah
♫ :)PJ ♪