A full-sized LEGO house is bulding in the UK. By James May, a toy fanatic from the UK, he is builtin..(more...)
(Via Likecool.)
Monday, August 31, 2009
Gessaga Hindermann
In The Matter Of... WTF, Your Hot Coffee Is Actually Hot!
In The Matter Of... WTF, Your Hot Coffee Is Actually Hot!:
By J.Glarsten
Saw this sign at my coffee shop the other day. 
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Goldfish Trash Bags
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Photo Manipulations -
These incredible photos could have been taken in an alternate universe.
The extraordinary pictures show ordinary situations distorted in impossible ways - even allowing a man to iron his own body.
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What a drag! Sensational photographer Erik Johansson shows a man pick up a road and drag it casually behind him like a sheet
Erik Johannson, 24, used a computer programme to manipulate his original pictures into mind-boggling pieces of art.
The artist said his crazy ideas just come to him after trying to perceive ordinary events differently.
He sets out with his camera with a concept already in mind, before snapping pictures of everyday situations such as a man cycling along a road.
Flat out! A normal-looking man irons his own two-dimensional body
Water colours: An art lover sees her painting live up to its name
He then manipulates the images on his computer to create mind-boggling effects.
Mr Johannson utilises the Photoshop programme to bend roads, distort human bodies and change the landscape of the countryside.
In one, a man picks up a road and drags it casually behind him like a sheet.
Noughts and Crosses: An idle street worker takes on a digger
The sky's the limit: A labourer lays a reflection on the road
Another shows a perplexed cyclist staring down a chasm as the street drops off vertically before him.
A third depicts a normal-looking man ironing his own flattened body and another shows a labourer playing naughts and crosses in the road with a digger.
Erik, who lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, said: 'I get inspiration from almost everywhere. I actually get most of the ideas from things that happen in my daily life.
Out there! A man appears to leap out of an apartment window
Walking in the air: A dog owner gives her lazy pet a lift with balloons
'To look at a situation in a different and unexpected way can sometimes generate ideas but the best ideas I get just come to me.
'Everything I do is very well planned. I almost never go out photographing without any idea about what I will do with the photos.
'Looking for the right place to shoot the photos is actually what takes up most of my time.
Something fishy? Much like an iceberg, this island lacks the firmest foundations
'The time required to put the photo together is very different depending on the photos that I have. It mostly takes between 10 to 20 hours, sometimes more.
'I like to change my photos in impossible and strange ways.
'From the beginning I started to modify photos just for fun, and I still think it is.'
From the Daily Mail
Friday, August 28, 2009
8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root
8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root:
When Patrick Blanc was a boy, he suspended plants from his bedroom wall and ran their roots into a fish tank. The greenery received nourishment from the diluted—ahem—fertilizer and purified the water in return. Forty-five years on, the French botanists gardens have grown massive in scale. One inside a Portuguese shopping mall is larger than four tennis courts, and theres one in Kuwait thats almost as big. But Blancs recently completed facade for the Athenaeum hotel in London (shown) could be his most high-profile project yet. Looming over Green Park, it's an eight-story antigravity forest composed of 12,000 plants.
Blanc uses a kind of techno-trellis as the underlying structure: A plastic-coated aluminum frame is fastened to the wall and covered with synthetic felt into which plant roots can burrow. A custom irrigation system keeps the felt moist with a fertilizer solution modeled after the rainwater that trickles through forest canopies.
But plants for this vertical landscape must be chosen with care. Because the walls are so high, conditions vary widely. The shade at ground level is perfect for rare Asian nettles; on the brighter upper stories, plants that usually cling to windblown cliff faces brave the blustery British breezes.
Blanc, who still has a fish-tank setup in his apartment, says his creations will always reach upward: 'I leave horizontal gardens to others. I only think vertically.'
The vertical garden at the Athenaeum, which is eight stories tall, has 260 plant species and more than 12,000 plants
Eighty percent of the plants at the Athenaeum are evergreen; 20 percent are seasonal. They are planted according to environmental demands — those that need more sun, for example, go up top. Ferns go below, where theres more shade.
Blanc designed the first vertical garden in Spain, which covers an entire wall facing the entrance of the CaixaForum Madrid, designed by starchitects Herzog & de Mueron
The gardens don't have to be outside. Here's one designed for the Taipei
Concert Hall. Blanc first began experimenting with vertical gardens in
his bedroom 40 years ago, when he was 12.
Before he was known as a vertical gardener, Blanc was a precocious botanist.
Many of the plants he uses are species he brought back himself from across
Asia.
A vertical garden adorns the underside of a bridge, Pont Juvénal, in
Aix-en-Provence.
Blanc's largest garden lies on Rue d'Alsace, in Paris, covering more than 15,000 square feet.
(Via Wired News.)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Me and My Skunk
Hobbyist Launches Camera Into Space and Takes Amazing Pictures [DiY Satellite]
Hobbyist Launches Camera Into Space and Takes Amazing Pictures [DiY Satellite]:
John Gordon used a hobby kit to design a computer-controlled camera, then stuck it in a protective box and launched it into space (from Vulcan, Alberta) with a weather balloon. The pictures shot by his DiY satellite are breathtaking.
What we have here are just a few of the amazing photographs Gordon shot, and posted on his Facebook page here. He designed the computer controls using an arduino kit from open hardware activist Limor Fried's company Adafruit Industries. Gordon got his homemade creation to fly above 99% of Earth's atmosphere, 3 times higher than a commercial jet, and 1/7 of the way to the International Space Station. Time to get a kit from Adafruit and build your own!
Spaceduino via Adafruit Blog
Unbelievably gorgeous.
Right after this picture was taken, at well over 100,000 feet above Earth, the weather balloon broke. The camera began to plunge back to Earth.
At this point the camera's fall is being broken by a parachute.
Back on Earth.
And retreived by its creator!
(Via io9.)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Off-Road Commode
'Every sportsman needs his own throne, and the Off-Road Commode fits the
bill — with comfort and luxury to boot! Easily attaches to any 2-inch
receiver hitch and supports up to 500 lbs. The 1-5/16' diameter steel
tube seat is covered with soft padded camo. A great gift for hunting,
fishing and camping buddies!Not for use when vehicle is in motion. Can get slippery when wet.
[via Ray Earhart, who wrote, 'Highlight is mine.']
(Via bookofjoe.)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
8 Of The Most Ridiculous "As Seen On TV" Gadgets
8 Of The Most Ridiculous "As Seen On TV" Gadgets [Tgif]:
The pitch may claim that your life will be easier with 2 easy payments, but most As Seen On TV gadgets end up being a colossal waste of money. It's a good thing Billy Mays isn't around to see this.
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