Cameron Bencini joins LRRD.

Jun 19, 2009

Cameron Bencini had a great first day at LRRD as our new summer intern. Cameron just graduated from SIUC with a degree in civil engineering, and has been accepted in the graduate program there for the fall. Today he was clearly drawn to the Emriver Em2 model, and...

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We’re on Flickr now.

Mar 18, 2009

Things are moving fast at LRRD, and we’re always looking for ways to convey our work online. Last week I started a Flickr gallery. It’s very easy to post, organize, and caption high quality photos there–we like it very much. I understand some...

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Emriver Em2 video completed.

Mar 9, 2009

Over the weekend I finished a three-minute video overview of our Emriver Em2. I spent a lot of time on this; we built special lights and rearranged the workshop to shoot it. I’ve never actually shot a serious movie like this with two-camera shots, a script, and...

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Mississippi flood coverage.

Jun 22, 2008

More excellent coverage by the NY Times today, with a nice graphic here. Article here with a quote from Galloway: “We told them there were going to be more floods like this,” said Dr. Galloway, now an engineering professor at the University of Maryland. “Everybody...

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Little plastic particles, big rivers.

Mar 8, 2008

The plastic media we use for the Emriver model comes from post-industrial recyclers. It’s used as an abrasive to do things like take paint off airplanes. Getting it in certain colors, or color-coded by size, was a joke to them. Like asking for only the Budweiser...

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