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Photo by Peter Garritano[/caption]One day, Garritano took a chance and decided to seek out these users in the “Strictly Platonic” section to take their photo and learn more about their story. Craigslist has been stigmatized as a black-market like platform with people ridden with misconstrued intentions—personality types Garritano veers away from. Garritano hopes the wide range of subjects lets outsiders see that the Craigslist community is diverse and not everyone fits the stereotype.“I mostly go for things that seem genuinely platonic,"Garritano said. "There’s a lot in there that’s heavily laden with ulterior motive, which I try to steer away from."[caption id="attachment_80233" align="alignnone" width="1024"]
Photo by Peter Garritano[/caption]Although selecting his subjects is not the hardest part of the project for Garritano, rendering a response can be challenging. Keeping genuine to his intentions, Garritano approaches the users as a photographer looking to take their photograph and hear more of their story. As expected, many users are not too keen on participating in 'Seeking' since Garritano is not necessarily who they're expecting to hear from through Craigslist. However, from the 250-plus responses Garritano currently has floating in his inbox, he has taken 75 portraits so far.[caption id="attachment_80230" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Photo by Peter Garritano[/caption]“I always like to travel to their apartments when possible to add a bit of environmental context to their portrait but unfortunately that's not usually their preference,” Garritano said, adding that he also invites them to his studio to shoot and chat about their Craigslist motivations and findings.“In the end, I hope to understand more about loneliness and its trappings. Especially in the context of a large city like New York, and in an age where our digital social connections are so pronounced,” Garritano said.Visit Garritano's website for more shots from the series. [post_title] => Photo Series Uncovers the People "Seeking Friendship" on Craigslist [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => photo-series-uncovers-the-people-seeking-friendship-on-craigslist [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-08-14 13:28:13 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-08-14 17:28:13 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=80228 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 1 [filter] => raw )[1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 79979 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-07-24 13:40:25 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-07-24 17:40:25 [post_content] => Social media is our vice, and our phones are the medium in which we take it. We all know social media can be detrimental to self-esteem, authenticity and even our valuable time. For years now, we've been seeing those monstrous ads that scold us and read, "Don't text and drive." But what happens when we're so glued to our phones and broadcasting every moment of our lives that we endanger the lives of others?Newsweek reports that on Friday, July 21, Obdulia Sanchez, an 18-year-old from California, was arrested on suspicion for crashing a vehicle while her 14-year-old sister and her friend, both minors, were in the backseat. At first, the drive was going smoothly with the two younger girls in the back as Sanchez sang to her Instagram Live audience. Suddenly, the car began to veer off the road onto the shoulder. Sanchez was still broadcasting every moment on Instagram Live.Authorities say Sanchez was under the influence of alcohol. When the car drifted to the side of the road, Sanchez tried to correct the turn, but ended up crashing through a wire fence and flipping into a field.[caption id="attachment_79986" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Obdulia Sanchez via Merced County Sheriff[/caption]The driver's younger sister, Jacqueline Sanchez, was ejected from the car and killed in the crash. The sister's friend suffered some "major injuries."After the crash, Sanchez filmed her sister's body lying on the field while talking to the camera."I fucking love my sister to death. I don’t give a fuck. We about to die. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us but it just did,” Sanchez exclaimed on the live-stream.Sanchez continued to shake her sister, asking her to wake up and repeating that she did not mean to kill her.Mary Hernandez, a viewer of the live-stream, recorded Sanchez's stream and uploaded it to Facebook to show people the dangers of using their phones while driving. As of now, the video has been taken off Facebook out of respect for Jacqueline Sanchez, who was expected to celebrate her Quinceanera on Sunday.
via BioflightVR[/caption]The project premiered in early 2016 with two prototypes the same year. The full-functioning model was finalized in early 2017 to be used by the medical industry. Before, students had to use mannequins, which often broke and had to be repeatedly replaced, but now students can put on a headsets and experience virtually simulated emergency room situations. The setup includes an Oculus Rift headset and Touch controllers, which are used to help simulate medical tools in the situations.[caption id="attachment_79768" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
via BioflightVR[/caption]Bioflight's goal is to make medical training more accessible to doctors, medical students and residents. The stimulations they offer include low frequency, high risk childcare ER visits that are often too expensive to teach in person. Some videos catapult you straight into the emergency room where you're faced with the patient, their family and several other doctors.[caption id="attachment_79773" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
via BioflightVR[/caption]The program was originally created for the world of pediatric surgery since pediatric care has a shorter time frame than adults in the emergency room. Now, students can use the program to even learn more about the human body with simulations that bring students up close and personal with a virtual patient's organs.As of now, only the "doctor," or the person holding the controllers, can respond with the hand controllers. The company hopes to integrate voice control and the ability to have an entire medical team working together.Although this program doesn't have the same pressure as the real thing, it's pretty close and makes for a more cost effective way of medical training.[via BuzzFeed] [post_title] => Virtual Reality is Transforming the Future of Medical Training [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => virtual-reality-is-transforming-the-future-of-medical-training [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-07-17 14:23:07 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-07-17 18:23:07 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=79756 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )[4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 79635 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-07-11 11:17:17 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-07-11 15:17:17 [post_content] => With a wider wingspan than a Boeing 737, Facebook's Aquila—a remote-controlled, solar-powered drone intended to bring internet to remote parts of the world—has successfully landed since its first test run this time last year.Aquila, which is Latin for eagle, has a slim design with a wingspan over 130 feet wide. Facebook's aim was for Aquila to "break the record for the longest unmanned aircraft flight." To maximize Aquila's time in the sky, Aquila's body is mainly composed of carbon fiber, making it weigh less than 1,000 pounds. For the most part, Aquila is self-sufficient but it relies on a ground crew, consisting of engineers, pilots and technicians who direct, maintain and monitor the aircraft. The crew also has the ability to directly track Aquila or send it on a GPS-based route.https://youtu.be/gbkTh_s-AL0In the first run, Facebook only planned to fly Aquila for 30 minutes, but after it performed incredibly well, they left Aquila up in the air for 96 minutes until the plane was scheduled to land. When Aquila landed, it ended in failure on a structural basis, causing Facebook to have to backtrack on Aquila's design.For Aquila's second flight, Facebook took notes from Aquila's first to make proper modifications, such as adding "spoilers" to the wings to increase drag and lessen lift during the landing process. Aquila engineers added new sensors to the body, put in new radios, upgraded the autopilot software, smoothed out the exterior, and included a horizontal propeller stopping mechanism to ease the landing process even more.
Martin Luiz Gomez, Facebook‘s director of aeronautical platforms, says Aquila has "no landing gear in the traditional sense. Aquila lands solely on Kevlar pads bonded to the bottom of the motor pods."For its second test flight, Aquila lasted in the air for 46 minutes before Aquila "landed perfectly" according to Gomez. Facebook seeks to break the record of the longest flight of an unmanned aircraft, but for now, has plans on improving Aquila to break said record. Zuckerburg says he dreams one day Facebook will have a fleet of Aquilas flying over 60,000 feet in the air, communicating with one another using lasers and staying up for months at a time—a flight that has never been done before.Facebook added a post to their engineering page about the second flight here.[via Composites Manufacturing] [post_title] => Watch Facebook's Giant, Solar-Powered Drone Fly and Land Perfectly [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => watch-facebooks-giant-solar-powered-drone-fly-and-land-perfectly [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-07-11 11:19:26 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-07-11 15:19:26 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=79635 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )[5] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 79257 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-06-26 12:00:49 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-06-26 16:00:49 [post_content] => 
Screengrab via YouTube[/caption]CREAM, after a six year process, has the power to alter molecular structure to fix everything from general ugliness to broken limbs to death. But CREAM fixes more than just human's physical appearances—it can alter the human mind to go from dull to brainiac with just a simple injection. Everything—even technology—can be fixed with just a dab of CREAM.The 12-minute film reveals something terrifying to today's audience. With such a simple, generic name, the animated CREAM resonates to products on today's market. New technology wants to be your singular product to easily streamline your life in one simple step. Products such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, for example, make it easy to listen to music, control the temperature of your home, and answer life's seemingly pressing questions.[caption id="attachment_78818" align="aligncenter" width="1708"]
Screengrab via YouTube[/caption]With the high demand of these "do-it-all" products, companies may eventually run out stock and are scrambling to meet market demands. CREAM comes across this same issue, in which the company runs dry of the invincible raw material. Customers soon discover the fix-all cream was only a quick, temporary fix when it becomes linked to death, AIDs, cancer, and even terrorism.Perhaps a bit extreme, the products we use and rely on hold the same reign of terror. Ever leave your phone in an Uber? Well, if you have, you know that the loss of your device results in all hell breaking loose as the safety of our precious information is threatened.[caption id="attachment_78826" align="aligncenter" width="1710"]
Screengrab via YouTube[/caption]Speaking of Uber, the mastermind behind CREAM, Dr. Bellifer, is eventually arrested for charges of "rape, resisting arrest, tampering with science, upsetting people, causing a panic and wasting time." This draws ties to modern innovation leaders such as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who has had several sexual assault allegations against him.Even Thinx CEO Miki Agrawal, who loves a taboo workplace making "period panties," now has the stain of dehumanizing her workers down to simple nicknames, such as "children," as well as sexual assault.After flaws in products or allegations against creators come to light, the leaders and their companies are put under the microscope. Uber CEO Kalanick had to resign from Trump's business advisory council to keep up business and veer away from his relations with Trump, but still customers will not dismiss his sexual assault allegations."Cream," although an entertaining short video, reminds us of the shortcomings of fast paced technology and the makers behind it. By using certain bits of technology, we show a series of support for its creator, hence why "Cream" warns us to be aware of all parts of the product aside from its physical properties. [post_title] => 'Salad Fingers' Creator Releases Disturbing Short Film That Will Make You Question Your Life [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => salad-fingers-creator-releases-disturbing-short-film-that-will-make-you-question-your-life [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-05-31 13:03:54 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-05-31 17:03:54 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=78815 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )[10] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 78641 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-05-30 10:26:15 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-05-30 14:26:15 [post_content] => Recently, Google rolled out it's newest gadget: WorldSense, a new VR headset technology that understands your movement without the need to set up any external sensors. Unlike past VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR or Daydream View, WorldSense lets you be active and move naturally while wearing it.In the promotional video, Google gives viewers a taste of what they're in for with WorldSense. The video shows a young girl outside playing a simulated game of dodgeball to prepare for the reality of dodgeballs flying in gym class.Google's first attempt at VR—Daydream View—restricted users to 3DoF (three degrees of freedom), in which users were kept in their seats. These old systems lacked complete immersion for audiences.WorldSense, on the other hand, utilizes 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) where users can be entirely interactive with the current VR video playing. The players head is tracked in three dimensions to allow for complete interaction.Other devices like the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have gone after the same 6DoF goal but have produced something short of perfect. The HTC and Oculus models are both wired to computers and don't allow for complete roaming capability.Daydream will be launching with standalone in partnership with HTC and Lenovo, but it is still a prototype and release dates are unclear. Only time will tell whether Google's new VR headset is really giving viewers the sense of the world.[via YouTube] [post_title] => Roam the World in VR With Google's New Headset Technology [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => roam-the-world-in-vr-with-googles-new-headset-technology [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-05-30 10:26:15 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-05-30 14:26:15 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=78641 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )[11] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 78631 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-05-23 11:22:18 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-05-23 15:22:18 [post_content] => "The Road" is an upcoming narrative short film that plunges viewers into the daily trials of immigrants, who are subject to human trafficking to make ends meat.Danny Ryan, Petra Chlpanova, and Chad Cooper — the drivers behind "The Road" — seek to raise $10,000 by June 6th. With a fast approaching deadline, the film's Kickstarter stands at just shy $5,000.[caption id="attachment_78663" align="aligncenter" width="680"]
via Kickstarter[/caption]The film plans to follow the lives of eight immigrants, but will mainly focus on two of the immigrants who flip the script and go against mindless submission to the realm of human trafficking. The plot is a moment in transit where audience members virtually stand before victims and their traffickers, who force them to work against their will."The story lends itself entirely to VR," Ryan said. "The audience can get the perspectives of both the traffickers and the victims. Depending on where you look, there will be a different story."[caption id="attachment_78662" align="aligncenter" width="680"]
via Kickstarter[/caption]Based in New York, the trio found that New York was a huge hub for human trafficking despite the abolition of slavery over 150 years ago. Documented and undocumented workers are thrown into the trafficking arena due to projected stereotypes on immigrants, which have since been heightened in light of the Trump presidency.With Trump a little beyond his first 100 days in office, immigration has become a polarizing topic across the U.S. as many of his campaign promises included crackdowns on immigration. Many Americans cite immigrants as being the main job stealing proprietors. On the other hand, Americans have little to no grasp on the human trafficking situations that immigrants are facing when "stealing" these low brow jobs.Ryan says he aims to increase awareness about the daily lives of immigrants in midst of this loud and somewhat deceiving political climate. In addition to submitting the finished product to festivals, the team wants to make the short film available on all VR and 360 platforms to make it accessible to as many people as possible.Visit Kickstarter to learn more about this project. [post_title] => Filmmakers Want to Simulate Human Trafficking in VR [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => filmmakers-want-to-simulate-human-trafficking-in-vr [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2017-05-23 11:22:18 [post_modified_gmt] => 2017-05-23 15:22:18 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://resourcemagonline.com/?p=78631 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )[12] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 78618 [post_author] => 47254 [post_date] => 2017-05-22 15:02:06 [post_date_gmt] => 2017-05-22 19:02:06 [post_content] => Drones have been sweeping our nation's airspace in recent years, but with this popularity comes a multitude of users who are uninformed when it comes to flying rules and regulations. This has sparked a number of controversies, from people shooting down drones flying over their houses to environmental issues due to accidental—and potentially harmful—crashes in national parks.Eventually, a court ruling was set in motion that would require hobbyists to register their drones with the FAA—until now.Last Friday in Washington D.C. a federal appeals court shot down the ruling for drone users to have to register their drone through a FAA national database accompanied by a $5 copay. For not registering, consequences would induce fees and possible jail time.
screengrab via FAA[/caption]The FAA now works to repeal the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which rules drones as being "model aircrafts."The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), an aviation nonprofit, agreed with the court's ruling. In a statement, AMA president Rich Hanson reduced drones to toys, saying "federal registration shouldn’t apply at such a low threshold that it includes toys."Hanson holds the belief that drone registration should be kept as being community-based, where federal registration has no means to be involved. AMA works to bring a community of drone hobbyists together and encourages hobbyists to register through the AMA website.